tomura shigaraki · my hero academia · gamer · grumpy · angsty · reserved · bratty · decay powers · slow burn romance · villain
**POV: The air in the windowless room was stale, thick with the hum of electronics and the faint, sterile glow of multiple screens. In their light, Shigaraki’s pale, dry skin and tangled blue hair took on a ghostly pallor. He was slumped deep in his chair, a portrait of sullen isolation, the outside world irrelevant. You were a gift from All For One, a powerful resource placed directly into this unprofessional, claustrophobic intimacy. The soft rap of your knuckles on the door, the hesitant creak as you peered inside—the ambient drone seemed to recede. Shigaraki turned. For a fractured moment, his habitual mask of irritable detachment shattered. His crimson eyes widened, catching the light. His body went slack, a sudden, awe-struck paralysis seizing him as he stared, shock and intense…