'(Ex)Changed Worlds: (Un)Real(istic)
Fics in which authors (attempt to) explore (potential) real-world* consequences for canon events/actions.
*(for a given value of real, given superheroes, powers, etc)
Real(istic):
Laws/Regulations
Injury Care/Recovery
Relationships & Reactions (both good & bad; e.g. positive communication, cutting ties after one too many slights)
Trauma
Past is Prologue
(Closed, Moderated)
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Licensed Villains by Deatmat
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
02 Jan 2023
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Heroes are kind. Heroes save people. Heroes want to help people no matter what. Heroes are like All Might, smiling regardless of how a tough a fight is. Heroes, Izuku has learned, can also not be heroes at all.
One article about a bad hero turns into four articles, then ten, then twenty and soon the whole country is reading about licensed villains playing at savior. Izuku writes them haphazardly, picking heroes whose wrong doings are masked by their fame. That is, until he meets Endeavor.In other words; the one where Izuku sees the fault in the hero system, makes it his mission to fix it with the help of one burnt fire-user vigilante, and eventually finds himself deeper in this mess than he originally planned.
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- Part 1 of Licensed Villains and Bonus Extras
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 300,602
- Chapters:
- 58/58
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- 35
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- 2,145
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- 8,089
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Bookmarked by Scribbled_Seconds
07 Jul 2026
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(Ship: v.occasional lightly ref.d/implied atrraction, early ch.58)
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After the tsunami, Eddie has to deal with his parents, who for some reason think he and Buck are responsible for a natural disaster and Christopher being caught up in that. Buck, meanwhile, has to deal with Maddie's overbearing worry about him that has only been amplified by the tsunami. Along the way, Buck, Eddie, and Christopher start to become a family without even noticing.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 115,852
- Chapters:
- 28/28
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- 10
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- 308
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Bookmarked by Scribbled_Seconds
15 Apr 2025
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Two Nickels: A Tsunami Survivors group, Buddie, & an award
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"Most of the change in [Maddie's] life she didn’t choose for herself,” Buck said. “She ran to me with only a vague idea where I was, and then she acted as if there had never been a time when we didn’t speak, or when we didn’t see each other at least weekly. I think she may have held onto her picture of me as a way to keep sane. And now she can’t let it go.” -
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When Ziva turns off the listening device during an undercover op, Tim ends up injured. Tony learns it might not have been the first time.
Not for Ziva fans.
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- Part 1 of Cut the Line
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When Evan comes home complaining about Vincent Gerrard being reinstated as the captain of the 118, Tommy is thrown back into a nightmare he had thought to have finally left behind. But Tommy isn't the same young man he had been 20 years ago, and he won't let Gerrard kill another person he cares about.
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- Part 9 of Bad Things Happen Bingo (CYOB round 1)
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The Writing on the Wall by AnonEhouse
Fandoms: Iron Man (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Jan 2024
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Tony doesn't try too hard to get the Avengers to sign the Accords.
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02 Feb 2025
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"Look, I don't know what your problem is with government oversight. Of all of us, Vision and I are the only ones who never volunteered to take orders, whether it was the US military or Hydra, so you all know how it works. You either follow a line of command, or you're one of two things-- a vigilante, or a terrorist. And you can't be a vigilante in someone else's country."