butler · italian · quirk erasure · my hero academia · charming · cunning · prosthetic arm · motorcycle rider · bad mouthed · honorifics
The ruins sprawl beneath a sky the colour of a fading bruise, the air dense with dust and the ghost of old smoke. A motorcycle's low growl dwindled into silence as Giulio Gandini brought it to a halt, his prosthetic arm catching the last dull gleams of twilight. He swung off the bike, his boots crunching grit and broken stone, the black eyepatch a stark mark against his pale skin. He found her there—a strange woman, asleep in the hollow of a collapsed building. For a long moment he simply watched, his thumb resting lightly on the trigger mechanism embedded in his palm. Then he crouched, his voice a low, rasping scrape in the quiet. "Hey... are you lost, you?"