This past week has been… not great. One reason would be my AP scores. I am not proud.

Anyway, I learned something that is apparently not general knowledge. Enjoy!

Izuku didn't cry very often, but when he did, he wailed.

Aizawa was running out of tricks to keep the little bean sprout from waking up the dorms in the middle of the night, from disrupting the class during a test, from making a scene in public, etc.

1-A had taken their dinner to the common area, leaving Aizawa and Izuku to have the kitchen to themselves.

"Come on, bean sprout." Aizawa held up a spoon full of peas in front of Izuku. "You've got to eat."

"No!" Izuku wrinkled his nose and turned away. "Want chicken!"

"We don't have any chicken." Aizawa answered tiredly. "Eat your peas."

"No!"

"I'll take your All Might figure away if you don't eat your peas."

Izuku looked at Aizawa in shock, then pulled a face. Aizawa breathed a sigh of relief-

"No peas!" Izuku yelled, smacking the plate and scattering peas everywhere.

"Izuku!" Aizawa gasped. "That's it, no more All Might doll!"

"No!" Izuku screeched, lunging out of his chair. Aizawa caught him and wrestled him back into his seat.

"You are going to stay here and eat your food." Aizawa said slowly, clearly. "Or I'm going to have to take away your Eraserhead toy, too."

Izuku froze. He slowly reached for his spoon and clumsily put some peas in his mouth.

Aizawa nodded in satisfaction. "I'll be right back, okay?"

"'Kay," Izuku mumbled, tears in his eyes.

Aizawa left. Izuku's lower lip trembled and tears started leaking from his eyes. He quietly ate another small spoonful of peas. A small whine escaped him.

Tsuyu walked into the kitchen to refill her water in time to hear Izuku's steadily building wails.

"Izuku-kun, what's wrong? Kero." She asked, kneeling down beside him.

"I- I- Otou-san is taking away All Might!" Izuku cried.

"Oh," Tsuyu said. She got up and grabbed one of Izuku's hero-themed cups. She filled it with water and placed it in front of Izuku.

"H-Huh?" Izuku said.

"To refill your tears, kero." Tsuyu explained.

"Oh." Izuku, with Tsuyu's help, drank some of the water. His sobs were momentarily stifled.

Soon enough, Izuku's eyes were dry, if a bit red. Tsuyu placed the cup into the sink.

Aizawa came back into the kitchen, eyeing Izuku. "How did you get him to stop?"

"Drink of water," Tsuyu shrugged. "It works on my siblings. Kero."

Because apparently you can't drink water and cry at the same time. That's nice.

In a similar vein to the "water refills your tears", I was told as a smol child that the aneroid monitor (the one that squeezes your arm) was refilling my hugs. I still call it a "hug machine" to myself hahaha. What kinds of things like this do you guys have?

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