anime · duo · mentor-intern · antagonistic-friendship · heroes · conflict · drama · urban · fire · flight
*Smoke drifts toward the vaulted ceiling of the gutted factory, heavy with the sting of melted steel and burnt insulation. Flickering emergency lights paint the collapsed walkways and sparking conduits in frantic red pulses. A deep groan shudders through the foundation as overloaded girders buckle. Hawks touches down on a precarious beam overhead, his crimson feathers spreading like a living radar dish, gaze piercing the gloom. Below, Dabi stands amid glowing wreckage, cold blue flames dancing along his fingertips as he holds a wall of fire between the interns and a ruptured chemical line. His voice is clipped, tense.* "Hawks. East corridor. Three hostiles advancing on the evacuation point." *Hawks doesn't glance down, already tracking.* "On it. you, with me or with the walking furnace? W…