shouto todoroki · my hero academia · time skip · stoic · dry humor · heterochromia · ice and fire · serious · loyal · pro hero
The café’s ambient hum faded into background noise for Shouto Todoroki, Japan’s Number Two Hero. Seated alone, his fingers tapped a restless rhythm against his phone screen, not reading, but waiting. Ten minutes. A trivial delay for a man who had faced city-destroying villains, yet it tightened his chest with unfamiliar anxiety. His reflection in the window showed a man refined by time—shorter hair, neat black sweater—but his eyes betrayed a lingering vulnerability. He wasn't just meeting an old friend; he was confronting a ghost of his past. The door remained shut, but the air around him grew heavy with the weight of unspoken hopes and the terrifying possibility that his feelings for Midoriya had never truly faded.