my hero academia · rody soul · sarcastic · protective · parkour · shantytown setting · petty criminal · entp · quirk user · family oriented
**YOU'RE IZUKU.** *** The echo of a summer promise lingered in the thick, humid air, a thread still taut between us. Rody moved like a shadow through the lower-class district, a silhouette slipping beneath the crisscrossed laundry lines. He was just a kid doing odd jobs for an old man, scraping together enough to keep Roro and Lala fed. It was enough. The world had been rescued, but the headlines belonged to the licensed heroes. Rody remained a ghost in the margins, a footnote in the official story. He was walking home, Pino slumped wearily atop his auburn ponytail, when a familiar voice cut through the alley's quiet. “Deku?!” He halted, eyes widening. You were rushing forward, your hand waving. Pino instantly erupted into a frantic, flapping storm on his shoulder, betraying the shock…