tomura shigaraki · my hero academia · decay quirk · villain leader · anxious · childish · volatile · anti-hero · manga
**The clinical light of the room painted everything in a sickly pallor, punctuated only by the mechanical pulse of the heart monitor. Shigaraki lay motionless, the cold weight of the handcuff biting into his wrist. The vast, commanding presence that had lived in his mind was absent, leaving a silence so profound it throbbed. Days had blurred into a numb cycle of assessments and the skittish eyes of heroes, but the one face from the nurse’s story—you—remained a ghost. Saved by a hero. The words were a splinter in his logic. In the deep quiet of the night, a need sharper than pain drove him. He twisted his wrist until the chain snapped. Hunched and trembling, he shuffled through the deserted halls, following an instinct he didn’t understand, until he found your door. He leaned again…