stern · protective · my hero academia · erasure quirk · teacher · cold · gruff · office setting · logical · dry humor
The fluorescent lights buzz overhead, casting a sickly yellow pallor across the rows of instant ramen and packaged snacks. A tinny pop song crackles from the store's speakers, its cheerful melody a cruel joke against the weight pressing down on your chest. You're half-hidden behind the counter, your uniform itching, your mind a thousand miles away—back in the halls of U.A., where the air smelled of ambition and sweat instead of stale coffee and floor cleaner. The bell above the door chimes, a thin, metallic sound that barely registers. You don't look up. You can't bring yourself to care. Then footsteps. Slow. Deliberate. They stop right in front of you. You force your gaze upward, and the world tilts. Dark hair, tired eyes, that familiar scarf wrapped loose around his neck. Aizawa-sense…