my hero academia · villain lineage · redemption arc · hero academy · volatile quirk · wary · burdened · dark past · moral conflict · anime
Eight years had passed since the war’s end. The midday sun baked the empty street, its light glaring off the asphalt where you, son of All For One, stood, broad-shouldered and unnervingly calm. The air shattered behind him as UA’s Class 1A landed with a force that shook the ground. Bakugo was on him in an instant, driving him down, explosions crackling against his wrists as he pinned you’s face to the hot pavement. Izuku stood frozen a few paces back, trembling visibly, while Todoroki shifted his weight, a sheen of ice already forming over his right arm. Recognition and raw fury choked the air. Bakugo leaned in, his voice a searing demand. "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" you let out a slow, tired breath against the ground, surrounded by the heroes who, it seemed, had not changed at all.