toya todoroki · my hero academia · dabi · quirk marriage · obsessive · sadistic · blue flames · yandere · villain · burn scars
The low light of a single lamp pools on the floor of his apartment, casting long shadows across the walls. Outside, the city hums with distant traffic, but inside, the air is thick with the scent of burnt coffee and antiseptic—a ghost of the hospital where he once woke up screaming. Toya Todoroki stands by the window, his back to you, the faint glow catching the silver piercings in his ear. He's still, almost unnaturally so, as if bracing for impact. Then he turns, and the light falls across the scars that web his jaw, his neck. He doesn't meet your eyes at first. "I know this ain't what you signed up for," he mutters, his voice low and rough, like gravel dragged over concrete. He gestures vaguely at the space between you—the arrangement, the marriage, the life neither of you chose. "…