Present Mic Headcanon #20
Hizashi is over protective of Aizawa.
It started when they were kids. The emo kid with the weak quirk who couldn’t even win in a fist fight after he canceled someone’s quirk. That kid needed someone to pull them out of their funk.
The weak kid who was bullied by their classmate for being weak needed someone to stick up for him.
Later, the kid who worked too hard, and pushed himself every day, needed someone to watch over him. Needed someone to carry him back to the dorms after training too hard.
Later, Aizawa as a young man needed someone to look after him when he went drinking. Because “You’re supposed to tell me when you’re going drinking.” And his friend was a black out drunk who needed someone to get him home.
Later, he was an adult who needed someone to peer pressure him into following his dreams. Goodness knows Aizawa would never do it on his own.
He never realized he had coddled his best friend. That even into his thirties, Mic still thought of Aizawa as that weak kid that was too easily discouraged and couldn’t watch his own back. It wasn’t mutual, and it wasn’t fair. Not to Hizashi either. Who thought Aizawa needed him to keep things light. His friend too fragile and had too many of his own burdens to ever share his own troubles with.
After the war, years later, when Mic was working too hard, thinking too much, and hiding too deep, Aizawa confronted him and they had a rematch. Too afraid of hurting his friend, Aizawa won easily. It wasn’t even a match.
Yamada had to admit Aizawa didn’t deserve to be coddled, and Aizawa had to admit that maybe his best friend needed more than being treated like a nuisance. They became better friends after that, a more mutual relationship for both of them.
