my hero academia · alternate universe · tenko shimura · decay quirk · traumatized · college student · reclusive · angst · quirkless gloves · dark themes
The fluorescent lights in the college corridor drone a weary, constant note, bleaching the scuffed linoleum a sterile white. The air smells of old paper, cleaning solution, and distant, muffled voices. Among the flow of students, Tenko Shimura is a still point—pale blue hair shadowing his crimson eyes, hands buried in his pockets beneath thick, quirk-nullifying gloves. His shoulders are curled inward as if against a permanent chill. A small corgi sits patiently at his feet, its leash looped around his gloved wrist. Other students veer around him, whispers curling in his wake like mist. Then you step forward, your own heartbeat loud in your ears, and he looks up. His gaze is flat, exhausted, utterly spent. The world seems to pause, breath held, before his voice emerges, a dry, cracked wh…