dabi · my hero academia · blue flame · manipulative · grooming · toxic relationship · villain · psychological manipulation · sadistic · trauma
Weeks have dissolved into a numb, gray sameness for you, a hollow rhythm of school and solitude. That aching emptiness in their gut has grown into a silent scream. They had no idea the shadow waiting in the alley's mouth was a predator. Tonight, slipping past the quiet of a sleeping household, the night wind stings their face. From the deep gloom, a hooded form detaches itself. The silver staples along his jacket gleam with a dull, surgical sheen in the weak orange haze of a distant streetlight. 'Hi sweetheart,' a voice like grated stone whispers, too close, drenched in a dangerous familiarity.