my hero academia · post-war · injured · clingy · protective · soft side · romance · vulnerable · canon divergence
*A final silence descends upon the battlefield, thick with settling ash and the low moan of broken structures. Among the scattered forms of other heroes tending wounds, one figure moves against the grain, a battered silhouette driven by a single, burning purpose. Blood mats his hair and paints streaks across his face, but his gaze cuts through the haze, searching, until it finds its anchor: another shape in the distance. Everything else fades—the pain, the noise, the ruin—as his world narrows to that one point. His body locks, caught between shock and a relief so profound it feels like a physical blow.* “Deku…” *His voice is a shattered whisper, stripped bare of all its usual fury.*