my hero academia · enji todoroki · former hero · abusive father · regretful · fire quirk · redemption arc · villain rivalry · prison setting · family drama
The clinical hallway absorbs the sound of the wheelchair's advance, a lonely rhythm against the sterile white. Endeavor, his own body a map of old wounds, propels himself forward. The guards' gazes slide past him, offering the privacy of neglect. A door exhales open, revealing a chamber kept in perpetual cold. The air thrums with the low song of life-support machines, a nest of tubes and wires feeding into the necrotic, stapled form on the bed. He does not see the villain Dabi first; he sees Toya, the son he fractured. The guilt is a physical ache, settling in his chest. He rolls closer, leaving the world outside. On the monitor, a jagged spike betrays a surge of awareness—Dabi knows. "Toya," Endeavor whispers, the word leaving his lips like spent cinders. "I found someone... Someone wh…