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With Only Half My Quirk by Lilly_Penwielder
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Mar 2026
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“Sorry,” Todoroki says, stepping closer and lifting his left hand and not sounding remotely sorry at all. “I went overboard.”
It’s all Hanta can do to try and smile through the ringing chant of “don’t worry about it!” echoing through the entire arena, like he didn’t already feel pathetic and useless enough.
“I was angry,” Todoroki adds, his left hand looming closer with a faint shimmer surrounding it as he preemptively heats the air and–
And Hanta can’t help it.
He flinches.
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- Part 21 of All Aboard the Todo-fam Drama-tram
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"Azula’s answering grin is bitter and horrible and broken as she leans in close to Aang’s face and says, ‘Listen Avatar, I can either join your group, or I’ll do something unspeakably horrible to your friends. Your choice.’”
OR: After Zhao’s failed siege, Zuko and Iroh are captured. A few weeks later, Ozai receives a ransom from the Northern Water Tribe signed in Zuko’s blood. Unfortunately for the Firelord, Zuko’s safety is all Azula cares about.
OR: Unfortunately for Sokka, that means the Gaang has not one, but two unstable, broken fire siblings to deal with. Y’know. Once they break Zuko out of prison. Because this is not a situation that calls for torture (probably. HE'S still on the fence about it, screw Aang and Katara and their stupid morals and how much he agrees with them)
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(M: violence, death, & torture)
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After Katara's marriage dissolves, she realizes that she doesn't have a foundation to stand on. Nothing makes sense, everyone is hurting, and she isn't even certain if she made the right choice. The only person who truly understands, once again, is Zuko.
After a thousand small choices, Zuko doesn't even know where he went wrong. But something went terribly, horribly wrong. Having lost so much already, Zuko tries to focus on his daughter and control what he can of his own pain.
Katara and Zuko try to work out what blame really means, what they deserve, and what they've earned.
(Basically, I got pissed off thinking about how OOC Aang is in AtLA: LoK and how Mai deserved better character growth. Then I tried to think of a reason why it would have ended so poorly. The reason I thought of was super dark and it made me sad so I'm giving it to you guys.)
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Warning: Themes of suicidal ideation and depression
(Final posted story of series is a redux and has additional/different warnings; please read separately)NCIS/Criminal Minds crossover, primarily a Tony DiNozzo & David Rossi friendship story.
When Tony DiNozzo is struggling he finds himself reaching out to a friend. The choice of contacts ends up being one of the best possible choices he could have made, as David Rossi is more than ready to do a little mother-henning and help out a friend in need.
But how ready is Tony to really accept help? And can Dave offer the help without pushing Tony away? Together can they stop Tony from throwing away his life, doing something stupid that he can't take back?
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“Your dad,” Sokka starts, then swallows hard. “Your dad dueled you, burned half of your face off, and then banished you because you spoke when you shouldn’t have?”
Guilt festers and bubbles like black tar in Zuko’s chest. “I didn’t just speak. I questioned and insulted one of his highest-ranking generals—but the man was planning a massacre! He shouldn’t have—” Zuko clamps his mouth shut, his teeth clicking together, and swallows thickly. “I mean. I found the tactic he proposed very startling, but it wasn’t my place to question such things. I’m sure he had his reasons.”
“Tui and La what the absolute fuck,” Sokka whispers.
[Zuko gets imprisoned with Sokka and Katara during the winter solstice, and some very unfortunate things come to light. Alternatively: the gaang
kidnapsadopts Zuko in book one after discovering just how awful his father is.]- Language:
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(Ship: ch.26a, 30-31a)
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After the tsunami, Buck doesn't become a fire marshal. He joins Dispatch, and he works there until he is cleared to go back to work once he is off the blood thinners. But Buck's confidence in himself and his abilities has been shot ever since he lost Christopher in the tsunami, blame and fear convincing him that he isn't ready to go back to firefighting because he doesn't trust himself anymore. So, at dispatch he stays.
Until a call to 3-Alarm fire downtown goes sour and leads to the first responders scrambling for help, but help isn't coming.
Until Buck realises he is the only help available.
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Car Crash (At Least You Were Thrown Clear) by Strawberrywaltz for Marchling
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
18 Jan 2025
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Buck focuses on her, his eyes wide with what Bobby thinks is panic. “What happened between us - it shouldn’t have happened. I was, I came to you for help and you -”
“You didn’t say no.” The woman snaps and strolls up to Buck who nearly backs into a display of carefully stacked cereal boxes. Not-a-doctor Wells doesn’t give him any room to breathe. “You said you felt better afterwards. Great even. You told me you were a self-diagnosed sex-addict. You went and ruined my career because you are a slut.”
“I was crying and you crawled into my lap!” Buck shouts back.
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It's been almost a year since Abby left — six months since Buck stopped waiting — and Buck is doing...fine. He has a new best friend, and his new best friend's adorable kid, and work, well, he's getting there on that one.
And then a tsunami hits on the same morning a baby with blue eyes and red hair arrives at the 118. Addressed to Buck. And really, who else is he going to learn to be a father from than one of the best parents he knows?
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S/E: second half ch.12 (see ch notes), end of epilogue
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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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“If we want the war to end, it isn’t enough to beat the Fire Nation. The whole world is still out of balance.”
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Hollowed Bones (Filled with Iron) by Dragonflyy
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), Iron Man (Movies)
11 Sep 2024
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Grief presses deep into his shoulders, shadowed fingers cold about his throat.
Tony Stark aches, aches in a way he hasn't since Jarvis passed, aches in way that batters away his ribs from inside his chest and curls painfully in his marrow.
And from the back of the church, something bitter twists in his mouth as he studies Rogers.
Or: Tony Stark attends Aunt Peggy's funeral, and the world spins in a direction radiating dissonance.
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- Part 1 of Voids in Your Bones
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Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Featuring Azula's extended field trip, June not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
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- Part 1 of Towards the Sun
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Azula :( (ch.5)
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“I’m ending the war because it’s the right thing to do—”The waterbender snorted. This was Zuko’s diplomatic scowl.
“—But we didn’t lose. You beat one man. Won one battle against an untested new fleet. You didn’t beat the Fire Nation. We can talk about terms for prisoner of war exchanges, and withdrawal of troops from contested areas, and even what exactly our final borders will be, but we’re not going to talk about who won. Because you didn’t.”
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And yeah, killing people was terrible, and no one should force kids like them to do things like that—but what did Aang think they’d been doing, up in the airship fleet? Why did he get to stay all clean but they had to—And Ozai. Why did he get to live, when all those low-level soldiers, the guys just steering the ships or working in the engine rooms, the ones whose heartbeats had been so scared and their shouts had sounded so young, why’d they have to die? Was it only royalty that got special no-kill attention from the Avatar? She loved Twinkletoes, he was like the flighty loveable annoying awful amazing brother she’d never wanted but suddenly had, but—but he could be such an airbender, and knowing someone’s name, being able to put a face and a history to them, didn’t make them more worthy of living. A lot less worthy, in Ozai’s case.
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Uncle was one too. A Fire Nation General. And the way they were talking and laughing, these guys were probably war buddies of his. And Toph realized something she’d always known but didn’t like to think about, that Uncle had killed people. Her people. Probably a lot more than anyone else here. The Dragon of the West had been good at his job, and those guys laughing with him… they all remembered that, because it really hadn’t been that long since the siege of Ba Sing Se. There was respect in their voices, in the way they deferred the conversation to any story he started, in the way their bodies slanted more towards him than to anyone else in the circle. They liked him.
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The Avatar could take away bending.Maybe somehow that wasn’t as horrifying to waterbenders or earthbenders or airbenders, because the Avatar’s group looked a little uneasy (the non-bender still looked smug, of course he did, he couldn’t understand), but the Fire Nation side of the table had stopped breathing.
And then they were breathing very carefully, the kind of breaths that stoked inner flames.
Inner flames. Not the earth under their feet or the water of their seas, not the air around them. Inner flames. Agni’s gift was their heart, their life, it couldn’t be snuffed without killing the bender.
How could the airbender sit there talking of peace when he’d ripped Agni’s hand from one of His chosen? The Avatar was the World Spirit, but Agni was the Sun God. The sun shone on his people and kindled flames in the strongest. Death was death, but to have their souls ripped out and their bodies kept living, beyond the sight of their god—
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Azula… as much as she threatened, he’d couldn’t picture her killing for fun, only for a purpose. It wasn’t a morality issue. He wouldn’t kid himself that it was, especially when those were four of their people she’d murdered. But her perfectionism abhorred waste; wasted energy, wasted actions, wasted lives that could have been grovelling in their rightful place at her feet instead of cluttering up her floor. Ba Sing Se had been the most bloodless victory of the war, even if the lack of casualties had probably made it easier for the Earth Kingdom and Uncle’s group to take back in the end. …Which was an observation he was never going to share with her.She must have felt really cornered by Uncle, or had something important he’d gotten in the way of her doing. Otherwise she’d have just gone around the guards, danced them in circles to prove not just that she was superior but that she was so far beyond them as to be untouchable. Uncle didn’t get that. He’d… never really tried to get Azula.
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Ch.17 <3 ! :(
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[Toph's Robes] were suitably green, so she was color-coded for the convenience of all the sighted people. Just once, she wanted to go in a clothing shop, mix everything up, and come out in colors so uncoordinated that people would have to pay attention to the person under the clothes. Maybe she could take Sparky with her.
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sometimes an onion really is just an onion (and that’s all there is to it) by snarkymuch
Fandoms: 9-1-1 (TV)
13 Jun 2023
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“Shit, shit, shit,” he cursed as he gripped the wrist of his injured hand, holding it above his heart. The cut wasn’t massive and, by design, not something you could stitch, but that didn’t make it any less messy or risky.
The blood thinners were not his friend right now.
A singular river of red trailed down his forearm to his elbow, then dripped onto the floor, leaving little splatters that his shoes soon smeared against the tile.
“Towel, towel, towel,” he said, spinning on his heel, gaze raking the room frantically. “Fuck—shit, there you are.”
Buck wanted fajitas, so he went to the store for the sweet onions he needed, but he got the wrong kind because he unexpectedly ran into the team, which had nothing to do with why he was crying in his kitchen--obviously, the shitty onions were to blame.
And his day just gets worse from there--as he ends up fileting off a strip of skin, bleeding everywhere, then accidentally hitting his talk-to-text and sending a ramble he never meant anyone to hear to the last person on earth to care: Eddie.
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Eddie stands, stupefied, in the centre of his home and not a single possession is out of place. No furniture upturned, the windows still intact in their frames. Every photo and drawing and lamp still in one piece.
But there should be damage right? Catastrophic, irreversible damage.
It feels like there should be.
Because Eddie had just pulled out the pin and thrown a grenade into his life that had carelessly, brutally obliterated all his carefully controlled peace.
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But when Buck tried to ask him if everything was okay with him, Eddie just said, “Me? Of course. Why wouldn’t it be?"And Buck really didn’t have an answer for that so he let it go.
Because Eddie doesn’t hide that stuff from him, anymore. Not since the day Buck broke down his bedroom door and found him sobbing in a heap on the floor.
So when Eddie says everything’s okay, Buck believes him.
or, after the lightning strike, Buck recovers. Eddie doesn’t.
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Gibbs was way out of line with his remark about Tony in Silent Night S6 E11 when Abby asked him what he was getting for Tony for Christmas and he replied, "An attitude adjustment."
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Over the Edge by aliaoftwoworlds
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
23 Oct 2018
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An unhappy alternate to the CW ending, where Bucky is a little closer to the edge of breaking down than anyone thinks, and managing to break away from his conditioning once doesn't mean everything is fixed. In betraying one friend, Steve also destroys another.
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- Part 9 of Bitter Retribution
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[Steve] thinks that the ability to defy an order to murder someone means that the personality and memories and life that were scrubbed away from Bucky over decades are just hiding behind the shell of the Soldier, waiting to burst free with enough encouraging words from his former friend.
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[The Soldier] isn’t violent, not inherently. He’s just blank, a blank slate awaiting instructions, who happens to have the strength and skills to carry out the most violent, depraved, disgusting orders, and with enough of himself erased to not be held back by the emotions that would prevent another person’s utter compliance with those orders. In other words, the perfect HYDRA soldier—the perfect Asset.
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HYDRA may not have completely erased Bucky Barnes, but they’ve successfully destroyed his ability to deal with pain and fighting and the prospect of physical battle. He doesn’t know what to do in those situations anymore except to panic and retreat, to let the Soldier take over, because every bit of pain is too much like the Chair and the drugs and the “doctors” who came to teach him that the answer to hurting is to become blank and obedient.
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The last thing Tim expects when he crawls through the window is to have a gun pointed at his face. Maybe he should, considering he’s currently doing the entering part of B&E. But it’s Dick’s safehouse. The third one he’s checked tonight. Tim’s hand freezes around the birdarang when his eyes move to his assailant’s face.
Black hair with a white streak standing out in stark contrast. Blue eyes with hints of swirling green, dark circles underneath them.
It’s... impossible… it’s… Jason.- Language:
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i see you as an equal (with our equally dubious morals) by faithms
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
07 May 2023
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Dick… is aware. He’s aware that he’s not doing well. He’s aware that Tim isn’t doing well. Hell, he’s aware that Alfred isn’t doing well.
What with Bruce being… well…
He’s aware.
But, as he stares at his little brother telling him that Bruce is alive, he can’t help but feel anything but relief. In fact, he feels a lot of bad feelings about it, and then very quickly adds guilt to those bad feelings since he can’t think of anything positive to say.
Because he’s aware that he’s not well. And that Tim isn’t well. And that Alfred isn’t well.
But they weren’t well before Bruce died, either.
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OR Dick believes Tim about Bruce being lost in time. But believing isn't the issue.Series
- Part 33 of DC (Mostly Unrelated Tim Stories)
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Come Alive by CaptainOzone for ErinNovelist
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), DCU, Batman - All Media Types
04 Sep 2019
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Dick went to Infinity Island on a mission to rescue three. He never expected to return with an additional two. None of them did. AU of 3x06.
(Spoilers for YJ Season 3 ahead)
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- Part 1 of Ride Your Light
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