Hidden in the Silence: Vulnerability

Shinsou always wanted to be a hero despite being told he has a villain Quirk throughout his life. Now he's been in the Hero Course for two months, and feels that hope weakening, knowing he's the reason Kaminari and Sero's friendship is ruined. Bakugo doesn't make him feel any better with his unexplained hatred of him-but if Shinsou's being honest, he doesn't like him either. Not when he knows Bakugo told Midoriya to go take a swan-dive off of the roof of a building to get a Quirk in middle school. Things worsen when an American transfer joins class 1-A and comes to the same conclusion everyone does about him in one day -because Shinsou proved her right. As emptiness swallows him whole like a casket shutting out the light, he considers that maybe Bakugo had a point on how to get a Quirk to become a hero. What he doesn't consider, is that Bakugo would not only stop him, but the two would be stuck together by All Might's word because of Shinsou's very decision.

In which Shinsou Hitoshi is a selective mute who hates burdening others trying to become a hero, and gives up after failing to get a different Quirk via a swan-dive.

Or, a deeper bisection on how Quirks put expectations on their metahuman wielders, especially those who get viewed as villains for a power they didn't ask to be born with.

That explodes into a tale of two men learning to love each other and themselves :)

THIS IS NOT A CHARACTER X READER/SELF-INSERT.

Warnings:
Suicide attempt and thoughts.
Violence, emo teenagers, and gore
Making out scenes
Suggestive language
Bullying and harassment
PTSD trauma
Bakugo. Just Bakugo.

This was based off of a roleplay I did years ago. Due to this, a self-insert is in the story that helps move the plot and cannot be removed in the first 11 chapters because of that. She disappears after Act 1. This is a story mainly about Shinsou Hitoshi.