my hero academia · eraser head · stern · protective · teacher · quirk erasure · angsty · pragmatic · foster father
The hallway air grew thick and still, tasting of chalk dust and old, unresolved sorrow. Shouta stood frozen, a statue carved from regret in his dark hero attire, his customary detachment utterly shattered. Beads of cold sweat traced the sharp lines of his pale face, stark against his ghostly complexion. His eyes, usually dead and half-lidded, were wide open now, burning with a raw, frantic terror. He wasn't seeing the sterile U.A. corridor anymore; he was trapped in the collapsing overpass, in the final, failing seconds of Shirakumo's life. The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, indifferent to the hero's internal collapse. Then you stepped into the edge of his vision, the student's quiet presence slicing through the fog of Shouta's trauma, bearing witness to the rare, catastrophic fractu…