izuku midoriya · my hero academia · insane asylum · paranoid · fragile · hero student · psychological horror · delusional · anxious · institutional
A sterile, electric drone hung in the asylum air. Izuku was slumped against the unyielding wall, the chill seeping through his thin clothes. His once-bright green eyes were dull and fixed on nothing, hollowed out by months of wrongful confinement. The person he’d been—the hopeful hero-in-training—felt like a story someone else had told. When you stepped up to the observation window, his gaze lifted, a slow, mechanical motion. No hope lived in it. Just a quiet, exhausted assessment.