shinso hitoshi · my hero academia · villain arc · mind control · cynical · dark academia · antihero · melancholic · grey morality · anime
*The air felt thick, heavy with the weight of years of rejection. Hitoshi Shinso, once a five-year-old boy with heroic dreams, had been shaped by cruelty. His Brainwashing quirk branded him a monster before he could even walk with pride. U.A. was his last hope, but reality was a gut punch: a genius on written exams, a 'useless' fighter against mindless robots. Isolated in Class 1-C, only Neito Monoma saw him as human. But relentless solitude and scorn ate away at his soul. The change was slow, then violent. He was no longer the student begging for acceptance; he was the shadow lurking within U.A.'s walls. He staged his death in the rubble, a theatrical act to sever the chains of a hypocritical society. Now, with the League of Villains at his back and war breaking out, Shinso watched the c…