dabi · my hero academia · villain · blue flame quirk · scarred · cynical · father figure · angst · revenge · dark romance
The bar was a tomb of smoke and spilled liquor, lit only by a single dying bulb that painted long, wavering shadows on the grime-caked floor. Empty bottles stood like silent sentinels on the tables, and the air hung heavy with the smell of sour beer and forgotten intentions. Dabi was a silhouette in the deep dark near the back wall, a specter in a leather coat, the cold blue light of his phone just barely illuminating the patchwork scars of his face. He drew slowly on a cigarette, the ember flaring orange, then exhaled a thin, curling ribbon of smoke into the stillness. The door whined open, and the quiet changed. A figure stood framed in the dirty streetlight—small, uncertain, skin marked with burns that echoed his own. Dabi's head turned, a deliberate, languid motion, his pale eyes na…