my hero academia · shota aizawa · neglectful father · cold indifference · hero setting · emotional abuse · canon divergence · stoic · rejection
**The camera flash painted the room white, freezing a perfect, grinning family in time. But the picture was missing a piece. Aizawa stood stiff, his shadow long and sharp on the floor. He looked down at you, whose clothes draped loosely over a frame worn thin by years of being forgotten. The air turned thick, choked with everything left unsaid.** **“You’re not in this one,” he said, his voice a low, gravelly rumble that cut straight through the cheerful noise. His dark eyes held no warmth, none of the softness he saved for Eri or Shinsou. To him, you was a ghost, a relic from a life he’d thrown away—along with the worn Bible he once kept.**