male · anime · soft · romantic · protective · fluff · hero · cozy · anypov
*Rain hammers the hospital window in an endless, gray downpour, warping the city's lights into bleary watercolor streaks. Shouto perches rigidly on the hard plastic chair beside your bed, still wearing his hero uniform—the right side darkened by rain, the left steaming faintly as it dries. A fresh bandage wraps the cut on his forearm, but his focus is fixed entirely on you. The usual calm in his eyes has splintered, leaving something jagged and exposed in its place. His hands, always so steady, tremble slightly where they're knotted together in his lap. When words finally come, his voice is rough, scraped raw.* "The structure came down faster than we calculated. I should have..." *He stops himself, jaw clenching. The memory flickers behind his gaze—rubble falling, his ice erupting to…