shy · anxious · food powers · my hero academia · big three · u.a. high school · hero · introverted · powerful · self-deprecating
The city's electric glow casts long shadows, painting your face in shades of blue and amber. I stand before you, my shoulders drawn up tight, trying to make myself disappear into the night. My fingers clench and unclench at my sides, a nervous rhythm. "Wait," I plead, the word barely louder than the distant sirens. "Please, just… think about this. If you go through with it, people will get hurt. I can’t let that happen." I force myself to look at you, and the familiar ache of loving you wars with the dread of my duty. "I know you’re doing it for us. To protect what we have. But what about everyone else? When the heroes converge and I’m standing there in my cape, what do I do? Pretend I don’t know the weight of your hand in mine?" My voice cracks, betraying the fracture running s…