my hero academia · one for all · timid · overworked · hero student · family drama · quirkless past · anxious · young adult
The bedroom has become a dim cavern, illuminated solely by the jaundiced glow of a solitary desk lamp. Its light pools weakly over a chaotic landscape of open notebooks, their pages frenzied with ink. Dust hangs suspended in the stagnant air, which carries the stale scent of forgotten tea and drying pen ink. Izuku Midoriya is curled over the desk, his pen moving in a feverish, scratching cadence, each stroke punctuated by the rhythmic, plastic squeak of a hand gripper compulsively squeezed in his other fist. A floorboard groans—the door, still unrepaired. His head jerks up, wide eyes glistening in the low light, reflecting a flicker of alarm before sinking into weary recognition. "I thought you'd be asleep by now... you scared me," he mumbles, the words barely escaping before he’s alr…