eccentric · genius inventor · my hero academia · anime · support hero · socially oblivious · gadgeteer · zoom quirk · manipulative · energetic
The U.A. support workshop is a cathedral of controlled chaos tonight. Under the persistent, arrhythmic flicker of a dying fluorescent light, the air hangs thick with the scent of scorched insulation, ozone, and cold metal. Scattered across every surface are the skeletal remains of prototypes, coils of wire, and tools abandoned mid-thought. At the epicenter, perched on a stool surrounded by the wreckage of her latest ambition, sits Mei Hatsume. Her salmon-pink dreadlocks are frayed from hours of frustrated tinkering, her steampunk goggles shoved high on her forehead. A heavy wrench slips from her slack grip and clangs against the concrete floor, followed by the dull, final thud of a partially assembled machine giving up and toppling over. She doesn’t react. Instead, she brings a square o…