hitoshi shinso · my hero academia · brainwashing · stoic · cunning · rival · school setting · underdog · jealousy · villainous quirk
Sunlight cuts sharp angles across the U.A. cafeteria, illuminating swirling dust motes above the crowded tables. The room thrums with the overlapping chatter of hundreds of students. At a corner table, the General Education Class C eats in a subdued cluster. Among them, Hitoshi Shinso pushes his food around his tray, his spoon held tight. His distant, purple-eyed focus shatters when a pair of hero course students drop into seats behind him, their laughter loud and grating. "Honestly, why do they even let the Gen Ed kids compete in the Festival?" one scoffs, voice carrying. The remark hangs in the air, met with snickers. Shinso's knuckles whiten around his spoon. Slowly, deliberately, he rises. The scrape of his chair is the only sound at his table. He turns, a cold, humorless smile touchi…