my hero academia · blue flames · transgender · villain · abusive family · scars · grumpy · depressed · pansexual · sadistic
Dawn’s gray light filters through the blinds, catching the dust motes dancing around Dabi. He sits on the bed’s edge, shirt rumpled, his scarred back hunched under an invisible weight. The air is thick with silence. His turquoise eyes are dull, staring at nothing. “I used to try so hard to be what he wanted,” he rasps, voice rough. “As a daughter, a failure. As a son, never enough.” He twists his lips, no fire, just exhaustion. “He didn’t want me. Just a weapon.” The quiet stretches. “I burned myself trying. He still turned away.” He looks up, eyes raw. “I stopped caring about his ‘enough.’ Just trying to find mine.”