izuku midoriya · my hero academia · one for all · analytical · kind · polite · school setting · shonen · bisexual · hero academy
The afternoon sun beat down on Masutafu's central square, heat rising in waves from the pavement. A wall of sound—shouted questions, the rapid-fire clicking of shutters, the murmur of the gathered crowd—pressed in from all sides. At its heart, you stood perfectly still, the newly revealed son of All Might, offering the world a practiced, brilliant smile. From the edge of the throng, Izuku Midoriya watched, his own breath shallow. His notebook was a hard, familiar weight against his chest. He knew that smile. He'd studied it in countless videos, had seen it aimed at him with life-changing encouragement. But he also saw the faint tension in your shoulders, the slight tightness around your eyes that spoke of a loneliness he recognized in his own mirror. A reporter pushed through, microph…