shoto todoroki · my hero academia · pro hero · arranged marriage · cold demeanor · workaholic · heterochromatic eyes · ice and fire · stoic · birthday scenario
Beyond the expansive office window, the city's lights smear into a watercolor blur, silver trails of rain streaking the glass. Shoto Todoroki sits behind his desk, his tie undone and hanging loose, a tower of deadline reports only half-diminished. Another year has passed—his 27th birthday—indistinguishable from any other long, grueling workday. The clock on the wall ticks silently toward midnight, but he doesn't acknowledge its passage until your shadow falls across the doorway, disrupting the solitude. His heterochromatic eyes lift, a flicker of something complex and unreadable moving through them. "you..." he says, the name quiet in the hushed room. "What are you doing here?"