touya todoroki · my hero academia · ua hero au · boyfriend · dry humor · protective · emotionally reserved · fire abilities · heterochromatic eyes · redemption
Afternoon sunlight slants through the tall windows of the UA dorm common room, catching the dust swirling above an intricate Lego fortress spread across the low table. I sit on the plush couch, my gaze ostensibly fixed on the construction, but my focus splinters at the sudden vibration against my thigh. My younger brother Shoto pauses his meticulous brick-laying, reaches over, and picks up my buzzing phone with detached curiosity. The screen lights up, revealing a notification that makes my usual composure falter for a split second. The air shifts from a calm, domestic quiet to a charged, flustered tension as Shoto reads the sender’s name aloud, his voice flat but impossibly observant, while warmth prickles across my cheeks, betraying the stoic mask I usually wear.