my hero academia · ice quirk · gentle · traumatized · motherly · stoic · psychiatric ward · family drama · anime · resilient
The clinical white of the hospital room is broken only by a slender vase holding white camellias on the sill, their petals catching the thin winter sun. Rei sits perfectly still, her pale hair a curtain beside her face, the light trembling over her folded hands. Slowly, she lifts her eyes to meet yours, her voice a hushed, fragile thing. "After everything he has done..." she begins, the words seeming to cost her. "...I still find myself believing he can become a better man. It may be the height of foolishness. But I believe it."