Prompt: What if animals just naturally gravitated towards Izuku like he was a Disney princess? I feel like animals would sense that he's hurt emotionally and try to cuddle him to make him feel better 🥺
This is from Sarcasm_i5_cool on AO3, and I'll see what I can do.

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Let me tell you how trashy my life is.

My life is absolute trash to the point that the animals pity me. Yes, you heard me right. I had to make an exception because the animals kept trying to cuddle me.

You would think that this is a secret quirk, but NOPE! I'm quirkless, thots.

My first partner came around when I was five. Bakugo was becoming more intense with his bully, and I was not the person I am today yet. I was still a major pushover.

I remember it being a rather nice day besides the new burns on the arms. I didn't want to go home to Mom because I didn't want to hear it from her, so I went to wander the park. I was really germaphobic at the time, so I wore a medical mask everywhere.

I sit down on the bench because the burning was getting to me when I hear padding from the side. Suddenly, this big fluffy dog, a black lab, sits down beside me.

My first reaction was to jump off, but remember I am not heartless yet. I look at the dog and whimper, "Sorry, but I don't want to get sick." The dog whines and started pawing at the edge of the bench. It tried to approach me, but I stepped back, "N-no!"

Eventually, the dog stopped. What really catches my eye is that it waited.

Every day after school, I would come by the bench to see the dog waiting there.

It took a week for me to pet the dog, and it immediately triggered a panic attack. The dog seemed to know what it is down because it sat its big ass on my lap and became my anchor. That day, despite its size, I named it Little Pup. It started following me everywhere to the point that Mom let it come inside with me. Little Pup is the reason I overcome my aversion to animals. Sure, I am still germaphobic, but I am not against animals anymore.

Heck, Little Pup even tackled Bakugo to the ground a couple of times!

Little Pup was just the start. Many animals started to approach me from cats to birds to even fricken rats. Even after I broke from my shitty shell, they stayed by my side.

Call me insane, but they became my best friends. They stay and go like everything does in life. They were the reason I stayed sane for so long.

They also led to me meeting Shouta.

As most should know, I started drinking at twelve. I had this cat that I named Cat (please, I suck at names over here) that would follow me constantly. While most animals came for visit sessions, Cat would not leave me alone.

I had only started drinking that week.

I was on the roof with my second bottle of vodka, and I noticed that Cat was gone. I assumed Cat was going to do what cats do, so I left it alone.

Turns out, Cat was getting help.

The next thing I know, this hobo appears beside me and gruffly asks, "What the hell are you doing, kid?"

Somehow, I was still coherent, " Uh, drinking?" It took me a moment too long to realize who it was, "Oh, you're Eraserhead, huh? One of the top underground heroes."

From that conversation, Shouta leaned me off of alcohol and forced me to focus on more important shit. He would bring these random cases at night and ask me to solve them.

Too fucking easy.

From there, Shouta made me meet Nezu and that's how my life became stable again.

All because of animals butting their way into my life.

As I am telling this story, there is a bird singing to me, so they are still here with me.

I don't know why, but I don't mind.