hero's shadow // mha

45) restitution

It took four hours for Izuku to finish it. He's lucky his teachers had to stay late after school anyway or else he wouldn't have been able to try it out tonight.

And wouldn't that have been tragic?

Izuku is vibrating with how excited he is. There seems to be a permanent grin on his face as he looks at himself in the mirror, which has never happened before. Earlier he asked Yamada if he could borrow the body mirror, and the man didn't hesitate for even a second before handing it over. He looked surprised to see Izuku even ask for it, but Izuku doesn't blame him.

The new costume isn't nearly as loose as his old one was, but it's not skin tight either. He's not into that stuff, thank you. He likes to be able to breathe and leave people guessing!

His pants and undershirt are black, but his overshirt is a nice, dark crimson. He's swapped his small and outdated jacket out for an oversized one with smaller ears on the hood. The jacket is neon green while the hood itself is the same red as his overshirt. It's a certified attention grabber, and it has a variety of deep pockets on both the outside and inside. On the back of the jacket is Rabbit's old insignia: two large bunny ears, one of them bent slightly with a nick at the tip of it, a few crooked whiskers on each side, and a diamond where the nose of the rabbit would be.

It looks more like graffiti than anything professional, and that's entirely the point. It's simple but recognizable.

Izuku shrugs on the jacket with barely contained giddiness, feeling the weight of the knives he added sitting inside his pockets.

He grabs the knee-high boots Kayama gave to him before leaving school earlier that day and slips into them, tying the green laces as tight as he can.

Now this part is what he's most excited about. Izuku spent most of the time in the workshop working on it: his mask.

The mask is arguably the most important thing out of all the parts of his costume. It not only hides his identity, but it hides his feelings. His old one was good at muffling his voice even without the voice changer, and he was thankful for it. But it was, admittedly, flimsy, and Izuku was always worried about it falling off during a fight.

This is why he tried really hard to perfect this new one given the new supplies he could work with.

He takes out the small case Nezu gave to him and flicks it open, eyes sparkling once he picks it up. It's a more expensive black material than his other one was made out of, and it's a lot slimmer despite its new capabilities.

For one, this mask automatically tightens against his face when he puts it on, so he doesn't have to worry about that. It also has a built-in voice changer inside the material, so it's not noticeable at all or distracting on the outside. Izuku was also able to put in a few advanced settings for it, which means he will no longer get dragged for either sounding too robotic-like or too gruff. He can change the pitch and undertones of his voice to his liking depending on how he feels, all just by tapping the side of his face.

He has to keep the villains and heroes alike on their toes.

The mask is highly durable and fire-proof for a good bit of time, so he's actually hoping for another encounter with Endeavor outside of school. It would be highly entertaining. I can't wait to terrorize him.

But the most impressive part? The fact that it also doubles as a screen.

There are sensors on the inside of the mask that act as a type of facial recognition, so whenever he smiles or grimaces or does anything new with his expression it'll translate over to the outside of the mask in the form of comical white and red LEDs.