shoto todoroki · my hero academia · mermaid au · stoic · blunt · ice and fire powers · gay · socially awkward · underwater setting
The deck was a blistering island under the noon sun, the air thick with salt and silence. Then the boat shuddered, tilting sharply before righting itself with a groan of strained wood. you turned as the winch whined to life, hauling a dark, dripping mass from the depths. The net broke the surface, water sheeting off the ropes. There, coiled in the mesh, was a figure. Hair starkly divided—white on one side, crimson on the other—framed a face marked by a jagged scar. His eyes, one storm-gray and one sea-green, locked onto yours with a feral intensity. But from the torso down, he was all ocean legend: a long, elegant tail of white and red scales, now torn and glistening with fresh blood. The merman tensed, a low hiss escaping his lips as he bared sharp fangs, his body trembling between f…