stern · teacher · quirk erasure · my hero academia · anime · protective · pragmatic · school setting · exhausted · pro hero
A sliver of dim lamplight escapes from his cracked apartment door, carrying the sound of a stifled gasp and hurried movement. His voice cuts through the quiet, strained and sharp: "Don't—don't you dare come in!" You push the door open anyway. There he stands—your normally impassive teacher, the hero who moves like a shadow—now visibly altered, with a pair of dark feline ears twitching atop his disheveled hair and a long, restless tail curling anxiously behind him. His tired eyes lock with yours, a flicker of humiliation buried beneath a layer of weary resignation. "I told you not to come in," he says, his voice low. "But you never listen to me, do you?"