Always a Hero AU
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What he once was, what she will be by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Aug 2021
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Being a hero is a core part of Izuku’s identity; it is his destiny, encoded into his very soul. It only makes sense that when he dies and is reborn into a world without quirks, he still ends up as a superhero.
Or; Deku and Ladybug are two very different heroes from two very different universes. Except they aren’t. Except they are the same person.
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- Part 3 of Marinette-centric Fics
- Part 1 of Always a Hero AU
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Memories (take them with you) by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
11 Aug 2021
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Marinette has a nightmare. She makes the rare decision of actually talking to someone about it and tells Tikki about her past life.
She doesn’t expect Tikki to already know about her memories.
The conversation that follows is somewhat confusing.
(Aka I just wanted Tikki to call One For All a soul parasite okay? I’m sorry)
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- Part 2 of Always a Hero AU
- Part 4 of Marinette-centric Fics
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Home is where the heart is (but where is my heart?) by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Miraculous Ladybug
28 Sep 2021
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When young Shoto visits Toshinori for the last time, he confides in the dying hero that Izuku has been reborn, and is living a happy life in a universe vastly different from this one.
Good, Toshinori thinks, young Izuku is happy.
And then, more selfishly, will I ever see him again?
Yagi Toshinori dies that night.
He promptly wakes up in One For All, in this alternate world Shoto mentioned, with Nana smiling down at him.
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- Part 3 of Always a Hero AU
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I am (I am not) by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Miraculous Ladybug
13 Oct 2021
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When Izuku dies and is reborn, he leaves behind a copy of himself in One For All, an album of his memories frozen in the moment he died.
Aizawa-sensei always tells them not to let ghosts of the past weigh them down. But what do you do when you’re the ghost?
Or; Marinette’s story, told from the perspective of a memory.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 4 of Always a Hero AU
- Part 4 of Everybody Suffers (whumptober 2021)
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Self-sacrifice (a lesson learnt) by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Miraculous Ladybug
14 Oct 2021
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To Adrien, Ladybug has always been unattainable. Ethereal. God-like. More than.
She doesn’t need him, not really; but Chat Noir is determined to make himself as useful to her as possible.
If that involves sacrificing himself again and again, so be it.
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Ladybug wishes her partner would stop trying to sacrifice himself for her.
She’s beginning to understand what Aizawa-sensei must’ve gone through.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 5 of Always a Hero AU
- Part 5 of Everybody Suffers (whumptober 2021)
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(Not) a sorceress by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
29 Jan 2022
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“It’s an honour to finally meet you, miss sorceress.” Master Fu inclines his head.
“…I’m not a sorceress.” Marinette replies awkwardly.
“If you say so, sorceress.”
Or; Tikki is sick, and Master Fu thinks Marinette is a sorceress in hiding.
[Marinette is Izuku reborn au]
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- Part 6 of Always a Hero AU
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Deku the akuma by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 Jan 2022
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“Hello, Deku. I am Hawk—”
“Fuck off.”
MarinetteIzuku hisses.Or; after a particularly bad day, Marinette is akumatized. Hawkmoth gets the worse end of the deal.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnated au]
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- Part 7 of Always a Hero AU
- Part 5 of Marinette-centric Fics
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Something about her by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
15 Feb 2022
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Chloe doesn’t like Marinette Dupain-Cheng.
Or; a journey of growth, told through Chloe’s encounters with one black-haired, blue-eyed girl.
[set in the ‘always a hero’ verse, aka Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au, but you don’t have to read the rest of the series to understand this]
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- Part 8 of Always a Hero AU
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Nothing to hide (nothing to fear) by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Mar 2022
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People say those who have nothing to hide, have nothing to fear.
Unfortunately, Marinette has an entire twenty-three years’ worth of memories and one whole secret identity to hide.
When an akuma that brings people’s fears to life attacks, it is up to Chat Noir to save Paris and his petrified partner.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 9 of Always a Hero AU
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Her (his) past unravels by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
11 Mar 2022
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A lesson on reincarnation, ft. MariDeku.
Or; Ladybug tells Chat Noir about her past life. It goes…better than anyone expected, actually.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 10 of Always a Hero AU
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Little Kitty (not alone with his lady) by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Miraculous Ladybug
14 Mar 2022
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After that rooftop conversation under the full moon, things change between the two superheroes of Paris, mostly for the better.
Or; Ladybug and Chat Noir bond, ft. Adrien being a weeb, ancient and unknowable eldritch soul magic, and the brutal slaughter of the fourth wall.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 11 of Always a Hero AU
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You and Me (against the world) by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Mar 2022
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In a vault hidden behind his mother’s portrait, Adrien finds terrible, damning evidence that leave no room for doubt.
How does one deal with finding out their father is the supervillain they’ve been fighting all along?
(Ladybug has some experience on the matter.)
Or; trauma bonding over villain fathers and vaults is a fun team building activity.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 12 of Always a Hero AU
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As the dust settles by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Miraculous Ladybug
18 Mar 2022
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Just because Hawkmoth is defeated doesn't mean Adrien gets his happily ever after right away.
But he'll get there, eventually.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 13 of Always a Hero AU
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Roaring Bonfire by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Mar 2022
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Rose is an empath, and there is a bonfire in Marinette’s chest.
Or; an experiment on how One For All interacts with empathy magic.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 14 of Always a Hero AU
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Pieces of me (are pieces of you) by Pauliestorylover
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Miraculous Ladybug
19 Nov 2022
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Hawkmoth has been defeated, and Marinette and Adrien are finally dating. After everything they’ve been through, they have finally reached their happily ever after, right?
As if. Things are proven to never be that simple when a disheveled man with red-and-white hair runs up to Marinette and hugs her in the street.
Or; Shoto is transported to the ml universe and is reunited with his dead boyfriend, Adrien is jealous of Marinette’s hot ex, and the girls are suspicious of Marinette’s creepy adult friend who totally isn’t in love with her.
[Marinette is Izuku reincarnate au]
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- Part 15 of Always a Hero AU