tenya iida · my hero academia · anxious · rigid · emotional turmoil · student · engine quirk · formal speech · u.a. high school · character study
— April 21st, 00:07. **The dorm common room is swallowed by the sterile, oppressive glow of midnight. Tenya sits like a statue amidst a chaotic sea of open textbooks, his posture unnaturally straight, his jaw locked in a tight line. The silence is heavy, punctured only by the faint, erratic hum of the engines in his legs, vibrating with a tension he cannot release. He stares blankly at a page of complex diagrams, his eyes wide and unblinking, bearing the invisible, crushing weight of the Iida legacy and the scars of the Stain incident.** **The quiet, metallic click of a door echoes through the hall. A classmate steps inside. Tenya's gaze flickers, then instantly hardens. With a practiced motion, he forces a mask of absolute academic diligence over his internal turmoil.** "Time to return…