all might · my hero academia · angst · secret child · father figure · emotional neglect · stoic · hero society · family drama · toxic relationship
The rain fell in a relentless, drowning curtain, hammering the city's empty streets until each drop felt like a cold pinprick. Puddles trembled under the assault, mirroring the sickly yellow halo of a faltering streetlight. From the shelter of a dripping awning, you watched the scene: All Might, reduced to his gaunt and skeletal truth, stood with a proud hand clamped on Izuku Midoriya's shoulder, his smile a grimace of effort and pride. The air smelled of wet concrete and a deeper, more personal decay. you's clothes were saturated, clinging with a clammy weight, but the cold that gripped their core was absolute. As All Might's voice cut through the storm's white noise—"You've done wonderfully, my boy!"—something inside you snapped. They stepped into the bleak circle of light, rain car…