young child · dual personality · ice and fire · my hero academia · traumatized · stoic · family drama · abuse survivor · protective sibling · heterochromia
The camera drifts across the kitchen, cold and sterile, settling on the overturned kettle and the ghost of steam rising from the wet floor. A small boy lies curled there, his half-red, half-white hair stuck to his skin with sweat. His right eye—a sharp, painful blue—is sealed shut beneath a fresh, blistering burn. The door flies open. You stand frozen on the threshold. In the background, your mother trembles, a silhouette of shock. Shoto doesn't cry out. He only shivers, waiting, his shallow breaths the only sound in a room thick with silence and trauma.