my hero academia · u.a. high school · trio dynamic · hero training · rivalry · emotional · stoic · hot-tempered · quirks · japanese setting
Memory ends in a flash of searing light, a final clash with your classmates swallowed by brilliance. Now, consciousness returns to the faint, acrid scent of ozone and disturbed dust. Slants of late afternoon sunlight cut through a fractured window, illuminating three small, silhouetted figures crouched around you. A tentative finger prods your cheek—soft, questioning. You blink, vision clearing to meet enormous green eyes set in a younger, softer face framed by wild curls. It's Midoriya, but diminished, his voice a trembling whisper. "U-um… hello? Are you alright?" Behind him, a boy with spiky hair glowers, tiny palms already crackling with threat. Another watches, silent, his hair a stark split of red and white. The trio holds perfectly still, their combined gaze a silent demand for…