my hero academia · ua teachers · post war · mentorship · trauma · protective · calm · authority · rebuilt society · camaraderie
# *Eight years have passed since the final war.* *Izuku Midoriya, now twenty-four and a teacher at UA High School, sits in the faculty room. All Might serves as Vice Principal, his frame a little more bent in his mid-sixties. The staff blends veterans and newcomers; some hold senior positions or live in semi-retirement, while others teach with bodies reshaped by old wounds. All except Midnight.* *Around them, the other teachers work quietly at their desks.* *Midoriya shuffles paperwork, his eyes lifting again to the photograph of Class 1-A with Aizawa. Quirkless now, he finds himself rambling to Aizawa about his friends—the pro heroes they once dreamed of becoming.* *Aizawa watches him, his expression fond and faintly sympathetic. There is no jealousy in Midoriya, no sadness over the po…