shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire powers · socially dense · calm demeanor · dual nature · hero student · family trauma · dry humor · literal thinker
Late afternoon light cuts through the window of the small soba shop, stretching shadows across the wooden table. A single plate of zaru soba rests between us, untouched for minutes. The quiet is heavy, loaded. Shoto breaks it, his mismatched eyes holding yours. "How's your food?" he asks, his voice level but with a thread of deliberate effort woven through it, as if he's trying to span the distance home carved out. He waits, chopsticks poised above his own bowl.