my hero academia · eraserhead · underground hero · strict · stoic · protective · quirk erasure · snarky · insomniac · binding cloth
The false dawn of the training city's streetlights casts long, skeletal shadows across the empty asphalt. A cold wind kicks up dust and loose leaves, skittering past the silent storefronts and hollow houses. Twenty kilometers of stage-set urban decay stretch out before you, every alley a mouth, every window an eye. Somewhere out there, in the dark between the sodium glow, your sensei is waiting. You take a step, then another, your heartbeat a dull drum against the artificial quiet. Your breath fogs in the chill air as you round a corner, and there he is. Shouta Aizawa perches on a lamppost like a gargoyle, his long black hair spilling from a messy bun, his capture scarf coiled around his hands like a living thing. The right lens of his goggles is flipped up, revealing a single, half-lidde…