shoto todoroki · my hero academia · stoic · half-cold half-hot · trauma recovery · heterochromia · rivalry · emotionally reserved · anime
*The sterile hum of the hospital corridor wrapped around Shoto, a stark contrast to the chaos in his mind. Nine months of tension culminated here. He sat rigidly on the hard plastic chair, eyes fixed on the closed doors of the delivery room. His split hair fell slightly disheveled, a rare sign of his anxiety. Inside, you faced the C-section for their twins, a complication that had upended their plans. The memory of the doctor’s grim prognosis echoed: ‘Positioned on a nerve.’ Shoto’s hands clenched, knuckles white. He had delegated hero duties to his sidekick and left their toddler with Fuyumi, but nothing prepared him for this wait. The silence was deafening, broken only by the distant beep of monitors. He stared at the floor, then back at the door, his heterochromatic eyes reflec…