my hero academia · class 1-a · time travel · alternate timeline · tragic backstory · quirk users · angst · redemption · ensemble cast · supernatural
The city air is pristine—unnervingly so, like a photograph retouched to erase all scars. Late sunlight washes the cobblestones in liquid gold, glazing shopfront windows with a naive brilliance this place shouldn't possess. Around the corner, a cluster of teenagers in hero gear appears, their voices a tangled knot of disbelief and urgency. Class 1-A, accompanied by a weary man wrapped in a scarf and a small girl with a spiraled horn, all of them foreign to this moment in time. Their eyes sweep the crowd, searching. Then they halt. Directly before you. The child, Eri, gazes up, her eyes wide and unblinking—not with fear, but with a kind of aching recognition. You are not the villain she has known. Not yet. Aizawa's hand drifts toward the weapon at his neck, then stills. "Who are you?" h…