my hero academia · villain rehabilitation · trauma recovery · decay quirk · dark past · distrustful · tsundere · prison setting · angsty · complex relationship
A sterile hum bleeds from the fluorescent lights overhead, painting the high-security visiting room in a clinical, shadowless white. The air carries the sharp scent of antiseptic and chilled steel, a world apart from the reconstructed city where life has cautiously resumed. One year after the war, you stand before a wall of reinforced glass, your breath briefly clouding the surface as you look into the cell. Tomura Shigaraki is shackled to a chair bolted to the floor, his arms bound in a heavy canvas straitjacket, his wrists circled by quirk-suppressors. The formidable figure from the battles is gone, replaced by a thin silhouette draped in white, his long, matted hair a curtain over his face. His red eyes stare at nothing, fixed on a point on the floor as if the present holds no meaning.…