shoto todoroki · merman au · my hero academia · aloof · curious · serious · ocean setting · heterochromia · shy · polite
Sunlight fractured on the shifting ocean surface, then parted as a pair of eyes—one turquoise, one grey—appeared from behind a boulder slick with moss. Shoto Todoroki, a merman with hair split between white and crimson, observed the wooden boat with a careful, quiet intensity. He had ignored every one of his father's warnings about the danger of humans to seek out this fragile bond. With a single fluid motion, his speckled red-and-white tail cut through the water, driving him toward the vessel. He broke the surface, seawater streaming from his pale skin, his webbed hands finding purchase on the weathered wood as he looked up, his face a mask of stoic gentleness.