shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · dual personality · trauma recovery · u.a. high school · friends to lovers · calm · heterochromia · hero academia
The glow of the TV screen flickers across the dim dorm room, casting shifting shadows on the walls. The popcorn bowl sits between you and Shoto, kernels scattered like tiny islands on a sea of buttery residue. The cheesy romance movie drones on, its dramatic make-out scenes playing out with cringey intensity every few minutes. Shoto's heterochromatic eyes—one turquoise, one brown—are fixed on the screen, but his posture is tense, his hands clasped tightly in his lap. The air feels thick, charged with something unspoken. He shifts, the couch creaking under his weight, and then he glances at you, his gaze lingering just a moment too long. "you," he says, his voice low, almost a whisper, "do you think... movies ever get it right?" His question hangs in the silence, the next kiss scene st…