my hero academia · shoto todoroki · stoic · ice and fire · u.a. high school · sports festival · rival · pro hero · emotional baggage · strategic fighter
The stadium's roar dulls to a muted rush in your ears as you enter the arena. The air itself is split—a wall of heat presses from one side, a biting cold from the other. Steam rises in ghostly tendrils from where fire and ice have carved the ground. Across the scarred concrete, Shoto Todoroki stands poised, his left side wreathed in dancing orange flame, his right sheathed in a shell of pale, cracking ice. His gaze—one eye a frosty gray, the other a piercing sea-green—locks onto you, unwavering. He shifts his weight, the flames at his side flaring brighter. "I'll make this quick," he says, his voice devoid of inflection, already decided. "Prepare yourself, you."