Seul’s Favorite BNHA Fics
Seul’s favorite Boku no Hero Academia/My Hero Academia fics on Ao3! For whatever reason that might happen to be, including: the idea is unique and original, unusual in its approach, a tried and true (but still well loved) concept, stunning writing and/or characterization, and any other qualifies I deem fit!
(Open, Moderated)
Recent works
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Sincerely, Deku. by Bakanohero
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Jan 2026
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After being told he couldn't be a hero, Izuku decides to do the next best thing: help the heroes.
This leads to frustration, found family, and a lot of emails.
Now with a Discord!
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- Part 1 of Sincerely, Deku. Verse
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Ill-Gotten Gains by ghostmaybite
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Oct 2025
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When his father and Tomura start planning the USJ attack, Izuku makes a plan of his own. It’s simple, only four steps:
1. Steal Eraserhead’s quirk
2. Use it to kill All for One
3. Give Erasure back, hopefully
4. Go to jail, probablyHe’s prepared for the plan to fail at any time, but surprisingly, it’s not until step 4 that things fall through.
Series
- Part 1 of THE HONOR OF THIEVES
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A Stranger's Smile, a Traitor's Guile by JoWithTheFlow
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Apr 2025
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“Do you ever get tired of it?” Touya asked. “Eating shit food out of dumpsters and bathing in public bathrooms?”
“I do,” Izuku answered, honestly. “But I’m free this way.”
“What if you could be free and have a roof over your head too?”
Izuku gave him an amused look. “I can’t. I’m eight years old and, technically, don’t exist. It’s not as if I could get a job to pay rent.”
“I could though,” Touya said, voice oddly strained as he made the offer. “If you wanted. To live like that, instead.”
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Wherein Izuku has All for One, uses it to help whoever he can, and stumbles across a family along the way.Series
- Part 1 of The Childhood Friends Anthology
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Locked In Digital by RogueDruid (Icarius51)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Slender (Parsec Productions Video Games), Five Nights at Freddy's, Outlast (Video Games), Alien: Isolation (Video Game), Prey (Video Game 2017), BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games), Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Dead Space (Video Games), Dark Souls (Video Games)
12 Nov 2024
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A day goes bad to worse for 14 year old Izuku Midoriya, as he wakes up trapped in a computer simulation with nine different Horror games. The only objective given by the madman who locked him in? Beat all nine games, or be deleted.
A year later, a very different Izuku shows up at the Gates of UA to take the entrance exam.
What horrors has he faced?
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It's not really a quirk (but yeah sure let's go with that) by Asarielle
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
06 Oct 2024
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The “Izuku is a witch who was practically raised by werewolves” AU that no one asked for.
Starring: A supernatural world hidden from quirk society. Izuku’s a confused cinnamon roll with no social graces other than those learned from werewolves. Bakugou wants to be alpha of the class pack, Sero thinks Bakugou’s too controlling, and Kirishima just wants everyone to be friends. Todoroki tries to not have a coronary when Izuku appears by his bed at night, Tokoyami teaches Izuku how to meditate, Iida has to give Izuku Sex Ed... and basically, no one has any idea what they’re doing at any point in time.
Except Aizawa. Their “pack leader.”
Oh wait. Izuku keeps getting Aizawa to pet his head in front of other faculty members and has definitely slept at the foot of Aizawa’s bed.
So... scratch that. Not even Aizawa.
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Justice in Defiance by Foxquills
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 Dec 2025
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A chance encounter with hero-turned-villain Eraserhead sends Izuku down a research rabbit hole that leaves him with more questions than answers. In the pursuit of understanding, Izuku finds himself making friends with two damaged, lonely men, re-examining his own relationship with right and wrong, and finding a way to strike a balance between his heart and his head.
Sometimes doing good requires doing evil, and maybe those concepts mean less than he’d always believed.
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sparks and teeth by smilelikethesun
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Mar 2024
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Izuku Midoriya has been missing for almost four years, and this time, he didn't leave a note.
Katsuki, in the meantime, has been searching for him and working full-time as a hero. His mission for the last year has been to locate and capture the mysterious vigilante Zero.
When he opens his apartment door in the middle of the night to a dying Izuku in a Zero mask, he doesn't know what to do.
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"Izuku?" Katsuki whispered.Izuku's eyes fluttered shut as he grimaced, curling into himself. He was holding his stomach. His black, deeply-shadowed jumpsuit looked darker where he was holding himself, a black pool spreading. He moved his hand from his stomach and stared at his scarlet palm.
"I didn't—" He laughed weakly, red dripping suddenly from the corner of his mouth. "I didn't know where else to go. Kacchan."
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Friendly Neighborhood Yakuza Boss Midoriya Izuku by SmartiMart
Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
11 Oct 2022
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- 16,108
- Works:
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- Bookmarks:
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Reformation by LocalCryptid7
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
29 Dec 2023
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After a failed suicide attempt, years of bullying, and his mother's death, Izuku Midoriya doesn't think he has any option besides joining the League of Villains. After all, foster care is no place for a quirkless kid like him. Plus, working as a hacker and analyst for the League doesn't sound like it would be too bad. But, after meeting a hurt little girl in Overhaul's headquarters, Toga and Izuku can't just sit back and take orders from Shigaraki anymore. With some careful consideration, Izuku figures a villain reformation program at UA doesn't sound horrible, even if it means having to put up with Bakugou.
NOW A PODFIC! Recorded and posted on YouTube by Put Your Hands Up Podfics! Link in last chapter!
EDIT 2/27/2024 - I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR THE SALE OF BOOK/FICBINDING OF THIS FANFICTION. I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION FOR THE SALE OF THIS FIC IN ANY FORMAT. ALL CHARACTERS/PLACES/THEMES ARE THE PROPERTY OF THE ORIGINAL CREATOR(S), THIS WORK IS JUST FOR FUN, NOT FOR ANY SORT OF PROFIT.
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Ships in the Night by Foxquills
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Feb 2024
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Izuku scarcely noticed, focused on Shouta's iron grip on his wrist, right on the edge of painful. For a hazy, heated moment, it felt like that hand was the only thing keeping him upright, and Izuku swallowed hard, looking up at Shouta.
Shouta was staring back at him, gaze dark and intense. His hand slid from Izuku's waist to his hip, gripping tightly, thumb digging hard into the hollow there. Like his wrist, the grasp was too-hard and almost painful, and the soft whine it wrenched from him was entirely involuntary.
Shouta didn't move, didn't speak, holding Izuku with strong hands that were making him a little crazy, and Izuku wanted—well.
He wanted.
Series
- Part 1 of Ships in the Night