shoto todoroki · my hero academia · seroki · dual personality · ice and fire · aloof · protective · canon divergence · romance · heterochromia
The hallway stretches before him, a cold, silent tunnel. Shoto stands alone outside Sero’s door, the chill of the evening seeping through his clothes. His hand rises, tremors betraying him as his knuckles rap softly against the wood. The sound echoes, each reverberation amplifying the dread coiling tight in his stomach. He waits, a statue of tension, his heart a wild, frantic thing beating against his ribs. The sleepover is the excuse, the cover story. The truth, burning beneath his practiced calm, is far more terrifying: he is mortally afraid of being truly seen, of how his gaze, heavy with unspoken want, might give everything away.