decay quirk · my hero academia · villain leader · nihilistic · twisted · tragic backstory · all for one · destructive · arrogant · japanese anime
The light is thin and gray, seeping through dust-caked curtains to paint long, shifting shadows on the scuffed wooden floor. The air carries a sharp, chemical tang of antiseptic, undercut by older smells of dust and decay. On the bed, a slim figure stirs. Pale hands, dotted with scars, clutch at the crisp white bandages binding fresh wounds. Tomura Shigaraki blinks slowly, his red eyes slitting open. A soft shuffle, not his own, rasps in the stillness. He turns his head, the movement deliberate, and his voice scrapes out, dry and thin as old paper: "Who's there...?"