Izuku is a Therapist For Yakuza

Tabe Soramitsu

"How was your life growing up?" Izuku started off.

Tabe breathed in, "It was okay, I guess? I don't really remember much of my early years. I could remember that I went to the zoo with my parents before everything started to change. I remember being happier."

Izuku looked at Tabe with a sense of understanding, "...Was it around the time you manifested your quirk?"

"Oh definitely. My parents didn't really understand my quirk. It wasn't really similar to theirs in anyway where they could at least begin to relate to it in some way. It was kind of a mutation since they couldn't really find anywhere in the family with anything similar to it," Tabe explained, twiddling with his hands. His fingers ran over the smooth sides of the quirk suppressant cuffs that acted like brackets around his wrists.

"I was scared when I first manifested my quirk, it felt like my whole face was stretching out the entire day before my mouth just grew larger. And then I just felt this endless hunger. I couldn't stop eating," Tabe continued, choking outa laugh as he remembered that day, "My parents came home to find me in the kitchen with everything eaten, even some of the utensils that I dragged out from the top drawer. After that, I got my quirk diagnosis from the doctor, and everything just slowly started to shift."

Izuku waited in silence as Tabe recollected himself, "Can you elaborate a bit? Only if you feel comfortable."

Tabe nodded, "I'm good, man. So everything started to shift from then on. The friends I made in class called me ugly because my face was so scary from my huge mouth apparently. It didn't help that the hunger I had to deal with was causing me to lose sleep which is why I have these permanent eye bags. I had to start wearing a scarf of face mask to school or out in public because I didn't want people staring at me."

"My parents were trying in some way to try and help. They got pills to help me sleep at night, and they started to just buy rice in bulk. But they still didn't really see me the same. They started approaching me like I was a zoo animal that they had to tame with food. And the worst part is, I never felt satisfied ever. At night, I would sneak out of my window and start eating branches off of trees because it never stopped," Tabe took a deep breath before continuing, "Life at school was pretty bad. I was always hungry and I couldn't really stop being hungry. Teachers wouldn't let me eat any snacks in the classroom so I started to eat paper to calm my stomach down at least a bit. At lunch, I would start going from table to table and eating the leftovers that people left behind. I got nicknamed 'Racoon' from the other kids."

"And then, my father left when I was just starting middle school. They got divorced and from what I heard from over the phone conversations, he left for a younger woman. But my mother always just loved to blame me. She blamed me for a lot of stuff," Tabe chuckled bitterly, "How it was my fault that he left. How it was my fault that she had to take on two jobs because she had to pay for the amount of food I kept eating. How it was my fault that we had to move to another place to save money. I guess that's why she left me for her new boyfriend when I was in high school."

Izuku listened intently, focusing on how Tabe kept rubbing the smooth metal bracelets around his wrists that surprised his quirk. It seemed like he was comforted by them, like they kept him grounded.

Tabe hummed, "I graduated soon after she left since she left a month or two before I completed school. A moth after I graduated, the landlord wanted rent, but since I wasn't able to pay...you know. So then, I was just homeless. I tried to find work with my diploma and stuff, but I kept getting fired for one reason or another. I was a janitor at first before they caught me eating food from the lounge. Then I was a worker at a fast food place and they kind of used me as a trash disposal. If they messed up an order, they just threw it at me to eat. It lasted for a while before it went out of business because they failed a health code inspection. And after that, I couldn't really find any work."