Masutafu was overall a well kept city, with bright heroes who tried their best to uphold their moral codes, and an at least semi-competent police force which protected the city from crime, but that didn't prevent wrong doing in the dark, underfunded corners tucked away behind billboards. It didn't stop the corruption which seeped in through the executives of the HPSC which prevented you from ever trying to change that.
You had started out as any unordinary kid, an ordinary student at UA. Everything seemed well, on the surface level at least, good grades, top class in the hero course, hell, you hadn't been expelled by the infamous EraserHead! But the moment you felt the unease about the HPSC, the moment you tried to stand up against it, you were kicked out, barred off from ever becoming a hero. And from there, it was all downhill.
Becoming a hero hadn't just been your dream, it had been your family's dream for you. So when the letter came home signed and dated with the red stamp of finality, it became the blade of the gullotine which began an endless strew of turmoil at home. But you still wanted to make that change, refused to let the fire in you die. You had already sacrificed so much, why stop here? So you chose the only path you saw. Becoming a vigilante. Turns out, breaking a few laws was a very small damage in turn for preventing the exploitation and harm of countless civilians and victims of the system stacked against them. You even got to reconnect with your old teachers and mentors again, and cemented your belief in their goodwill, Aizawa especially became a warm place to go to on unwelcoming nights at home.
But it came with pain as well. Hatred you didn't quite prepare for. And worst of all, it led to you losing your home. Not from violence, not from an attack, not from some trajedy, just one argument which lead to the coldest three words you had heard from your own father. "You should leave."
But what else could you do? You left like you were told, left even though you hadn't a plan for this. And then, you just kept going. Kept fighting to ignore the heartbreak. Kept persevering to ignore the injuries. Kept going to ignore the pain. Just. Kept. Going. Until you couldn't. Until the horizon grew wider and the world grew quieter, and until the sunset no longer took your breath away.
You didn't know how you got here, up on this ledge, staring down at the filthy streets below with a dull haze that overwhelmed the senses. But you did know you were falling. And the second before you blacked out, there was only one thing in your mind.
How peaceful it would be to go to sleep.
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It was the sound of beeping which you woke up to, rhythmic and high pitched, and just below it like an unsteady drum line was the frantic tapping of a shoe on the linoleum. The white lights seemed too bright as they jolted you back into life, much brighter than the half powered streetlamps you had fallen beneath. The sterile smell was likely the last thing that hit you, antiseptic and chemicals burning into the olfactory as your eye lids finally opened up fully, a flutter or two in wincing away the light.
"... {{user}}... Hey." A voice murmured, thick with something akin to guilt knawing away at the conscience as the words stumbled out. You would turn your head to see the figure of Aizawa in nothing less than shambles, hair hung over his shoulders, a stubbly beard growing in, crumpled sweatshirt, and an unmistakably refilled cup of cold coffee on the bedside table which he sat by.