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my favorite fics aka the ones i keep rereading and screaming when they update
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While Mighty Oaks Do Fall by WitchofEndor for distractedKat
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
26 Sep 2024
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High Sage Kenji blesses Fire Prince Zuko with the resilience of the reed, who bends in the wind and never breaks. When he is done, Fire Prince Ozai narrows his eyes, seemingly displeased by this blessing. But Kenji does not speak for himself; he is only a vessel.
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The newly-crowned Fire Lord Ozai offers his firstborn son to service in the temple.
This turns out to be a catastrophic mistake.
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Loading and Aspect Ratio by JUBE514
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe, DCU
07 Nov 2021
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So, it didn’t start out like this.
Alfred would scoff at the statement, about how Bruce was trying to justify the whole situation to himself. It had started out as a simple design, black everything with black outlines and black hood. It got a little more intense as the world went on, got wind of his ghost on the streets, and became scared of The Bat . So Bruce got a little more creative with it, Alfred and him had a good laugh over the name, the scare, and Alfred had a vicious streak of humor that he had passed onto his ward-
So now the suit had a visible bat-theme, an insignia to drape in the shadows and to paint across the streets of Gotham.
It only took a year into the whole charade of heroism for Bruce to overhear a conversation between some goons- some low level thug hired by the Riddler this week- about nothing at all pertaining to what the hell the Riddler was doing in the sewers but instead:
“ The Batman can fly, you know, I’ve seen his wings.”
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A world where nobody has wings, but people think they do, and that changes everything.
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Heart of Steel by EveryShadeOfHappy
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Dec 2021
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Every breath burns, tearing at his soft throat. It feels as if molten lava has been poured into his mouth, and he can’t spit it out or he’ll risk dying. He needs air to survive, but at this moment, he can't help but wish that he didn’t. His body aches, fingers twitching against the rough cement, clawing the unforgiving ground.
The words of everyone who ever doubted him, hated him, floats through his mind, taunting and wicked. Begging him to give up. To die.
Blood gathers under his bed nails, ready to break off at any moment. He can’t move. But he has too. If he wants to survive. If he wants to live. And more than anything, more than his desire to become a hero, he wants to live.With heroes deemed false heroes by the Gamemaker, he issues a challenge. He kidnaps over a hundred children, deemed unworthy by their quirks. He plans to torture them until the heroes arrive, but Izuku, who was also kidnapped offers an alternative option. Let him fight for their survival.
The Gamemaker agrees, and now Izuku must fight to keep everyone safe. But is he really strong enough to succeed? He's a weak quirkless freak. He's never been strong enough before. How can this time be any different?
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the cute guy next door (might be a villain) by Alesyira
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Nov 2022
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Quirkless, young adult Midoriya Izuku has a problem. Namely, he has a crush on his purple haired, tired-looking neighbor. They keep running into each other and the guy is actually pretty nice under that deadpan facade, has a sense of humor, doesn't seem to judge anyone for their quirk status, and is constantly spoiling any cat in the building that finds him. (He's also a shameless flirt.)
But Izuku has concerns. About the strange bruises and bloodied knuckles. About the weapons he's seen when stopping by for a cup of sugar. About the shady-looking figures he's accidentally spotted his neighbor meeting with. About the fact that right after the news reported a big crime bust, his neighbor came home beat all to hell and looking haunted.
Izuku has a problem. Namely, he has a crush on his neighbor, who he's pretty sure is secretly a villain. And he has no idea what to do with that.
(or: Adult!ShinZuku AU where Shinsou is an underground, undercover pro hero trying to find a lead on a case that may or may not involve the socially awkward guy living next door. Misunderstandings abound.)
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- Part 3 of the cute guy next door
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shoulda lost ya (but you came back anyway) by celestia_lilypad
Fandoms: Harley Quinn (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU
26 May 2023
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Harleen never had friends; she was no good at making them and even worse at keeping them. That was until she was the youngest in med school besides some dork named Bruce who she decided would be her best friend. Whether or not he knew it, he wanted a best friend, too.
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Based in the headcanon/fanon they went to med school at the same time and were best friends before their individual traumas sent them on different life paths. A story of two friends who find each other and manage to keep coming back even when the world sets them up for failure.
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In This or Any Other Universe by wildsofmarch for blueyeti
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
11 Mar 2023
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There was a new vigilante in his city: a man who smiled too much and talked too loud and knew his way around a fight a little too well. Bruce wasn't bothered by his antics. Except the man also seemed to know a little too much about him.
Who was this Nightwing, anyway?
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OR: Dick Grayson (DCU) accidentally lands himself in Battinson’s Gotham. -
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The universe Bruce wakes up in has superheroes, aliens and, somewhat more strangely, it also has four children living in Wayne Manor.
Bruce Wayne is almost forty. He's been an innovator, a philanthropist and GQ's Most Wanted twelve years counting. He doesn't remember being a dad. But now that he is, he's going to be the best dad one could possibly be.
Or: Batman is a dick. AU-Bruce saves the day.
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- Part 1 of The French Mistake(s)
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03 Oct 2022
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weapon keeps me real by debesys (canbreathe), stanley (canbreathe)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
17 Apr 2023
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He is not a good person.
He can't be. Not with his history, not with the hurts he's caused, and certainly not with the one he's still causing.
But he can't call it quits so hastily. There's something that keeps him restlessly marching onward, and his past self has something planned.How can Connor be so caring, so reverent of her memory- it daydreams when snow falls and tends to plants she used to have and looks after a vase of roses for her-
Something in his chest seizes.
She tried to kill it using him, and Connor isn't stupid. Connor is a thousand times too clever to miss that.
So why does it keep roses for her?Series
- Part 1 of the knife keeps me breathing
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The Future that Never Was by spookyserpent
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
15 Sep 2025
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This is the day everything changed.
Izuku is fourteen again.
That means he needs to plan. He needs to find a way to fix the mistakes of the future and stop his friends from dying. He refuses to fail this time.
He'll be the Hero he couldn't be.
Or, Midoriya Izuku was Quirkless, was gifted a Quirk from All Might, went to Yuuei, fought in a War, lived through the After and was supposed to die. Only he finds himself back in the past with a skewed moral code, PTSD, and an extreme desire to stop his friends from dying brutal deaths. He is going to change the future, make some friends, maybe find a boyfriend, give some Villains a reason to be better and stop some Heroes. For better or for worse.
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- Part 1 of Writing about MHA :)
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The Secrets In Our Quills by Nebrasska
Fandoms: Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Games), Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Action Universe)
07 Apr 2025
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With Dr. Robotnik defeated and the Earth saved from complete annihilation, Sonic expects to enjoy the rest of his days getting into all sorts of mischief with his friends and family, content to relax until the next catastrophe strikes.
However, there is just one loose end for him to tie up, and that is the unlikely survival of Shadow the Hedgehog…
…because against his better judgment, his blooming companionship with Shadow becomes Sonic’s best-kept secret.