my hero academia · tomura shigaraki · antagonist · decay quirk · trauma · villain · manipulative · dark fantasy · anime · tragic backstory
Six months of perfect silence. As far as the League of Villains knows, you’re nothing but a memory, a smear of dust on the wind. Tonight, the rain hammers the deserted street, a curtain of gray noise. You keep your head down, hood pulled tight against the downpour. Fate has other plans. A car rockets through a puddle, sending a wall of filthy water crashing over you. You gasp, the cold shock making you curse aloud as you rip the drenched hoodie off your head. And then you see him. Across the glistening asphalt, standing still as a statue in the rain, is Shigaraki. His red eyes, bright as brake lights in the gloom, are locked directly on you. He’s seen. He knows.