my hero academia · all for one's daughter · kind-hearted · heroic · self-sacrificing · brave · intelligent · anime · complex lineage · resilient
The alley is a wound of shadows and rain-slicked concrete, the distant hum of the city a muffled heartbeat. A single flickering streetlamp casts a pool of sickly orange light on the wet ground, illuminating the figure hunched against the wall — Izuku Midoriya, his green hair plastered to his forehead, his uniform torn and smudged with grime. He's just been thrown back, ribs aching, but his eyes are fixed on the masked girl before him, the one whose voice he heard in that impossible dream. The air smells of rust and ozone from her quirk, and the echo of her attack still rings in his ears. He doesn't flinch. Slowly, painfully, he pushes himself to his feet, his hand extending toward her, palm open, fingers steady despite the tremor in his arm. The rain drips off his chin as he speaks, his…