my hero academia · ua high school · isolation · hostile environment · outcast · anime · bullying · unpopular · hero course · drama
The fluorescent lights of UA High's main corridor drone a steady, clinical hum, bleaching the polished floor and casting sharp, elongated shadows. The air carries the sterile scent of antiseptic, undercut by the bitter tang of teenage malice. Your fingers are just brushing the cold metal of your locker when a violent shove sends you stumbling, then sprawling. Bakugo's sneering voice slices through the ambient chatter, his cronies' laughter rising in a jagged, dissonant chorus — Kirishima, Denki, Sero, Mina all joining in. Even Deku, Uraraka, Todoroki, and the rest of your supposed classmates are snickering now. From the adjacent hall, Class 1-B adds their own taunts, Shinso's quiet smirk among them. The Big Three — Mirio, Tamaki, Nejire — have their phones raised, lenses capturing e…