marlboroman
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Where Echoes Drown (Jewels Beneath a Glassheart River) by marlboroman
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS (Cartoon)
28 May 2025
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he'd never seen such fluidity before, or maybe he has. just not hers. she moved like she had been hurt, betrayed and alone for far too long.
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siren jinx manages to lure a deaf ekko into a trap, but was it really a trap?
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The Distance We Know Well by lightdoesfollow
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Feb 2026
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The kidnapping and murder of two UA students upends hero society overnight, shattering nearly a decade of peace.
Dynamight joins the commission investigation under Hawks to (quietly) surveil the staff at the principal's request, under the guise of a part-time teaching position. Katsuki accepts to honor his alma mater, definitely not because imagining that damn nerd isolating himself with guilt makes his chest feel like he just got out of surgery again.
The hastily rebuilt dorms welcome him back, this time to the teacher’s floor, and Izuku is too close again, just like when they were kids. He still sucks the air out of a room, is still magnetic even in his grief, even if this Izuku who lives to teach and not to save is someone Katsuki can’t fucking figure out how to talk to anymore.
But Katsuki is a problem solver. He can work on that, and he can find this sick bastard and stop him from killing again—as soon as he figures out why Izuku is disappearing through his goddamn window every night.
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20 May 2026
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The Way You Used To Do by edema_ruh
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 Apr 2021
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"We're really sorry," his father says, in a teary-eyed, wobbly way. "But your friend, Izuku, he's... He's gone, son."
Katsuki can do nothing but blink up at them for moments that feel like an eternity, eyes darting between both his parents in obvious confusion, disbelief, and, more than anything, indignation.
"What the fuck are you two talking about? The damn nerd is standing right beside you!"During a battle, Midoriya gets hit by a villain whose quirk detaches his soul from his body. Stuck in a ghost-like state, the boy enters a race against time in order to save himself from permanently dying. Much to his luck - or lack of it -, the only person who can see and talk to him in this state is no one other than Kacchan.
Alternatively: Deku and Kacchan are soulbound.
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20 May 2026
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prized possession by terimune for positron
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
06 May 2026
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Being childhood friends with Kacchan comes with the obvious caveat of the occasional, inevitable run-in with him and his mother in public spaces. In middle school, it was all fists jammed deep in pockets and aisles gone tense while their mothers’ tongues ran slick with endless gossip.
Having sex with Kacchan the night before? Izuku may as well plan for sitting on a powder keg.
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19 May 2026
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Pretend It's Enough by kenji240
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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"I love you," three words that were unwilling to spill out of Midoriya's mouth. He always felt filthy near Bakugo, this ugly feeling of loss and guilt. It made him purge like it was the plague.
He hated the idea of loving a man, and loving a man who was better than him in every way.
It was stupid, but society narrated the story of two men who shouldn't be together, and if they were? They'd have to narrate the story of a heterosexual couple.And now that Izuku was quirkless?
He was the weak one.
he was the woman.And he didn't want to be inferior, he wanted to be the masculine heroic hero All Might was.
He was the symbol of peace.
And yet Katsuki hadn't learned the language of love, he didn't recognise the hatred and inferiority beside Midoriya as admiration. Till he learnt it, and he adored it.
Yet he'll never be seen.
So now they pretend, and puppet around. Like idiots, as if they cannot speak, they don't have the skill to express their fears, hopes and loves for the other.As they have to pretend.
That's what the queer kids do, isn't that right? All we do is pretend.- Language:
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18 May 2026
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One For... Fifth? by ErnieDaFrog
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
12 Apr 2026
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Izuku Midoriya was familiar with burns, he was subjected to hundreds if not thousands of them over the years. this was different, his skin was on fire and all he could do was scream and pray for it to stop, his veins filled with fresh fire every time he moved, which sucks considering he was currently being forced to move near constantly. Today was supposed to be great, his first chance to show that he could truly do it, that he could become a hero! But now, in a near eldritch sea of writhing black tendrils, he felt as if he'd failed, he didn't know what was happening, but two things were certain, one, he was scared. Two, and this was the real kicker. this. wasn't. one. for. all.
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Izuku get's blackwhip first and is HEAVILY unprepared for itBookmarked by marlboroman
09 May 2026