☁️comforting a sad shiggy☁️
pairing: shigarki x black!fem!reader
summary: @tsumtsumsemi “Can I request Shigaraki crying in front of his s/o and his s/o reassure him?”
warnings: crying, mentions of death, very slight slight manga spoilers
author’s note: i turned this into a hc! i hope you don’t mind!
☁️ you noticed him falling apart at the seems long before he started crying
☁️ snapping left and right at his followers
☁️ he was short with you, quiet, trying not to take it out on you
☁️ his meetings, which were usually long and tedious
☁️ were short, quick and to the point
☁️ it got to a point where you noticed he wasn’t even playing his favorite video games anymore, not even his PC games
☁️ so one night, you both are getting ready for bed, wrapping your hair in a scarf as your mask sets, you decide to ask him about it
☁️”hey babe?” he grunts in response and you inhale deeply before saying “Are you okay?”
☁️ soft breaths and the background noise of the TV the only thing you hear
☁️ that is until a violent sob wracks his body
☁️ his knees buckle and he crashes on the floor
☁️ you rush off the bed and envelop him in your arms as he cries
☁️ he’s soaking the front of the sweater you’re wearing
☁️ but you don’t mind, you run your fingers through his hair
☁️ you both may be on the floor for a while
☁️ but please do not let go of him, he needs you right now
☁️ when he calms himself, you suggest you both go to the bed
☁️you lay down and he /clings/ to your body, face buried in your neck as he sniffles
☁️ he starts ranting now, even though it’s muffled
☁️ he tells you how stressed he is with commanding the PLF
☁️ and that he wants to make sure his family’s death means something
☁️ and how he feels he’s letting them all down
☁️ you have to hug him a little tighter here, his voice is starting to break again
☁️ he finishes his rant and that’s when you start
☁️ you explain to him how proud you are of him and how amazed at how great of a leader he is
☁️ you tell him his family is proud of him, and their death is not in vain
☁️ you also made him promise you he would focus on taking care of himself more
☁️ eating, getting enough rest, all that stuff
☁️ you even encourage him to do face masks with you every night
☁️ they don’t work for his scars and scratches, but they make him feel pretty :)
☁️ at the end, he presses an open mouthed kiss to your neck squeezing you a little tighter
☁️ “i love you, Y/N” he whispers, before slowly slipping into dreamland
☁️ “and i love you, bubba”