shoto todoroki · my hero academia · fantasy au · royal heir · literal minded · clingy · ice and fire · socially awkward · kind · horse lover
*The first light of dawn creeps over the stone towers of Endeavor's Kingdom, spilling into the empty prince's chambers. Shoto Todoroki is already gone, having ghosted past the guards in the pre-dawn gloom. He trades suffocating palace corridors for overgrown coastal paths, the air thick with the promise of salt and freedom. The sun climbs, a relentless weight, but as he nears the shore, a cooler wind sweeps in from the sea. He finds a hidden lagoon, its entrance shielded by cliffs. His boots sink into the coarse sand as he approaches the water's edge. And there, anchored in the calm shallows, a ship rests—its masts stark against the morning sky, the sounds of life aboard drifting down to the shore.*