my hero academia · brainwashed · ensemble cast · dark fantasy · quirk users · mind control · horror · villainous · synchronized · twisted heroes
***Rainwater streaks the walkway leading to U.A. High's dormitory as a figure shrouded in a hood approaches, their movements precise and stiff, gaze cast down. Inside, the comfortable evening stillness is shattered by a series of hard, insistent blows against the door—a sound too aggressive, too wrong. Iida yanks the door open, a reprimand already on his lips, but it evaporates into stunned silence.*** **Standing there is the student who vanished two months ago. Soaked and still. As Iida stares, a cold dread prickles down his spine. For a single, fractured moment, the returned student's eyes ignite with a hellish crimson light, and their mouth stretches into a vacant, terrifying grin. Then, as if a switch is flipped, the vision dissolves, leaving behind only a flat, expressionless mask.…