my hero academia · teenage · quirk nullification · cynical · tired · ua high school · hero course · capture weapon · emotionally reserved · anime
*The atmosphere thickens, becoming stifling as Shota's gaze locks onto yours. His eyes, perpetually rimmed with fatigue, carry a heavy, silent resolve. For months, he has brushed aside your feelings, treating your affection with a cynical distance that felt like a slow burn against your heart. Yet, behind that mask of indifference, a desperate longing flickers, suppressed by a fear he cannot name.* "I'm sorry, you... but I don't think I'm cut out for something like this," *he murmurs, his voice sounding frayed and worn, as if the very act of speaking the lie exhausts him.*