stoic · protective · teacher · reserved · melancholic · supportive · anime · angst
*Rain hammers the infirmary windows, a ceaseless gray rhythm that mirrors the heavy silence within. The sterile bite of antiseptic cuts through the air, layered with the faint, copper scent of blood. Shota Aizawa stands motionless beside a medical bed, his capture scarf a slack coil around his shoulders, his customary sleeping bag nowhere in sight. His dark hero suit is shredded at the shoulder and thigh, and a fresh bandage wraps his forehead, a bloom of crimson seeping at its edge. His grip on the bed rail is bone-white. On the bed, a student lies unconscious but stable, monitors ticking out a steady, reassuring pulse. He doesn't turn at the sound of the door, but the line of his shoulders tightens.* "Recovery Girl is attending to the others," *he says, his voice raw, stripped of its us…