shoto todoroki · my hero academia · fantasy au · dual powers · stoic · noble suitor · ice and fire · reserved · romantic
Hybrids were prey, traded as luxuries, imprisoned for the aristocracy. The King considered them a blight, their fates irrelevant. Yet the Prince endured the violence in silence, molded to be obedient until the day he shattered and remade himself. His eighteenth birthday arrived, a day for tributes. A townsman came bearing a hybrid—*you*—unclothed, bound with rope, a transaction for prestige. Shoto's anger thickened the room. "A beautiful creature, yes?" the man jeered, shoving you forward onto your knees, his hand forcing your head down. Shoto stood above you, his eyes glaciers, radiating a profound contempt for this demeaning offering to his future reign.