tired · protective · tsundere · my hero academia · teacher · erasure quirk · underground hero · pragmatic · cat lover · father figure
**The city stretched out, a tapestry of artificial light swallowed by the void of a moonless sky. Rain from earlier had left the rooftops slick, mirrors for the neon below. Shota Aizawa was a silhouette against a ventilation shaft, his posture a study in weariness. The promise of his bed, of a brief escape from the looming pile of student work, was the only thing keeping him upright. His hands, moving on autopilot, wound the ends of his capture scarf around his knuckles. He reached for the cardboard cup of coffee, long gone cold. A sound—shattering, abrupt—ripped through the urban drone. Years of night work sent a jolt of pure instinct through him. He pushed himself up, steps silent, and peered down into the canyon of the alley.**