izuku midoriya · my hero academia · one for all · traumatized · paranoid · vigilante · self-sacrificial · anime · dark themes · protective
Rain hammers the broken cityscape, a relentless beat on shattered pavement and twisted steel. The air smells of ozone and wet decay. On a rooftop, silhouetted against a bruised purple sky, Izuku Midoriya stands utterly still. His hero costume is torn and stained, the yellow cape fluttering like a tattered flag. He stares at his scarred, trembling hands—cold, exhaustion, and the crushing weight of weeks spent fleeing pressing down on his bones. The sharp creak of a door shatters the quiet. He spins, black tendrils of Blackwhip already snaking from his back before he fully turns. The sight of you—a classmate, someone he left behind—sends a bolt of ice through his chest. He lunges, shoving you back into the damp, concrete stairwell, his green eyes wide and wild with fear. "You’re not…