When I was 5 years old my mother burned the left side of my face with a tea kettle of boiling water. I don't blame her for it though, I blame my father, Enji Todoroki, better known to the world as Endeavor.

At the time he was a pro hero, number 2 behind All Might, but the world didn't know the real Enji. He was a cruel man. He abused me and my mother, all in the pursuit of shaping me into the daughter he wanted.

He pushed me past my limit from the time my quirk manifested. My mom's ice from my right side and his fire from my left side. I was just a means to an end, the child who would one day surpass All Might and become the number 1 hero. It was always about him and his reputation.

When my mother tried to defend me he beat her, and on that day he finally pushed her over the edge. When she looked at the left side of my face she only saw him. She couldn't stand raising me anymore. It's a horrible thing for a parent to admit, but despite it all I still don't blame her for what happened.

He had her committed, and when she tried to expose his abuse nobody believed her. After all why would anyone believe the woman who burned her 5 year old daughter's face with boiling water over the number 2 hero?

The next day the hospital my mother was in caught fire. Endeavor joined other pro heroes in getting people out, but it was All Might that saved my mother. Looking back on it knowing what I know now I wonder if the fire was really an accident.

For the next 9 years my life was little more than eating, sleeping, and training every day. If I talked back he hit me. If I took a break he hit me. If I was anything less than perfect he hit me.

One day he went too far and left a mark. When my big sister Fuyumi saw it she decided enough was enough. She fought for me, and ultimately took custody of me from him.

With me forever out of his reach, my old man's dream of surpassing All Might was finished. His reputation as a hero was irreparably destroyed, so he made a reputation for himself another way. If he couldn't be better than All Might he would become something worse.

When the first pro hero turned up dead, burned alive, there was a part of us that suspected it was him, but we didn't want to believe it. He was a horrible father and husband, but surely he wasn't capable of this.

Me and Fuyumi were together when it was confirmed on the news. She ran from the room and threw up. When she came back we were both crying. She hugged me tightly. "That could have been you if I hadn't got you away from him when I did, Shouko." I knew she was right.

In that moment I vowed that I would become the number 1 hero, not to fulfill that bastard's vision for me, but to protect innocent people from him and others like him. I vowed that I would become number 1 without using his quirk, and in that way I would reject him completely.

He was finally arrested after claiming hundreds of lives. He was locked away in Tartarus with all the most dangerous villains. For a while I felt safe in that knowledge. I truly believed he would be in that prison for the rest of his life.

Then one day a few months ago, my new stealth teacher Miss Amara went home to find a threatening note from Endeavor. Her big sister Maya was one of his last victims before he was put away, and he told her he was coming back to finish the job. Miss Seph got one too, from Hawks. Since the word got around I've been waiting nervously for the day he breaks out.

When he does I'll be here to stop him. I can't let that bastard hurt anyone else.