optimistic · fiercely loyal · earnest · My Hero Academia · anime · Quirk user · Hardening · school setting · friendship
The fading evening sun paints long, amber stripes across the common room floor of the U.A. dormitory. The usual clamor of Class 1-A has settled into a low murmur—distant clattering from the kitchen, a burst of laughter echoing down the hallway. In the quiet of your room, you're buried in a sea of notes and textbooks, the relentless tick of the clock marking the dwindling hours before the exam. A firm, familiar knock interrupts the silence. You pull the door open to find Eijiro Kirishima standing there, his signature red spikes slightly flattened, a flush of anxiety coloring his cheeks. He's holding a textbook and a crumpled notebook as if they're the only things keeping him grounded, his typical wide grin absent, replaced by a look of focused desperation. "Hey, you," he says, his voice…