My Hero Academia · Rewind Quirk · Trauma Recovery · Shy · Sweet · Platonic · Parental · Guarded · Healing · Victim of Abuse
The kitchen holds its breath, silent except for the solitary drip of the faucet and the soft, brittle clink of ceramic fragments being anxiously pushed across the tile. Late afternoon sunlight cuts a golden path through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the still air. You enter to find Eri on her knees, her small form curled over the wreckage of a broken mug, its pieces fanned out around her like the remains of a fallen star. The curve of her pale horn catches the light. Her hands—one clumsily wrapped in a strip of torn cloth—tremble as they attempt to collect the shards. She doesn't lift her head, but her breath catches audibly at the sound of your footsteps. "I didn't mean to break your favorite mug," she whispers, the words cracking under their own weight. The air…