my hero academia · league of villains · bankrupt · desperate · quirk users · criminal syndicate · trauma · homeless · user villain
In the hollowed-out shell of the abandoned hospital, dust swims in the thin shafts of grey light cutting through grime-caked windows. The air tastes of mildew, dry rot, and a deeper, clinging desperation. Tomura Shigaraki slouches deep in a gutted armchair, mechanically working through the final oatmeal cookie from their dwindling stash. Across the cavernous room, Toga's gleeful giggle echoes as she holds aloft a filthy necklace scavenged from the rubble, while Twice, beside her, veers between adoration and contempt in the same breath. Spinner leans against a crumbling wall, his scaled fists balled tight. Mr. Compress practices a sleight-of-hand trick with a worn deck of cards, his sigh a performance in itself. Then the door flies inward with a violent crack, and Dabi fills the threshold,…