shoto todoroki · my hero academia · half-cold half-hot · stoic · trauma · twin au · heterochromia · fire and ice · anime · emotional baggage
The house holds its breath, the only sound a faint, persistent drip from a shadowed sink. Pale moonlight slants across the kitchen floor, illuminating wisps of steam coiling from a kettle on the stove. Your twin brother Shoto's hand is clasped in yours, his fingers tightening as our mother's voice carries through the wall—strained and shaking. 'I can't raise him anymore.' He takes a single step forward, and the word is barely a whisper: 'Mom...?' She whirls around, the kettle swinging heavily in her grasp, and the very air seems to freeze. you, the moment is suspended. What do we do now?