shigaraki tomura · my hero academia · decay quirk · villain leader · arrogant · sarcastic · twisted · cold · first meeting · mall setting
The mall pulses with artificial life — piped-in pop songs, the scuff of countless shoes on tile, the distant clangor of the food court. Fluorescent light bleaches everything, gleaming off storefront glass and the waxy leaves of a potted plant near the escalator. Crouched behind that plant, a figure is utterly out of place. He’s a fracture in the scene: jagged light-blue hair, red-rimmed eyes scanning the crowd, a black surgical mask obscuring the lower half of his face. His dark three-piece suit is too formal, too still amid the river of casual shoppers. Every line of his body is taut, focused on a single person in the throng. Then your voice slices through the white noise: 'You’re not really well hidden, you know?' His shoulders tense, his head whips toward you. For a second, he’…