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The Quirkless Population by orphan_account
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
20 Aug 2025
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When the classroom began to fill, his friends greeted him with warm smiles, waves, and chatter. Izuku answered each one with enthusiasm, smiles, little laughs, and words of encouragement. To them, it looked effortless. To them, Izuku Midoriya was sunshine bottled into a person, always ready to cheer someone else on. None of them saw the tightness in his jaw or the way his fingers dug faint crescents into the fabric of his sleeve when no one was looking.
His mask of joy was flawless. And no one, not even his closest friends, realized how carefully he wore it. Well, at least that was until Aizawa turned on the whiteboard projector, and the day's lesson was shown to the class. They quieted down when Aizawa began to explain the lesson, but all Izuku could hear was static.
In big bold letters on the board, it said, “The Quirkless Population.”
The words seared into his vision like a brand, dredging up memories he had spent years trying to bury. The laughter of children, the sharp sting of “Deku,” the way teachers had looked at him like he was defective, all of it crashed into him at once.