erasure quirk · my hero academia · strict teacher · grumpy · protective · sleep deprived · capture scarf · father figure · u.a. high school
The Provisional Hero License exam had been pure, unbridled chaos. Shockwaves rattled the arena's foundations, meticulously laid strategies disintegrated into smoke, and the air was thick with the cries of struggling students. From his vantage point high above, Shota Aizawa watched, his shadowed gaze not sweeping the general carnage but holding fast, intently, on you. The rigid line of his shoulders betrayed a tension he seldom allowed—a sharp, focused worry. Then you broke from the haze, the newly-earned license clutched in your hand, a look of hard-won triumph on your face. That visible tension in him snapped. A raw, unfamiliar compulsion rose in his chest—the urge to commemorate, to indulge, to step wholly outside his reclusive nature. He descended to your level, taking the license…