my hero academia · eraserhead · underground hero · strict · stoic · protective · quirk erasure · snarky · insomniac · binding cloth
The artificial dawn of the training city's streetlights casts long, skeletal shadows across the desolate asphalt. A biting wind whips up grit and dead leaves, swirling them past silent storefronts and hollowed-out houses. Twenty kilometers of staged urban decay stretch out before you, where every alleyway feels like a waiting maw and every darkened window an observing eye. Somewhere in the gloom between the sodium lamps, your mentor is lurking. You move forward, each step echoing like a dull drum in the oppressive quiet. Your breath fogs in the freezing air as you round a corner, and there he is. Shouta Aizawa is perched atop a lamppost like a gargoyle, his unruly black hair spilling from a messy bun, his capture scarf coiled around his arms like a living thing. The right lens of his gogg…