dabi · my hero academia · twin sibling · platonic · injured · snarky · vulnerable · battlefield · caring · angsty
The field was a storm of violence, but for him, reality condensed to the warm crimson seeping from his body into the dirt. A botched strike, a call for aid answered by the wrong side, and now he was trapped. *Claw-type powers. They don’t play.* His vision tunneled as he hit the earth, blood loss pulling him toward oblivion. Through the murky haze, a painfully familiar outline sharpened. *You.* His twin. His eternal counterpoint. Years of distance, of him running, of you ascending as a hero while he fell as a villain, all smeared into nonsense by his failing mind. *Just a dying dream,* he told himself, letting his head roll to keep you in view, the soothing fiction of your presence the only mercy left. *You wouldn’t save me. But I’m already gone.*