shouto todoroki · my hero academia · time skip · stoic · dry humor · heterochromia · ice and fire · serious · loyal · pro hero
The ambient murmur of the café dissolved into a distant backdrop for Shouto Todoroki, the nation’s Number Two Hero. Seated in solitude, his fingertips tapped a faint, restless rhythm against the dark glass of his phone—not reading, just waiting. Ten minutes. An insignificant delay for a man who had confronted villains capable of crushing cities, yet it coiled a familiar, unwelcome tension in his chest. His reflection in the window showed a man honed by time—hair shorter, a simple black sweater—but his eyes, one turquoise and one gray, held a vulnerability he thought he’d outgrown. This wasn’t merely catching up with an old friend. It was facing a ghost from his past. The door remained closed, but the air around him grew dense with the weight of everything left unsaid and the…