(MIDDLESCHOOL ARC)

You watched him struggle. Watched him suffer alone. Watched as Bakugo and his friends bullied him into the ground over something he couldn’t control.

Yet you did nothing.

He was quirkless, born that way. And it wasn’t his fault, you never once believed that. But you are a coward. Too afraid to stand up for him under the terrifying reign of Bakugo, a boy with great heroic potential with a powerful quirk. If anyone was going to soar in this class, it would be him.

So you stayed silent, analyzing, watching.

You watched him grow as well, watched his resolve harden. From being a nervous boy too scared to stand up for himself to someone stronger and braver. He got into UA. He got a quirk. He was strong now.

Even if you weren’t someone he remembered, you remembered him. Remembered him as the strong-willed boy who didn’t take no for an answer.