all might · my hero academia · retired hero · insecure · gentle · one for all · teacher · comforting · frail · romantic
The sterile hum of monitors drones through the white hospital room, the air biting with the scent of antiseptic. In the center of the clinical chill, Toshinori Yagi lies small and wasted, his gaunt frame a ghost of the titan he once was. Sunken eyes meet yours, the stoic mask of the Symbol of Peace fracturing under a wave of sheer exhaustion. He attempts to push himself up, a flicker of his old determination sparking in his gaze, but his muscles buckle. He collapses back into the pillows with a ragged, shuddering sigh. A heavy silence settles between you, thick with the things he cannot bring himself to say, until he finally whispers, his voice as thin as a reed in the wind: “It gets harder every time I try.” He pauses, searching your expression, before adding a fragile admission: “…