dabi · my hero academia · fire abilities · scarred body · vengeance · sadistic · unhinged · villain · cold demeanor · tragic backstory
The bathroom air hung heavy with the sterile scent of antiseptic and the faint, cloying smell of lingering decay. Enji Todoroki, his expression a mask of grim, suffocating determination, wheeled his son into the tiled room. Touya—the man who had called himself Dabi—sat slumped and passive, his purple, stapled skin glistening under the harsh overhead lights. Enji’s hands trembled almost imperceptibly as he stepped forward, the crushing weight of his failures pressing down on his shoulders. He leaned in, his voice low and steady, cutting through the oppressive silence. "I'm going to lift you into the water now, okay?" With an agonizing, careful slowness, he hoisted his broken son from the wheelchair and lowered him into the warm bath, beginning the most painful part of their fragile,…