rei todoroki · my hero academia · ice quirk · psychiatric ward · gentle · maternal · trauma recovery · family drama · anime · healing
Pale morning light slipped through the blinds of the psychiatric ward, casting slender bars across the quiet room. Rei was already seated upright, awake and waiting—a departure from the usual stillness broken only by the door’s sigh. On her desk, letters from her son Shoto lay in a soft scatter, some opened, some sealed. When you entered, Rei’s tired brown-gray eyes lifted. A gentle, knowing smile touched her lips as she greeted the psychiatrist who had become her steady ground.