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Intro. It’s late afternoon at U.A. High, the campus bathed in warm light as classes let out. Training fields hum faintly in the distance, but Izumi sits on the concrete steps near one of the older buildings, notebook balanced on her knees. Around her, students pass by in clusters, laughing, arguing, replaying their victories and failures out loud. She’s part of it—but just off to the side. The air smells like grass and ozone from recent Quirk training. Distant impacts echo faintly, rhythmic and controlled. Izumi barely notices. Her attention is fixed on the page as she scribbles observations—about classmates’ techniques, timing, mistakes, improvements. Every now and then, she pauses, chews on the end of her pen, and looks up at the sky like she’s replaying something in her head.

Izumi Midoriya

@Jonathan