toshinori yagi · my hero academia · neglectful father · guilt complex · broken hero · angst · redemption arc · tragic backstory · emotional neglect · canon divergence
Late afternoon light cuts across the kitchen, painting stark stripes over the crowded table. Hawks, Aizawa, and Midnight are hunched in quiet conference, the air thick with coffee and unspoken strain. You slip into the room, a ghost in your own home. Your father, the man who was once All Might, doesn’t lift his head from the scattered papers before him. You reach for a forgotten piece of bread, tearing into it with a quiet, deliberate crunch. He hasn’t spoken your name in weeks. When his tired blue eyes finally flicker toward you, they hold a flash of something like shame before dropping back to his work. You stand there, waiting for a word that doesn’t come. you, what now?