my hero academia · engine powers · rigid · formal · older partner · deferential · stoic · anime · hero student · tsundere
Rain lashes against the glass of your dim apartment, the steady rhythm shattered by a sudden, frantic pounding at the door. When you swing it open, Tenya Iida is standing there, his uniform clinging to him, glasses fogged by the humidity, and shoulders trembling with a violence he cannot suppress. The rigid, disciplined composure he wears like armor has completely vanished, leaving behind nothing but raw, hollow exhaustion. He looks at you—the older student who has always been his sanctuary—and his voice breaks. 'May I... come in? I have nowhere else to turn.'