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The Penumbra of a Dying Star by Zeptzy
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Jun 2026
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"Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."
In the wake of calamity, the world held its breath—and then exhaled at the sight of one boy, fist raised against the dark. Izuku Midoriya ended an era. He didn't mean to become a legend. He just refused to stop moving forward.
Eight years later, he walks the same streets as anyone else.
No lightning in his veins. No weight of the world on his shoulders. Just a man with a history. Deep and rich, but slowly fading from the public memory, replaced by simpler stories told about simpler people.
All Might's legacy had been built to last. Carved into monuments. Rendered in bold lines and primary colors. The kind of legend that gets taught in schools and painted on walls, passed on in stories of grandeur, and illustrated by the bold and proud.
But Izuku was never a monument.
He was something harder to name and easier to lose.
This is the story of what he left behind and why it took him so long to see it.
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21 Jun 2026
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Majin by Izual for DeusVerve
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Jun 2026
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Majin was created because All for One died.
Majin was the most deadly creature on the planet.
Majin will do anything Master orders.
Majin has killed people by the hundreds.
Majin, more than anything else in the world, wants to be a Hero.
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11 Jun 2026
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Mobile Suit Academia: Legacy from the Countless Centuries by EasyEight
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), Gundam & Related Fandoms
22 Jun 2026
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In a world where heroes dominate the media landscape, fourteen-year-old Izuku Midoriya possesses a quirk that seems almost laughably weak: "Plavsky Particles"—the ability to animate plastic models. His childhood friend Katsuki Bakugo mocks this "toy quirk," and Izuku struggles with the doubt of never becoming a true hero with what he believes a subpar Quirk.
Everything changes when his mother Inko discovers a dusty DVD collection belonging to her great-great-grandfather: the complete original Mobile Suit Gundam series from the 1980s. In this hero-obsessed future, the Gundam franchise has been completely forgotten, but for Izuku, it becomes a revelation.
Soon after, he meets and old Sei Iori, who shows him a warehouse filled with unassembled Gunpla kits. Now armed with an army of Mobile Suits, from the original RX-78-2 Gundam to the Zaku II, Izuku carries out his dream of a Hero.
But even society is reluctant to let a Quirk as "Plavsky Particles" flourish. The HPSC sees his ability dangerous and interesting, and Izuku may have to take a different road, a different path...- Language:
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10 Jun 2026
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Zenin but Toph Beifong by Izzi_Tarron
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga), Avatar: The Last Airbender: Chronicles of the Avatar Novels - Various, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
01 Jun 2026
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Blind again. Autumn again. The world smells of rotten leaves and someone else's blood. My brother thinks I'm a burden, and my clan thinks I'm trash. Fools. The dust you turn your nose up at is the earth. And the earth is me. And I am Toph Beifong, and I will show you who is the greatest earthbender in your fake world.
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04 Jun 2026
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Speaking of Now by G1lbert
Fandoms: 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - All Media Types, 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga)
17 Jun 2026
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Not every story has a happy ending.
The Hero Party failed to defeat the Demon King; Himmel died trying. For humanity, this was the dawn of a new Dark Age.
Many years later, a once-great mage lives in seclusion, deep in the forest where her journey first began. One day, her solitude is broken by a certain boy searching for someone called Frieren.Bookmarked by Once_Was
03 Jun 2026