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Learning to be human by Tomate123
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
18 Jan 2026
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Izuku Midoriya is dangerous.
Not because he chose to be—but because he was raised to be.The grandson of All For One, shaped from early childhood to obey without question, Izuku has never known freedom, choice, or morality beyond the orders of his only family. When he is finally captured, the world of heroes faces an impossible decision: lock him away as the monster they fear… or try to save the child still buried beneath years of indoctrination.
Can a child raised as a weapon learn how to be human?
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Together Lost by gothambeat
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
24 Apr 2026
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It’s always stressful for Izuku when he enters a new home. He wishes it wasn’t. He wishes it was as senseless as returning to the Center, back to rusted cots and mildew bathrooms. But every time he steps into a new home, his emotions return, flaring up to remind him that he is still, unfortunately, alive.
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Izuku Midoriya is strange. He talks more than Shouta expects but with an uneven smile that doesn’t reach his eyes. He’s eager to please, desperate to stay out of trouble, but something about his fake smile makes Shouta feel like he’s being laughed at.OR Quirkless orphan Izuku is placed under Shouta's care temporarily while the world tries its best to kill them both.
A "Do Your Best" rewrite with a twist
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- Part 3 of Keep At It
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The lone Fox by A_Wild_Nobody
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 May 2026
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Izuku hasn't felt like a child since he was four. since he sat in that doctor's office and got told he was worthless.
His life fell apart after that day as his dad left, and his father promised him everything he ever wanted. a father that gave him a quirk. too many quirks.
He didn't see his mom after that day. Well, that's a lie. He didn't see her alive after that day.
Izuku broke everything and everyone around him as he rebelled and ran from every problem in his measly little life. He couldn't keep on living in shadows. He needed to help people. The rush of adrenaline after was better than anything he had ever felt.
So Izuku Midoriya, equipped with a stolen mask and stolen weapon and three stolen quirks, promised to help anyone he could in his stolen, dying and partially blinded body. not as his stolen name, but as the fox.
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16 Dec 2025
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Currently :
Fox is back, now with sidekicks
Shinso and Izuku now live together
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the past is a promise to make me tough by sam_in_the_trees
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
20 Apr 2026
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Vigilantism is defined as illegal and/or unlicensed quirk use with the intentional goal of rounding up, attacking, or otherwise apprehending criminals or otherwise in a manner emulating the tasks of heroes in an offensive or dangerous manner.
Izuku reread the definition a few times.
It wasn't as though Izuku had never heard of vigilantes. He even had notes on a few interesting ones. He knew illegal quirk use was probably a big factor in it being, well, illegal. He just hadn't realized quirk use was what made somebody a vigilante. It was sort of odd. He expected the definition to be more… inclusive, he supposed. What if somebody just didn't use their quirk? It couldn't apply to mutations unless they had emitter or transformation qualities, right? It couldn't apply to-
It couldn't apply to him.
He couldn't be a vigilante.
They couldn't arrest him for being one.
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Midoriya Izuku ends up becoming a vigilante. Featuring Eraserdad, a very tired Tsukauchi, and Mic being the sanest adult here.
Updates whenever i can
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My Choice by slayerofthenight
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
20 Feb 2026
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For as long as he can remember, Midoriya Izuku has been the only child of his overprotective mom, Inko, and his loving but aloof father, Hisashi. Because of the trauma his family experienced before he was born, and again only five years ago, he lived a lonely life with his only "friend" Kacchan, who only sticks around him because of the guilt. He knew this was his life, his fact... so why does he remember a "niichan"? And why is the villain trying to kill them referring to him as his little brother?
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- Part 1 of A Tale of Two Brothers
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the lies you tell yourself by TheHangedMan317
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 Nov 2025
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Izuku has always had a strange relationship with fear. He realized, after his quirks began to manifest in their entirety, that the daring he'd known in his youth wasn’t bravery, but an ignorance that masked itself as certainty.
He was afraid. All the time. But so was everyone, and that was where things really started to get interesting, wasn’t it?
Or, when an incident at home leaves Midoriya Izuku motherless and homeless, disillusioned with hero society and just wanting an escape from it all, he falls into the hands of All for One. Things only get worse from there.
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The World Ripped Out From Under Him by 0o_junebug_o0
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 Apr 2026
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“What I really want to talk about is your quirk. Your actual quirk,” All Might says nervously. “You are not quirkless, my boy. You never were. That quirk is not a part of One For All.” All Might takes a deep breath and tells Izuku all about the origin of One For All and the evil man who created it. He pauses for a moment at the end of the story. "Young Midoriya, can you tell me about your father?”
Izuku blanches. “I— what? Why?” he demands. But he knows where this is going, he knows what he can do, he just desperately wishes it’s not true.
“You have his quirk, my boy. You have All For One.”
TLDR: One for All forces the manifestation of Izuku's original quirk. The one he inherited from his father.
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05 Dec 2025
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When Izuku receives OFA it also awakens his real quirk “Quirk Pull”
The Midoriyas are attacked (an attempted kidnapping) Inko is killed, Izuku is living with EraserMic -
always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres by Freddy_T_who_Never_Wont_not_be
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Feb 2026
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Akatani Mikumo never smiled.
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In which Midoriya Izuku goes undercover at UA to spy for All For One, and finds something much more valuable than simple information. -
Naturalia by Nelly_io
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Feb 2026
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It's a huge , dark forest. It was at least fifty feet taller than the buildings that were already there. The roots were so thick that it took almost two whole days to cut them down . Scientists think it's the work of a quirk , some think it's the work of a god, trying to revive the old world. Others think it's a punishment, the world taking back what we took from them. But the Hero Public Safety Commission thinks it's an opportunity. If someone -or something, did create that entire forest, imagine what it would be like if they were on their side.
Naturalia: The title of a photography book by Jonathan 'Jonk' Jimenez, Naturalia: Reclaimed by nature.
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A Stitch in Time: Becoming Apollo by Animeluvr96
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Mar 2026
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In a twist of fate during a work-study raid, Izuku Midoriya gets hit with a quirk on trigger and gets sent 14 years into the past. With the help of Nedzu, he gets bumped up to class 2-A in the hero course where he ends up meeting both new and old faces, making his own mark in the past he is now stuck in. How will our hero decide to go through his new life? Will he decide to let events play out? Or will he step in to change the course of history itself?
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Izuku gets hit with a time-traveling quirk and decides to make it the villain's problem now.
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- Part 1 of Guardian Hero: Apollo
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Threadbare by Starfruit13
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
23 Apr 2026
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Before the world called them heroes or villains, they were just two kids with dangerous quirks and nowhere to go. Izuku sees patterns no one else can. Shinsou speaks, and people forget themselves. Neither of them ever asked to be feared, but fear is what they got.
Rejected, alone, and too smart to wait for help that never comes, they become shadows in the streets. Vigilantes by necessity, ghosts by design. They’re quiet. Careful. Untouchable.
Until someone notices.
And maybe, if they’re lucky, they won’t have to save the world alone.
TLDR; Vigilante Shindeku and Dadzawa
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Railway Spine by IrisDragon
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
13 Apr 2026
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Previously titled "Levant"
Things change.Izuku Midoriya, unfortunately, had to learn this early on.
Starting off, his life was ideal. He would spend everyday outside playing with Katsuki wresting and playing tag, scraping knees and staining their clothes with the grass. Their parents would watch them from a distance, eventually having to drag them inside to eat and rest. Inko would dote over him and Bakugo, constantly giving them snacks and new game ideas.
Katsuki and Izuku. Izuku and Katsuki. Playing heroes, wearing their dad’s shoes and pillow case capes. Life was nice, something Izuku didn’t know until it was too late…
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Izuku is dazed at everything going on and slowly pushes himself off of the floor, crawling to his mother. Inko gently grabs him and wraps him into a hug, both bursting into tears.
The mother wants to think she made a good decision, that her boy needs her and it was the right thing to do. However, as she sits there crying she cant help but wonder if she made the right decision. The uncertainty scares her and she hugs her son tighter.
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04 Dec 2025
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Izuku stress manifested a strong telepathy quirk after an attack from Inko that leaves him brain-damaged
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Where is the justice? by killua_bestboi
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
04 May 2026
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He was about to decline, when a thought popped into his head. What if, in his efforts to bring down hero society, he had one of the most powerful quirks ever recorded? Quirks were tools, after all. It would be a great addition to his arsenal against the system.
And the irony. Using the Number One Hero’s quirk against the heroes? Oh, that was perfect!
He hid the feral grin that tried to form on his lips, and instead forced his face to make the most determined expression possible.
“I’ll do it!”~~~
Midoriya Izuku was a hero fanboy, all the way. He still had his doubts over how perfect heroes were, but that didn't stop him from dreaming! Even if he was quirkless, and everyone said he couldn't, he still hoped he could become a hero.
All that changed the day his best friend told him to jump off a roof, his Hero crushed his dreams, and all his faith in hero society shattered.
He now had a new dream. If society said he couldn't be a hero, he would be the one to destroy it, instead.
And what better way to bring down a system, than from within?
Updates every other Monday!Work inspired by Where is the Justice? - Death Note Musical
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Let Down! by Anonymous
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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"Izuku I–” she choked, “I wasn't able to– to save you in the end… I'm so sorry Izuku…”
But Izuku only shook his head, “That's not right….” he still smiled, “I think that you had a little bit of All Might in you… You really did save me.” Inko sobbed further, gathering the boy in her arms and crying into his hospital gown, “Thank you, mom.”
“There's no other hero like you in the whole world,” he gripped her warm shirt and finally let himself cry with her, the pain giving way to the warmth of relief.
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There was no relief today. There was nothing he could do for her.
He wanted to scream in guttural agony. There was nothing he could have done for her.
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To gain a quirk but to lose something far more valuable: A story in which Izuku Midoriya is put through the wringer! -
Manifold by cranberrybat
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Apr 2026
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“In light of your performance, I have something in mind to give you. A reward to help with your upcoming task.”
Oh, no.
“T-that's really not… I don’t think another one is a good idea right now-”
“Silence.”
Deku’s mouth slammed shut. He wanted to cry. He wanted to beg and grovel like a cowering dog. He knew it was futile. Sensei had too much ambition. He often got carried away by his discoveries and cared little for the consequences. There was another mutant-type quirk he wanted Deku to possess, no matter how much it might cost his body and soul to do so.
What was left inside him to sever away?
He would soon find out.
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Kenopsia by libriofthelostcity
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 Nov 2025
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Izuku lines up his shoes at the edge of the roof. He stands there for what seems to be no more than a few minutes but is probably closer to three hours. When he looks up, away from the empty city street below him, he meets the curious gaze of the stars.
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Izuku gets a quirk from the most unlikely source of them all.
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Mindbound by Shigarakiswifey
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
24 Nov 2025
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“Did you want to save me that badly, huh… hero?” The words crawled over Midoriya’s nerves like frostbite, curling cold fingers around his ribcage. The voice was unmistakably Shigaraki’s, yet threaded with a timbre that felt both distant and intimate, like a memory half-remembered in a dream.
Midoriya’s chest tightened. He wanted to recoil, to dismiss this apparition as a trick of fatigue or a hallucination conjured from the relentless scars of battle. He had fought, endured, lost, and seen death claim Shigaraki. There was no reason, none whatsoever that the man could stand before him now, even here in the fragile recesses of thought.
Or, after triumphing over AFO, Midoriya clings to the final fading remnants of Shigaraki Tomura, unwilling to accept that this is where his story ends. What he fails to anticipate, however, is how that single, desperate wish will turn against him — granting Shigaraki an unexpected foothold as a lingering vestige within his own body.
And from there, chaos inevitably follows.
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Echoes of the Past by UltraLuminaryy
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
03 Apr 2026
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Izuku Midoriya was a hero—until he wasn't. In the ruins of a world shattered by Shigaraki and All For One, he is given an impossible second chance. A quirk malfunction propels him back in time. With knowledge of the dark future, Izuku works behind the scenes, determined to change fate without revealing himself to his past self, his mentors, classmates… but for how long can he keep up the act before his mask slips?
Or: Mid-war Izuku gets thrown into the past! Where he attempts to secretly guide his past self, take down villains, and save those who are in danger! All in trying to mask his identity to his former self, classmates and mentors. How will a mentally drained and exhausted Izuku be able to keep up with trying to rewrite the future?
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20 Nov 2025
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Midoriya in his war-vigilante era is sent back in time to just after the sports festival and tries to help his past-self
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And in the puddles of blood, I see you by Shinagmi
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
07 May 2026
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Depression has slowly stalked Deku for the past year or so. Hiding in the shadows like a panther— it never leaves his mind. He had managed to keep it at bay after getting one for all. However, after all might lost his power, and the stress of being the true successor started to press in on him from all sides, the haunting darkness began to creep back into Deku's chest and clutch his heart with sharp claws.
There’s only one thing that can keep the crowding emptiness away.
The kiss of a blade and the bite of a cut.
After years of being careful, you’d think Deku would know not to go too deep. But what were to happen if one day in a blur of emotions and a haze of emptiness he dug too far down? The ugliness of his true self was spilled out for everyone to see.
How can he hide himself any longer if his insides were carved out?
If the gazes of his friends and teachers turned from admiration to horror.
If one day—he went too deep.
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Wings of silk and a heart of gold by ImVeri
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
04 May 2026
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Izuku is anxious, every inch of his body is jittery from nerves. This had to be a bad dream... but it wasn't. He knew that everything that happend yesterday, happend. And now he didn't know what was going to happen, except that whatever that is, it won't be good. His secret..., everyone must have seen him. Everyone saw that he was a-
"Midoriya, a word?" Aizawa's voice ripped him out of his thoughts.
...He was fucked.or
In a world where 80% of the population is born with supernatural abilities, Izuku wants to become a hero. He is born with a moth quirk but is forced to hide it and pretends to be quirkless all troughout his life. He plans to keep that secret and become a quirkless hero, but everything turns upside down at UA and once his secret is out, he has to start over. (with the help of others of course)
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