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the hands that hold you (won’t let you fall) by Withstarryeyes for makeaboomboom

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
19 Jun 2026
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There’s a pause, Tenya’s heavy kid breathing the only thing in Tensei’s ears. “I’m worried about Izuku.”
Tensei curses in his mind, stepping off the sidewalk to rest by a building. His patrol can wait for a couple of minutes.
“Yeah?” He prompts, hoping Tenya will pick up the thread.
Tenya does. “I don’t think he’s sleeping, but he won’t talk to Mama or me about it.”

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- Part 7 of In the Ring With a Chair (Fic Fight 2026)
- Part 4 of to share the weight of it all
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Pulling an All Mighter by AddrianaStarflower, Lilly_Penwielder, SaccharineSalt, Withstarryeyes for demifool

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Jun 2026
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By the time Toshinori makes it back upstairs to the safety of his own four walls he is lamenting the fact that he’d already run out of All Might hours today leaving him with another three as his own secretary.

“I need a raise,” murmurs the man who signs his own paycheck. “This is worse than fighting villains.”

He reaches blindly for his water mug, cradling it in his hands like he can mind over matter it into doing some coffee magic for him.

“At least I can punch those.”

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- Part 4 of telemarketers (the ultimate evil) : Fic Fight League of Villains 2026
- Part 5 of Assassination, Petty Theft, and Trafficking (Fic Fight Volume 4 - 2026)
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don't go so soon by Withstarryeyes for InsomniaToad

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Jun 2026
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He counts down in his head, waiting out Shigaraki’s movements. Shigaraki inches nearer, two fingers on Asui’s face, then three. Shouta holds his breath, readying his quirk. At the fourth finger he lets it activate, pleading with his body to not blink, to never blink.

But then there’s a blur of green and a splash, and Midoriya is where Asui once was. It throws his timing off. Shouta blinks, opening his eyes just in time to see the fifth finger land around Midoriya’s throat.

Time slows down, as if to mock him. Shouta can’t make out Midoriya’s pained cry, can’t hear Asui’s uncharacteristic curse through the pounding of his blood in his ears. The only thing he can do, with the last beats of his consciousness, is watch in slow motion as the skin and muscle unravel from Midoriya’s throat. Glassiness blooms in Midoriya’s eyes as his body falls into the water, limp. Shouta’s heart leaps and sticks in his throat. Overcome with the knowledge that even in his last moments, his sacrifice wasn’t enough to save Midoriya, Shouta shuts his eyes.

Or...Izuku's feet move on his own at the USJ and he takes Shigaraki's quirk for Tsu. His death is and is not what it seems.

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- Part 6 of In the Ring With a Chair (Fic Fight 2026)
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lessons hard-learned are better taught by Withstarryeyes for afromaniiac

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Jun 2026
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Shouta should be starting his evening rounds right about now. He needs to check that the kids are following curfew, but it’s a Friday night and he’s had a terrible patrol and the roof, cool and empty and so so familiar, is where he wants to be, so he supposes the kids can have fifteen extra minutes. It’s not unearned.
He hears the door creak behind him, the sound of footsteps, confident and then halting, and then an exhaled, surprised little, “Oh—”
Shouta doesn’t need to turn to place the voice. He makes no indication that he heard the kid, giving him a few seconds to decide if he wants to fade back down the hallway and into his room, where he should be. Instead, there is only silence as the kid waffles.
“It’s a bit late for you to be out of the dorms, Midoriya.”
Or... Aizawa knows when to bend a little.

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- Part 5 of In the Ring With a Chair (Fic Fight 2026)
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water in the palm of my hand (i feel you slipping through) by Withstarryeyes for daylightbreaks

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Jun 2026
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Tensei pauses at the threshold of the room, tapping his wheels with the flats of his hands. Tenya’s been quieter since Tensei got injured—irascible and easily overwhelmed. He also won’t look Tensei in the eye most days. He idles at the edge of the living room, rocking his chair back and forth as he wonders if he’ll make the situation worse with his presence. But Tenya is his little brother, and Tensei can’t pretend he hasn’t seen this, that his heart doesn’t ache for the vacant expression on Tenya’s face.
So he wheels over to the couch, flicking the TV off with the remote. It breaks whatever spell Tenya’s been under, his eyes flicking up to Tensei’s face then off, searching for something else in the room to focus on. Tenya’s throat clicks as he swallows thickly.
“I apologize if I woke you.” The words are overly formal, and it just further reminds Tensei how little this version of Tenya resembles the younger brother he remembers.
Or...In the wake of Stain's attack, the Iida brothers hold tightly to their guilt.

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- Part 4 of In the Ring With a Chair (Fic Fight 2026)
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there is a light, i feel it in me by maxisnotokay

Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Oct 2023
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Astarion still liked her even after he found out about the Urge. He still likes her, now, even as he sits just far enough away from her that their shoulders aren’t quite touching.
The thing is that Lenore loves him. Lenore loves Astarion more than she imagines she has ever loved anything, ever, past life of missing memories be damned. And it doesn’t matter if she wants to curl up against him. She doesn’t want to make him uncomfortable—it’s not something he wants, he’d said—and her own hands are too stained with blood for her to even try.
She’ll take it in stride. She’ll only touch him when he initiates it, and even then she will hold her breath until it’s gone.
She loves him, is the thing. She’s not going to do that to him.
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or: The Dark Urge doesn't know how to ask for comfort. Astarion figures it out along the way.

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all that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing by maxisnotokay

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Dec 2022
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Heavy, wet breathing, and a choked-off voice: “C-come in. Please. Someone, come in. This is Midoriya Izuku. Bakugou Katsuki and I are t-trapped—”
He cuts himself off, just as Katsuki fuzzily realizes his head is pillowed on Izuku’s thigh. His thoughts come in slow like molasses.
Izuku breathes hard. “—Under a building. We’re under the building.”
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Izuku has had this thing about him that Katsuki has never been able to name, but he's been chasing it since he learned how to run. It takes a catastrophic building collapse during their third year and a severe concussion for him to realize what it is.
Aizawa loses ten years off his life. When does he not.

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12 Jun 2026
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When Realities Collide by LowlyWriter

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 Aug 2023
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(Formerly known as Into the Deku-Verse)
Shota sneers at the teenager across from him. His defense raises like the hairs on the back of his neck as he glares steadily, ready and waiting for whatever will come from this encounter. He narrows his gaze when the teen shifts; just the thought of sharing this rooftop with Japan's most notorious villain makes his skin prickle. “Deku.”
“Y-yes!” the teenager cries out in relief, taking a small step towards Shota, “I’m Deku! I’m so g-glad you—”
“Deku,” Shota growls darkly, flicking out his capture weapon hastily to snag the villain before he can make his move. He's quick to tug it taut, leaving no room for Deku to escape. “You’re under arrest.”
“I-I’m what?! W-wait!”
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Hero Course student Izuku comes to the realization that he is definitely not where he's supposed to be.
* This fic is now a podfic! Check out the playlist here!

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- Part 1 of Two Sides of a Coin
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12 Jun 2026
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Exam Blues (or Reds) by SparkandSmile

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
13 Feb 2023
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Approaching the gates of U.A. Izuku felt- In what was surely was an inverse of the typical exam nerves- that he was dreading the written portion of U.A.’s exam far more than the practical portion.
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Izuku learns a lesson about counting eggs

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- Part 3 of Multitool
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08 Jun 2026
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unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy by HalloweenClown for ghostwriterofthemachine

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Jun 2026
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"When someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. Others are abrupt and unfair. But most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy."

Or, Katsuki wondering if his last words to Izuku are going to be stupid.

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- Part 1 of clown flavored vigilantism (fic fight 2026)
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05 Jun 2026