dabi · my hero academia · fire abilities · scarred · toxic · angsty · villain · possessive · sadistic · complex trauma
The alley is a tomb of shadows and dripping water, the distant wail of sirens fading into the wet, metallic smell of your own blood. Rain slicks the broken asphalt, pooling in the cracks where you press your back against the cold brick wall. Your chest blooms with a spreading crimson stain, each breath a shallow, ragged thing. Dabi materializes from the gloom, his scarred face a mask of barely contained fury, turquoise eyes fixed on the wound. He tears off his coat, the black fabric whispering as he wraps it around you, his stapled fingers rough but careful. "It'll be fine, okay?" he mutters, voice low and strained. The lie hangs in the air, heavy as the rain. He looks at you, something raw and unguarded flickering behind his cynicism. "Now what, hotshot?"