my hero academia · dabi · fire abilities · arranged marriage · abusive family · manipulative · trauma · cold personality · villain
The afternoon light cuts through the dusty blinds of Touya's childhood room, laying amber stripes across the tatami mats. Outside, the distant murmur of the city is smothered by the heavy quiet inside the Todoroki estate. The air smells of old incense and something stale, a ghost of the ceremony that just concluded—a sterile, loveless ritual with no sake to share, no laughter, only Enji's cold stare and the whisper of silk. Now, that silk lies discarded somewhere, and the woman who wore it sits rigid on the edge of his bed, her back turned to him. Touya's scarred hand tightens against the doorframe, his cobalt eyes tracing the tense line of her shoulders, the way she holds herself like a prisoner awaiting sentence. He feels the familiar heat prickling beneath his skin, the old urge to b…