"Well, Mrs. Midoriya. I have to say, I've never seen something like this before in a child," Izuku heard the doctor say from in front of him.
"Oh?" His mom's voice came from his left, sounding concerned. "Is something wrong?"
"No, no, nothing of the sort," the doctor reassured. "It's just an incredibly unique case. It appears that due to your son being born completely blind, his body adjusted to that fact and gave him the perfect quirk to assist with the disability."
Four year old Izuku was sitting on a hard, wooden chair in what he knew was a doctors office. He knew the room was bright, and that there was a lot of white around him, but he couldn't see anything else. He knew it was the doctors, though, because his mom had told him that's where they were.
But this was different than the doctor he went to sometimes for his eyes, this was a quirk doctor. He was gonna find out what his quirk was!
His legs kicked back and forth excitedly and he was practically jumping in his seat as he listened to the doctors next words.
"Izuku is extremely sensitive in his hands and feet to vibrations. He can feel vibrations through anything solid. With practice, this should allow him to create vibrations through the ground with his feet and see what's around him. He can also trace other vibrations to their source if something's moving."
"I'll be able to see!?" Izuku asked, jumping up.
The doctor chuckled, almost a little sadly. "Unfortunately, no, not exactly, Izuku. You still won't be able to 'see' like other people do. You'll be able to tell where things are at and their size, and if you practice enough you could even map out their shape. But you still won't know what things really look like. I'm sorry."
"Oh," Izuku sat back down, but his grin came back quickly. "Well, that's ok! I can still kind of see, which is better than not seeing at all."
There was a smile in the doctors voice. "Yes, learning how to use this will do wonders to help you, Izuku. You're very lucky."
The doctor and his mom kept talking, he thought it had something to do with quirk counseling, but he was too busy running around and feeling things with his hands, trying to imagine what they really looked like.
He liked to do that sometimes, try to imagine what something looked like by feeling it. It was really hard though.
He didn't like not knowing what things looked like. He didn't like when people talked about colors, when he couldn't really understand what colors were. He hated when someone called someone else pretty, and Izuku would never know what pretty really was. He hated not understanding what people meant when they called him something to do with green, and he hated not knowing who was around him unless they spoke. He hated never getting to see Kacchan and Momma's faces. Heck, he hardly knew what a face was.
He hated feeling so different.
But you know what? He also hated running into things. Taking forever to find something right in front of him. Not knowing where someone around him was. But that would all be fixed!
He might not get all his problems fixed, he doubted he ever would. He'd once over heard his parents mention something about a surgery that would help his sight, but they said they didn't have near enough money for it.
That was one of the reasons daddy had gone to work in America a few months ago, he thought.
But he didn't mind, being blind really wasn't that bad. Especially since it's all he knew. And he's getting something almost no other blind person has. A quirk that will help him tell where things are!
And that's what he tried to focus on, the good parts of this and that he wouldn't struggle with simple things like that anymore.
He still wanted to be a hero, of course. But it would be quite a while before he realized how he could use his quirk in heroics.
Then he really had something to be happy about.