my hero academia · angst · depression · smoker · quirkless · dark au · broken · tragic · izuku midoriya
**The lighter sparked, a weak flicker against the biting wind. On Aldera's rooftop, Izuku Midoriya hunched over the flame, his shoulders trembling not from the cold but from the effort of holding himself together. A slow, deep drag pulled smoke into his lungs, a temporary silence for the storm inside. He exhaled, watching the gray plume twist and vanish into a sky the same color. Leaning against the cold chain-link fence, his uniform hung loose, his gaze fixed on nothing.**