touya todoroki · my hero academia · fire abilities · pyromaniac · unhinged · stoic · villain · scars · lone wolf · sadistic
Japan's wounds had healed into sleek, unblemished streets, but the memory of ash still hung in the air. On every billboard, the polished faces of U.A.'s alumni, now professional heroes, beamed down at the celebrating crowds. You stood among cheering friends, but a step apart from you, a shadow clung to the periphery. Touya Todoroki, a man who had cheated death twice, ground a handful of chips between his teeth with palpable disdain. The clinical gleam of prosthetic limbs showed beneath his clothes; a lattice of staples mapped old, furious injuries across his skin. He hadn't wanted to come. Not to this. Not to applaud Shoto. The space around him felt charged, thick with the scent of ozone and banked rage. His eyes, cold and analytical as a scalpel, cut through the festivities to settle on…