startledstarling
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How to Save A Hero by startledstarling
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
23 Jun 2026
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Who saves the heroes after they've saved everyone else? The hero students at UA receive some much-needed therapy after the war.
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The author is a therapist IRL and really wanted to imagine what it would be like to give therapy to class 1-A. Story depicts realistic therapy sessions and we get to see our favorite characters healing over time.
Also there is a cat!
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Pillow Talk by startledstarling
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 May 2026
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Katsuki tucked his nose into Izuku's soft green curls, breathing in the scent of his shampoo. The light filtering through the window cast warm sunbeams across Izuku's freckled skin. He looked beautiful. Katsuki wanted to capture this moment in his memory for eternity. He squeezed Izuku a little tighter. For a few minutes neither of them spoke, just soaking up the tender moment between them.
Izuku shifted beneath him, turning to meet Katsuki's gaze. He pursed his lips, a thoughtful expression on his face. “Do you think Recovery Girl can kiss people without using her quirk?"
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Of course pillow talk with Midoriya turns into hero analysis.
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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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19 Jun 2026
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Fire Lily by EtherealBeing
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 Jun 2022
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There he was: sitting splay-legged on the altar, one muddy combat boot propped up on the edge, with a self-satisfied grin on his face and a relaxed aura, in spite of the war raging outside.
Izuku wasn’t sure what he’d expected to see his first day evacuating humans from the Rapture zone, but it sure as hell wasn’t a Demon with the same goal.
A story about falling, in more ways than one.
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- Part 1 of Fire Lily Expanded Universe
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- English
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- 278,245
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- 21/21
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Bookmarked by startledstarling
13 Jun 2026
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now i see everything in a different light by nikkiRA
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
15 Mar 2022
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Ten years after middle school, Katsuki seeks out Midoriya Izuku to apologize for the harm he'd done in what he expected to be a short, awkward reunion. Except Midoriya Izuku doesn't seem to hold much of a grudge; he's also the hottest man Katsuki has ever seen in his life.
Yeah, Katsuki is fucked.
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- English
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Bookmarked by startledstarling
03 Jun 2026
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The Ember Between Us by SapphireTwilight
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
24 Oct 2025
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Izuku is an omega hero in a world made for alphas. Using that for motivation, he defeated All For One, graduated UA, and made it into the top ten hero rankings. Plus, he’s managed to accidentally stumble into a ‘beneficial’ dynamic with his alpha best friend, Katsuki. At twenty-three, he has found a balance in his life most would envy.
Until the perfect storm of hormones, instincts, and a villain attack cause his world to flip upside down.
Now, the life growing inside Izuku has the ability to light the path for his and Katsuki’s new journey together… or burn everything they’ve built to the ground.
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29 May 2026
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The Orchid Mantis by RazzAppleMagic
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
18 Sep 2023
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“Why does it have to be him?” Katsuki blurts out, because really, that’s what he wants to know. “Of all of the fucking people in the world, why does it have to be him?”
“I was confused about it at first too,” Kirishima admits. He sits up a little straighter. “I mean, you guys fucking hated each other for the longest time. You couldn’t even be in the same room together without getting into an argument or breaking a table.” He laughs a little. Katsuki doesn’t understand how any of this is funny. “Then one day, you guys came into work and… you smelled like him. Everything calmed down after that. It was like all of that hatred and tension was just your way of trying to process your feelings for one another. Once you guys finally, uh, talked it out, things got better.”
(In which Katsuki Bakugou is attacked and loses all recollection of his relationship with Izuku and has to learn to fall in love with him all over again. Faced with a hero case involving a serial killer and missing omegas, Katsuki needs to learn to put aside his own prejudice and open himself up to truth.)
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Bookmarked by startledstarling
28 May 2026