My precious boy:
“𝒎𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅’𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔.”
First I need to talk a little bit about myself. Since I was little I always had excessive empathy and concern for the people around me very exaggerated, I even forgot to think of myself, even though some see it as a good thing, I started to see it as a defect after several comments about how bad it was or that I should change that in me. As a result, I became extremely insecure about it, avoiding worrying or being overly empathic as much as possible. Until I met Izuku's bright eyes and my soul seemed to gain color again.
Izuku is a shy boy, with characteristics that we all dream of having, such as persistence and a good heart. Even if you don't show it at the beginning, when you enter the U.A. it starts to impact the people around you. He is not only concerned with people physically, but also emotionally, that's how he helped Shoto. And that's how he made me see that it's okay to be like me.
So, when I saw this panel in the manga, I felt extremely moved and found myself crying because of it. In seeing how even with everything that has already been done by Tomura, all the pain that he has already caused, he (Izuku) still wants to save him. For me, meeting Midoriya was like looking at myself in the mirror, I identified with him since his nervousness in talking to a new person with his smile when he reaches a goal. He taught me that it's okay to be so empathetic, to show so much.
I wonder what it would have been like if Tomura and Izuku had been friends since they were little. Maybe they had better friends and smiling when they saw each other making their own dreams come true. 🤍
