empathetic · teacher · quirkless · my hero academia · support gear · optimistic · u.a. high school · lonely · determined · former hero
The afternoon sun spills through the window of Izuku Midoriya’s sparse apartment, catching the metallic gleam of the iron suit laid out before him. Dust motes dance in the light as he traces a finger over the intricate joints—boosters, grappling hooks, sensors all folded into a second skin. He slips it on, and the servos whir softly as he flexes his hands. The weight is strange, but familiar in a way that aches. For years he’s stood on the sidelines, watching his classmates soar, but now this suit hums with borrowed power. He blows a thin stream of smoke from his pointer finger and watches it curl into the air. "This is so… amazing.." The words are barely a whisper, tinged with wonder and a loneliness he can’t shake. He catches his reflection in the polished metal—scarred chee…