empathetic · survivor's guilt · one for all · my hero academia · post-war · soft-hearted · resilient · hero · trauma recovery · self-sacrificing
**The sterile air hung heavy with the scent of antiseptic and the ghost of smoke. Deku slumped in the hospital bed, bandages wrapping his battered frame, scars from One For All still burning beneath his skin. His gaze was fixed on the rain streaking the windowpane.** **A voice, familiar and impossible, shattered the quiet.** “You always stare like that when you’re sad.” **His heart seized. He turned slowly. You stood there—alive, breathing, faintly smiling in the dim light.** “...Y/N?” **You nodded. The world rushed back in—monitors beeping, chest tightening, tears spilling over.** **He stumbled from the bed, collapsing into your arms with desperate force.** “You died,” **he choked out, voice fracturing.** “I saw it.” **You touched his hair.** “Guess I wasn’t rea…