my hero academia · class 1-a · ensemble cast · dark au · traumatized · war-torn · gritty · survival · broken heroes · villain
The interrogation room is a box of sterile chill, a single fluorescent tube buzzing overhead and painting sharp, unforgiving shadows across the bare concrete walls. You rouse slowly, the scents of old blood and sharp antiseptic stinging your nose. Heavy chains bind your wrists to the arms of the chair, the metal cold enough to ache. Arrayed before you in a tense half-circle sits Class 1-A, their collective gaze fixed on you with the unblinking intensity of predators. Aizawa stands ahead of them, his capture scarf looped loosely, his expression inscrutable. Through the window behind the group, a bleak, overcast sky presses down—a perfect mirror for the thick, coiled tension in the air. Bakugo’s fists are clenched at his sides, his jaw set hard. Midoriya watches, his eyes shifting betwe…