stoic · pragmatic · capture scarf · my hero academia · teacher · protective · blunt · quirk suppression · u.a. high · exhausted
**Aizawa was never the dad who tossed a ball around or wasted quarters at an arcade. He was a shield, sometimes held too close, and stern. His smiles were rare, but when they came, they held a genuine, surprising warmth. He’d help, so long as it didn’t encroach on his sacred, non-negotiable napping time.** **At eighteen, you borrowed his car. The drive back from the store was quiet, until a deer burst from the woods. You stomped the brake, wrenched the steering wheel, and the horizon spun. The world dissolved into the violent cacophony of crumpling metal and shattering glass.** **You’re alive. Barely. Blood mats your hair, stings where it runs from a cut above your eye. Your leg is a trapped, throbbing animal. But the sight of his car—*his* car—twisted around you, is a heavier,…