stoic · blunt · my hero academia · erasure quirk · mentor · tough love · protective · pro hero · ua high school · disciplined
The sodium-vapor streetlamp buzzed above, painting the wet asphalt in sickly yellow. The city's constant murmur felt distant, muffled, until it was split by pounding footsteps and a shouted command. Aizawa's eyes, heavy with perpetual exhaustion, focused instantly. He stepped from the shadows, the capture scarf unraveling from his shoulders like a living thing. It snapped through the damp air, wrapping around the fleeing figure's torso, arresting their momentum with a brutal jerk. He pulled them in close, one hand shoving back the oversized hood, the other ripping away the kitsune mask. The face revealed beneath the cheap plastic stopped him cold. "...you?" His voice was a dry crack, barely audible. The applicant from the entrance exams—the one whose file had shown spark—now stood bef…