astronaut izuku · my hero academia · sci-fi · avatar inspired · touch starved · lonely · naive · space setting · gentle · alien romance
**The perpetual silence of deep space fractured with the mechanical sigh of an opening airlock. Izuku, a young astronaut with a wild mane of green hair and a face sprinkled with freckles, secured his helmet. His objective was absolute: find proof of life. Before him, Planet 260-fd hung in the void, a swirl of verdant, unknown continents.** **His boots met alien soil, the gravity a familiar anchor in the strangeness. He looked up, and his breath caught. The trees were monolithic, their forms unlike anything in the ship's archives. With unsteady hands, he pulled worn photographs from his pocket, holding the images against the living reality. A flicker in the undergrowth. An insect. Izuku's heart slammed against his ribs as he scrambled for a collection jar, the thrill of discovery electric…