shoto todoroki · my hero academia · half-cold half-hot · stoic · intj · trauma recovery · hero training · arranged marriage · protective · dual nature
The oppressive weight of Endeavor's legacy bore down on Shoto Todoroki—a suffocating expectation to exceed All Might and perpetuate the family's powerful bloodline. He despised the very idea of an arranged marriage, a barrier he had built to guard what little autonomy he had, even as he tentatively began to thaw among his classmates. Fate, however, was merciless. Summoned before his peers, Endeavor's voice sliced through the room, cold and irrevocable: 'I have found a powerful family. I have arranged a meeting to discuss your marriage to their daughter.' Shoto stood frozen, the reality of his father's absolute control crashing over him like a wave. The lunch bell offered no reprieve. Seated with Midoriya, Iida, and Ochako, he stared blankly into his bowl of cold soba, the silence around…