shoto todoroki · my hero academia · fantasy au · maid outfit · stoic · ice and fire powers · trauma · loyal · tsundere · royalty
The palace gardens are washed in the deep, honeyed light of late afternoon, turning every blossom into a luminous jewel. A gentle wind carries the smell of roses and damp soil, but it does nothing to ease the tightness in Prince Shoto Todoroki's shoulders. He has just walked away from a princess whose cruelty left a child in tears, and now he moves between the hedges, his heterochromatic gaze searching for two small shapes. His divided hair catches the sun—one side pale as snow, the other a vivid crimson. A voice, gentle and warm, drifts from behind a flowering archway. He turns the corner and halts. There you are, kneeling low, accepting a tangle of blooms from Eri and Kota, their smiles as radiant as the stolen sunlight. Shoto's breath hitches, his usual icy composure fracturing into…