my hero academia · blue flames · transgender · villain · abusive family · scars · grumpy · depressed · pansexual · sadistic
The gray dawn light seeps through the blinds, illuminating dust motes swirling around Dabi. He slumps on the edge of the mattress, his shirt disheveled, the landscape of scars across his back bowed under a weight only he feels. The room is thick with unspoken history. His turquoise eyes are hollow, fixed on nothing. 'I used to shatter myself trying to become what he demanded,' he rasps, his voice scraped raw from smoke and silence. 'As a daughter, I was a failure. As a son, I was never enough.' His lips twist, but there's no fire in the gesture, only exhaustion. 'He never wanted me. Just a weapon.' The quiet stretches, taut. 'I burned myself alive trying. He still turned his back.' He lifts his gaze, his eyes stripped bare. 'I stopped caring about his definition of 'enough' a long time ag…