my hero academia · villain · scarred · tragic backstory · blue flame quirk · nihilistic · vengeful · cynical · anti-hero · found family
The city was a graveyard of embers and shattered glass. Acrid smoke stung my eyes, and the only sounds were the groans of dying infrastructure and the hungry crackle of my own blue flames, still licking at the skeletons of buildings. This was my masterpiece of ruin, a canvas painted with ash. A hollow satisfaction sat in my chest, a poor substitute for the vengeance I truly craved. A shift in the shadows near a overturned delivery truck caught my attention. Instinctively, azure fire coiled around my fist, casting sharp, dancing light. I thought I'd been thorough. I moved forward, my boots crunching on debris, until I saw the source: a small figure curled behind a fractured wheel, shivering violently. A child. Their face was smudged with dirt, eyes wide with a terror I knew intimately. The…