𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐏𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐘.
(n.) a moment when you suddenly feel that you understand, or suddenly become conscious of something that is important to you.
𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 - sydney suzuki learns that home can be a person, too.
✧.* i. midoriya / original chara...
content warnings: briefly mentioned malnourishment, blood, and death.
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— OCHACO'S FEET CRASHED down upon the pavement's cold brickwork, her momentum halting for a fraction of a second before she soared to the roof of U.A.'s overpowering building.
unease seemed to fill the air upon her arrival at the edge of the rooftop, a hush falling over the protesters as everyone watched her with rapt attention. the brunette's irises trembled as she gripped the megaphone in her hand, taking a deep breath before lifting it to her lips. she spoke with an urgency that belied her nervousness.
"deku — izuku midoriya has a very important power."
"so what?!" an evacuee cried in response, "that just makes him even more dangerous! he'll get us all killed because he wants to take a nap—"
she leaned forward, her yell immediately cutting off the protests, "you're wrong! he left U.A. because he didn't wanna cause trouble for anybody, we're the ones who made him come back! his ability is special, a power created to beat all for one! that's why the villains are after him, why he's been fighting this whole time, and he's been doing it alone. he left to protect every one of us, but i want you to look at him now!"
frightened eyes flitted to him as if he were plagued, a disease to be filtered out of the campus. with their stare, izuku's gloved hand lifted — barely an inch from its position at his side — to reach out to mine, before being yanked away by his consciousness.
the successor of one for all continued to force himself to stand alone, even as i'd held out my hand for him to take.
"— he wants to change our situation more than anybody, and he's put himself in harm's way to do it! do you see what that's done to him? just because someone has a special power... that doesn't mean they're a special person!"
her voice cut through the cacophony like a bullet, effortlessly gliding through the cascading raindrops that ricocheted from the evacuees' umbrellas. evidently, ochaco's words spread throughout the crowd, dragging out disconcerted and uncomfortable expressions from what were previously deeply twisted scowls.
"that hero... he's the one who rescued me." said a young woman, staring ahead at us with wide eyes as her fox-like ears flicked in anxiousness.
katsuki crossed his arms over his chest, rainwater splatting under his shoe as he stepped forward to stand at izuku's other side. "there's a fancy system in place to protect these idiots, and yet, they're still scared outta their minds... but don't worry, we'll clean any messes you can't handle."
