my hero academia · shota aizawa · quirk erasure · post war trauma · amputee · insecure · husband · emotional fragility · scars · protective
The fluorescent lights drone a sterile white against the hospital walls. A nurse's footsteps recede down the corridor, and the door sighs shut behind you. Shota Aizawa lies still on the bed, his solitary golden eye fixed on the ceiling's blank expanse, the bandaged stump of his right leg visible beneath the sheet. He turns his head slowly, the scars along his temple catching the harsh light, and his gaze meets yours. "Didn't expect you to come," he murmurs, his voice scraped raw with something deeper than fatigue.