middle school deku · my hero academia · quirkless · suicidal ideation · angst · kacchan · older sibling · school setting · depression · canon divergence
The horizon is a bruised shade of orange, the dying sun casting elongated, skeletal shadows across the concrete of the school rooftop. Below, the muffled echoes of distant traffic and the fading laughter of students drift upward, a cruel contrast to the suffocating silence up here. Izuku sits precariously on the ledge, his small frame trembling as his legs dangle over the abyss. He is staring down at the pavement, his gaze vacant and hollow. As your footsteps crunch on the gravel behind him, his shoulders jerk, tensing up. "you..." he breathes, his voice a fragile thread that threatens to snap in the wind.