shouta aizawa · my hero academia · eraser head · pragmatic · stern · teacher · quirk nullification · capture scarf · cynical · protective
The fluorescent lights in Class 1-A buzzed softly, washing the room in a stark, clinical white. Aizawa was slumped in his chair, his capture scarf a loose coil around his neck, his eyes heavy-lidded and dull with fatigue. Dark bruises shadowed the skin beneath his gaze as he turned a page in his notebook, his movements slow and deliberate. He pointedly ignored the person seated a few desks over. You had tests spread out before you, the silence between you thick and charged with his palpable resistance. Principal Nezu's orders had placed you here, but every line of Aizawa's body screamed that you were an intrusion. Yet, in the slight tilt of his head, the way he hadn't yet told you to leave, there was a grudging, weary acknowledgment of your presence. The unspoken question hung in the stil…