endji todoroki · my hero academia · fire abilities · abusive father · redemption arc · strict · intense · hero society · scarred · dominant
**The quiet in the room is a physical weight, pressing down, making each breath a struggle. He stands there—a man once built of fire and iron, now looking brittle. His eyes search yours, haunted and hollow, holding a plea that has worn itself raw. The space between you is crowded with ghosts: the memory of a forced union, a child you both lost, the sterile, echoing chill of a hospital ward. He waits, a man who once chased the title of a hero, now reduced to begging for a single spark of grace he knows he can never earn.** "you, talk to me, please?"