give me a reason to stay (find me another way home)
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home where you were not there by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
14 May 2021
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“Why am I not dead yet?”
“Death cannot hold you. Not yet.”
“Will you come get me when it’s time?”
“Always. In every universe.”
(Unspoken: you will never die alone, forgotten).It’s enough.
(he’s so lonely, it aches.)Izuku sees Death from a young age, and their relationship changes everything and nothing at all. He ends up with a different understanding of death and a quiet obsession with graveyards. None of that is enough, in the end.
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between all these undefinable, impossible odds by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
31 May 2021
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There is a green-haired boy with a blindfold. He’s got a pistol in his hand.
(He’s got a pistol to his head).Six chambers. One bullet. No will to live, no reason to stay.
There’s a crowd watching the stage he stands on. He hears them, the whisper of fabric, the low murmur and brushing of hands. Money exchanging hands. His hand doesn’t waver.
Why don’t we raise the stakes?
Otherwise known as: Izuku plays Russian Roulette as a form of highly illegal entertainment for an anonymous crowd gambling on his life. He doesn’t have much to lose.
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promise me you'll make it out of here by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
12 Jun 2021
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Izuku is quirkless, but that doesn't explain why he can't seem to stay dead.
He always gets a choice, between two doors. One to move on. One to stay behind (to stay alive).
There’s some days he doesn’t want to come back, and the longer he spends in that room between two doors, he thinks that that part of him is right. He’s still got a list of what he wants to get done first, but when push comes to shove...Izuku will fall first.
(Home has not been alive in a long time).
(Izuku has always been good at saving everyone except himself.Even in death, he is a miracle).
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every line you crossed (every place i could never return from) by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 Jun 2021
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Izuku's image of heroes is shattered. He's disillusioned. But instead of getting bitter, he's just...tired.
He'd just like to stop thinking about it. Maybe it's better, to lock himself away where he is safe from the biting teeth of the outside world.There's a strange boy he keeps meeting on rooftops.
Izuku thinks that they should really stop meeting like this.
(Even after all this, Izuku handles people kindly, careful hands cradling their potential between his palms. His touch is soft where no one else's is.)
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carry me from the shores of the river styx by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Aug 2021
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Strangely enough, Izuku meets Charon before he dies. Charon is both everything and nothing he expected.
Contrary to what the myths would have like him to believe, the Underworld is a gentle, gentle place. It's a resting place. A home for all those that are lost and still wander. It teaches him that death has always been, and will always be, an ending with many faces.
(The fruit of the Underworld is forbidden because it seeks to keep. Izuku does not mind. He likes being wanted.
The first bite of pomegranate is tart and sweet and tastes like relief.)Series
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i am the piece of you that never made it home by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
13 Aug 2021
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One for All has always been a gentle killer. A litany of apologies and the looming end. It whispers, “I’m sorry,” every time he goes to bed, and every time he still wakes up.
Midoriya Izuku has always known he was meant to die. It was only a matter of when.
(Against all odds, they win. The victory is hollow.)Series
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should the sun still rise tomorrow by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
13 Aug 2021
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Even in a world where Midoriya Izuku does develop a quirk, life is not kind.
Somehow, ineffably, he still finds his way to being a hero, even when his body fails him. Even if it's the last thing he does.
(where quirks are not always kind, and the author ruminates on the idea that trauma can be a list of smaller things that grow into something bigger and all the more willing to swallow someone whole. But it’ll be okay, eventually, because Izuku’s got Mirio by his side, and Mirio has got him).
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what i gave to you (what you stole from me) by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 Oct 2021
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Izuku knows he will burn fast, but he wants desperately to burn brightly.
To give something to the world before he runs out of fuel.But some dreams should stay dreams, and Izuku really should have learned to be more careful with his heart.
(A notebook can be a damnable thing, I suppose. And traitor is an ugly, ugly word.)
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sanctuary is the sleep i do not wake from by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
14 Mar 2022
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If you stare into the light for too long, it blinds you.
If you stand in the light for too long, it burns you.Izuku finds the dark a much more comforting place. In the shadows, he finds acceptance.
Then the dark is just…haven. Home.
(It was never about dying. It was about feeling safe again.)*second chapter is not necessary, but acts as a continuation of the first chapter and includes both fluff and a sadder, angrier ending.
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don't break me when you fall by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Jul 2022
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Betrayal scars over, but doesn't quite heal. Deku drops out of the hero industry, and slips away into the shadows.
He learns to make peace where he can, and cope where he can't. There isn't quite a way to come back after your dreams have been smashed into so many pieces that you can't remember what your dreams were. The original image is distorted.
You're not quite living and you're not quite getting by. And if you had one thing to tell your younger self? Quit now. Quit early. Stop dreaming because it hurts.
(A post-suspected traitor AU where Izuku never quite fully recovers and the world is dimmer without his light.
But the world won't remember that either.)Series
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a little love, gently breaking by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 Aug 2022
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The Midoriya family is of the forest.
They come from the trees, the forest, lovely, dark, and deep.All that comes from the forest eventually must return. (There is a tale, that those who die in the forest do not truly die. There is a tale that winter’s children used to be people too.)
His whole life, Izuku has been looking for shelter. And now that he’s found it, it’s so devastatingly easy to share.
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you can't hold us by artofflorescence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Jul 2024
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Wherein the grief comes from how 1) no one noticed. 2) no one asked them to stay.
Or: red shoes tell many stories, and this one is probably the worst of them.
Or: All for One stays dead, Tenko is quirkless, Izuku is quirkless, and this is how we die.
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