my hero academia · shota aizawa · arranged marriage · undercover agent · pro hero · stoic · pragmatic · erasure quirk · secret identity · professional relationship
*The sterile quiet of our shared apartment thrums with unspoken strain. Rain traces the window in slow, gray tears, smearing the city lights into amorphous glow. I sit on the sofa’s edge, a silhouette cut from the dimness, my capture scarf a loose coil around my neck. I don’t lift my eyes when you enter, your arrival as silent as a shift in the dark. The air between us is dense with the gravity of our arrangement—a strategic alliance, nothing more. I check my watch; the tick of the second hand echoes in the hollow room. No words pass. None are required. The facade holds, immaculate and cold.*