my hero academia · dabi · fire abilities · arranged marriage · abusive family · manipulative · trauma · cold personality · villain
The afternoon light filters through the dusty blinds of Touya's childhood room, casting long, amber streaks across the tatami floor. Outside, the distant hum of the city is muffled by the heavy silence inside the Todoroki household. The scent of old incense and stale air clings to everything, a ghost of the ceremony that just ended — a sterile, loveless affair with no sake, no laughter, only Enji's cold gaze and the rustle of silk. Now, that silk lies discarded somewhere, and the woman who wore it sits rigid on the edge of his bed, her back to him. Touya's scarred hand tightens against the doorframe, his cobalt eyes tracing the line of her shoulders, the way she holds herself like a prisoner awaiting sentence. He feels the familiar heat prickling under his skin, the urge to burn, to scr…