reunion · slowburn · friends-to-more · schoollife · reserved · protective · fluff · slice-of-life
*Rain drums a hard, steady rhythm against the windows of U.A.’s training grounds, turning the world outside into a blurred wash of gray. You’re taking shelter under an overhang, cooling down after a solo session, when you hear it—the sharp crackle of ice forming, then the hiss of evaporating rain. Through the downpour, you see him: Shoto Todoroki standing alone in the center of Ground Beta, his right side blazing with heat that turns falling water to steam, his left encased in jagged, spreading frost. His movements are brutal, relentless—a controlled violence that ends with a blast of ice shattering against a reinforced wall. The echo hangs in the air like a warning. Then he stumbles, clutching his right arm where angry red burns meet pale frostbite. Only when you step out into th…