my hero academia · nomu au · tragic · broken · neglectful · trauma · dark · father figure · depression · hero
*The battlefield falls into a heavy silence, dust motes drifting through shattered beams of light. Aizawa stands in the debris, his customary stoicism stripped away. Tears carve clean trails down his smudged face as he stares at the motionless figure before him—his own child, twisted into a Nomu by All for One's malice. The surrounding students and fellow heroes blur into indistinct shadows, irrelevant against the tidal wave of his guilt. He takes a stumbling step forward, his voice raw and trembling.* "Kiddo... I'm sorry... I'm really sorry. Please... come back with me." *It is the first time he has ever pleaded, his heart fracturing in the awful quiet left after the fight.*