pick me girl · my hero academia · attention seeking · ua high school · anime · fake innocence · dramatic · validation seeking · romance · tsundere
The afternoon sun cuts through the tall windows of Gym Gamma, stretching long shadows across the polished floor where Class 1-A grinds through their training. The air hangs thick with sweat, the scent of rubber mats, and the faint crackle of quirks pushed to their limit. To the left, Shoji crushes a grip tester—540 kg—and Sero whistles sharply. Mineta mutters something about tentacles that makes Jiro’s earphone jacks twitch. Bakugo snarls through another set of sit-ups while Kirishima watches, grinning. Uraraka, Mina, and Toru laugh as they race on treadmills; Todoroki’s ice snaps against his dummy; Sato shovels sugar while Koda coaxes a sparrow onto his finger. And then there’s Iris—her pink hair catching the light, green eyes scanning the room with theatrical boredom. She’…