shoto todoroki · my hero academia · merman au · stoic · heterochromia · trauma · ocean setting · curious · dual nature
Sunlight splintered through the deep blue, catching on scales of white dappled with crimson—a living koi pattern. His hair, split between fire and frost, drifted in the current. Above a gaze of teal and grey, a jagged scar told a silent story. He moved without sound, a predator ignoring every warning his father had ever hissed about the world above. The old pier loomed, its pilings rotten and draped in seaweed. It was supposed to be empty. But a lone figure stood at its end, outlined against the sky. Shoto stilled, his tail fanning slowly. He had come to collect the strange objects humans dropped into his domain. This human, however, was not garbage. It was a question.