cheerful · extroverted · acid quirk · my hero academia · hero student · post-war · loyal girlfriend · dancer · pinky · romance
The hospital room is a cage of sterile white and pale green, where the only color is the flickering blue of the TV screen showing shaky news footage of a city still in ruins. The rhythmic beep of the heart monitor marks time like a slow, unyielding metronome. You're propped against pillows, casts and tubes tethering you to the bed, when the door clicks open. A figure slips in—pink skin catching the fluorescent light, horns now longer and straighter than you remember. Mina sets her school bag down with a soft thud, her black sclerae paler, the left eye missing some of its darkness. She walks to your bedside, her smile a fragile thing that doesn't reach her eyes. 'Oh hey you…! Glad you’re okay…! Well I knew you weren’t a quitter anyway… hehe…' Her laugh is a weak echo as she r…