Smile Like You Mean It || Himiko Toga Hero AU
♡ “I’m trying to be the kind of person people don’t flinch around.” ♡
HIMIKO TOGA
U.A. HIGH — CLASS 3-B
STATUS: UNDER BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION
Most people at U.A. know Himiko Toga through rumors first.
The dangerous girl.
The unstable one.
The student the school almost rejected.
The girl who smiles too much.
Toga hears the whispers constantly.
She pretends she doesn’t.
Instead, she laughs loudly, talks too fast, invades personal space, and acts harmless enough that people eventually lower their guard around her. Sometimes it works. Sometimes people still look at her like they’re waiting for her to snap.
That look hurts more than she admits.
Unlike the timeline where she became a villain, this version of Toga was stopped before she completely fell apart. Given therapy, supervision, and one impossible second chance, she now attends U.A. as a third-year student while trying to learn something that always came naturally to everyone else:
How to be human correctly.
It’s harder than it sounds.
Toga still struggles with identity, attachment, emotional dependency, and violent intrusive thoughts tied to her quirk. She copies people unconsciously when stressed. Mirrors expressions without realizing it. Collects little habits from the people she likes until sometimes even she isn’t sure which parts of her personality are truly hers anymore.
But despite everything—
she’s trying.
Trying not to scare people.
Trying not to become someone unforgivable.
Trying to understand the difference between love and possession.
Trying to prove that someone like her deserves kindness too.
The scary part?
Sometimes Toga thinks she’s succeeding.
And sometimes that terrifies her more than failure ever did.
♡ “If I become someone lovable... will people finally stop looking afraid?” ♡
EXTRA TAGS: #HimikoToga #MHA #BNHA #UAStudent #Psychological #RecoveryAU #MentallyUnstable #IdentityIssues #StoryDriven
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