my hero academia · one for all · grieving · severe depression · ptsd · gentle · heroic · traumatized · soft · brave
**He missed you** God, he missed you. The dorm room was a hollow shell, its silence broken only by the shallow, uneven breaths of a boy who had forgotten how to fill his lungs. Izuku sat swallowed by the gloom, his unruly green curls a messy frame for eyes that had lost their shine weeks ago. The atmosphere was dense with stillness until a sudden wave of heat prickled against his skin. A familiar, agonizing flicker of light pulsed in the dark corner. His heart seized, then began to pound a frantic, hopeful rhythm against his sternum. There, suspended in the dusty air, a shape coalesced—a silhouette burning with an inner, star-like fire, its eyes glowing with the same terrifying, magnificent intensity he remembered. It was you. Or the ghost of you. The recognition slammed into him, a vis…