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The Flame Alchemist was short.
Technically, he was close to average height, Laith estimated, but the monster in his memories dwarfed the one conversing with Colonel Miles.
An Ishvalan man's perspective on Mustang's return to Ishval in the years after the Promised Day.
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- Part 3 of Return (A Ficlet Collection)
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Her Smile by ceryle
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Jul 2025
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Sometimes her smile was fierce. It was dangerous to be on the receiving end of that smile, Tenya realized—but not in time to do more than a flailing attempt at a block as Uraraka hurtled toward him with a ferocious yell.
Two friends spar and talk and remember what they’ve lost, and Tenya finds his footing.
(Knowledge of the Stormlight Archive is NOT required to understand this little story.)
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Riza found the child on the side of the road. Briefly, shamefully, she wished she’d taken another route, worn anything but this blue uniform. But she was here, and she couldn’t look away, not now. So she knelt.
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- Part 2 of Return (A Ficlet Collection)
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His fingers twitched; her hands tightened. Thirty-seven minutes.
“Do I look too much like him?”
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- Part 1 of Return (A Ficlet Collection)
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The Things We Wish We Deserved by ceryle
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
17 Dec 2024
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When Jean had tried to rally everyone for a Giribaz Jig, Riza had slipped away into the evening air, leaving the carefree cacophony behind her. She couldn’t dream with the living when her mind was full of the dead.
She had no right.
How could she want so much when she had taken so much more?
On an emotional day, Riza receives comfort and companionship from an unlikely person.
(And then from the most likely person of all.)
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After the Promised Day, Roy and Riza finally return to Ishval.
A collection of short fics that can be read separately and in any order.
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Pulling the Tower by corkscrew_icarus
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
20 Aug 2025
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Sero wakes up by inches.
He’s too hot. That’s the first thing he notices. He’s soaked in sweat, and the heat pressing in on him is practically a physical thing — a humid fist clenched around his body, squeezing the air from him with every gasping breath he tries to take.
He can’t move. That’s the second thing.
A weekend mall trip becomes a fight for survival when Sero and five of his classmates are kidnapped. Sedated and restrained, they are unable to free themselves when the truck transporting them crashes, leaving them stranded inside under the midday sun. With the temperature rising and no way to call for help, they struggle against time and their own deteriorating conditions as they try to get out alive.
Bookmarked by ceryle
22 Aug 2025
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A simple but gripping (and grisly) scenario that yields insightful character moments and perspectives. Terrific balance of action, introspection, heartstring-tugging, and humor!
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Unsung by Anonymous
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Apr 2025
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In the wake of All Might's first devastating battle with All For One 8 years before the events of canon, the symbol of peace emerges victorious but permanently scarred. However, when whispers of All For One's survival emerge and with All Might still out of commission, the heroes realize that a second chance of this magnitude cannot be wasted on another head-on confrontation.
In the shadows of Naruhata ward, underground hero Eraserhead maintains a delicate criminal ecosystem through calculated intervention and strategic restraint. When his former teacher assigns him to investigate a series of mysterious healer abductions, Shouta reluctantly accepts—even as he continues dismantling a dangerous new Trigger drug operation threatening his streets. When the two investigations start to collide, Shouta finds himself pulled into a conspiracy that extends far beyond Naruhata, hinting at connections to a terrifying figure hiding in the deepest depths of Japan's underworld.
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Bookmarked by ceryle
02 Apr 2025
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Young twenties Eraserhead meets detective noir. Atmospheric, detailed. Neat worldbuilding for underground hero work. Aizawa has a warehouse gym-slash-weapons locker AND he sometimes babysits tiny Ochako. Could anyone ask for more?
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Dominoes by meridianpony
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
10 Mar 2026
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"So. We died." Hevy's voice is flat.
“Yes, we died,” Fives confirms. "We all... remember, right?" Even though his hands are steady on Echo’s shoulders, his voice trembles as everyone nods.
Droidbait shudders, and shuffles closer to Cutup. “How is that possible?” he says. “We’re not Jedi. We can’t… see the kriffing future, or whatever it was. We can’t—it’s just not possible. How could we all have had the same dream?”Domino squad wakes up to find themselves back on Kamino, hours from taking their final test... except they remember passing the final test, and they each remember dying afterwards, too.
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- Part 1 of Dominoes
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- 386,125
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- 50/?
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Bookmarked by ceryle
10 Dec 2024
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Immersive slow-build focused on a reborn Domino Squad. The writer takes so much care to flesh out all the Dominoes—and so many other characters!—while tackling tragedy, grief and healing, and political drama. Some great comedy too. A true comfort fic (though plenty of bad things do happen, fair warning).
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Nothing So Bright by Strix4
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
07 Sep 2020
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"They are ready, in a way that breaks their teacher’s heart. Totally unsurprised. Almost instinctive in how fast they’d responded, like previous attacks have turned ‘battle ready’ into ‘muscle memory’. They’re fourteen and fifteen-years-old and impossible to look at for how much it hurts."
Or, the true power of Class 1-A is their ability to change people.Series
- Part 1 of Nothing So Series
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Bookmarked by ceryle
13 Feb 2025
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Outsider POV of Class 1-A—the shenanigans, the heart, and the weight of what it really means to be a hero. The OC, a student-teacher, is an empathetic lens. Extremely funny writing that also makes your heart ache for these future heroes.
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Clasp my hand (A choice is made) by Sharade_12
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
29 May 2026
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Toshinori reaches a hand, the one that is shattered beyond repair and drenched in blood. He gives a smile to the boy. He can feel blood smeared across his teeth. He can't imagine his smile is any reassurance, but Toshinori is dying and desperate. A piss-poor smile is all he can give.
A piss-poor smile, and an earth-shattering quirk.
'I have a healing quirk,' he lies, begging the boy with his eyes. Please, say yes. Please accept my DNA. 'It only works on others. Let me h-help you? I won't last.' Toshinori's words come more and more haltingly. He can feel cold darkness encroaching on his limbs already. He tilts his hand, just slightly, just enough to renew his offer to the boy. 'At-At least… Not long enough… For help to arrive in time.'
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Yagi Toshinori gets caught in a building collapse in his powered-down form. As he lays dying and without a successor, he offers his quirk to a young boy who is trapped alongside him.
All Might never makes it out of the building. But Midoriya Izuku does.
With no parent and a new limb-breaking quirk, he becomes a ward of UA.
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- Part 2 of Sharade_12's Reusable First Chapters (CC-BY-NC)
- Part 2 of Sharade_12's MHA fanfictions
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Bookmarked by ceryle
22 Oct 2024
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An Aizawa-is-Midoriya's-guardian story with a surprising premise, intriguing world-building, and incisive character exploration. Love this take on Nezu in particular! Aizawa is...soft-ish, without feeling out of character.