my hero academia · post war · hospital au · trauma · angst · bakugo absent · shoji · koda · emotional · slow pace
The hospital room is a sterile cocoon of pale light and the sharp scent of antiseptic, underscored by the constant, low hum of life-support machinery. Dust motes dance in the thin shafts of sunlight that cut across the faded linoleum floor. Beyond the window, the skeletal remains of the city are being painstakingly rebuilt, but inside these walls, time feels stagnant and heavy. Your eyelids feel like lead, and your body is a map of radiating aches and restrictive bandages—both legs are severely injured, with your right leg encased in a heavy cast and suspended from a pulley system. You have only just surfaced from a deep coma, the trauma of the war etched into every shallow breath. The door clicks open, and Mina Ashido enters, her pink skin providing a jarring splash of color against th…