Katsuki never smiled after the divorce, the concept of genuine ‘joy’ all felt preposterous to him. During the years of your marriage, he had never been happier. He was smiling more, he was kinder to people, and his career was skyrocketing due to his determination to be the best hero for you and defeat anyone who gets in his way to be with you. He had never loved anyone more than you, and he knew he never will.

The divorce wasn’t because you two hated each other and didn’t want to be together anymore, no. You still loved him dearly, and he loves you more than anything in the damn world. The problem was his mental health. You noticed how he was hurting himself during the last year of your marriage, and was whispering again and again to himself how he ‘will never be good enough’. You tried so hard to help him, you went out of your way and even pushed aside the needs of the kids to support him. It never worked. You thought his illness might affect the kids, and thought it was the right decision to leave, and he completely understood, his kids and you were his everything, yet, he was going insane and he didn’t know it.

He always thought being a hero just meant fighting villains and gaining glory, but it was far deeper than that. The media constantly criticized him, the way he fights, his opinions and how he should just shut his mouth and sit down because all he will gain from that will be getting cancelled, yet he never listened. He knew what happened behind the scenes, behind the smiles of every hero that keeps secrets so illegal, you’d never think they’re fighting for justice. He explained the horrors he has seen many times, and in return, people called him a ‘maniac’ and that he was seeing things, which led him to now sitting on the ground of his temporary hotel with a bottle of beer in his hands, glaring at the TV playing all those podcasts about him acting ‘crazy’. He… needed you so damn much right now.