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Dead on Delaware Ave by xenarchus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
22 Dec 2025
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Before the collapse, Midoriya was a soon-to-be-doctor at the University of Buffalo alongside his best friend. After the collapse, he's built something resembling home alongside a handful of eccentric acquaintances. His friend is gone. So is the life he planned. When supplies run short, they need to move. And winter is closing in.
Enter Bakugo and his crew: a mismatched group of strangers turned zombie hunters, who rescue Midoriya's group on a botched supply run. Skeptical of one another, but equally impressed, Izuku and Katsuki forge a pact. Their groups will combine their manpower to prepare to flee the city. Permanently.
They all get what they need, but of course there's a catch - disturbing the dead tends to catch the attention of the living. And the living are just as hungry.
(I was homesick for Buffalo NY and this was the result. Yes, you can follow their routes on maps. Enjoy.)
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Pulvis et Umbra (Dust & Shadow) by xenarchus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
07 Dec 2025
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Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo dreamed of becoming the greatest heroes the world had ever seen. Unfortunately, bitter adult reality tends to overpower the syrupy sweet dreams of childhood.
“Fuck,” he huffed. “Look, I - you take this shit… seriously, right?”
Izuku blinked. “Uh, Kacchan? I have no idea what you’re talking about. You said you needed to talk to me, that’s all the context I have. Can I get like… detail? Specification?”
“Oh my god.” He hunched forward and dragged a palm down his face, before it settled stiffly on his knee. “Just shut up, Deku, all right? Knowing I’m talking to you makes talking hero shit impossible.”
“Oh,” Izuku sighed, looking away. “I mean, all right. If it makes you more comfortable. Shutting up now.”
Vigilante AU, but not how you'd expect. Slow burn/character study investigating the trauma these kids went through while alienated from real means of support. Canon compliance melts in Mina’s acid around the Sports Fest.
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In the Interest of Argument by SilverCoastCity
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
05 Jan 2026
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Tucked away in the far corner of Hargrove Annex lies Room 441, where Izuku Midoriya, a sophomore at U.A. University, feels most at home. Surrounded by structured discourse, highlighted texts, and the comforting logic of rhetoric, he has a sanctuary of seminars and syllogisms led by none other than his hero: Professor Toshinori, former national debate champion of U.A.
In Professor Toshinori’s class, everything makes sense to Izuku.
Except for the new student.
Sharp-tongued, broad-shouldered, arrogant, and the star point guard of U.A., Katsuki Bakugou wreaks havoc on Izuku’s safe haven. What’s worse: Izuku is assigned as the late addition's tutor to help catch him up with the rest of Toshinori's class.
What begins as academic obligation becomes something far more complicated, tangling Izuku in tension and stubbornness he can’t quite seem to reason his way out of.
In rhetoric, every argument starts with a premise.
This one starts with a glare.
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19 Jan 2026
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“I… I actually have a favor to ask.”
The reaction at the table was inevitable and it stung. Smiles grew wary and both Beauregard and Veth crossed their arms immediately, Veth sizing him up with a critical look.
“What kind of favor?”
Essek felt the blood shoot into his cheeks- by the luxon, this had been a terrible idea. But it was too late now.“I… my Den’s annual meeting is coming up, and I need a plus one, to put it simply.”
The Nein still all stared at him, brows furrowed.“Is it a political meeting?”, Caleb asked.
“It’s more of a family get-together, to be honest.”, Essek confessed, feeling very sheepish.
“But why do you need someone to go with you?”, Jester asked, scrunching up her nose.
Well, there it was. Essek fidgeted with his sleeve before he replied, as dignified as possible, “Frankly, because I am tired of my family’s burning questions about why I never bring any company.”
The resulting shriek Jester let out made him jump- and not only him it seemed.“You need someone to pretend to be your daaaaaaaate?”
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24 Dec 2025
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The Time Between Our Lives by Fitzrovia for SapphicPandaBear
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
22 Aug 2023
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When a villain sends Izuku and Katsuki hundreds of years into the past, their only mode of escape relies on solving an impossible riddle: what is the beauty of all life?
Alone, quirkless, and separated from everything they know, Izuku and Katsuki have to work together and embrace their unspoken love and devotion towards one another if they ever hope to return home.
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"What if it takes us like… ten years to get back? D'you ever worry about that?"
What if we never get back?
"'Course I do, nerd." Kacchan says it with more fondness in his voice than Izuku knew him capable. "And if we're gonna be stuck here a while, maybe we should start living our lives… here."
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- Part 1 of TTBOL and Sequels
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14 Oct 2025
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No One Left But Me by quicksparrows
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
19 Jun 2020
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Five years after the revolution that made him both a hero and a failure, Sylvain Jose Gautier is living a quiet rural life, having given up his titles, sold his lands, and left his friends behind. Though he has tried to put his past behind him, it comes back to haunt him when Edelgard asks him to undertake one last mission for her, forcing him to reconnect with old friends and confront the man he was, the man he is, and the man he wishes to be.
(A post-Crimson Flower story wherein Sylvain, Felix and Ingrid were recruited to the Eagles and tried to save Dimitri from himself by fighting on both sides of the war. Spoilers for Crimson Flower, with many borrowed elements of Azure Moon. Updates every Friday.)
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11 Aug 2025
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Rewind. Reset. Remember. by ThyNameNotSpoken
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
11 Feb 2024
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The Underground: a network of vigilantes supported and directed by the Hero Commission to assist in maintaining the structure of Hero Society through any means necessary.
Izuku descended into the Underground after the War, a quirkless medic with no future. Presented with a deal of a lifetime. He entered the doors of Illusion and into the laps of Heroes spilling all their secrets and wants. Strings of Hero Society plucked by the Commission while Izuku and his crew deal with criminals in forgotten areas of the city. Whatever missions the Commission throws at them just a bonus.
There are whispers of a new threat growing in the city and, to make matters worse, Izuku finds himself with the eyes of the Number One hero on him. A slippery slope into something Izuku can't escape.
If there’s anything Izuku has learned as a vigilante and spy, it’s that everything is not what it seems.
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31 Jul 2025