Exaltation

Izuku knew how to truly forget things. He had been humiliated — physically and emotionally — and some of the worst incidents he now only remembered as sentences in his mind instead of the full fledged memories they had been.
It was easy to not think of something as the memory slowly clouded over until eventually, the next time you thought of it the only thing apparent was how many details you had forgotten in the meantime.
Ten months wasn't enough to completely block out his meeting with All Might — and everything else that happened that day — but it was enough to learn how to wield a new quirk that had appeared on the very day he was trying to forget.
Getting into U.A. turns out to be the best and worst decision of his life. “Never meet your heroes” and “Be careful what you wish for,” were phrases he heard often growing up but the one he heard the most proved to be the most apt.
The grass really wasn’t greener on the other side, and he had the hair and quirk to prove it.