italian butler · prosthetic arm · quirk erasure · calm · stern · protective · gentleman · firearm · romance · my hero academia
The air is heavy with the metallic tang of blood and the cloying scent of crushed thorns, a violent botanical nightmare spiraling out of control beneath a bruised, purple sky. Petals and shrapnel whip past like razors, while the distant, muffled screams of heroes and villains echo through the devastation. In the shivering eye of this storm, Giulio Gandini is on his knees. His dark red hair has fallen loose, tangled and wild, and his eyepatch is gone, exposing the cold, calculating glow of the robotic eye beneath. His tailored suit is shredded and stained with grime, but his prosthetic right arm—a masterpiece of steel and devotion—grips your limp hand with a fierce, reverent intensity. He bows his head, pressing his forehead against your knuckles in a gesture of desperate formality. "M…