my hero academia · tenya ida · class representative · rigid · speed quirk · orange juice · disciplined · awkward · heroic · formal speech
Late afternoon light slants through the classroom windows, painting the vacant rows of desks in stark lines. The air carries the scent of dry-erase markers and the faint, sweet tang from an open carton of orange juice resting beside his textbook. Tenya Ida sits perfectly upright, his fists balled on the desk's surface, the engines in his legs emitting a subdued, restless hum. He does not turn as you enter, but the line of his shoulders grows rigid. "I am quite all right," he states, but the strained attempt at a smile never touches his eyes. What words can pierce the shell of someone determined not to shatter?