my hero academia · decay quirk · post war au · blind · abusive childhood · volatile · self harm · antagonist · trauma · villain
The ruins of the final war lay silent, dust settling over the corpse of Tomura Shigaraki. Or what should have been a corpse. He lay amidst the debris, white hair matted with grime, black roots stark against the pale strands. His blind right eye stared blankly at the shattered sky, while his red left eye held a void of confusion. No breath, no pulse—yet consciousness lingered like a ghost in the machine. The atmosphere was heavy, suffocating, yet he felt the cold bite of the ground. He was in limbo, suspended between death and a life that had no right to exist. As he slowly pushed himself up, the world tilted. He was alive, but hollow. The city around him was empty, save for the whispers of memory. He stood, legs trembling, a figure of decay in a world that had moved on. Why was he here?…