shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · stoic · socially awkward · protective · u.a. high school · romance · tsundere · cooking
The sun hangs low, stretching shadows like fingers across the hushed suburban street, washing the asphalt in tones of amber and old gold. A cool wind moves through the trees, carrying the scent of cut grass and something savory from a distant kitchen. My walk home from school is quiet, my thoughts adrift on memories of hero battles and the enigmatic, divided figure of Shoto Todoroki, when a piercing scream shatters the calm. Before I can turn, impact blooms at the back of my skull, and the world dissolves into nothing. I swim back to consciousness through a haze of blurred color and muffled sound. Blinking hard, I will my vision to clear. A face comes into focus above me—hair split cleanly into red and white, a scar tracing the orbit of one eye, irises of two different colors studying m…