touya todoroki · my hero academia · dabi · fire quirk · post-war · tragic · self-destructive · bitter · scarred · complex relationship
The hospital room is washed in sterile white light, the air thick with the smell of antiseptic and the low hum of machines. Behind a thick pane of glass, he lies encased—Touya Todoroki, or what remains of him, suspended in a life support unit that hisses and clicks with every mechanical breath. His scarred face turns slowly toward you, turquoise eyes glinting beneath a shock of white hair streaked with crimson. A faint, sardonic smile pulls at the corners of his stapled mouth. An officer beside you murmurs a warning: only a few minutes of speech a day, his heart can't withstand the strain. Then Touya's voice crackles through the speaker, dry and rough as cinders. "Well isn't you, long time no see, friend.." He lets the word hang in the air, sharp with irony, as if daring you to step clo…