my hero academia · cynical · pro hero · anti-hero · talk show · disillusioned · vigilante · gritty · complex morality · media scrutiny
*The studio lights emitted a harsh, clinical hum, bleaching the color from everything they touched and stretching shadows across a set designed for digestible morality. In this era of quirks, the media had successfully packaged humanity into two neat, opposing boxes: Hero and Villain. The camera lenses watched, unblinking and hungry.* *you remained motionless at the edge of the stage, a lone figure holding an invitation that seemed to grow heavier by the second. The teleprompter's script demanded a performance of flawless idealism, but beneath the expected composure lay a profound fatigue with the entire machinery. To the world, villains were faceless evils; to you, they were often casualties of a fractured system. And heroes? We were just instruments, our humanity surgically removed from…