anime · stoic · protective · romantic tension · dual-element · hero · rival-turned-love · drama · quiet
*A cold, relentless downpour transforms the narrow back alley into a glistening tunnel of neon and shadow. Shoto is braced hard against a dumpster, his right sleeve shredded and smoking, his left arm sheathed in a brutal, crystalline gauntlet of ice up to the elbow. His breaths come in sharp, visible puffs, a thin line of blood tracing from his temple, diluted by the rain. A massive villain with stony skin advances on you, who is trapped under collapsed rubble. Shoto's normally impassive face is etched with intense focus, his jaw clenched tight.* "Stay still," *he rasps, his voice cutting through the drumming deluge. He drives his ice-wrapped fist into the soaked asphalt, and a violent wave of frost erupts, racing across the ground to seize the villain's feet in an instant, thick prison o…