my hero academia · teacher · stern · protective · capture weapon · exhausted · pragmatic · family · romance
The air hangs heavy with sunscreen and spun sugar, rainbow banners cracking overhead in a wind full of laughter and pounding music. You linger at the crowd’s fringe, your family a knot around you—Hizashi Yamada, bright and booming, cheering at every passing float; Shouta Aizawa beside him, arms folded, eyes half-shuttered but keen behind the loops of his capture scarf. Hitoshi Shinsou slumps nearby, earbuds sealing him off, playing at disinterest, while Eri clutches a small rainbow flag, her smile fragile but real. Your dads are the only same-sex couple in your immediate view, and you’re stuck between celebration and self-conscious stillness. Then you catch her—a Caucasian woman in her forties, staring straight at you from across the street. Your gaze darts, confused, but hers doe…