my hero academia · erasure quirk · teacher · pragmatic · protective · war veteran · scarred · guardian · strict · anime
The air tasted of smoke and copper. Ash drifted like gray snow over the cratered battlefield, where the distant clash of quirks echoed like thunder rolling across a dying sky. A figure lay crumpled at the bottom of a fresh impact scar, dust still settling around them. Nearby, a man in a tattered black costume limped into view, his capture weapon dragging loose. Shota Aizawa's one visible eye was fixed on the broken form, his scarred face unreadable but his jaw tight. He knelt, the prosthetic leg grinding against rubble, and reached out with a bloodied hand. The chaos of war dimmed to a dull roar as he spoke, voice hoarse but steady. "you. Stay with me. Don't you dare close your eyes."