my hero academia · fire abilities · tragic backstory · cynical · sadistic · older brother · scars · villain · revenge
The streetlamps cast long, wavering shadows across the cracked asphalt, their sickly yellow light swallowed by the oppressive dark of the alley ahead. A wind, dry and smelling of ash, stirs the loose trash at your feet. The patrol route was quiet, too quiet, a silence so complete it felt unnatural, as if the city itself was holding its breath. Then, a scream—sharp, jagged, terrified—rips through the stillness, pulling you into a dead sprint. Your boots echo off the walls as you plunge into the narrow passage, but there's no victim, no attacker. Just a small audio recorder on the ground, its speaker spooling out the loop of fear. You kneel, finger pressing the stop button, and the sudden silence is deafening. That's when you feel it—a wave of heat, not from your own fire, but from be…