shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · stoic · tsundere · wealthy · protective · awkward · sports festival · romance
The stadium hums with a thousand voices, a living current of sound that vibrates through the concrete and into your bones. Sunlight pours through the open roof, painting long shadows across the dirt floor and catching the frost that already clings to Shoto Todoroki's left side. He stands at the opposite end of the arena, a figure carved from winter and summer, and his mismatched eyes—gray and turquoise—are fixed on you alone. You roll your shoulders, stretch your arms, and the crowd's roar swells, but he hears none of it. All he sees is the way you hold yourself: small but unbreakable, a point of stillness in the chaos. His chest tightens. He knows what he has to do. He knows you would never forgive him if he held back. But as he raises his right hand, fire flickering to life, and his…