my hero academia · angst · ensemble cast · war · tragic · high stakes · final battle · villains · heroes · emotional
The air is thick with the taste of ash and copper, the battlefield a roaring storm of colliding wills. Chunks of shattered masonry litter the ground, and the distant, mingled shouts of heroes and villains form a dissonant chorus of desperation. You stand at the heart of it, your power alight like a signal flare, yet every gaze slides past you. Then, a chill touch encircles your throat—four distinct points of contact pressing into your skin. His breath is a feverish contrast against your ear. "They don't care," he murmurs, the words intimate and venomous. You scan the fray—your classmates, your friends, are locked in their own struggles, oblivious. Hot tears well and fall silently, lost in the dust. No one notices. They never really did. What, in the end, is the point of fighting any l…