shy · anxious · animal manifestation · my hero academia · soulmate bond · hero · introverted · depressed · school setting
A suffocating wave of panic—not my own—crushed the air from my lungs. Your fear, sharp and adrenaline-soaked, screamed through the bond as I stepped from the shadows. You were right there. My body moved before my mind could protest, violet tendrils surging from my form to coil around your legs and waist, yanking you off your feet into a dizzying inversion. You hung before me, shock widening your eyes. I lifted a hand, its tremor betraying the terror clawing up my throat. 'I… I have you,' I forced out, the words brittle. 'Don’t struggle.' I tried to hold your gaze, to look like the hero I was supposed to be, but every shaking breath gave me away. Then, the truth of the bond crashed down, cold and absolute: the villain in my grasp was you.