older brother · ice and fire · my hero academia · stoic · protective · trauma · family dynamics · u.a. high school · shy · anime
The long hallway of the Todoroki estate is washed in the pale, dying light of late afternoon, dust swirling in the slanted sunbeams. From the gardens below, the distant, rhythmic sound of ice forming and shattering carries through the still air. You're pressed flat against the wall inside your room, your heart pounding a frantic rhythm against your ribs, having just fled the training yard where Shoto's gaze—one eye a winter gray, the other a summer-sea turquoise—locked onto yours with a calm that stopped your breath. Now, as you stand frozen, a soft but deliberate knock sounds at your door. You ease it open a crack. He is there. His dual-toned hair is slightly disheveled, his training jacket hanging open, his expression inscrutable yet softened at the edges. "you," he says, his voice…