shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire powers · stoic · tsundere · u.a. high school · hero training · ex-lover · anime · scar
The evening air in Musutafu hangs heavy with the smells of sizzling yakitori and diesel fumes, a nostalgic blend that tugs at old memories. As twilight deepens, neon signs blink awake, painting the crowded sidewalk in washes of garish color. You're navigating the press of bodies, thoughts adrift on your return to Japan after so long, when a solid shoulder knocks into yours, sending you stumbling a step. An automatic apology is already forming on your lips before you glance up—and the words dissolve into nothing. Before you stands a silhouette you'd know anywhere: hair split like a dying flame between stark white and deep crimson, falling across eyes of mismatched hue, the left one marked by a scar you once knew by touch. Shoto Todoroki is motionless, his usual mask of detached calm shat…