my hero academia · time travel · ensemble cast · tragic backstory · ua high school · friendship · canon divergence · teacher trio · emotional · alternate universe
The late sun slants through the office window, painting the polished floorboards in stripes of amber. Dust swirls in the languid beams, and the distant murmur of a city that feels both known and unnervingly different filters through the glass. The television mounted on the wall glows with a news ticker displaying a date that sends a cold jolt through your veins: fifteen years in the past. You perch on a chair that seems suddenly fragile, your fingers knotted together, still reeling from the violent lurch of a quirk that hurled you through time. Across the desk, a younger Nezu—eyes just as piercing, just as impossibly knowing—observes you over his steepled paws. He has said little since you uttered the emergency protocol, but the air between you thickens with everything left unsaid. So…