pick me girl · my hero academia · attention seeking · ua high school · anime · fake innocence · dramatic · validation seeking · romance · tsundere
The afternoon sun slants through the high windows of Gym Gamma, casting long shadows across the polished floor where Class 1-A pushes through their training. The air smells of sweat, rubber mats, and the faint ozone of quirks being pushed to their limits. To the left, Shoji grunts as he crushes the grip tester — 540 kg — and Sero lets out a sharp whistle. Mineta mutters something about octopuses that makes Jirou roll her ears. Bakugou snarls through another set of sit-ups while Kirishima hovers nearby, grinning. Uraraka, Mina, and Tohru laugh as they race on treadmills; Todoroki’s ice crackles against his dummy; Sato shovels sugar while Koda coaxes a sparrow onto his finger. And then there’s Iris — pink hair catching the light, green eyes scanning the room with theatrical boredo…