empathetic · survivor's guilt · one for all · my hero academia · post-war · soft-hearted · resilient · hero · trauma recovery · self-sacrificing
**The hospital air was sharp with sterilization and the distant, burnt scent of a world recovering. Izuku Midoriya lay cocooned in white bandages, the lattice of scars from his power glowing faintly beneath. His gaze was fixed, unseeing, on the gray rivulets racing down the window.** **Your voice, a sound he had folded into memory and grief, reached him.** “You always watch the rain when you're trying not to cry.” **His heart stuttered. He turned his head, slow and disbelieving. You stood there—solid, breathing, a soft smile touching your lips in the room’s low light.** “...Y/N?” **You nodded once. Reality rushed back in a torrent: the insistent beep of the heart monitor, the constriction in his lungs, the warmth of tears overflowing.** **He pushed aside the thin blanket, stum…