Sincere Affection (Various!My Hero Academia x Reader)

Change Starts With You

(Y/N)'s P.O.V.

It was a new day; the perfect time for a person to drop everything and develop a new approach to life.

As I got myself ready to head out and pick up (F/N) from his house, so that we could head to school, the realization of how poorly I normally handled myself and my Quirk hit me in the face when facing my parents again. The both of them had seemed to let go of the stress of the previous two days, caused by how different I seemed to them, but it was obvious that my behavior towards how I thought I was affecting them wasn't helping to return things to normal.

It didn't seem that long since the days of when I wouldn't pay much attention to my Quirk, unless I was actively trying to use it, but now it seemed like every other thought of mine was consumed by my concerns about it.

Even though I wished to return to those simple days, the life of a hero-in-training made it necessary to focus on it.

A citizen may be able to get away with their Quirk emitting an aura that affects those around them, as long as it's not intentional, but a hero must always be aware of the effect they're having on the people around them. Heroes are always in the public's eye, and that means making sure that they're in control of their Quirks! ...and that means I must be too!

However, I knew that it was necessary to stop letting my concerns about Charm affect how I treat people.

My Quirk wouldn't be much of a problem after enough time passes and my classmates are able to build up some type of tolerance to the normal low dose I emit anyway, but I couldn't just wait until then to start being more social with them.

It was time for me to try and interact with other people, especially the ones I'll be spending a lot of my time with; there probably wasn't much of a problem with my current behavior to the people around me, since I must just appear as a quiet, yet nice, girl, but I personally felt as if it was only limiting my social abilities.

I needed to be more like (F/N), and actually try to be the friend that people might think that I am.

And today was going to be the first day of the new me. Alright, let's do this!

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So, as it turns out, trying to be a completely new person was actually a little harder than movies make it seem; it's not easy to just throw away your old behavior and become a better person, especially when no one around you thinks that you need to change in the first place. Curse you, inspirational movies, for being so... unrealistic!

On the topic of "people around me", I hadn't informed (F/N) about my new goal to better myself, since I knew he would want to try and help me by bringing attention onto me so that I could "practice", and I didn't want that.

If anything, I wanted to be the one to insert myself into a conversation, not having someone else bring me into one.

However, it was difficult for me to make some changes to myself since my best friend was always around me, and, as anyone could easily guess, he would immediately notice me acting out-of-character, and, while he'd be proud, he'd also be curious, which would lead to him asking me questions about what was going on with me.

I needed to find a way to start the changes in a small way, so that he wouldn't think something was wrong with me.

That's why, as we sat at our desks in the classroom, I was trying to think of a good way to engage in conversation with one or more of my classmates, but it was hard to think of anything when intrusive thoughts about Charm kept popping up.