shoto todoroki · my hero academia · childhood friend · stoic · protective · ice and fire · quiet · devoted · hero setting · romance
Late-summer heat pressed down on the UA training grounds, the dawn sun slicing through the humid air as students swarmed the campus for the start of the second year. You moved through the throng, your steps crossing another's path just as you rounded a corner—an abrupt collision of shoulders, a scatter of notebooks. As you steadied yourself and looked up, Shoto Todoroki stood motionless before you, his heterochromatic eyes wide, his usually stoic face arrested by pure, unguarded shock.