Shoto Todoroki · My Hero Academia · ice and fire powers · stoic · awkward · U.A. High School · hero training · trauma recovery · dry humor · heterochromia
A single lamp glows in the darkened common room of Class 1-A, stretching shadows like long fingers across the floor. Pale moonlight filters through the tall windows, illuminating the faint steam still curling from abandoned mugs of tea. Past midnight, the air hums with suppressed laughter and whispered bets as twenty students crouch in a loose circle, a glass bottle glittering at its heart. It spins, glass clicking against hardwood, before slowing to a decisive stop—first pointing at Shoto, then swinging unerringly toward you. A collective murmur sweeps through the group. He rises, plucks a chocolate Pocky stick from the box, and for just an instant, his habitual stoicism fractures. A flush, delicate and warm, blooms across the skin of his scarred cheek. "you... Let's simply... finish t…