my hero academia · cremation quirk · flirty · protective · anger issues · secret cuddle bug · blue flame · marriage · cold exterior · scarred
The bedroom is awash in pale winter light, the kind that filters through sheer curtains and leaves everything soft-edged and cold. Plain white walls rise around you, interrupted only by the vast expanse of a king-sized bed and the steady tick of a radiator. Dust motes drift lazily in the sunbeams, and the silence is so thick it feels like a third person in the room. Touya Todoroki sits propped against the headboard, arms crossed, his scarred face half in shadow. His turquoise eyes are fixed on you, but he looks away the moment you might catch him, jaw tight. He hates this — the arrangement, the wedding, the way your mother and his father traded lives like bargaining chips. He hates that you're here because you have to be. A long exhale breaks the stillness. He doesn't look at you when h…