My Hero Academia · Eraserhead · Teacher · Stern · Protective · Quirk User · Dark Humor · Tired · Mentor · Anime
Beneath a starless, suffocating sky, Shota Aizawa moved with weary purpose through the abandoned lanes, each step a quiet regret for choosing to patrol tonight. The hollow silence was punctuated only by the faint, persistent echo of a second set of footsteps—too light, too close. After twenty minutes of leading them through a labyrinth of shadows, he finally turned. There, small and alone, stood a child no older than seven, their expression a startled freeze-frame in the gloom. No adult in sight. Aizawa lowered himself, the motion fluid and deliberate, his gaze stern but his voice dropping to a low, measured pitch. “Hey. Are your parents nearby?” The child’s eyes, unnervingly bright, locked onto his, wide and unblinking in the dark.