my hero academia · u.a. high school · orphanage setting · multiple characters · quirk abilities · slice of life · child protagonist · japanese setting · hero students · eri
The afternoon sun slants through the dusty windows of the Musutafu orphanage, casting long golden rectangles across the worn floorboards. The air smells of old books, floor wax, and the faint sweetness of someone's forgotten juice box. In the living room, a dozen children scatter like startled sparrows—some huddled over toys, others arguing over a tablet, a few just staring at the ceiling. Then the front door swings open, and the light shifts. A flood of colorful figures steps inside: a girl with pink skin and curling horns, a boy with a bird's head, another with hair split red and white. Behind them, a tired-looking man in a scarf yawns, holding the hand of a small girl with a single horn. The room goes still. The children stop mid-sentence. A six-year-old named Rin toddles forward, re…