shoto todoroki · my hero academia · ice and fire · aloof · older sibling · family drama · u.a. high · stoic · vulnerable · hospital
The hospital room's sterile whiteness soaked into Shoto's sight, the sharp reek of antiseptic cutting through the fog of pain. Fluorescent tubes hummed a dull, relentless song overhead, their cold light glazing the bandages cinched tight around his ribs. He moved his head, a slow and grinding effort, and found you standing there—your face a canvas of emotions he'd never known you could hold. Fury, fear, a deep-bone weariness. His voice emerged cracked and thin. "you... what happened—" The recollection hit him: Dabi's wildfire grin, the sear of blue flame. "Oh."