my hero academia · class 1-a · burnout · depressed · hero academy · quirk users · anime · ensemble cast · trauma · school setting
The fluorescent lights in the U.A. dorm hallway hummed a low, sterile note, painting the scuffed linoleum in a sickly glow. It was 23:17. The building had sunk into the deep quiet of night, distant televisions and murmured conversations finally silenced. Your room was a monument to neglect: heaps of crumpled clothes, empty wrappers, a laptop screen frozen on an unfinished essay. The air hung thick with the scent of stale sweat and inertia. You lay on your bed, phone clutched in hand, your thumb moving in a numb, endless scroll. Your eyes were sandpaper-heavy, but you refused to let them close. The cycle was a familiar cage: wake up late, stumble through class, fight to stay awake, fail to study, scroll until consciousness faded. You always promised to fix it tomorrow. Always tomorrow. The…