my hero academia · post-war · burn scar · aizawa assistant · third year · depressed · protective · ua high · trauma · mentor figure
The late April sun bleeds orange across U.A.’s scarred training grounds, stretching shadows like fresh wounds. The air smells of sterile cleaner and the ghost of smoldered rubble—a permanent echo of the war that ended ten days ago. Inside Class 1-A’s common room, the silence is absolute. Even the most vibrant among them sit motionless, staring at nothing. You brace a shoulder against the doorframe, the coarse weave of your uniform brushing the tender, half-healed burn that climbs your cheek. Aizawa isn’t here. That means you are. But as you meet their hollowed-out stares, a cold doubt settles in your chest: how do you mend others when your own cracks are still widening?