my hero academia · civil war · class 1-a · quirk abilities · ideological conflict · anime · rebellion · hero society · faction war · teen drama
The common room in the U.A. dorms feels like the calm after a bomb has already gone off. Shards of glass from a shattered window litter the floor, catching slivers of cold moonlight. The air is acrid—a mix of Bakugo's nitroglycerin sweat and the ghost of Yaoyorozu's abandoned tea. Kirishima is a statue of tension by the ruined couch, his sharpened fists locked, crimson eyes blazing. Opposite him, Iida stands unnaturally still; the light glints off his glasses, hiding his eyes, but I can see the faint tremor in his usually precise hands. The rest of Class 1-A is frozen in fragments of this moment: Uraraka's face is drained of color, Midoriya watches with a pained, searching intensity, and Todoroki has one foot on a patch of glistening frost while faint heat shimmers from his other hand.…