flightless bird
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swallow the light by tatesonbear
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Nov 2025
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Katsuki thought the moment others saw him, they would know, somehow. Like it had physically shown. Like Jeanist had left a permanent stain of himself inside Katsuki, and people could smell his guilt and cowardice.
Nobody could tell. Nobody could.
or; katsuki makes sacrifices for his modeling career
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- Part 1 of flightless bird
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heart for brains by tatesonbear
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
03 Mar 2026
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Katsuki watched Jeanist lead the new boy away and thought about small hands and smaller mouths.
Tomorrow was a new day, he reminded himself. Tomorrow was the chance to get it right. And even though his parents were yelling and his friends weren't really his anymore and Jeanist was being mean and he was still in pain from earlier, he still had something to be grateful for.
Tomorrow could always be better. So he'd better be prepared for a good, better, perfect day tomorrow.
or; katsuki realizes he doesn't know which version of himself is real anymore. the one jeanist had made, or the one izuku still believed in. maybe neither, maybe both.
maybe it didn't actually matter, because he wasn't allowed to want things like that anyway.
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- Part 2 of flightless bird
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god is dead, all hail the warlock! by tatesonbear
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
24 Mar 2026
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Katsuki's body answered every question he's ever asked:
Yes, you're broken. Yes, you're wrong. Yes, you'd spread your legs for anyone who touches you gently enough. You can hate yourself in so many different ways that each branch of self-loathing feels like its own tree, yet none of it will ever cancel each other out.
But then you wake up. And there's drool on the pillow next to yours and a hand reaching for you in the dark, and you remember why you're still here.
or; mirrors can be ceilings, and ceilings can be mirrors, but either way you're forced to look—and looking is the only way to ever stop running from what you see.
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- Part 3 of flightless bird
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the lost years of a fifty year old teen by tatesonbear
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
05 Jun 2026
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Katsuki spends the first month of no contact with Jeanist hoping it's a mistake. After all, this man is both his biggest mentor and biggest tormentor—a father, a mother, and a lover, none of which he asked for, all of which he's grown to need. So surely, it's an oversight. A slow season. Except the third month rolls over on it's back, paws up and legs spread, and—oh. There are no slow seasons in a career like this. The bellies of lustful men are never full, only satiated enough to come back for more.
By the fourth month the truth is undeniable:
The delicate boy who had once fit so perfectly in the laps of wealthy men had been thoroughly maimed by time.
or; what a boy untethered does when hes lost everything hes ever known. who is he when he isnt being something for everyone else? is there anything left?
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- Part 4 of flightless bird
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grey space by tatesonbear
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 Mar 2026
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Katsuki existed in the space between awake and asleep, alive and dead, until his worst fears are broadcasted to him live.
The colors of the world came rushing back in, melting between his fingertips—in the palm of a hand that didn't know what to do with the vastness of it. But there was Izuku, bright and stubborn and impossibly gentle, asking him to learn.
or; katsuki learns that being loved doesn't have to hurt. he just has to let it.
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- Part 5 of flightless bird