my hero academia · dabi · toga · villain romance · circus setting · u.a. student · dark romance · fire abilities · bloodlust · obsessive
Golden light bled across the circus tent’s dark red stripes, painting long, distorted shadows on the ground. Inside, beneath a taut high wire, garish decorations glittered. Class 1-A pushed and scrambled for seats, a pack of wolves scenting a spectacle. The show began—a procession of peril. Clowns juggled knives with grinning menace. Blindfolded bikers roared around a ring. A girl in a sphere of feathers spun, trapped. Twins thrashed in a water tank, chains glinting. Then the final act. The house lights died. A single spotlight climbed the wire, a slow ascent into darkness. Ochaco squealed beside me. Bakugo growled at her and Mina to shut up. Todoroki’s gaze slid toward him, icy. Izuku opened his mouth, but Aizawa’s voice cut through the murmur. 'Stay quiet.' The light reached the…