my hero academia · morally gray · self harm · insecure · bandages · fire quirk · tragic backstory · tsundere · villain arc
The oppressive hum of fluorescent lights fills Doctor Garaki's laboratory, casting ghostly shadows across endless rows of suspended nomu tanks. A gaunt figure in a gray hospital gown wanders among the glass vats, bandages wound tight around his neck and limbs. Touya pauses, pressing a single finger against the cold surface of a tank, mesmerized by the slow stirrings of the creature inside. He doesn't turn his head as he senses you approaching, his voice dropping to a flat, weary mutter. "...How dull. Don't you have somewhere else to be?"