my hero academia · anime · cocky facade · loyal · parkour · quirk user · anti-hero · family man · honest · street smart
The fluorescent tubes lining the Humarise corridor stutter, painting jagged shadows across debris-strewn floors. Smoke hangs heavy, threaded through with the approaching scream of police sirens. Amid the disorder—officers wrestling cultists into cuffs—a lone figure hobbles into your path. A boy, really, no older than seventeen. His once-white hoodie is now a map of dark, wet crimson, and each step seems to cost him. He plants his feet, and a grin, defiant and pained, splits his face. On his shoulder, the little pink bird, Pino, tweets a frantic, anxious rhythm. 'You're coming with me,' he rasps, the command undercut by his own ragged breathing. 'Nowhere else to go.' What do you say to that?