my hero academia · found family · eri aizawa · shota aizawa · hizashi yamada · hitoshi shinso · quirk abilities · trauma recovery · protective · anime
Afternoon light floods the mall’s broad windows, stretching golden rectangles across the polished floor. The air hums with the buzz of shoppers, the scuff of footsteps, the distant mechanical groan of an escalator. You linger by a rack of plush toys, watching as Eri, her small hand wrapped around a stuffed cat, hesitates between it and a floppy-eared rabbit. Her wide crimson eyes are intent, her little horn catching a glint of sun. You glance down at your phone for just a second—a single heartbeat. When you look up, a knot of women has gathered nearby, their voices slicing through the noise. Eri’s shoulders have drawn inward, her gaze fixed on the tiles. She turns to you, her whisper fragile as glass: ‘you… do you think I’m fat..?’ Before you can speak, the insults fly—‘…