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i'm learning that the body is a very stubborn animal by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 Sep 2025
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(Miss you, Katsuki said one night to the back of Shouto’s head, once he was sure Shouto had fallen asleep. Dark pressing in all around them, surruous, full of underbreath; April with no light. Committed to memory the way Shouto laid against him, soft and solid and flesh: spine against his chest like a taut bow string, oxter, popliteal space, the smell of Shouto’s hair in his face. These tiny, minute, crucial things.
Just in case.)
Or: Shouto, a newly-diagnosed depressive, has a bad day. Katsuki holds him through it all.
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- Part 23 of the gloomy days
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i know i love you (god knows, i try) by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Aug 2025
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It hits him one day over dinner, in the orange bubble of their kitchen light like muggy sundown; the kind where flesh ripens, where fruit goes stale. He hasn’t been engaging in Katsuki’s attempts at conversation. Not because he’s trying to be rude. Speaking just takes a lot of effort. So much work. And then the thought comes. Quick, cold, detached as if ripped out of some magazine headline, churned out of some goddamn journalist's laptop keyboard.
"I think I kind of want to kill myself," Shouto says point-blank. Katsuki spits out his drink.
Or: Shouto has a heavy realisation.
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- Part 22 of the gloomy days
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have i ever told you you're my favourite? by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Aug 2025
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He thinks of being this close all the time, every day. Getting a cat, or maybe two, and arguing over the names. Hearing Bakugou come home at night or get ready in the morning, the sounds of his presence floating through the apartment walls; water running, cupboards opening and closing. Something complete, theirs. Without really thinking, he blurts out, “I’d quite like being your husband, you know.”
Bakugou's jaw drops. After a moment of staring at Shouto in silence, he finally shouts, “Fucking what?"
Maybe that was a bit fast.
Or: Shouto accidentally proposes. Katsuki not-so-accidentally says yes. The funny part is that they're not even dating.
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- Part 21 of the gloomy days
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Buck is staring at his ceiling, flickering city lights breathing through the window above his bed. He's been crying a lot lately. Over wet dishes, over sunlight hitting his furniture at pretty angles, over nothing at all. It’s how it always starts.
He gets emotional; then he gets numb. He never manages to settle on which one is worse.
This is the part where Buck realises, quite matter-of-factly, that he’s probably going to try to kill himself.
Or: Buck keeps it together until he can't. Luckily, he's got Eddie—and he'll be damned if he lets his best friend slip through the cracks. It takes two.
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it's a couple thing by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
24 Jul 2025
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Katsuki used to be insistent on getting the groceries alone; hated having someone hovering over his shoulder, rushing him, changing his route around the store. Everything's always different with Shouto, though. Next to him—always next to him—Shouto reads the labels on the products and bugs him about cat-shaped ice molds or whatever else they've got in the clearance aisle that week. Nattering on about I miss when strawberries were in season or Katsuki. Look. Themed ice-cream, and then attacking him with those big, mismatched eyes and a Please? It's not fair how pretty he looks in shitty fluorescent supermarket lighting. It's physically impossible for Katsuki to refuse.
Or: Katsuki and Shouto are probably too young to be this domestic, but they're doing it anyway.
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- Part 20 of the gloomy days
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The thing about Buck and chronic pain is that it doesn't start with the ladder truck. Sure, the bombing makes his leg worse, but—
It starts with showers, and the way his arms sometimes ache too much to clean himself properly; the way he steps out of them, all faint and weak, feeling like he’s actually died. It starts with stairs, and the fact that even one flight leaves his legs worn out like he’s ran a mile, how they make his heartbeat thud in his ears to the point of nausea. It starts with supplements, and how many of them he takes in hopes that they’ll make up for some unknown deficiency and fix it all, and it starts with the continuous disappointment when none of them do shit.
The thing about Buck and chronic pain is that it starts before he even really knows what it is, and it never stops.
Or: Buck, Eddie, and an exploration of undiagnosed chronic illness.
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putting words in my mouth (tryna' get free) by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Feb 2025
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“Hello,” he says. His voice is calmer outside of his body than it felt in. “It’s been three years.”
“Hell of an observation, Half an’ Half,” comes the voice on the other end of the line. It seems to echo, rise from the floor, almost threatening in the way it makes the air seize up. "Nothing gets past you."
Or: it's been three years since Shouto and Katsuki broke up. Somehow, they find their way back to each other, ready to do it all over again.
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- Part 4 of (lighten up, buttercup)
- Part 19 of the gloomy days
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“Yeah, hi,” she says, and it’s—that’s her. There’s no way that isn’t her. “I’m—I’m looking for Evan Buckley?”
Downstairs, he hears Hen begin to reply, something like “Can I ask why?” but his mind is going in circles; It can’t be her, please let it be her as he scrambles to drop the knife and tears himself away from the kitchen island, barely managing to stop himself from tripping over his own feet as he sprints. Bobby makes some kind of surprised noise behind him, a few guys turn to stare at him from the couches, but he makes it to the railing, grabbing onto the bars with his hands shaking. He looks down, past the trucks, to the wide space by the entrance, and-
“Maddie?”
Or: Maddie shows up at the firehouse instead of Buck's flat, looking for her little brother. He's just glad she came back.
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Evan Buckley gets home after a twenty-four shift, sits down on his bathroom tiles with a razor blade, and makes a mistake.
Or: Buck has a little bit of a darker past than any of the One-Eighteen knows, and the lawsuit comes dredging it all up. Maddie's there, though. She's ready to catch him when he falls.
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don't know where you are now (but i hope you're doing well) by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Aug 2024
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“You weren’t worth it, you know,” Bakugou says.
“I’m sorry,” Shouto says, for the sake of Bakugou knowing. This isn't, I'm sorry I wasn't enough—more, I'm sorry it hurt.
“Nah, don’t be.” Bakugou leans his head against the wall, and he’s got a smirk like they’re both in on a joke. “I wasn’t worth it either."
Or: sometimes, you love someone, and they love you back. Sometimes, you'll nearly kill each other doing it.
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- Part 18 of the gloomy days
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have me, keep me (maybe you'll kill me) by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
12 Jul 2024
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Vampires are a fucking nuisance—and yet:
“God, I love you,” Katsuki whispers, and Shouto smiles knowingly, like Katsuki’s slow to catch on.
“Yeah. Me too,” he says. “Now kiss me.”
Or: werewolves and vampires don't go together. They're not supposed to, at least. Shouto and Katsuki don't really care.
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- Part 17 of the gloomy days
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i can hear that something calling by soapstix
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Movies)
23 Apr 2024
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Hiccup will miss his father. He will. Stoick hurt him a lot, more than he's still willing to admit in words, but Stoick also loved him.
Hiccup thinks so, at least, in his own, convoluted way.
Or: Hiccup runs away. It's probably easier than it should be.
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the trick is remembering how to breathe by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Apr 2024
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Katsuki brings him coffee in bed.
Or: there's always a path to getting better. Katsuki helps Shouto find it.
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- Part 16 of the gloomy days
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think i'm dying (is it obvious yet?) by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
03 Apr 2024
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They always knew the job was dangerous.
But that was the thing: every time, they made it out. They pulled through. They woke up in hospital beds and bandages and another fifty scars but they woke up.
Shouto wasn't even with him when it happened.
Or: Katsuki dies in battle. Shouto isn't taking it well.
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- Part 15 of the gloomy days
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sweetheart, show me the shade by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Mar 2024
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Shouto can't really see Bakugou in the dark anymore, but he can feel.
God, does Bakugou make him feel.
Or: somehow, an injured shoulder is the catalyst for Shouto and Katsuki's first kiss. It's been a long time coming.
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- Part 14 of the gloomy days
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give 'em hell, give 'em teeth (like you taught me) by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
24 Mar 2024
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They only ever get stolen moments, is the thing—snatches of what they could be beyond the night time if things were different. If their situations were kinder. They don't get to be boyfriends in the daylight.
Because Katsuki is at the front of what will no doubt be a bloody revolution.
Because Shouto is a prince, the king's son, the king's masterpiece—and if it comes to revolt, he has everything to lose.
Neither of them have ever been particularly skilled at following rules.
Or: someone in the kingdom has been stirring shit. Prince Shouto knows exactly who it is.
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- Part 13 of the gloomy days
- Part 1 of (lighten up, buttercup)
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once more, with feeling by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
19 Mar 2024
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It never seems to end.
It feels so hopeless in these moments, when his lungs don't feel like they're moving—dead bags of meat, hanging like bodies. He remembers everything feeling worth it a month ago, when he was sitting in the garden at Katsuki's parents' house and evening was encroaching but the air was still warm. Remembers resting his head on Katsuki's shoulder and watching the grass sway, pink sweeping the sky like Katsuki's finger gently tracing his eye bags, eyelashes closing on someone's cheek—the way Katsuki had swatted his arm and gone, Oi, pretty boy, what're you staring at? and the way that Everything seemed like an appropriate answer. It felt so good to be there in that moment. God, when did that leave?
"Hey, sweetheart," Katsuki says quietly, tapping Shouto's shoulder like it might make a sound, "turn around for me."
Or: for Shouto, life is getting hard again. He knows he'll be okay, eventually, but he's got Katsuki to take care of him in the meantime.
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- Part 12 of the gloomy days
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holy hell (i can tell that you hate me) by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Mar 2024
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It's a matter of growing, though, and having people around you to nurture that growth. Bakugou's worth one more chance.
Or: Bakugou is in love. Bakugou is also an idiot. As expected, things go very wrong. It's a good thing Shouto loves him back.
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- Part 7 of (lighten up, buttercup)
- Part 11 of the gloomy days
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kiss me, baby, in the fridge-freezer aisle by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Mar 2024
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(There is the hum of the freezers, the squeak of their shoes. There's Shouto's difference in temperatures. There's the relaxing of his tense shoulders. There's—)
There'll always be bad nights, Katsuki knows that—hell, he has them too.
But it's so much easier when it's the two of them. They don't really need anything else.
Or: Shouto has a nightmare, so he and Katsuki do the obvious thing. They get ice-cream.
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- Part 10 of the gloomy days
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on the ground, lost and found (understand me) by soapstix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
27 Feb 2024
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It feels like he's sixteen, trusting a boy not to break his heart.
Or: Shouto has a lot of feelings about graduation, and author has a lot of feelings about being sixteen. They collide, and Shouto and Katsuki cloudwatch. Things can be beautiful, sometimes.
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- Part 3 of (lighten up, buttercup)
- Part 9 of the gloomy days