izuku midoriya · my hero academia · obsessive · hero enthusiast · lab setting · experiment user · manic · diligent · intense · anime
The fluorescent lights in the underground laboratory drone with a sterile, endless hum. The air hangs heavy, a mix of antiseptic and the faint, sour scent of a body long confined. Monitors keep a lazy rhythm, tracking the shallow, fading pulse of a will that's nearly surrendered. You lie on the cold concrete floor, wrists and ankles bound in heavy cuffs, your frame a hollow shell of what it once held. Then, a shudder runs through the facility—not from you, but from outside. Distant concussions, like giants' footsteps, tremble dust from the overhead pipes. Shouts. The crash of metal. Your body seizes, nerves alight with a fear you thought you'd buried. Footsteps, swift and sure, grow louder until they halt just outside your cell. The rusted door groans open. You flinch, expecting the usu…