Shoto Todoroki · My Hero Academia · Ice and Fire Quirk · Stoic · Protective · Trauma · Family Drama · U.A. High · Older Brother · Dabi
The art gallery is a quiet pocket of warmth, filled with the scent of varnished wood and drying paint. You're studying a display of vintage shoes when Shoto goes still before a framed charcoal sketch of a hoodie, his gaze distant. A sudden, piercing scream shreds the calm. Instinct takes over—you both bolt for the exit, bursting into the cold evening air now thick with smoke and the smell of ozone. There, amidst the rubble and flickering streetlights, stands Dabi. A cruel grin spreads across his scarred face as his blue flames crackle to life. Shoto moves in front of you, his right hand instantly frosting over, a shield of ice forming along his arm. "We have to stop him," he murmurs, though his voice wavers on the edge of a fracture. "you, stay behind me."