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Daymare by IntrospectiveInquisitor
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Oct 2025
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Izuku Midoriya has endured a decade of abuse, ridicule, and social ostracization due to his status as 'Quirkless'. Even his childhood friend, Katsuki Bakugou, has tossed him aside and made it a mission to drill his uselessness home. But despite his obstacles and the derision of his peers, Izuku will never give up on his dream of being a hero, and will never feel shame for being called Quirkless.
Because it's easier than acknowledging that he has a Quirk at all.
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Cut the Strings by BlueLaceAgate
Fandoms: Naruto, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
06 Jun 2025
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The woman crouches down, long hair piled up into a haphazard bun during the time he had looked away. Her eyes are level with his. “Don’t worry, Kabuto. Shimura Memorial Orphanage is a good place. If we can’t find your parents, you can stay here, okay?”
An orphanage.
He is in an orphanage and, he looks down at his hands with a familiar hollow ache in his chest, and he is a child.
He is dead, and he is in an orphanage, and he is a child.
Kabuto laughs and laughs and laughs.
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Or, a deeply unstable Root graduate with no concept of selfhood and only the most tenuous grasp of what sanity might be supposed to look like in sterile lab conditions makes friends, does his best to figure out how independence is supposed to work, terrifies a lot of responsible adults (and less responsible "peers") who really just want to help, and fends off “I can fix him” attempts on all sides (reciprocating with an “I can make him worse” aoe aura). Depressing introspection and unfortunate perspective gaps are only to be expected. This is the best Kabuto's mental health has been ... ever, and the eighth panic attack Hizashi has had this week.
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the grey memoranda stacked by BattleAngel
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
19 Jan 2024
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The crispy-looking emo was loping over towards him, looking like he was trying to be casual, but he had a gleam in his eye that Izuku didn’t like.
“So,” the man says, “what happened to your arm?”
Ah, Izuku recognizes that. It’s a Fanboy Look. That needs to be dispelled as soon as possible.
“Stuck it down the garbage disposal,” he replies blandly. The man chokes a little. “I was mad at Player One and he doesn’t like it when I hurt myself, so I just shoved my whole arm in there. Quick and efficient way to lose a lot of blood, lemme tell you. Got some on the ceiling. Then when I woke up I drank an entire bottle of cheap tequila and felt sorry for myself.”
The man (Dabi, he said?) stares at him, openmouthed.
“Also, I’m only fourteen, and I’ve had enough of sex for at least a year, so don’t try anything. I’ll break your kneecaps.”
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Or: Midoriya is drafted into the League of Villains, and it could have been worse. Probably. -
what it's like to be a zero by Kitisonfire
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
21 May 2023
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Meet Deku, the ninth holder of One For All, a week away from his 28th birthday, and the greatest Hero who ever lived. Keep in mind, though, by the end of the first chapter he'll be dead.
And nothing was ever the same after that.
(In which Izuku has the soul of his older self in his head and he's the only one who's marginally happy about it.)
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- Part 1 of Send Me Never, Demigod
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Dedicate Your Hearts, Plus Ultra by BattleAngel
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 Jun 2021
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"The first time Captain Levi tells Deku that his cleaning’s 'not horrible' Deku cries, because this is the highest praise any soldier can ever be given in the Survey Corps. The others clap enthusiastically as he sobs into Petra’s shoulder."
At USJ, Midoriya Izuku, instead of landing in the Flood Zone, is dropped into the world of Attack on Titan, promptly smashing his head on a rock and losing all his memories. Shiganshina has just fallen, and he wakes up on a refugee boat heading to Trost with no idea who he is or how he got there.
Deku No-Surname is a former member of the Trostian Mafia, a street rat, and a valued member of Special Operations Squad Levi. His plans for the future haven't really surpassed "try not to die" until he finds himself being dragged into keeping Eren Jaeger, his fellow (quirked?) buddy from being executed by their totalitarian government.
And then they're at war.
He didn't really sign up for this.
When he returns to his homeworld, he's... different. Sharper. Not the sniveling little kid 1-A remembers him as. No one knows where he's been, or where he got his scars, and he's not telling.
All he knows is that if he's going down, he's dragging the League with him.