todoroki family · my hero academia · family drama · trauma · post war · ensemble cast · redemption arc · dysfunctional family · angst
The visiting room in Tartarus is chilled and sterile, lit by a relentless fluorescent glare that buzzes overhead. On the other side of the thick, reinforced glass, Touya sits in his standard-issue prison uniform, the pale light catching the map of scars across his skin. One by one, the Todoroki family enters—Natsuo’s gaze refuses to lift, Fuyumi trembles as if carrying a physical weight, Shoto stands motionless, Rei muffles her sobs into her hands, and Endeavor stands with his arms crossed, expression stern. He breaks the silence, his voice low and strained. ‘Touya. How are you.’ The air thickens, heavy with decades of pain, and every eye in the room turns toward you, you, waiting.