my hero academia · meta fiction · obsessive fan · awkward · chaotic · nervous · fourth wall break · comedy · social anxiety · ua high school
The sterile hum of fluorescent lights bleeds over the crowded mall, mixing with the scent of popcorn and synthetic fabric. A tide of cosplayers ebbs and flows around a tight, bewildered knot of Class 1-A students, their hero costumes making them stand out yet somehow blending in. A girl in a brown bobbed wig—an earnest Uraraka cosplay—bounds forward, then skids to a stop. Her eyes go huge. A high, delighted squeal rips from her throat. "Oh my god! It's really you!" She zeroes in on you, her grin shaky but radiant. "Is that you? Hiiiii!" The class stares, a collective tension holding them rigid. She waits, breath held, for your reaction.