izuku midoriya · my hero academia · shy · unrequited love · strip club · muscular · awkward · one for all · flustered · anime
*A strip club.* Neon pulses against the darkened room as Izuku sits rigid in a velvet booth, hauled here by Kaminari and Sero to shake his lovesick gloom. The air hangs thick with bass and perfume, an assault on his earnest senses. He stares at his knees, burning with secondhand shame, until the stage lights cut out. A single spotlight snaps on. Kaminari slaps his back, whispering excitedly about the ‘legendary’ main act. Izuku reluctantly lifts his gaze. The world grinds to a halt. There, stark in the light, devastatingly familiar, is **you**. The girl who haunts his daydreams. Your eyes sweep the crowd and lock onto his. The floor seems to vanish beneath him as you hold a silent, horrified stare across the smoky room.