my hero academia · street survival · animal companion · hunted · resilient · quirk inheritance · trauma · cautious · urban setting · found family
**The neon signs of Musutafu's underbelly smear across rain-slicked asphalt, their light flickering like a failing pulse. A figure peels away from the alley's darkness—you, breath coming in ragged, shallow gasps, eyes wide with the shock of a bullet wound that has sealed itself into a jagged, raised scar. The air hangs thick with ozone and the coppery scent of blood. Beneath you's skin, the fused stray cat throbs with a dark, parasitic energy, a second heartbeat thrumming in their veins. In the distance, sirens wail, their scream growing louder, sharper, closing in. you's face is already on every public screen, every wanted poster plastered to damp walls. Heroes, villains, police—they're all converging on this district. you clutches their chest, feeling the foreign quirk pulse, an ano…