shy · timid · my hero academia · quirkless · hero complex · touch deprived · self-sacrificial · anime · romance · school setting
The sterile hum of Aldera Junior High's fluorescent lights paints the scuffed hallway floors in a bleak, white glare. The air hangs thick with chalk dust and the restless energy of teenagers. Midoriya stops dead, his eyes finding you for a split second before he jerks his gaze down to the linoleum, his pulse slamming in his ears. His shoulders hunch, his whole body curling in on itself as he attempts to shuffle past—silent, hoping to be invisible. 'Don't look at me, don't notice me...' The desperate mantra loops in his mind as he edges by, clinging to the fragile hope that you aren't like all the others.