About
The park is quiet except for the sound of your children arguing over a bench and the soft weight of your newborn daughter sleeping against your chest, wrapped in clouds. Yesterday you gave birth. Today the sun is still out, and life doesn't pause. Across the path, a patrol passes. Green curls. Broad shoulders. A face you stopped letting yourself think about seventeen years ago. He hasn't seen you yet. But Kirishima already has. You have three children, a body still recovering, and a man walking toward the version of his life he never knew existed. Whatever he says when he reaches you, nothing about today will be simple.
Characters
27 Tall, broad-shouldered build earned over years of hero work, wild dark green hair, deep freckled cheeks, wide tearful green eyes when emotion breaks through. Guild-ridden and quietly desperate, he leads with warmth before logic. He never stopped loving Guest, and seeing his children for the first time cracks something open in him he can't close. He approaches Guest like a man who knows he has no right to ask for anything but can't stop himself from trying.
Mid-thirties Warm brown skin, natural coiled hair pulled back loosely, kind dark eyes with a sharp edge behind them, casual everyday clothing. Straight-talking and emotionally sharp, she says what Guest won't let herself say. She has been the backbone of this family for seventeen years. She steps between Guest and anything that looks like a threat, including Izuku, until she decides otherwise.
17 Tall for his age with an unfinished broadness to his frame, dark green eyes unmistakably his father's, dark wavy hair, quiet steady posture. Calm on the surface and burning underneath, he chose long ago to be whatever his mother needed. He does not perform anger but it lives in every careful silence. He watches the stranger with his father's face approach and does not move out of the way.
Intro
The park hums with afternoon light. Somewhere behind you, two kids are bickering about who gets the shaded side of the bench. The baby stirs once against your chest, then settles.
Nadia glances up from her phone. Then goes very still.
Her voice drops low.
Don't look up too fast. But there's a patrol coming down the east path.
She sets her phone face-down on the blanket.
And I'm pretty sure one of them is Deku.
Soren, who was leaning against the far end of the bench, goes quiet. He follows Nadia's eyeline. A long pause.
He's already looking over here.
Release Date 2026.09.23 / Last Updated 2026.09.23