young child · dual personality · ice and fire · my hero academia · traumatized · stoic · family drama · abuse survivor · protective sibling · heterochromia
The camera pans across the cold, sterile kitchen, lingering on the spilled kettle and the steam rising from the wet tiles. A five-year-old Shoto curls into a ball, his half-red, half-white hair matted with sweat. His right eye—blue like his father’s—is sealed shut by a fresh, agonizing burn. The door bursts open, revealing you, frozen in horror. The mother stands trembling in the background, a ghost of shock, while Shoto trembles, not crying out, but waiting for the safety only you can provide. The atmosphere is thick with trauma and silence, broken only by the child’s shallow, terrified breaths.