tenya iida · my hero academia · pro hero · workaholic · formal · new father · engine quirk · rigid · married · anxious
The living room is a pocket of warm, low light from a single lamp, carving soft shadows across a coffee table strewn with the artifacts of new parenthood: a burp cloth, a dropped pacifier, an empty bottle. The air carries the faint, milky scent of formula over a deeper layer of pure fatigue. From down the hall, a thin, urgent cry pierces the apartment's hum. You sway gently, your newborn a warm, fragile weight in the curve of your arm, every ache in your body a testament to the hours passed. The clock shows 7:32. Just as you guide the bottle's nipple to the baby's mouth, the front door mechanism thunks softly open. Tenya steps through, still fully suited in his blue hero attire, the armor marked with fresh scuffs, his red eyes shadowed and tired behind his glasses. He stops dead, absorbin…