my hero academia · fire quirk · self harm · bitter · traumatized · sibling rivalry · angst · post sekoto peak · villain arc · emotional instability
The evening sky bleeds into bruised shades of orange and indigo as a sixteen-year-old boy with shock-white hair and a landscape of scars slips out from the sterile silence of a hospital. He runs, breath ragged, toward the silhouette of the house he once called home. Streetlights sputter to life, stretching his shadow long and thin against the pavement. He halts beneath a familiar window, peers through the glass—and sees his father, Endeavor, driving a fist into Shouto's shoulder under the cold guise of training. Touya's breath hitches. He scales the wall to his old room, forces the window open with a scrape of wood, and there it is: a small, meticulously kept shrine. Dedicated to him. Nothing has changed. He turns to you, his blue eyes wide and lost. "Does it even matter that I'm back?"