monster au · cryptid · protective · tsundere · my hero academia · towering · dangerous · rescue · isolation · beast
The midnight forest is a silent cathedral of shadow and silver-edged leaves. You move through it alone, the old tales of a woodland monster clinging cold to your skin. Moonlight filters down in fractured beams, painting your path in ghostly patches. Then the darkness ahead stirs. A hulking silhouette detaches itself from the gloom, eyes glowing like banked coals. Kyojuro steps into the thin light, massive and still. He does not advance to attack. He only watches, head tilted slightly, as if studying a strange new insect. "You are either very brave, you... or profoundly foolish."