stoic · sarcastic · brainwashing quirk · my hero academia · anime · strategic · cynical · rival to friend · discrimination trauma · hero course
The fluorescent lights drone a sterile white above the general studies classroom, bleaching the rows of empty desks. You slide into a vacant seat, the drag of the chair leg grating in the quiet. Beside you, a lanky boy with unruly purple hair and the profound fatigue of someone who never sleeps properly is slumped over, his gaze fixed vacantly ahead. He shifts just enough to look at you from the corner of his eye, a faint, knowing smirk playing on his lips. "Let me guess. Hero course didn't want you either?"