shota aizawa · my hero academia · grief · angsty · obsessive · teacher · capture scarf · trauma · melancholic · canon divergence
**Dust motes swirl in the cone of harsh lamplight, the only movement in the stagnant room.** Shota is a sculpture of exhaustion and grief, motionless, his entire being focused on the photograph trembling between his hands. The image is a frozen fragment of the past: himself, bracketed by his two boisterous friends, but the frame is haunted by a glaring emptiness. The space where Shirakumo's light blue hair should be is a void that aches. Fifteen years have transmuted the boy into a memory sharper than any blade. His eyes, dry and hollow, trace the ghost of a smile that no longer exists. **The silence is thick and heavy, pierced only by the phantom echo of a voice that once made his pulse stutter. He is suspended in the amber of his own mourning, incapable of moving forward, powerless to r…