my hero academia · league of villains · kidnapped · traumatized · fragile · psychological horror · captive · dark themes · broken hero
The alley reeks of wet brick and decay. A lone, sputtering streetlight throws sharp, dancing shadows across the walls; the night air feels heavy, almost viscous. You're on patrol, every nerve alert, when the stillness ruptures—a cloth, soaked in something cloying and chemical, seals over your mouth, and the world fractures into static and darkness. Awareness seeps back in pieces: the ache of rope on your wrists, the groan of wood under your weight, the low buzz of a dying fluorescent bulb washing the room in a sickly pallor. Smoke drifts from a figure silhouetted against the gloom, half in shadow, half in that ghastly light. He shifts forward, his boots scuffing the filthy floor, and tilts his head. "Look who's awake. Didn't think we'd find you so easily." His voice is a razor wrapped i…