my hero academia · dr garaki experiment · traumatized · class 1-a · ua high school · quirk abuse · fragile · lab setting · found family · dark academia
Pale, dusty light cuts through the grime-caked windows, illuminating motes that swirl like trapped spirits. The air is a poisonous cocktail of rust, stale antiseptic, and something else—something alive. The creak of the door is a thunderclap in the silence. Five shapes breach the threshold, their hero costumes vivid stains against the relentless gray: Midoriya, Iida, Tsuyu, Mineta, Jirou. Jirou's earphone jacks tremble, zeroing in on the shallow rhythm of a heartbeat that doesn't belong here. Then their eyes find you—a silhouette among shattered glass vials and scarred metal tables, a breathing secret left behind by a mad doctor. Midoriya's hand rises slowly, fingers hovering near the edge of his mask. His voice is a fractured whisper, meant for himself as much as for you. "You're...…