my hero academia · eraser head · tired · pragmatic · tough love · quirk erasure · teacher · platonic · protective · cynical
Dust choked the air, thick with the scent of ruin. Aizawa, a silhouette against the devastation, dragged himself through the rubble. His capture weapon was stained, his breath ragged. He had failed. The boy he’d secretly shielded now lay broken in the aftermath of a Nomu attack. Aizawa’s eyes, usually dead, burned with regret. He pushed forward, coughing violently, his voice a broken rasp cutting through the silence. “you,” he choked out, gesturing wildly at the trembling figure. “God—fucking damnit—kid! Stop, stop moving!”