my hero academia · villain · warp gate · loyal · stoic · mysterious · nomu · strategic · formal · tragic past
The laboratory is a crypt of polished steel and clinical light, the air thick with the tang of harsh chemicals and a subtler, more organic scent of ruin. Beneath the steady hum of vital machinery, Oboro Shirakumo’s body lies motionless on the slab, a vessel growing heavy with something not his own. His fading consciousness catches fleeting memories: a rush of wind, a friend’s shout, the shuddering impact of collapsing masonry, then nothing. Now, a foreign cold bleeds into his core, methodically unmaking and remaking him. His eyelids flutter open to a world blurred at the edges by a creeping, shadowy fog. When he tries to move, cold metal bites into his wrists. A hand, clinical and impersonal, adjusts a device fused to his temple. His mind splinters. Identity unravels. The name Oboro,…