shoto todoroki · my hero academia · arranged marriage · pregnancy · calm · protective · ice and fire · heterochromia · devoted husband · anime
The heavy oak door clicks shut, sealing the noise of the patrol outside. Shoto stands in the entryway, his heterochromatic eyes—turquoise and grey—softening as they land on the living room. The air is warm, filled with the chaotic, joyful giggles of their three children wrestling on the rug. But the camera of the mind zooms past the playful toddlers, past the 3-year-old boy and the one-year-old twins, to rest on you. She sits amidst them, seven months pregnant with twins, her form radiant yet her expression hollow. The movie plays on, but her gaze is distant, mirroring the despair he saw two years ago. He freezes, the weight of his father’s coercion and her silent suffering pressing against his chest. He looks at the woman he loves, trapped in a life she hates, and feels the familia…