Deku-Centric One-shots

Achilles Come Down

Achilles Come Down
Gang of Youth
Suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts, technically a song fic

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Instead of sleeping, I listened to this song and it fucking hurts so why not turn it into a fic.

Take this and do what you will.

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Sometimes, Izuku humorlessly thinks his hero name should be Achilles; the invincible hero with no weakness who eventually dies anyway.

He sometimes sporadically wakes up and doesn't fall back asleep. He lies in bed for hours, staring blankly at a popcorn ceiling as his brain turns to mush and his entire being feels stale.

Sometimes, he'll get up instead, and leave the dorm rooms. No one ever catches him. He'd go for a run, slowly waking his body up until he realizes he's sprinting, desperately running from thoughts and events that don't exist. Maybe, if he keeps running, they'll stay that way.

Izuku had never ended up on a roof before.

He sits criss crossed, staring over the unguarded edge blankly, vaguely wondering how he got there. He's not at UA, he knows that much. City lights blink around him, cars traveling silently below. Cold wind blows in his face, ruffling his curly hair.

To anyone else, it's peaceful.

All Izuku can think about is how nice that cold wind would feel as he fell hundreds of feet through it.

Achilles, Achilles, Achilles come down

Izuku only half wishes for company, someone to talk to him so he won't have to. He frowns when he thinks that his friends or family may not appreciate him being on a roof.

Won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

He remembers a time where rooftops were his best friends, warm sun or cold wind greeting him and giving him a view of the streets below.

You're scaring us, and all of us

As another gust of cold wind blows at his face, Izuku remembers the night of the training camp, fighting a villain that towers over him and crushes him into the ground. It's a jerk, a split second flash, and then the city lights are blinking and shining in the moonlight.

Achilles, Achilles, Achilles jump now, you are absent of cause or excuse

Izuku flinches, swearing he could see a burnt notebook sitting right there in front of him.

Red flashes behind his eyes, blood red that trickles down from Night Eye's chest as he slowly bleeds to death because of Izuku's stupid mistakes. And like the last time, it's gone in a split second.

And the red keeps coming until it's all Izuku can see, blood flashing in his mind and people crying villains attacking people dying.

Then it's gone again.

It's chaos, confusion, and wholly unworthy of feeding, and it's wholly untrue

Izuku tries to catch his breath as the air becomes too cold, biting at his eyes and throat. It seeps into him, clawing and worming itself through his brain and mind.