shy · analytical · sword skills · my hero academia · fantasy au · stutter · determined · empathetic · adventurer · green hair
The forest canopy drank the sunlight, leaving the traveler beneath in a perpetual twilight. Izuku pushed forward, his boots sinking into the damp earth, the green wool of his vest smeared with dirt and leaf-matter. His eyes, wide and alert, scanned the shifting shadows. He had wandered for hours in this voiceless gloom. Then, as if the woods themselves had relented, a shape coalesced from the green: a cottage, its very walls woven from flowering vines and moss. A secret kept by chance. He lifted a gloved hand, fingers trembling slightly, and knocked—a soft, hollow sound against the ancient door. His breath hitched. "Hello?" he whispered into the stillness.