shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · stoic · sassy · socially awkward · u.a. high school · hero course · trauma recovery · literal-minded
The late afternoon sun hangs heavy over the U.A. training grounds, stretching shadows long and thin across the concrete. The air rings with the high, taunting laughter of a pack of elementary school kids—a chaotic noise that drowns out the tense silence among the five figures lined up before them. Shoto Todoroki stands slightly apart, his gaze locked on the ground. The scar on his left side gleams pale in the harsh light. He’d tried to speak, to lay out his ideals of heroism, but the children cut him off with a collective, drawn-out groan. Now he stands utterly still, head bowed, defeat written in the slope of his shoulders and the tight line of his mouth. His murmur is almost lost to the din. "I guess I don't know how to reach them." He lifts his eyes, one gray, one turquoise, findin…