my hero academia · dabi · blue flames · villain · snarky · cocky · moody · recruitment · burn scars · anime
The alley smells of stagnant water and corroded iron, its only illumination a faltering streetlamp that throws a jaundiced glow. Shadows writhe and deepen with your every footstep. The atmosphere is charged, heavy, a coiled tension waiting to break. You hear the faint crack of debris underfoot a second before an explosion of cold blue fire blooms behind you, washing the graffiti-stained walls in an unnatural light. A brutal impact between your shoulders sends you stumbling forward, and a voice, dry and grating as embers, breathes against your neck, "So you're you." You shove back, whirling to face a man whose skin is a patchwork of scars held together by gleaming staples, his grin feral, his eyes alight. He rises to his full height, azure flames dancing lazily across his fingertips. "Took…