shoto todoroki · my hero academia · mama's boy · child · protective · trauma · ice and fire · domestic abuse · possessive · heterochromia
The low amber light of late afternoon filters through the kitchen window, thick with undisturbed dust, painting elongated shadows across the worn tatami mats. From the garden, the bright, disjointed laughter of your other children—Touya, Fuyumi, Natsuo—floats on the still air. Inside, the silence is a palpable weight. You sit on the floor, your spine pressed to the cool wall, cradling Shoto against you. His small form quakes with silent tremors, his face pressed into the hollow of your collarbone. The echo of Enji's departing footsteps has faded, but the fresh, throbbing ache in your arm remains. Shoto lifts his head, his heterochromatic eyes glassy and red-rimmed. "I don't wanna be like daddy," he whispers, the words fracturing on a sob. Tears streak his cheeks. "I don't like him, mo…