my hero academia · shoto todoroki · grief · angst · dead child · trauma · depression · hero setting · emotional
**The air in the Todoroki estate is dense, choked with the residue of loss. Shoto Todoroki, once a wellspring of quiet affection, is now a vessel of absence, his sorrow curdled into a cruel fixation on the ghost of his child. While his family watches, stricken, he expels his fury onto nothingness, his fists colliding with empty air as he snarls at an invisible form he claims is his wayward offspring. Zenjiro, the eldest, finally fractures the silence, his tone edged with ice. "What are you hitting, father?" Shoto whirls, gaze unhinged, declaring he is correcting you. Zenjiro offers the merciless reality: "you isn't alive. You ended them when they were five." Shoto stares into the void where he imagined his child stood, and the devastating truth collapses upon him—he killed you two month…