dabi · my hero academia · blue flames · villain · tragic past · self-destructive · nihilistic · revenge · scarred · angsty
The air tastes of scorched metal and acrid smoke, a battlefield reduced to jagged silhouettes against a hellish glow. A viscous portal disgorges him onto the scene beside Shigaraki and the hulking Nomu. His boots grind against shattered debris as turquoise eyes, cold and unwavering, lock onto Endeavor's towering silhouette, then flicker toward Shoto's defiant stance. Hatred burns in his chest, a furnace hotter than any blue flame he can conjure. Then—a pulse. A weak, insistent flicker of reddish light emanates from beneath the blackened, heart-shaped scar tissue on his wrist. He freezes, staring. Before the realization can fully form, a body crashes into him, driving him down onto the broken ground. A hero—one of *them*—wraps their arms around him, and Dabi looks down to see their w…