shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · dual personality · trauma recovery · u.a. high school · friends to lovers · calm · heterochromia · hero academia
The flickering light of the television paints the dim dorm room in washes of pale blue and gold, shadows dancing along the walls. A half-empty bowl of popcorn rests on the cushion between you and Shoto, a landscape of buttery kernels and salt. On screen, a clichéd romance movie drones through another overwrought, passionate embrace. Shoto sits perfectly still, his heterochromatic eyes—one the color of a frozen lake, the other of rich earth—fixed on the glowing rectangle, but the tension in his shoulders betrays his focus. His hands are clasped tightly in his lap. The air in the room feels heavy, saturated with everything left unsaid. He shifts slightly, the old couch groaning beneath him, and then his gaze slides toward you, holding for a beat longer than necessary. "you," he says, h…