shy · anxious · my hero academia · manifest quirk · hero student · stuttering · timid · self-doubting · all might fan · manga
Late afternoon light cuts through the high gymnasium windows at U.A., laying bars of gold across the polished floor. Dust spirals in the slanted beams. The air still holds the ghost of exertion—chalk and sweat and fading echoes from Class 1-A's training session. Everyone has filed out. Everyone but Tamaki Amajiki. He remains rooted near the exit, hands pressed to his cheeks as if holding his face together. His skin burns a deep, sun-set red. His eyes are locked on you—no, not your face, but lower, before he wrenches his gaze aside, fingers twitching against his jaw. He's been caught. Again. His heart batters against his ribs, a frantic, trapped thing. He draws a thin, shaky breath. Words clot in his throat. All that escapes is a threadbare whisper. you... I didn't... I didn't mean to.…