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a promise made in sludge by sprightly
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
13 Mar 2024
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All Might makes an offer. Izuku gets him to make a promise instead.
He knows some things, but he wants others. It's actually not that difficult of a choice, in the end.
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The Hidden is More Immense by sprightly
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Feb 2023
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During his second year at Aldera, Izuku realizes that the hero industry isn't nearly as noble as he thought. It leaves him angry, crushed, and looking for an answer.
"Look," Shinsou huffed, "Heroes who act like that are basically villains. Worse, since they’re supposed to help people. So if we become heroes - whatever that means - then we can get those guys, too.”
The words spark something in Izuku’s brain - something big and amorphous and intriguing. "...like vigilantism?"
"Like...keeping an eye on the shitty heroes. Doing what the Commission won't." Izuku slowly nods, and they grin at each other.
Or: Izuku and his friends become a government watchdog and attempt to terrify the hero industry into change. Of course, it's not that simple.
NOT ABANDONED - BEING REWRITTEN. thanks for your patience :)
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The Will of the Green Lady (and her husband The Smith) by Dragonsteamfan
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types
24 Feb 2021
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Bilbo, Thorin, Fili and Kili are sent back to do things better this time, only the Valar aren't taking any chances. Erebor will once more be the Guardian of the North, even if they have to arrange things themselves.
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Hearts Will As Hearts Must by determamfidd
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
01 Jun 2016
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The Dwarves are returning to Erebor reclaimed, and the elves uphold their promise to safeguard the caravans as they pass through Mirkwood.
One particular Dwarf has wit and spark enough to match Legolas Greenleaf - perhaps even outmatch him.
It's hate at first sight.
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03 Dec 2025
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Robby has gone from barely being able to watch to not wanting to even blink. He can’t keep his eyes from darting down to where Whitaker’s thighs grip the saddle, how he slides forwards on it with every downward bow of the bull and back as it pushes up. Again and again and again, he rolls with the mechanical bull with a single circular fluid motion.
It crosses his mind that this might be one of the hottest things he’s ever seen. He doesn’t even try to unpack that thought, it doesn’t even feel like an opinion he can change. It’s just a fact. Whitaker on the mechanical bull is one of the hottest things he’s ever seen.
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It’s Javadi’s twenty-first birthday party and the Pitt team hit the cowboy themed bar downtown. Whitaker gets on the mechanical bull.
One thing leads to another.
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01 Dec 2025
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The Time for Home by Drenagon
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Dec 2019
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Bilbo Baggins doesn't fit in in the Shire. He's not a normal hobbit. That doesn't bother him.
Having his warnings ignored? Trying to help those who will not help themselves?
That bothers him.
Updated 6/12/19 with post-Epilogue 'one-shot' chapter.
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13 Nov 2025
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The Age of Miscommunication by SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types
30 Sep 2019
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“It’s got such a presence to it, even from a distance,” Bilbo says softly, and there’s a general murmur of awed agreement from the others. “Why, in all my fifty years, I never thought I’d see such a thing, and we haven’t even arrived yet!”
Thorin’s sword hits the ground with a clatter, and Balin chokes on his pipe.
The hobbit doesn’t look at Thorin, too busy thumping Balin on the back. Once the dwarf seems able to breathe again, he looks up, to find thirteen wide pairs of eyes fixed on him.
“What?” he says defensively, though he’s not sure what he’s defending.
“You’re how old?” Kíli squeaks.
Bilbo frowns at the young dwarf. “I’m fifty years old. Well, fifty-one, come springtime. Though it is not very polite to ask someone their age so bluntly,” he tells him primly.
Fíli makes a choked sound, and Nori lets out a vicious string of swears in Khuzdul.
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17 Oct 2025