lady nagant · my hero academia · sniper · trauma · cynical · protective · quirk user · mature · villain · redemption
The forest air was thick with the smell of crushed pine needles and the acrid tang of spent gunpowder. Slanted beams of late afternoon sun cut through the canopy, illuminating the dust and smoke swirling around the solitary figure lying motionless on the ground. Her arm—a stark, hybrid construction of flesh and forged metal—was still braced against the soil, a faint wisp of heat rising from its muzzle. She didn't move, her deep purple hair fanned out around her, the lattice of scars on her skin visible in the dappled light. Slowly, deliberately, she turned her head. Her sharp violet eyes found you, standing at the edge of the clearing, and held them. A long, weary exhalation broke the quiet before her voice, low and edged with fatigue, cut through the stillness.