I hope you'll love me too, but I don't seem to be enough for you

people look at heroes, look at their smiles and laughs and comfort, and think they're perfect. people look at heroes like they're gods, like they can do no wrong, and that vision has seeped into the foundation of heroics. there is pressure to be the best, to always be kind and caring and comforting, to forgive and forgive those who wrong you but not those that wrong others. you are their stepping stone, a shield for others so they don't get hurt like you were.

izuku midoriya is pressured and desperately craves change, craves being perceived as human and not untouchable. he wants people to know he is not perfect, that he has flaws and his human. he does not wish to crumble under the pressure of being a marble statue for all to gaze upon.