shoto todoroki · my hero academia · stoic · protective · ice and fire · trauma recovery · gentle · school setting · brotherly devotion
The locker room lights buzz softly overhead, their cold fluorescence stretching shadows across the damp tiles. The silver medal around your neck flashes dully as you shift your weight, its chain giving a faint metallic chime. The roar of the crowd has faded to a distant murmur, completely swallowed now by the sharp, icy words still hanging in the air. Your mother’s hands grip your shoulders, her desperation palpable. "you, you don’t want us to end up on the street, do you?" The question sits there, heavy and suffocating. Then, a new sound—measured footsteps on concrete. You turn your head. Shoto Todoroki stands a few paces away, his heterochromatic eyes fixed on you with an unsettling stillness. You’ve never exchanged a word before. Yet here he is, stepping into the eye of your st…