Take My Heart
Take my lungs, take them and run. And take my brain, or what remains, and throw it all away~
(Body - Mother Mother)Parent collection: Where the Wild Things Be (Magic Science and Dragons, Oh My)
This collection, specifically, is for my FAVORITE sci-fi / fantasy themed fics. It'll be mostly AUs and crossovers, but not exclusively. I love my favorite characters being put in Situations^TM.
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Bookmarked by King_James_1andLonely
31 Jul 2026
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fin. each work is named after an emily dickinson poem. there's a unicorn named charlie.
stiles and scott have ~destinies~
part 2 has a merlin crossover
part 4 has original poetry
part 5 has alternate dimensions, i made a separate bm for that one -
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"I’m only two minutes late!” Izuku protested. Had he missed the start of an important test? None of the national, standardized tests were supposed to happen this month and even being two minutes late to one of those wouldn’t elicit this sort of reaction. They were discussing their career interest forms today, but that was it. Nothing time-critical was supposed to be happening.
“Midoriya, you were reported missing a week ago. No one has seen you for eight days. The police have been combing the city for you.”
"I’m sorry. What?”
Midoriya Izuku went missing for a week and turned up in a back alleyway with skills he's never even heard of and no memory of how he came by them. He resigns himself to never learning the truth of what happened to him, but he shouldn't waste this chance should he? He could become a hero with reflexes like these.
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- Part 1 of Switchblade
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Bookmarked by King_James_1andLonely
20 Jan 2026
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fin. unbelievable. starts out great and then gets progressively and increasingly better. this is a story about war and tragedy, what it means to be an unsung hero and a traitor. i didn't expect this, not really. it is also a story largely about identity and memory, told from one teen's pov but exploring many perspectives. this was more expected, but took so many unexpected twists, turns, and switches... many mysteries, some only solved at the very end. so many people die, including their sense of self; sometimes the latter is a good thing, sometimes not. this is one of the longest and most complex, fascinating, brilliant in every way, terrible, and utterly gripping fanfics i have ever read. beyond well-written. it is both harrowing and hopeful. it is often highly philisophical and introspective, and also incredibly nihilistic on top of horrific, leading to hyper-rationalization, compartmentalization, and thus apathy and definite mental disorders (izuku needs SO much therapy). but when he cried, when he raged, when he dared to hope, so did i - much like him: it's over, and now i don't know what to do with myself.
A/n end ch85: I've heard that some people don't think about death much, but I'm not sure that's really true. The majority of things that lived are dead; the majority of things that could have lived died before they even had the chance. That's just the way of things, with millions of seeds shed by a single tree but only a handful of them taking root. Life is a story about death. The only immortality that we find in life is by ascension to the higher plane of existence where characters and legends reside. We cannot raise the dead as humans, but we can bring them back in another form on the page.
MASSIVE SPOILERS:
“Little weasel? You want to be a hero? Here’s a chance for you.” Yes…there were people who needed to be saved and without Izuku…this might be his only chance. His death might be graceless and unsung but…he could be important. He could be a hero, right here and now.
“There might be fatalities. But you are not responsible for them. You take all the credit, I’ll take all the blame… Everything that goes right, every life saved, that is your glory. Every life taken, that is my shame.”
“I don’t seem to have much to lose…everything I have today, from that poor, ruined notebook to my own life…” Izuku pointed out dreamily, not convinced he should care about that point. He might have died a few minutes ago anyway. The drop from the window had started to look rather friendly…
“You have more than you know, and I think you’ll see that much better when this is over. Sometimes you have to die to learn what living is about... You will cease to be for a time. It is not so different from dying.”
Nothing was sugar coated, all the dirty truth and blatant manipulations exposed to the glaring light of Izuku’s scrutiny. He wasn’t truly himself, of course. The walls were too thin…although this was as thick as they could get, wasn’t it? His guest was actively trying not to manipulate his thoughts and feelings, trying to make sure that Izuku answered this question honestly, and guiltily half-hoping that Izuku would refuse flat out and send everything back to square one because the greenette was just so young and vulnerable and easily manipulated…It was…flattering. His shoulder-sitter didn’t need his permission, of course, but asked anyway. Izuku was a person worthy of respect, a person whose body should be his own, a person whose opinions and welfare mattered.
“My word will be kept. Anyone I hurt will thoroughly deserve it.”
“Alright then. You can have me…for as long as you need me.” The walls fell away and the observer merged into his mind…like a tickling sensation starting at the back of his brain then spreading rapidly through the neural networks, settling like sediment on a sea floor, burying and consuming him, digesting thoughts and feelings from the inside out. There was no pain, just the vague sensation of his sapience falling apart--a spiderweb breaking up in the wind. How fragile life is, spun of gossamer threads linked only by thought.ch83 MLA general ocs descr.
Destro: Yotsubashi Chikara/Chris. Bit Weasel: Quirk- techno-telepathy. Tripswitch: Kuma. Quirk- suspended animation of living things by sealing them in glass globes. AFO killed her- "the fear of death becomes you." Izuku has her quirk now. Switcher: Rafael Leon, one of Destro's oldest friends and MLA's most reliable spy. He is described as a changeling, quirk copier, and immortal. He now runs Black Forest in the Rebel Isles. He is actually a body-hopper and Izuku's so-called kidnapper. Epona: Quirk- speed up and control evolution. She brought the forest of karma-enforcing trees to life (Black Forest aka Servii) and the bay-bears. Influx. Arch. Fractal. Cloud Viper.
undercover heroes and wild cards: False Flag. War Dog [fr werewolf]. Fossa/Mihara Izuho. Shriker from Isomorph. -
Childrearing for Cosmic Horrors by katydid for LittleLovelyLizard
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
24 Mar 2023
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When baby Izuku is offered as a human sacrifice to the eldritch deity All for One, it turns out that All for One thinks “this child belongs to you” means “new son.” All for One has no idea how to keep a mortal child alive, so he recruits his human-loving brother for help.
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- Part 33 of Dad for One Short Fiction
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Bookmarked by King_James_1andLonely
20 Jan 2026
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finished.
i nearly lost a lung reading this. unaccountably hilarious.
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Family (Regardless of Blood or Time) by Blueseabird2
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
05 Feb 2023
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Shouta gets sent back in time and immediately starts putting things into place to take down All for One. More importantly, he also adopts a lot of children, meets friends at the Park, and joins Midoriya Inko on her crusade against society's idiocy. He gets Nezu involved.
(He's also not as alone as he thinks).
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- Part 5 of Dadzawa and Problem Child Works
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13 Jan 2026
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finished. holy shit. absolutely devastating.
quote from the end:
"Cousin Zu had been quirkless when he’d taken down All for One and earned All Might’s respect and come back to Uncle Shouta, making the man happier in one single moment than Izuku’s family had ever managed.""Midoriya Izuku was the first quirkless hero. He’d also be the second."
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Complicated Creation by Elemental
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
09 Sep 2020
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Midoriya Izuku is medically quirkless, not technically homeless, perpetually exhausted and doing his damned best despite it all. He also sees spirits, which might be cool if not for the fact that a) no one else does, b) they really don't like him very much, and c) he's pretty sure the heroes now think he's a villain working for the League.
Aizawa Shota just wants to take down Overhaul, rescue Eri, keep his students alive, get some rest, and find out how this Deku kid knows things he absolutely should not know about his personal life and the Shie Hassaikai case.
Unless Nighteye's right, and the kid really is a villain.
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- Part 1 of sum of all (and by them driven)
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10 Dec 2025
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finished. woah! very cool story. fucking sad too. but it gets so much better.