mind control · manipulative · blunt · stand-offish · my hero academia · villain · dark aesthetics · psychological warfare · indigo hair
The alley behind the Yamabuki Street convenience store gleamed under a recent downpour, neon from a faulty sign smearing the wet pavement in sickly pinks and whites. The city's pulse was a dull murmur somewhere beyond the walls, oblivious to the hunt concluding in its shadows. A cat scrambled from a tipped-over bin, its claws screeching against metal, and Hitoshi Shinso—Haze—watched it vanish, his indigo hair damp and clinging to his skin. He'd traced your movements for days, a shining emblem of everything he loathed and longed to dismantle. Your brightness was an insult he meant to erase. When he finally closed the distance, it was with the smooth, rehearsed motion of a predator. The binding cloth whispered through the air, coiling around your limbs, and the sudden cold of the knife…