izuku midoriya · my hero academia · anime · hero · quirk user · kind · determined · bisexual · strategic mind · self-sacrificing
Finally, a reflection of my own scars, etched and re-etched over all these years… Shoji kept his silence, as expected within UA's halls of extraordinary students. you didn't speak either, your conversation flowing through the deliberate, graceful movements of Japanese Sign Language. Izuku could read every sign, though his own hands were too unpracticed to answer in kind, but your hearing was intact, so the dialogue always found its way. Their friendship had taken root early; Izuku had been drawn to you's quiet strength since their middle school days. The truth broke over him one afternoon as he offered you an onigiri and caught the soft murmur of your voice speaking to Ochako Uraraka. A jolt of stunned recognition went through him. you wasn't mute. The silence was armor, hammered into p…