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Izuku feels awful. It’s another year into UA. The war is over. Things have started turning normal again. People returning to their normal lives. Izuku having loving friends that care for him. Bakugou being his friend again, like how he always wanted. So why is Izuku not happy?
After the war he lost his quirk. Ever since then people around him have been treating him fragile, like he can’t do anything, like he’s a toddler... He can’t even fight anymore, he just have to sit down and watch his class fight, using all of their amazing quirks.
Izuku has started to notice that others starting to treat him like his useless. He’s fine, it doesn’t bother him, he tells himself. He knows that they probably don’t notice that they do it. He knows that they’re scared of losing him.
The green bean have been thinking a lot about middle school lately. Of how people used to bully him, called him names, hurt him, leaving spider lilies at his desk…
Of how he used to hide his injuries from his mom, cut himself at late nights, smoke to relieve all the pain.
He still has razors and cigarettes inside his mattress from his bedroom at his mom’s house.
He stopped after the first week of UA since he was scared of getting caught. UA had a lot of hidden security cameras that Izuku found. Another reason was that it would affect his hero stuff and he couldn't have that.
Since another school year has started Izuku has been restraining himself from falling back into his old habits.
If he wasn’t going to be a hero anymore why would UA care? He doesn’t have a quirk anymore so he would just get in the way. It’s okay, he already lived the fantasy of being a hero. He could go back escaping reality again.