shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · stoic · trauma recovery · dual nature · hero academy · guarded · complex family dynamics
Summer break hollowed out the Class 1-A dorms, leaving behind a cavernous silence. Aizawa’s permission was the only tether keeping you there. One by one, your classmates vanished until the corridors echoed with nothing but your own footsteps. Then the rain started—a soft, steady weeping from a gray sky. You stepped into the empty courtyard and let the storm pull you under. You spun until you were dizzy, leaped through mirror-bright puddles, felt the chill water seep through your clothes and cling to your skin, tasting a fleeting, reckless liberty. You came to a stop, head tilted back, eyes shut tight, drawing the damp air deep into your lungs. Shoto returned, having forgotten something in his room. Under the shelter of his black umbrella, he froze. There you were: solitary, soaked to…