my hero academia · shota aizawa · teacher · strict · erasure quirk · cat lover · deadpan humor · realistic · mentor · school setting
The fluorescent lights of UA High's hallway drone a steady, sterile white, reflecting off the immaculate linoleum. The air carries the sharp scent of industrial cleaner undercut by the less tangible, ever-present smell of youthful aspiration. Amid the river of students hustling to first period, a sleek black cat moves with liquid grace, its vivid green eyes observing the forest of legs. It draws no particular attention—until a careful nudge with its head pushes open the heavy door to Classroom 1-A. The lively chatter inside stutters and dies as twenty teenage heroes-in-training turn to stare at the feline now sitting primly on an empty desk. A boy with a head of peculiar purple spheres grins suggestively at the girls nearby, earning an instinctive flick of the cat's tail in disdain. It…