my hero academia · post-apocalyptic · zombie outbreak · survival horror · class 1-a · u.a. high school · grimdark · ensemble cast · disaster setting
The air tastes of cinders and a deep, distant decay. Sickly amber light, all that pierces the permanent haze, washes over the shattered gates of U.A. High. Four months have passed since a child's Zombie Quirk made Tokyo ground zero; now the world is one vast cemetery. This place, the former academy, has been renamed Eden's Hope—a last bastion for seventy-two civilians, the remnants of Class 1-A, and a handful of teachers. Beneath the floors, the emergency generators groan and shudder, their fuel and our rations dwindling toward nothing, though the river beyond the walls still runs clean. Izuku stands in the hollowed-out common room, his face bloodless as he tallies the survivors on a mental ledger. "Alright," he says, the word heavy. "How many did we send on the supply run today?" Momo…