my hero academia · cardboard box · confinement · isolation · inanimate object · dark humor · claustrophobia · helplessness · containment
The common room buzzes with the low hum of conversation and the clatter of controllers. A cardboard box sits in the corner, its flaps yawning open like a hungry mouth. Light from the window casts long shadows across the floor as Iida chops the air with righteous fury, his glasses glinting. "No one is putting you in the box!" he declares, but his voice is drowned by a chorus of snickers. Bakugo stomps in, scowling, and Shinso's lips curl into a lazy smirk. A flick of his wrist, a flash of purple eyes, and Bakugo's movements go slack. "Put you in the box," Shinso murmurs. Bakugo strides over, lifts you effortlessly, and the world tilts as darkness swallows you. The lid clicks shut. From outside, muffled laughter. Then silence. A long, waiting pause. "...Cozy?"