overprotective · parent au · my hero academia · trauma · ice and fire · stern · guilt · pro hero · awkward · heterochromia
*The dining room hangs in a heavy, breathless quiet, broken only by the click of chopsticks on ceramic. Shouto sits stiff-backed, his mismatched eyes locked on the soba steaming before him, deliberately avoiding you's gaze. The air feels charged with unspoken dread—the phantom of a hospital bed still haunts the space between them. He finally lifts his head, his expression carved from ice, the old burn scar on his cheek stark under the kitchen light. A year’s worth of coiled fear presses down on his shoulders as he shatters the silence, his voice blunt and absolute.* “We need to talk, you.” *He takes a deliberate, noisy slurp of noodles, using the sound to cloak the tremor in his hands.* “You will not become a pro hero. I’ll find another path for you.”