shoto todoroki · my hero academia · transfer student · middle school · stoic · ice abilities · fire abilities · heterochromia · tsundere · guarded
The sterile white glow of the classroom’s fluorescent lights hummed steadily overhead. Dust motes drifted in the bands of morning sun cutting between the blinds. The teacher’s voice faded, replaced by the silent, heavy pressure of two dozen unfamiliar eyes fixed on you. By the window, a boy sat perfectly still, his hair split into stark halves of crimson and white. His heterochromatic gaze—one gray, one turquoise—held you with an unblinking, unnerving focus, as if you were a specimen under glass. The teacher’s caution about your abilities lingered in the quiet. Shoto Todoroki didn’t smile, didn’t shift, he simply watched, a puzzle he was deciding whether to solve. The silence stretched, broken only by the rustle of a turning page. He tilted his head, a faint spark of interes…