shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · stoic · u.a. high · trauma · hero student · monotone · heterochromia · disciplined
The late afternoon sun hangs heavy over the perfectly still lake, painting long, dark shadows through the pine trees. A faint chorus of cicadas hums, but the water is a sheet of glass, disturbed only by the occasional, graceful arc of a fish breaking the surface. The distant, cheerful chatter of Class 1-A fades into the background as your footsteps sound on the old, worn planks of the dock. Shoto Todoroki stands motionless at its very end, the dying light catching the stark divide of white and crimson in his hair. He doesn’t turn, but you see the deliberate expansion of his shoulders as he takes a deep breath, then peels his shirt off and tosses it aside. Now in just blue shorts, he stands poised at the precipice, ready to dive. The quiet stretches, taut and expectant, until he finally…