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Night Time (my mind is occupied) by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Oct 2024
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There's a light on in the kitchen. So much for worrying about being quiet. Though he shouldn’t be surprised - Toshinori still insists on waiting up for him, no matter how many times Shouta tells him it isn't necessary.
It’s sweet, if completely irrational. Waiting up won’t bring Shouta home any faster. But Toshinori seems to find comfort in it nonetheless.
And Shouta would be lying if he said coming home to someone didn’t bring him comfort, too.
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Or, a quiet night after Shouta returns from patrol.
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the hustle by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
20 Jul 2023
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"Will you sit with me?" The words come out quiet; defeated.
For a moment, Shouta almost expects All Might to leave. He shuffles on his feet, glancing anxiously towards the distant crowd. Shouta holds his breath; he doesn't realise it until All Might ducks into the cover of darkness beside him when it leaves him in a rush.
The Symbol of Peace sits down beside him, tucking his legs up against his chest. He rests his hands on his knees. It’s like he's trying to take up as little space as possible. Shouta bites back a pointed comment. It won't benefit either of them.
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Or, Shouta and Toshinori talk in the aftermath of an impromptu team-up.
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and if you want, we'll share this life by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Jun 2023
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It happens like this:
"Do you want to get married?" Shouta asks; like he's asking Toshinori what they should have for dinner. He doesn’t even flinch when Toshinori doubles over into a coughing fit, the familiar taste of blood coating his tongue.
"Do I- What?" he sputters when he's able. He can't have heard that right. It's unthinkable.
“Do you want to get married?” Shouta repeats.
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Or, Erasermight marriage shenanigans, as fondly nicknamed in my google docs.
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whispers and sunlight by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Jun 2023
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Toshinori hasn’t celebrated his birthday since before his injury. Acknowledged it, yes; more with dull relief than anything else. That he’d made it another year. That he was one step closer to fulfilling Mirai’s prophecy.
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Or, I'm extremely unwell about these sad old men. Especially the worst one. Enjoy.
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Had I Known Sooner [Coalescence] by ancientnames, cryptidcrawly, spittingspite
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
07 Apr 2023
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In this world soulmates exist. As you grow closer to your soulmate, you begin to get a sixth sense of when they are in danger or hurt. Sometimes--sometimes--soulmates who've never met will feel it when the other is in mortal danger. Dying. Dead.
Aizawa Shouta never liked the idea of soulmates, and then his died before he even had a chance to meet them.
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Glowing Like Gold by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 Mar 2023
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Something wonderfully tender grips Shouta's chest, strong enough to make his breath falter. It’s impossible to deny the strength of what he feels for Toshinori. Not anymore. Not when so much of him depends on his light.
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Or, EraserMight Week Day 3: Morning sun.
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love and its decisive pain (sunlight) by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Mar 2023
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“Right,” Toshinori says surreptitiously. “That’s the main reason.”
“It’s the only reason,” Shouta deadpans. Toshinori laughs again, this time the soft, subdued laughter that Shouta lo- appreciates most. He finds himself smiling back, small and fond.
Maybe that’s why he doesn’t notice the threat until the last moment. Or maybe it’s the deafening sound of rain on the pavement, obscuring the sound of running feet until their attacker is right behind them. Maybe it’s just dumb luck.
Whatever it is, it leaves Shouta a split second to react.
A split second to manoeuvre Toshinori behind him, activate Erasure, and take the knife originally aimed at Toshinori’s back.
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Or, EraserMight Week Day 2: Rain.
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Bright Night Flowers by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Mar 2023
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“What was the other option?” Shouta’s voice breaks the fragile silence. Toshinori whips around in shock.
The only sign that Shouta feels any level of discomfort is the steady rhythm of his fingers, twisting into the strands of his capture weapon. A pang of fondness jolts Toshinori’s chest. How lovely it is to feel so warmed by something so simple.
“What?” he says faintly, too dazed to connect the dots.
“You decided to live,” Shouta says, urgent and emphatic. “What was the other option?”
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Or, Shouta digs a little deeper into Toshinori's words. Toshinori doesn't have the energy to keep pretending.
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trust the fall by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Feb 2023
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“It’s pointless to worry about things you can’t change.” Shouta has a way of making simple sentiments feel earth-shattering. As if it’s a revelation capable of shaking the very fabric of existence. “I can’t change what happened at the training camp. But I can do something about you sitting out here alone looking like you’re expecting someone to die tomorrow. It’s weird, and it makes me think there’s something you’re not telling me.”
Toshinori has to remind himself that - for all Shouta knows about the inevitable end of All Might - the details of Nighteye’s vision remain a secret only he is privy to. No wonder Shouta is suspicious. None of Toshinori’s usual tactics to project a confident, unshakeable facade work on him. He’s been scarily observant from the day they met. In hindsight, it isn’t a surprise he’d figured out something was up. His conspicuous escape from the meeting room would’ve been obvious to anyone.
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Or, the fall of All Might, before and after.
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all the things that i did (and all the things that i didn't do) by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
25 Nov 2022
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Toshinori reaches out. He barely realises he’s done it until he feels the rift in Shouta’s skin beneath his thumb.
It's such a small mark to remain from the brutality he faced during the U.S.J. attack.
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Or, time makes the heart grow fonder.
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Of Third, First and Last Dates by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 Oct 2022
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He fiddles with his hands. If he doesn’t do it now, then he’s not sure he’ll ever work up the courage. “Aizawa?”
“I told you.” Aizawa’s voice is firm, but kind. “You can call me Shouta.”
“Right,” Toshinori says, already feeling defeated. One word and he’s already managed to irritate Aizawa. Maybe he should accept his fate as a man destined to die alone. He’s no longer of use. In fact, he’s actively making things worse. He should stop this now while his dignity is still somewhat intact-
“So.” Aizawa interrupts his mental spiral. “Are you going to tell me what’s on your mind, or do you need to mull it over a little longer?”
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Or, Toshinori finally works up the nerve to ask an important question. Despite initial, crushing defeat, it turns out okay.
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say goodbye to who i was by ancientnames
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
10 Jul 2022
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With a strange sort of reluctance, he takes his focus off the cube to hand it back to its owner and, right as their hands brush, his senses light up, that feeling of safety returning with even more strength than before. “You’re like me,” he says, surprised at how easily the words come to him.
“Yeah,” the pig says, his voice suddenly soft. “I thought as much.”-
Or, Peter Benjamin Parker tumbles out of one world and lands pleasantly in another.
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Currently on indefinite hiatus - hoping to come back to it eventually.
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- Part 1 of i think your love would be too much.
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Before the Fall by ancientnames
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
02 Jul 2022
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Shouta muses on All Might, and everything that's sheltered beneath.
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For the Flash Fiction Friday event on tumblr.
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i fought the war (but the war won) by ancientnames
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
14 Apr 2021
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Sometimes, family bonding is a group of spider-themed vigilantes getting together in the resident edgelord's dimension and punching Nazis.
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you know, we all speak to demons sometimes by ancientnames
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
06 Jan 2021
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Noir learns that apparently terrifying omnipotent spider gods bestowing the curse of power upon you isn't the universal Spider experience. Who knew, right?
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Gumshoe Blues: The Chronicles of Noir & Peni by ancientnames
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
24 Oct 2020
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“Hey, Noir,” Peni says one day from the table where she’s sketching her newest design for her most recent art project. “Do you think you’d ever get a partner?”
Noir’s halfway through a sip of his cup of tea (he’d prefer coffee but Ham keeps lecturing him about his unorthodox sleep habits fueled by that coffee) and it takes all his effort not to choke on it. "You mean," he splutters once he's recovered enough to talk, "like a dame?" There’s a lot of problems with that suggestion, but not ones he’s ready to unpack over a cup of coffee at 7am in the morning.
"No, silly," she says with a laugh. "Like a work partner!"
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Day 5: Music
A love of music is a Spider thing, it seems.
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- Part 5 of we fell in love in october.
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Day 4: Secret
The words May said to him back in the doorway, with the Vulture’s body cooling against the floor, often come back to haunt him.
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- Part 4 of we fell in love in october.
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new york isn't new york without you, love by ancientnames
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
02 Oct 2020
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Day 3: City
Gwen loves her city, but sometimes her city doesn't love her.
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- Part 3 of we fell in love in october.
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Day 2: Happy
It's a lovely day in FernGully.
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- Part 2 of we fell in love in october.