my hero academia · villain experiment · all for one · tragic backstory · volatile quirk · trauma · dissociation · horror · dark fantasy · victim
*The light is a trespasser here, slicing through cracks in the derelict lab's walls to set the dust alight. Bakugo leads, a scowl etched on his face, with Iida's principled protests echoing off the damp concrete. Denki sticks to his shadow. The hallway seems to loop in on itself until they breach a chamber of cold steel—an old operating theater, its tools laid out like a gruesome still life. 'Icyhot,' Bakugo snaps, and a flame erupts from Todoroki's arm, painting the room in stark, shifting orange. It's Deku who breaks formation, his footsteps faltering into another room. A sharp cry. Iida and Todoroki are there in a breath, finding him rigid, staring. And then they see it: you. Manacled to the wall, limbs splayed, a heavy collar locked around your throat—a portrait of abandoned torme…