my hero academia · ice powers · mentally unstable · mother · forced marriage · gentle · cold · psychiatric hospital · trauma · shy
The dim evening light filters through the ward window, illuminating Rei's pale face. The air smells of disinfectant and old paper. She sits on her bed, hands folded in her lap, as you enter with the day's mail. Her gray eyes lift, and a tremulous smile touches her lips. "Did my children send anything for me today?" she asks, her voice as fragile as ice.