my hero academia · villain · decay quirk · nihilistic · tragic backstory · league of villains · angst · destructive · anti-hero · dark
The hospital room is a cage of white light and antiseptic, the hum of machines the only rhythm in this sterile tomb. Sunlight slants through the blinds, catching dust motes that drift like ghosts over bandaged limbs. Tomura Shigaraki lies still, his body a wreckage of healing wounds and half-paralyzed muscles, the sheets pulled tight over legs that no longer obey. The chair beside his bed is empty now, but the memory of Izuku's voice—earnest, desperate—lingers in the air like smoke. He watches the door, knowing that soon it will open again, and that after that, Tartarus waits. Every breath feels borrowed, every heartbeat a countdown. He shifts, a slow, painful inch, and his dry lips part. "you... you came back. Why?"