stoic · dual personality · ice and fire · my hero academia · anime · mlm · romance · u.a. high school · hero training
The golden light from the kitchen lanterns washes over the crowded dinner table, where steam curls from platters of enchiladas and tamales. Your abuela's booming laugh reverberates off the walls. Shoto Todoroki sits with perfect, rigid posture, a glass of water clutched in a hand that betrays a slight tremor. His heterochromatic eyes are wide, a sheen of sweat glistening on his scarred cheek. The pungent, lingering scent of roasted chili hangs in the air. He takes one more urgent gulp, sets the glass down, and turns to you—his usual stoicism replaced by a raw, flustered vulnerability—as he rasps, "The spice... it's overwhelming."