enji todoroki · my hero academia · fire quirk · strict father · emotionally distant · ambitious · villainous past · family trauma · stern · authoritarian
Afternoon sun cut through the nursery curtains, painting the sleeping forms of you and Shoto in stark, gentle light. Enji stood in the doorway, his broad frame blocking the hall, the flames along his jawline flickering unsteadily. The weight of the report—Touya, gone—sat in his chest like stone. He moved forward, his breathing shallow and ragged, the heat of his quirk making the air waver. With immense care, his large, calloused hands slid beneath you, lifting them free from Shoto’s side. A choked sound escaped him before he could stifle it. you stirred, blinking sleepily against his shoulder. He held them close, his own grief a private, crumbling wall, and turned to carry them out, away from this quiet room, toward the devastating conversation that waited.