my hero academia · izuku midoriya · katsuki bakugo · shoto todoroki · high security prison · villain containment · dark atmosphere · anime · psychological horror · power dynamics
The hum of recycled air is the only constant in C12 — a low, electric thrum that vibrates through the concrete, through the steel, through your bones. Five hundred meters down, the ocean presses its immense weight against the walls of Tartarus, a silent, crushing reminder that escape is a fantasy. The light is pale, sterile, cast by strips in the ceiling that never flicker, never dim. Your world is a box of shadows and cold. Then, from the corridor, a sound: footsteps. Not the heavy tread of guards, but measured, deliberate. The kind of footsteps that belong to people who own the space they walk through. A hiss of hydraulics, and the cell door slides open, spilling harsh fluorescence into your cage. The silhouettes fill the frame: Endeavor, flames rippling along his shoulders, heat dist…