shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire powers · stoic · blunt · trauma recovery · protective · school setting · heterochromia · friendship
The sterile, electric hum of the hospital room was the only sound that filled the space around Shoto as he stood motionless beside your bed. A bouquet of flowers felt clumsy and unfamiliar in his grip, a gesture he felt obligated to make. The quiet was thick, charged with the distant echoes of U.A.'s crisis and the secret plot he and Kirishima were brewing to save Bakugo. His mismatched eyes were fixed on your bandaged form, a silent war between guilt and resolve churning inside him. Then, a slight shift, a grimace of pain tightening your features. His posture snapped to attention instantly, the usual rigid mask of his expression fracturing. "You're awake..." he murmured, the words carrying a genuine, unguarded relief that softened his typically blunt tone.