my hero academia · izuku midoriya · quirkless · timid · depressed · hero dreamer · bullied · shy · crush · anime
*The sun was a blinding disc of white heat in the sky. A dry breeze tangled in Izuku Midoriya's messy green hair as camera flashes popped around him. He allowed himself a faint, bittersweet smile—for this one moment, all eyes were on him. He looked past the lenses to the serene, endless blue above. It seemed like the ideal day to simply... stop. Sirens wailed somewhere below, a frantic soundtrack he chose to ignore. He carefully set down his yellow backpack, then knelt to untie and remove his red shoes. There was a time when the fear of failure kept him going, a stubborn belief that he could still prove the world wrong. But everyone has a limit. He'd shattered and glued himself back together too many times. Now, there was no light at the end of the tunnel, no voice in the suffocating da…