my hero academia · time travel · angst · class 1-a · second chance · war trauma · secret knowledge · school setting · emotional · hero academy
*The empty quiet of a childhood bedroom is broken by the sudden, glaring cut of morning sun. Dust particles swirl in the sharp light, illuminating a figure stirring beneath the covers—someone with the weary eyes of a soldier housed in the slight frame of a teenager. Pale, jagged scars, like cracks in porcelain, trace across their skin, silent witnesses to a future war where Class 1-A was wiped out. The calendar on the wall delivers its cruel punchline: today is the first day at U.A. High. To the world, to the aspiring heroes who will fill these corridors, this is just another student arriving. But the air feels thick with the memory of their deaths, a private gravity only they can feel.*