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Danger First by Marsalias for pocketramblr
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Aug 2026
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What if the first quirk in One for All to activate wasn't the power stockpile, but Danger Sense?
Now with a TV Tropes page! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/DangerFirst
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Genesis by HailcorePhoenix
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Jul 2026
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A boy made of lies that were all supposed to mean something. His quirk, his past, his NAME, all carefully built to mean nothing. But it never goes according to plan. Izuku thought he had everything handled, under control. His quirk is nothing, like everyone thinks it is. His past is locked away, where it can't hurt anyone anymore. His name? Fake, obviously. Both of them.
How long can this relative peace last when a desperate vigilante bites off more than he can chew? How will run-ins with heroes, villains, and a strange girl with a penchant for knives alter the course of history?
Meanwhile, a different girl sits on a beach, an outcast from birth. A destiny approaches her, brought on by one lucky chance and a conversation with a man the shadow of what he used to be. When destiny and the public eye prove to be too much, who will be there to pick up the pieces?
And what's wrong with these quirks?
This is the beginning of something more.
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Or, Izuku has AFO and nothing ever goes according to plan. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not.
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24 Feb 2026
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Excellent Izuku-with-AFO fic
Last checked 7/29/2026, ch. 137 -
Fundamental Theorem of Heroics by NightowlRobin
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
13 Aug 2026
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Shinsou Hitoshi grew up always being told he was destined to be a villain, and everyone knows a villain can't be a hero.
So he couldn't really be a hero, that's fine. He'd be as close to a hero as a villain could be.
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Shinsou becomes a vigilante and is surprisingly good at it.
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16 May 2025
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The beautiful, painful Shinsou fic <3
Last checked 7/23/2026, ch. 234 -
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After the events of War Crimes, Sokka and Zuko have escaped Zhao’s warship and are fleeing across the Earth Kingdom. As well as unfamiliar terrain, they have to navigate their shared trauma, work out where they fit into the war, and their place in each others lives.
Sokka is aware that being friends with the enemy is going to bring complications, but he probably should have guessed that being friends with Zuko in particular, was going to be a bit like dunking your head repeatedly into a bucket of angry Fire Ferrets.
Katara is also grappling with the confusion of befriending an enemy, something that doesn’t prove as difficult as she had expected with the bond of shared, furious grief bridging old wounds. (Learning a new way to look at her bending doesn't hurt either)
Azula, struggling with the Fire Lord’s mistrust, encounters a few nasty surprises and has to make some difficult decisions. Luckily, she is a great deal better at making sensible choices than her brother.
Her father may have made a slight tactical error.
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- Part 2 of All's Fair
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16 Jan 2026
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Amazing dark ATLA fic
Last checked 6/29/2026, ch. 48 -
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Zuko had never excelled at anything. Azula was a prodigy. Uncle always knew what to say. And Father... Father was strong, iron-like. But Zuko had only ever been good at surviving. Putting one foot in front of the other in a grim show of stubborn determination, gritting his teeth and bearing it. Survival was all he had ever been taught. He knew how to do it. So when he was kidnapped by the Southern Water Tribe, he expected to fight as he always had. He didn’t expect to be taught instead how to live.
In a warring land, the Water Tribe forgave the enemy in an act of defiance. For this, he was torn from them, and this time, his wounds won't heal so easily.
Forced back into nothing but survival, the last person Zuko expected to see was Hakoda's son. Hakoda was a promise of safety. The relentless blue of Sokka’s eyes was a promise of happiness. Zuko could have both if he just reached out his hands, but he found them clutching into fists. After all, he’d been burned one too many times.
But hey, at least between Hakoda and Sokka, Zuko could appreciate the family resemblance of pure, asinine stubbornness.
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08 May 2026
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Excellent ATLA fic
Last checked 5/8/2026, ch. 46