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Viking has dreamed of being a Star Explorer her whole life. Now she’s finally on her first Expedition, and she can’t wait to see what lies in store. It’s more than she bargained for.
Join Viking’s Crew as they experience a not-so-heartwarming story of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, mob mentality, paranoia, murder, politics, imperialism, that annoying task in Electric, love, soul-crushing terror, how to have fun when everyone is dying, and space cats.
Abandoned, tragically, because I forgot about it for like a year and now don't remember it!
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undo, underdog by Raayide
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
06 Jul 2026
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UA has a rule—no quirkless students. It was added years ago, after much hemming and hawing about safety concerns and lessening blame in the inevitable circumstance of death. There's no real reason to remove it, not as the percentage of quirkless people plummets further and further.
Of course, this rule doesn't actually matter to Izuku, because he's got an analysis quirk.
As far as anyone knows.
The Plan is simple: have a quirk, become a hero, and avoid anyone who could disprove those first two things.
In hindsight, UA isn't a great choice. And that's before the villains.
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09 Jul 2026
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Did you like harry potter? Did you like mha? Great news. This is MHA written like harry potter but with more depth than either canon. You will laugh. You may cry. Make sure you have water with you because you will not get up to get some after you start reading this.
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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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04 May 2024
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Razzmatazz by xylophones
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Jul 2021
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Izuku has plans for everything.
He plans out what to say to the cashier when ordering coffee, he plans out his homework before even opening his textbook. He has a whole ten-year plan for how he’s going to get into UA’s hero course and get his hero license fully quirkless. He plans for every wild, unlikely scenario he can think of because his anxiety gets so bad if he doesn’t go through every possible outcome, every way his life could landslide into disaster–– but Izuku never planned for this.
For once, he doesn’t have a plan and he doesn’t have time to think of one. All he can see is Yagi-san’s lined, kind face looking resigned as he stares down the villain in his shop. Yagi-san, who is the closest thing to a father figure Izuku has ever had.
Izuku doesn’t think. He just moves.
(Or: Izuku saves the number one hero, gets a hero license way earlier than anyone wanted, realizes that maybe hero society isn’t as great as he thought it was, and everything just kind of falls apart from there.)
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- Part 1 of Despite Your Good Intentions
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12 Jan 2024
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I loved it so much I read it twice.
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The One Where Peter is Tony's Weakness by JinxQuickfoot
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Iron Man (Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
04 Sep 2021
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“I see you are confused. In a moment, I will allow you to look closer. But first, you must understand the position you are in, in full.” Banich rolled out an ancient TV screen and, when he turned it on, Tony felt like he’d been kicked in the stomach.
It was Peter.
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A Sokovian doctor needs Tony's help to 'fix' his granddaughter, and Peter gets pulled into the middle of it.Series
- Part 30 of Weaknesses
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16 Oct 2021
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This is probably the best horror on this website. I mean this actually freaked me out. It was really, really well done.
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hand in unlovable hand (a chokehold) by britishparty
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
30 Sep 2022
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Tim Drake is eleven years old when he’s grabbed off the streets of Bristol while he’s on his way home. It will be okay, he tells himself: they’ll call his parents, and they’ll pay the ransom, and he’ll get to go home.
There are pictures of Batman and Robin on the camera he was carrying. A lot of pictures.
They don’t call his parents. They call Black Mask.
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or: the one where Black Mask kidnaps Tim and tries to groom him into a ruthless heir, and Tim tries to figure out how to destroy him from the inside out.General warnings tagged, anything not covered by those is in end-of-chapter notes to avoid spoilers.
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- Part 1 of blackbird singing in the dead of night
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27 Aug 2022
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I went crazy reading this fic and I'll probably read it again.
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Best Ever--fics so well-written I consider them to be the best I've ever read