around the bend; [The world has made itself into the shape of what looks to be a dormitory. The room is decorated in traditional Japanese furnishing, and it gets Shouto to pause in the doorway. He’s surprised to see his UA dorm room here, just...disconnected from everything else, and it’s strange.
...And then the ground underneath him starts to turn black and crumble, and he’s got to get a move on. The process is slow enough he doesn’t feel the need to run, but he does hurry. He can’t quite figure out what’s happening. Is it somebody’s quirk? Or another trick of the islands? He remembers the strange islands that were the Storyteller’s dominion, even though they weren’t quite like this, but...maybe?
Either way, once he comes across somebody he slows down again, before casting a glance behind himself.]
...You don’t want to go that way.
you can hear it; [He knows this place is wrong as soon as he gets up in the morning. The idyllic scene is just - it’s too idyllic. It’s too removed from reality.
It’s too impossible for the Todoroki family to be a happy, healthy family. For all of them to be together. Touya’s gone, his mother will never be out of the hospital, and Endeavor would never let himself be a family man. Not to mention the smooth blankness of his face, no distinctive marks or scars to be seen on it.
Shouto feels sick to his stomach, and whether that’s because of what he’s seen or because of the heavy scent of rotting plants, he doesn’t know. He grits his teeth and forces himself to leave the house, to run away, and find whatever it is that’s causing this. This wouldn’t happen for no reason, and he’s determined to make things right. This is some kind of trick, and he doesn’t want to be caught in it.
When he sees someone, he heads over to them, bracing himself.]
Do you smell it too?
[Or are you another recreation like the happy family he left behind?
shouto todoroki | my hero academia
[The world has made itself into the shape of what looks to be a dormitory. The room is decorated in traditional Japanese furnishing, and it gets Shouto to pause in the doorway. He’s surprised to see his UA dorm room here, just...disconnected from everything else, and it’s strange.
...And then the ground underneath him starts to turn black and crumble, and he’s got to get a move on. The process is slow enough he doesn’t feel the need to run, but he does hurry. He can’t quite figure out what’s happening. Is it somebody’s quirk? Or another trick of the islands? He remembers the strange islands that were the Storyteller’s dominion, even though they weren’t quite like this, but...maybe?
Either way, once he comes across somebody he slows down again, before casting a glance behind himself.]
...You don’t want to go that way.
you can hear it;
[He knows this place is wrong as soon as he gets up in the morning. The idyllic scene is just - it’s too idyllic. It’s too removed from reality.
It’s too impossible for the Todoroki family to be a happy, healthy family. For all of them to be together. Touya’s gone, his mother will never be out of the hospital, and Endeavor would never let himself be a family man. Not to mention the smooth blankness of his face, no distinctive marks or scars to be seen on it.
Shouto feels sick to his stomach, and whether that’s because of what he’s seen or because of the heavy scent of rotting plants, he doesn’t know. He grits his teeth and forces himself to leave the house, to run away, and find whatever it is that’s causing this. This wouldn’t happen for no reason, and he’s determined to make things right. This is some kind of trick, and he doesn’t want to be caught in it.
When he sees someone, he heads over to them, bracing himself.]
Do you smell it too?
[Or are you another recreation like the happy family he left behind?