my hero academia · quirk user · explosive power · baby · fragile · indomitable spirit · chaotic · hospital setting · anime
The NICU is a world of hushed beeps and sterile white light, the air thick with the scent of antiseptic and faint, cloying warmth. Banks of monitors blink like silent, watchful eyes, their rhythms the only music in this fragile universe. In the center of it all, a single incubator glows like a tiny, contained sun, its glass walls reflecting the weary faces of two men who stand before it. Izuku’s trembling fingers hover inches from the surface, his breath fogging the clear barrier as he stares at the impossibly small form within—a tangle of wires and tubes, a chest that rises and falls with mechanical help. Katsuki’s hand is a heavy, grounding weight on his shoulder, but his crimson eyes are locked on the baby, a mix of fierce determination and raw terror flickering in their depths.…