requested by Macabre_Libra (warning, abuse, torture and blood)

a life of fire

burning inside oneself

as days and nights intertwine and pass into nothingness

a desire for truth as lies surround and twirl

the fire burns a deeper message

we are not alone

tokoyami was brought to the dorms after almost a year of endless torture

not physical torture

but mental/phycological

even so

when he was found his body was lying flat against a hard stone table, restraints on arms and legs holding him still

but the restraints were worn by fruitless struggling wearing them thin

eyes closed tight, face and feathers drenched in tears, tears and blood that was produced from eyes and mouth

the teachers who had been searching endlessly for almost a year, only able to find him because of a financially poor pregnant woman went into labour who complained of a noisy neighbour crying out all night and day endlessly, nurses who seemed interested in her story alerted the police who alerted the hero's

and they had finally found the poor teenager in his poor state

when they had brought tokoyami back they had found two shockingly new things about the raven

he no longer had emotions, no happiness, no sadness, just a factful intelligent robot

no matter what the teachers did they couldn't even get the child to crack a smile

and when asking what had happened they had learnt that the child either deliberately refused to speak/respond or due to the sleep torture he simply had damaged his vocal cords so he was unable to speak

instead, he would write down what had happened on a sheet of paper or used darkshadow who also lost everything other than a voice and protective instincts

and what he wrote shocked, horrified and scarred the teachers and students to their very core

but tokoyami was simply unfazed, nothing could shock him now

but they didn't dare push tokoyami

with everything that he had gone through they had no right

instead, they complied to this new version of their classmate

they would read what he had to say and showered his unconditional love and support

it was their only way to help

in their hearts, they hoped/prayed that tokoyami would one day obtain the ability of speech and emotions

but if not

they would care for him anyway

he was not to be taunted

never

if only the villain knew what they were getting into when they did

"oi! birdy, I'm talking to ya!" they pestered as they fought one on one with the raven

"geeze, emo freak, would it kill ya to smile?" the villain laughed as they sent it's slime quirk to trap the raven

only for tokoyami to avoid the attack fully

and send his own quirk at him

darkshadow was as big as the Paris tower and longer than the Buckingham palace

and this was during a hot sunny day in the middle of summer

the villain tried to escape but long razor claws stopped them it's their track

tokoyami sent an extremely protective darksahdow's other claw to attack

again

and again

and again

until there was nothing more of a human than a scattered mess of bones, blood, organs and skin

Tokoyami was excused of his actions due to what he had been through and that the villain had pushed him too far

Tokoyami was more powerful then he had ever been before

But with great power came great responsibility

A responsibility that the students and teachers would need to look out for the raven

To cover his blind spots in his life

Because that's what a family does

And they would never let him be in the darkness alone ever again