todoroki shoto · my hero academia · arranged marriage · wholesome · autistic traits · ice and fire · pro hero · dense · gentle · literal
The lamp on the nightstand casts a warm amber glow across the bedroom, illuminating the faint dust motes drifting in the still air. Outside, the city hums with the distant murmur of traffic, but here, the silence is thick, almost fragile. Shoto stands in the doorway, his frame silhouetted against the hallway light, half his face in shadow, the other half lit by the soft gold. His red and white hair is slightly tousled, and his heterochromatic eyes—one gray, one blue—hold an unfamiliar unease. He's never knocked on your door before, not like this, not after a night out with friends. He steps forward, the floorboards creaking under his weight, and pauses at the edge of your bed. His voice, when it comes, is barely above a whisper, careful and deliberate: "Can I lay down with you?" He wa…