This piece is a very HARD Dead Dove: Do Not Eat. Featuring: Midoriya Izuku, Hinamizawa Syndrome, Formication, Delusional parasitosis, and Parasites/Maggots feeding.
Originally posted on AO3 as individual chapters, but I'm now compiling it all into one chapter. Reasons.
chapter 1: a parasite
It latches onto him involuntarily.
Izuku lets it, only because he's _been_ a parasite himself his entire life.
It feels good.
chapter 2: a maggot
There's a maggot eating Izuku from the inside out.
It eats, tears away at his flesh, tears away at his throat.
Izuku claws, tries to set it free.
Even maggots deserve to be free.
chapter 3: level one - a ring
Plasmodium falciparum.
It latches onto his heart when he's most vulnerable.
He fights it this time.
Notes:
Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. It is also associated with the development of blood cancer (Burkitt's lymphoma) and is classified as Group 2A carcinogen.
Ring-form trophozoites (rings) of Plasmodium falciparum are often thin and delicate, measuring on average 1/5 the diameter of the red blood cell.
chapter 4: maggots
His chest feels heavy this time around.
He's not sick, he's not.
And he's not a wooden doll.
But the maggots shredding away at his throat say otherwise.
chapter 5: they
I don't hate you. Izuku says as they consume him from the inside out.
After a while, you get used to the pain.
Chapter 6: open eyes
Do you ever ask
How the doves feel?
chapter 7:
"Who could ever love you, Deku?" A voice tells him one night. "Who could ever love a withered rose...?"
"Who could ever love a wooden doll...?"
It's nothing new. The voice's words are nothing new.
But Izuku decides to humor the voice, just this once.
"I'm loved," Izuku replies, even though cracks pervade his neck, "by you guys, at least."