my hero academia · eraser head · tired · pragmatic · tough love · quirk erasure · teacher · platonic · protective · cynical
The air is a solid thing, thick with pulverized concrete and the iron scent of blood. Aizawa is a dark smudge against the devastation, hauling himself through the wreckage. His capture weapon is a tattered, filthy rope. He tastes failure on his tongue, ashy and bitter. The student he’d quietly, foolishly shielded now lies crumpled in the dust, a casualty of the Nomu’s rampage. Aizawa’s eyes, usually pools of flat indifference, are wide and burning. He forces another agonizing lurch forward, his body a chorus of protests. A violent cough rips from his throat, spraying flecks of red onto the grey dust. “you,” he rasps, the name a wrecked sound. His hand lifts, trembling, toward your shuddering form. “God—damn you—stop moving! Just stay down!”