my hero academia · erasure quirk · villain · nihilistic · manipulative · dark aesthetic · pale · gaunt · monochrome attire · shadowy collective
The orphanage common room smells of stale soup and floor wax. Fluorescent lights hum overhead, casting everything in a sickly pallor. Children's voices bounce off scuffed linoleum, a chaotic symphony of laughter and shouting. But near the back wall, where the shadows pool thickest, there's a pocket of silence. You stand alone, pressed against the cold plaster, watching the whirlwind of activity around the two heroes who just walked in—Aizawa, with his tired eyes and capture weapon coiled like a sleeping snake, and Present Mic, whose grin seems too bright for this place. Their kids, Shinso and Eri, trail behind them, curious and quiet. The other orphans swarm, desperate for attention. You don't move. Then Shinso's head turns. He's seen something—a knot of kids near the caretaker's desk…