1 - 20 of 34 Works by deathinsoftfocus
Navigation
Listing Works
-
hell is a talking type by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
The Hero Rankings Ceremony means speeches, awards, and playing nice for the press. Izuku can handle that. What he can't handle is Katsuki sitting one table over, looking at him like that, while they both pretend there's nothing between them.
They've kept this secret for months. Tonight might be when they slip up.
Series
- Part 3 of dinner & diatribes
-
the judas web by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types
17 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
New York is rotting. The rain never stops, the headlines scream murderer, and Spider-Man’s mask has become less a symbol than a curse.
When a string of brutal killings is pinned on Spider-Man, Peter Parker finds himself hunted by the law, the press, and the shadows that once called him a hero. Evidence disappears, witnesses vanish, and every lead dies bloody. At the center of the erasure is Wade Wilson — ex-soldier, mercenary, and chaos in human form. Wade swears he’s protecting Peter, but his “fixes” are pulling the noose tighter.
Enemies become uneasy allies. Allies become something hungrier, darker. Every rooftop fight bleeds into teeth-bared intimacy, every mask pulled off leaves Peter more exposed. Their bond is fire and rot: obsession disguised as hatred, tenderness buried under violence.
But the web around them is tightening. The city turns against Spider-Man. A voice in the shadows whispers that Peter will break. And when he does, it won’t matter whether Wade is his salvation — or his ruin.
-
everything but by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
Izuku has kept a notebook since he was sixteen. It isn't a secret exactly, just something private: years of writing down every reason he loves Katsuki Bakugou, flaws included, and never once meaning for anyone to read it.
Then he leaves it at Katsuki's apartment by accident.
-
the long way to losing you by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
12 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
Katsuki has never once corrected anyone who's assumed he and Izuku are together. Not at seventeen, not at nineteen when he backed out of an apartment they were supposed to share, not in the hospital waiting rooms that kept happening to both of them over the years. He's had eight years of chances to say it and eight years of choosing silence instead, right up until the week Izuku buries his mother and takes a job on the other side of an ocean.
-
terms and conditions by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
Katsuki Bakugou has a hero license, a business degree he never uses correctly, and exactly one (1) functioning coping mechanism, which is yelling. When a very bad night at a very boring PR event costs him his career, his client list, and most of his dignity, he does the only reasonable thing: quits loudly, starts his own agency out of spite, and asks if anyone wants to come with him.
One person says yes. Unfortunately, that person comes with a six-year-old, a strong opinion about Katsuki's parking, and absolutely no reason to trust him.
-
something borrowed, something bruised by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
At fifteen, Izuku Midoriya is a weapon with a student ID and a mission he can’t refuse: infiltrate UA and gather intelligence on All Might and the new generation of heroes.
He’s been All For One’s since he was six years old--trained in facilities that don’t exist on any map, shaped into something that can blend in, observe, and hurt people when necessary. And his quirk? Well, his quirk has been turned into a tool that his father has learned how to use.
The problem is he’s learning what it feels like to be human instead of a weapon. He’s starting to want things; a normal life, friends who aren’t murderers, a future that doesn’t end in blood.
But his father is the most dangerous villain in Japan, his classmates won’t stop asking questions, and his childhood best friend keeps dreaming about a past that was erased.
Katsuki Bakugou remembers a green-eyed kid who vanished at nine. Now that kid is back and Katsuki can’t stop watching him, can’t stop wanting answers he doesn’t know how to ask for.
Between them: six years of silence, a past that's been erased, and secrets that are going to come out whether Izuku wants them to or not.
-
everything is exothermic, actually by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
Izuku Midoriya has three weeks left on his sublet, a law course load that's actively trying to kill him, and one contact who might know of an open room: Todoroki Shoto, who mentions, almost as an afterthought, that his friend Katsuki Bakugou just lost a roommate. Katsuki Bakugou runs his apartment like a controlled experiment: labeled everything, a home lab bolted to the kitchen counter, silence as a love language. He does not want a roommate. He especially does not want this one, all nervous energy and unfiled edges and a laugh that keeps interrupting Katsuki's very carefully maintained quiet. It should not work. For a while, in ways neither of them agrees to name, it works anyway.
-
field guide to loving my father the serial killer by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
Izuku Midoriya used to be a golden boy, before anyone remembered whose son he was. Now he's an NYPD consultant who talks to the dead in his head and to his father in a very real, very well-lit cell, brought in on the cases no one else can stomach.
Detective Katsuki Bakugou didn't ask for a partner with a body count in his bloodline, and he's not going to pretend he's happy about it, not even a little.
Killer's plague New York and it's Izuku's job to know everything about them. What he doesn't know, not yet, is how many of them lead back to the same man.
-
the dullest side of the blade by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Aug 2026
Tags
Summary
Midoriya Izuku goes missing on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, Bakugou Katsuki has already replayed the moment forty-seven times. By the end of the first week, he has stopped sleeping. By the end of the third, the official search has quietly, bureaucratically, given up.
Katsuki does not give up. This is not a virtue. This is a sickness with his name on it.
(Izuku, in a white room, learns what it means to be studied. The woman across the table has never once raised her voice. This, he will later understand, was the worst part.)
-
exposure by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
Deku looks at him. He is not afraid. He looks at Katsuki with something soft and final on his face, almost like an apology, and the column comes down.
The sound is very specific. Katsuki will keep it for the rest of his life.
He is on his knees in it. There is green in the rubble. He is digging and his hands are wrong, they aren't fast enough, nothing is fast enough. He already knows—he knew before he started digging, he has always known—that he is going to be three meters and one second too late for the only thing that ever mattered. He never said the only thing between them that could have meant anything. He had years and a hundred chances and a classroom at fourteen and a thousand ordinary mornings. But he never once said how important Izuku was and how terrified he was to not have him in any capacity, because saying it meant being afraid out loud and he would rather have died than be seen afraid.
He would rather have died. Right now, he gets to find out that was a lie. He would rather anything than this.
-
a very patient way to break my own heart by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
Katsuki has a rule about texting after midnight. He also has a rule about texting drunk.
Katsuki breaks his own rules constantly.
This is, Izuku thinks, the least surprising part of tonight.
-
in defense of the augur by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
24 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
au·gur
/ˈôɡər/
verb
(of an event or circumstance) portend a good or bad outcome.
"the end of the cold war seemed to augur well"noun
(in ancient Rome) a religious official who observed natural signs, especially the behavior of birds, interpreting these as an indication of divine approval or disapproval of a proposed action.or
Izuku reads everyone down to the seam and refuses to only watch. Katsuki refuses to be read at all. The war is over; this is the part nobody trained them for.
-
the breaking of faith by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
They brought him in in white and silver. Katsuki had seen him in armor and in blood and in fever and, once, wrecked and open in the dark with his hands in Katsuki's hair, and he had thought there was no version of Izuku left that could hurt him worse than the ones he'd already survived. He was wrong. The white and silver was worse. Izuku walked to his own selling with a straight face, the face Katsuki himself had taught him without meaning to and Katsuki stood at the wall. He recognized his own armor worn on the one person he'd have died to keep from ever needing it.
Series
- Part 2 of fealty
-
the binding of houses by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
Love is a duty they were both sworn by and could not partake in.
He had thought, in his worst and most honest hours, that they might go their whole lives like this. A prince and his knight. Legendary, eventually. The stuff of the ballads that got the story wrong. He had thought that might be enough, the quiet hours, the disciplines, the honey off a thumb, a lifetime of almost.
He had not accounted for the marriage.
Series
- Part 1 of fealty
-
odds by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
There are six things you need to know.
or
Katsuki is what he thinks, an impenetrable wall.
Izuku is what he thinks, tolerated. -
rubato by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
rubato, n. — the expressive stretching of tempo; literally, in Italian, "robbed" or "stolen" time.
After one drunken night in September, Izuku hasn't said a single word to Katsuki.
-
soft tissue by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Jul 2026
Tags
Summary
Katsuki is injured. Izuku is stubborn. Cuteness ensues.
-
the midnight hour by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
23 Jun 2026
Tags
Summary
Midoriya Izuku plays in six bands and doesn't front any of them. He teaches fourth grade English, has ink on his hands almost always, and shows up wherever someone needs a trumpet player or a cellist or a guy who can sight-read horn parts in forty minutes. He is, by general consensus of the local music scene, the most useful person nobody's ever really heard of.
Bakugou Katsuki tends bar at The Midnight Hour five nights a week, heckles his best friends' band every Friday, and has not had a feeling he's examined closely in approximately four years. He is, by general consensus of everyone who's met him, terrifying. He finds this useful.
Then Borrowed Sound plays a Friday set, and Katsuki hears a saxophone for the first time in his life as something other than background noise, and everything gets significantly more complicated.
-
Tags
Summary
At Chesapeake Preparatory Academy, brilliance is currency, and morality is a game best played quietly.
Will Graham is a scholarship student- bright, lonely, and perpetually out of step with his gilded classmates. He spends his days hiding behind books and his nights trying not to think too hard about the things he feels and the things he can’t explain.
Then Dr. Hannibal Lecter arrives to teach moral philosophy: elegant, unnervingly kind, and fascinated by the boy who answers his questions a little too honestly.
Private tutoring sessions turn into late-night discussions; discussions turn into something else entirely.
The line between devotion and destruction is as thin as a scalpel’s edge- and Will Graham has always been drawn to sharp things.
*i do NOT condone any sort of intimate relationship between an adult & a minor. this fic exists as an outlet of sorts for my own trauma. please be aware of this before reading & protect your mental health :)*
-
four degrees above average by deathinsoftfocus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
20 Apr 2026
Tags
Summary
Midoriya Izuku has been walking into rooms he shouldn't his whole life. Katsuki has never once made him leave. Tonight will not be the exception.
Series
- Part 1 of completely practical reasons