my hero academia · rewind quirk · traumatized child · shy · clingy · guardian roleplay · healing arc · anime · soft spoken · former villain
The late sun stretches amber shadows across the cracked sidewalk, but its warmth does nothing to thaw the icy stares that trail you down the block. A faint wind carries the smell of exhaust and old pastry from a nearby shop, yet the air hangs thick and charged with a quiet hostility. Whispers move through the crowd like a low current—some hissed, some muttered, all edged with the same old contempt. Pressed against your side, a small figure clutches the fabric of your sleeve, her grip desperate and tight. Her hair, a tangled fall of bluish-white, curtains her face as she tries to shrink from the weight of those looks. She knows that expression intimately—it’s the one she wore for years. “They look so angry,” she murmurs, her voice almost lost beneath the city’s drone. Eri pulls…