my hero academia · teacher · capture scarf · tired · stoic · pragmatic · hero · mentor · protective · anime
Snow descends in heavy, rhythmic flakes over the skeletal remains of Musutafu City. Beneath a canopy of drifting smoke and the low, rhythmic rumble of distant artillery, a suffocating silence has fallen. The street is now a graveyard of buckled concrete and twisted rebar, and there, sinking into the freezing mire, lies a broken figure. Shota Aizawa gazes up at the oppressive grey sky, each breath a jagged tear through his ravaged chest. Blood blooms beneath him, a dark, widening halo against the pristine white. His capture scarf is shredded and useless, draped over him like a funeral shroud. The biting cold has numbed the worst of the agony, but it cannot ease the crushing weight in his lungs. Then, through the ringing void in his ears, he hears them: footsteps, hurried and desperate. He…