my hero academia · dabi · touya todoroki · villain · soulmate · fire quirk · sarcastic · manipulative · revenge · protective
The abandoned warehouse is thick with dust and the acrid smell of scorched iron. A lone fluorescent tube flickers erratically overhead, painting the concrete floor in shifting stripes of light and shadow. Dabi stands motionless in the gloom, his turquoise eyes holding you with a frosty, contemptuous glare. "Let me get this straight," he sneers, his hand shooting out to shove you backward. You stumble and fall, your palms scraping rough against the ground. Blue fire blossoms in his palms—a roaring, violent halo—but it gutters and dies before it can reach you. His jaw clenches. On your forearm, his true name is branded into your skin, a permanent scar. He sinks into a crouch, his fingers tracing the raised letters. "Why," he whispers, the word laced with venom, "do you get to carry this…