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fuck it, extremely sad present mic thread (slight canon divergence oops): 
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hizashi yamadaâs quirk manifested when he was four. he was giggling along with his mom when his laugh was loud, echoing around his home, shattering the windows and covering them all in glass.
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hizashi yamadaâs quirk manifested when he was four. he was giggling along with his mom when his laugh was loud, echoing around his home, shattering the windows and covering them all in glass.
1/?
but the worst part was that it scared him, so he couldnât stop screaming, even when his own ears were bleeding and he felt like his throat was going to be torn in two. he was left with permanent hearing loss and his mom went completely deaf.
2/?
2/?
she didnât look at him for weeks. he was too scared to even talk. every time heâd open his mouth sheâd flinch, sometimes she would even slap him to make him shut up. he learned quickly that if he wanted everyone to be happy he needed to be as quiet as possible.
3/?
3/?
about a month after his quirk manifested, she took him for a car ride. they never really went anywhere, so he was confused when he got dropped off at a house he didnât recognize. he didnât realize until that night that she wasnât coming back. and he forgot his only rule.
4/?
4/?
he didnât stay quiet. he screamed and cried and pounded his fists against the ground until suddenly he was asleep, knocked out by some shot pressed deep into his upper arm. when he woke up his face was covered in something hard and black and he couldnât make a sound.
5/?
5/?
it wasnât until he found a small mirror in his closet that he realized he had been muzzled. it wasnât enough that they didnât want him to talk, but now they took away his only chance to. the straps dug into his skin and there was a tiny silver lock on the back.
6/?
6/?
he could see the key hanging around the neck of the woman in charge of the orphanage. he tried to show her he could be quiet, that he didnât need to be locked up like this, but one quirk mishap was enough for her. so he lived as a muzzled child, unable to speak for years.
7/?
7/?
the orphanage was shut down when he was 10, but the scars left behind by the muzzle would never fade. he was permanently scarred, permanently reminded that his voice was dangerous, that he was dangerous. so even when the muzzle came off, he didnât speak.
8/?
8/?
after years of therapy, he finally found his voice. he got support items to help him control his quirk, and the first thing he asked was a whispered, âam I being too loud?â
9/?
9/?
after years of being told his quirk was dangerous, that he was born to be a villain, he realized that he could use it for good. he wanted to use his voice to help people, to make them laugh instead of scream.
he was going to be a hero, and a damn good one at that.
10/?
he was going to be a hero, and a damn good one at that.
10/?
when he met aizawa shouta, he was drawn to him immediately. heâd finally become comfortable enough to be loud and obnoxious, but he knew someone who faced quirk discrimination when he saw them. he made it his mission to make shouta feel as safe as possible, to befriend him
11/?
11/?
and show him that he understood. as shitty as it was, he understood. he knew what it was like to be treated as a villain before you ever had a chance to prove that you werenât. through everything, he stuck close to shouta. it felt nice to have someone finally understand him
12/?
12/?
as soon as they graduated UA, he started his radio show and debuted as present mic. It was backbreaking work. he slept even less than shouta did. when he wasnât working on his show or patrolling, he spent every free hour volunteering as a quirk counselor.
12/?
12/?
and one day, he met a little girl with a quirk that let her control the people she touched for a short period of time. she refused to let anyone touch her or touch others from the moment her quirk manifested. she wouldnât even hug her own mom for fear of hurting her.
13/?
13/?
so hizashi sat her down and told her his story. how he hurt so many people, including himself, with his quirk on accident, but despite all of that he was still here. he was a hero and he was saving people. and he wanted to help her, if she would let him.
14/?
14/?
it took a while, but eventually he helped her realize that just because her quirk seemed scary and bad, that it wasnât true. her quirk wasnât bad and neither was she. the day she finally fell into her motherâs arms, sobbing and clutching at her, he finally let himself cry.
15/?
15/?
he barely made it to his and shoutaâs apartment before he was falling into the arms of his best friend, sobbing uncontrollably. it took him a while, but he was eventually able to tell shouta about his childhood, about the muzzle and the years he spent in complete silence
16/?
16/?
about how he could barely hear himself talk but he refused to get hearing aids as his own way of atoning for all the hurt he caused those around him.
and shouta listened. he let him be loud and messy and talk as long as he needed to.
17/?
and shouta listened. he let him be loud and messy and talk as long as he needed to.
17/?
it was the first time since his quirk manifested that he had been allowed to talk for so long, that heâd allowed himself to raise his voice. he had been doing good for a while, but after losing shirakumo, heâd retreated back into silence. but seeing that little girl,
18/?
18/?
seeing how he was able to help her realize itâs okay to be scared and itâs okay to ask for help, he realized just how much he needed to hear his own words.
yamada hizashi was not a villain. he was more than his quirk, more than his voice.
19/?
yamada hizashi was not a villain. he was more than his quirk, more than his voice.
19/?
he could be loud, he could yell and he could scream, or he could cry and he could whisper. he could ask for help. he could let himself get help and be able to hear his own voice or shoutaâs soft laughs, the sound of their cats purring softly.
he was more than his quirk.
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he was more than his quirk.
20/20
fin ~
