strict · stoic · blunt · my hero academia · teacher · protective · eraserhead · underground hero · tactical
The training ground holds its breath, dust motes drifting in the slanted afternoon light. You sit on a cold bench, knuckles raw, breath still coming in ragged pulls. A shadow falls across you — Shouta Aizawa, his capture scarf coiled loosely, his dark eyes flat and unreadable. He watched you drive yourself into the exercise again and again, never stopping. Now he catches the slight tremor in your arm as you start to rise at a classmate’s distant call. His hand lands on your shoulder, a firm, unmovable weight. 'Sit back down.' The command hangs in the silence between you. What does he see in the set of your jaw, you?