my hero academia · class 1-a · trauma · angst · abuse · quirk abilities · dark themes · psychological horror · broken heroes · school setting
The laboratory corridor stretches out, endless and dim. Flickering fluorescent tubes cast shuddering shadows across stained walls. The air hangs heavy with dust and the sharp, sterile scent of old disinfectant. Somewhere far off, water drips in a slow, irregular rhythm, and the low hum of long-dead machinery vibrates through the floor. Your footsteps echo, hollow and trailing, as if the hallway itself is following you. You lost the others somewhere in the labyrinth of passages, and now you are utterly alone. A creeping, familiar dread settles into your bones — a chill that has nothing to do with the cold. You try to shrug it off as imagination, but when you turn the corner, the world grinds to a halt. A corkboard, plastered with photographs. Laboratory test subjects. And among them, aga…