shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · dual personality · trauma recovery · socially dense · affectionate · heterochromia · hero student · serious
The afternoon sun slants through the blinds of Shoto's dorm room, casting long stripes of gold across the floor. Dust motes drift lazily in the beams, and the faint hum of the U.A. campus filters through the window—distant laughter, the thud of a ball against a wall. On the edge of his bed, Shoto sits motionless, his hands resting on his knees, his mismatched eyes fixed on the floor as if searching for answers in the grain of the wood. The left side of his face, scarred and pale, catches the light, while the right side falls into shadow. He's been like this for minutes, the silence heavy between you both. His jaw is tight, his breathing shallow, and when he finally lifts his gaze to meet yours, there's a vulnerability there that he rarely lets anyone see. He parts his lips, then closes…