snailpottery
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a thousand miles down to the seabed by snailpottery
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
12 Oct 2025
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“Even though you can talk so loudly,” Izuku says, quiet as he touches Katsuki's chin to make him meet his eyes, “much more than any words you’ve ever said, to me your actions were always the loudest.”
Oh. It's those eyes again—the ones that force Katsuki’s head under the surface. Those eyes that make him inhale water as if it's air, that entice Katsuki into voluntary self-asphyxiation. It wouldn't matter if he held his breath, no, that's only viable if his goal is to prolong the suffering before the inevitable. Katsuki is certain; he's held his breath nearly the entire time he's known Izuku. It's recent, that he's finally come to understand the intimate catharsis of just—
Letting go of his breath, learning to welcome the water into his lungs, and giving up his entire self to the current.
Series
- Part 2 of I'm not giving up, I'm just giving in
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this bed is outer space, just keep painting constellations by snailpottery
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
31 Aug 2025
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Katsuki’s heart stops for the second time, he knows it. There's no other reason for the lack of air in his lungs, like the shock of an unintended free fall, the breath stolen from him as he inevitably lands flat on his back unprotected and unprepared. Now this just can't be real, he thinks as he frantically, nearly mind-numbingly tries to remember ever hearing someone say such a thing to him. Love? Love?
Has anyone ever said that to him? In no uncertain terms, so heart-wrenchingly true that it makes him ache from the clear, unfettered devotion in the words? Like he's worthy of it, just as anybody else is?
Series
- Part 1 of I'm not giving up, I'm just giving in
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it hit me like a sucker punch by snailpottery
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
03 May 2024
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“How long?” Izuku asks, unable to decide which part of Katsuki's face he wants to look at. He grabs Katsuki's shirt again. He clenches it once, twice. “Kacchan, how long?”
What is Katsuki supposed to say here? He can't even remember what it was like not to feel this way. Can't remember when it began either, he only knows that it did. At some point it started and it never stopped. It grew and grew until he knew and he knew he shouldn't and Izuku would never, and the only option he had left was to bury it. Bury it and deny it and let it hurt, yet never say it. Not to himself, not to Izuku—not to anyone.
But Katsuki almost died. And Izuku is here, just like he always has been.
So Katsuki closes his eyes and listens, to the sound of Izuku just being, to the breath on Katsuki's face as his hair tickles his forehead. He opens his heavy eyelids and stares into shining green, and he utters: “For a while.”
Recent series
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I'm not giving up, I'm just giving in by snailpottery
Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
12 Oct 2025
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