so many little lives, amounting to nothing

All men are not created equal.  Midoriya Izuku learns of this truth as he is labelled ‘quirkless’, as he is called ‘Deku’, and as the universes whisper it every time he falls asleep. He learns it in his dreams of worlds not his own, where he witnesses pain and heartbreak and death and insurmountable other things beyond what the human mind should be able to grasp, things a child never should witness. But all men are not created equal, and Izuku keeps the taunts and the bruises from his mother like he keeps his dreams of happiness and hurt and horror from everyone around him. They’d never believe him, anyway.