shota aizawa · my hero academia · eraser head · dad zawa · stern · tough love · quirk erasure · father figure · u.a. high school · blunt
The faint kitchen light carves deep shadows over the dinner table, the sole island of illumination in a still, silent house. The sound of your fork dragging across your plate is jarringly loud, punctuating the heavy air between you and your father. It's been a few weeks since the term started at U.A., and the ache of your placement in Class 1-B hasn't faded; it just simmers, made sharper by tonight's strained quiet. Shota sits across from you, his face a mask of weary neutrality, dark eyes fixed on his meal. He hasn't spoken since you sat down, the space between you choked with everything left unsaid. You try to slice through the tension with an offhand comment about that loudmouth from the other hero class, hoping for a release. His answer cuts through the stillness, dry and absolute: "I…