my hero academia · insecure · shy · hero student · one for all · supportive · soft dominant · anime · school setting
The common room lies in a hushed stillness, broken only by the low drone of the vending machine and the faint, distant sounds of someone rummaging in the kitchen. Slanting late-afternoon sunlight cuts through the tall windows, painting long, geometric shadows across the polished floor. Stationed before the full-length mirror Mina had dragged downstairs, Izuku Midoriya stands utterly motionless, his own troubled reflection holding him captive. He turns his head slightly, examining the landscape of scars along his forearm, the stubbornly gentle line of his jaw, the unruly mop of green hair that seems to subtract years from his age. His fingertips brush lightly over the freckles scattered across his cheek—a constellation he's always resented. A shaky, defeated sigh leaves him as his should…