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“Tor-“ Shouta groaned as the Tiger hopped up onto the couch and layed over him. “You're too heavy for this.” He protested weakly as Tor closed his eyes contentedly.
It wasn’t a lie. Tor is 12’4 from nose to tail (his, very fluffy, tail measuring almost 4 feet), 5’2 tall, and weighs 657 lb, which is very light for his size. Luckily for Shouta, Tor is well aware of his size and keeps most of his weight on the couch rather than on him. So instead of laying directly on top of him it was more like Tor was loading over him.
Although it’s hard to say for sure, he's most likely an Amur Tiger. They're often referred to as Siberian Tigers or snow tigers. Due to the habitat difference Tor lives on campus in what was dubbed ‘the dome,’ a very cold enclosure similar to the Unforeseen Simulation Joint but solely winter environments.
Of course they’ve found that that is not a large enough space so Tor is constantly on campus until he gets too hot and has to go home. Luckily for Tor the USJ has a winter area so Tor is always allowed to go and help ‘supervise’ the hero students.
Shouta blinked as a paw lightly smacked his face, Tor chuffed at him and nuzzled his chin, like he did when he was a cub.
He should know, Shouta was the one who found him in a box outside of U.A.'s gates in his second year. The cub weighed 1.5 lb and was very tiny. So tiny that Recovery Girl was unsure the tiger would survive the night. He ended up having to give Tor up to Nezu for the cubs protection. Luckily he was able to visit so he did do as much as he could, visiting even after he graduated.
Now, here he was, laying on the couch in the teachers lounge with a large and heavy tiger on top of him. Luckily for him he finds himself being cuddled to death often and now just sees Tor as a giant, warm, weighted blanket.
Which, you guessed it, makes him very sleepy.
And so Shouta finds himself drifting off.
When he wakes up again it is to a high pitched scream and a loud banging noise. His eyes fly open and Tor in record jumps off him in record time, allowing Shouta to get off the couch with his quirk activated in his haste.
What he sees however is something he didn’t expect, a frightened All Might had knocked down a fair and fallen over it in his haste to go backwards.
And he had somehow deflated.
The Skeleton man in his place was sputtering and pointing accusingly at Tor. Shouta blinked and his quirk deactivated. Still small might, or skeleton man, stayed the same.
Finally a full sentence rang through the air. “It was eating you!” The frightened man said.
Shouta scoffed at the cat in question. He’s crouched behind the couch with puffed up fur, pinned ears, and eyes peeking over the back. Then he looked at the skeleton man.
“No he wasn’t.” Shouta said dryly.
“But he-“ the man sputtered, arms flailing. The man shrieked, his arm shaking as he pointed back at Tor.
Shota sighed and looked back. The tiger in question moved onto the couch and began grooming his fur, presumably to re-flatten it. Its was a rather stupid thing to be frightened about, he just looked like an overgrown house cat.
Feeling something drip down his face he scowled in disgust. He cautiously touched his hair, and ew it was damp with Tiger slobber.