are you All Might’s secret love child????
Just some of my all-time favourite BNHA fics that genuinely bring me joy, are masterpieces, and make me get that giddy holding-in-breath-thingy where I end up squealing like a chimapanzee.
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Shadows: The Horror Movie Heroes by Clouds (myheadinthecoudsnotcomingdown)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Jul 2024
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Izuku Midoriya and Hitoshi Shinso are never going to be the kind of heroes that make civilains think ‘oh, thank god we’re saved,’ when they arrive at the scene. There's too much prejudice against them, so a kid with a villain quirk and one with no quirk at all are never going to be able to inspire that sort of trust.
So instead of becoming heroes that bring hope, they decide to become the next best thing.
The kind of heroes that make villains think, ‘oh, fuck, we’re screwed.’
This fic has a discord.
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- Part 5 of For The Want Of A Nail
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Yuuei Survival Guide by LowlyWriter
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
26 Oct 2023
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Izuku steps towards the other teen, holding his hand out to shake, “I’m Midoriya Izuku by the way. We haven’t officially met yet, right? I don’t remember seeing you at the Entrance Exam?”
The blue-haired boy pauses, studies his hand uncertainly before shrugging. “Shirakumo Oboro,” he introduces in return, hand phasing right through Izuku’s when he goes to return the handshake. Shirakumo doesn’t seem surprised by it, but Izuku whips his hand back when the intense chill climbs up his arm.
or,
Izuku tries to pretend eveything is okay even though his homelife is crumbling around him, there's an insanely powerful Quirk that's not entirely his coursing through his veins, he suddenly knows his childhood hero, All Might, and to top it all off, he seems to have befriend a pastel blue-haired ghost that has way too much insider knowledge on Izuku's new homeroom teacher, and English teacher. He's really just trying to survive Yuuei...
* This fic is now a podfic! Check out the playlist here!
Chapters Edited - 4/50
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- Part 1 of A Boy and his Ghost
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Repeating/Rephrasing/Rewriting History by Osiria_Rosebud
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 Jan 2023
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Izuku remembers what it was like to be considered quirkless. He remembers the staring, the pity, the apathy, the taunting, the insults. It was miserable.
Izuku knows how people with dangerous quirks have to be careful. The slightest twitch of a finger, a glance in the wrong direction, or an unintentional reflex could spell disaster. It is exhausting.
Izuku has seen enough and heard enough to know that not everyone is satisfied with the quirk they were born with. Some are too boring, too weak, too useless compared to the flashy quirks that their society prefers. He can't fault them for believing those things, even when he doesn't agree with them.
Izuku lives in a world where a person's worth is determined by their quirk. While he may not be able to change society's problems, there is something he can do: take other people's quirks and give them away. It's a strange quirk to have, but he's found a way to help people with it. And if he can help people with his quirk, then it follows that he should try to do as much good as possible.
At least, that's what Izuku believes. Some people don't seem to agree.
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"I’m only two minutes late!” Izuku protested. Had he missed the start of an important test? None of the national, standardized tests were supposed to happen this month and even being two minutes late to one of those wouldn’t elicit this sort of reaction. They were discussing their career interest forms today, but that was it. Nothing time-critical was supposed to be happening.
“Midoriya, you were reported missing a week ago. No one has seen you for eight days. The police have been combing the city for you.”
"I’m sorry. What?”
Midoriya Izuku went missing for a week and turned up in a back alleyway with skills he's never even heard of and no memory of how he came by them. He resigns himself to never learning the truth of what happened to him, but he shouldn't waste this chance should he? He could become a hero with reflexes like these.
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- Part 1 of Switchblade
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(How To) Forgive and Forget by legal_kidnapping
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 Mar 2022
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If Quirkless discrimination was a little bit worse, and if Izuku wasn't as forgiving...
Well.
(Featuring: All Might's Absolutely Horrible Teaching™, a slightly more self-aware Izuku, the League Of Villains, very little forgiveness, and a lot of traumatized kids.)
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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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Mobius by Foxquills
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Dec 2024
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Four months from graduation, a routine patrol goes wrong and Izuku finds himself trapped fifteen years in the past. Cut off from everything he knows and everyone he cares about, Izuku returns to U.A. as he struggles to build a place in a time that isn’t his.
Shouta is fascinated with his new classmate. A third year student with more scars than skin, who fights like a pro and struggles to sleep. A boy he's never met that can't stop calling him Sensei.
Hizashi just wants to be friends, and gets more than he bargained for.
Sometimes getting lost is how you find exactly where you're meant to be.
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- Part 1 of Mobius
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09 May 2026
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the ONE time this ship is okay!
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Take It From The Top by Guise
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
07 Mar 2026
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The end of the world begins with the unrelenting anger of a boy who never truly grew up, and the desperation of another who wants nothing more than for them both to see a better future. While Izuku Midoriya hurtles towards the Coffin in the Sky and a fight he may originally have been destined to win, these two boys — brothers shrouded in fire and pain and bitter, bitter resentment — exchange blows that seal the fate of billions.
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Izuku feels the blood drain from his face as he processes what it all means.
This is— this is impossible, but if he’s right then— holy shit, they have a chance, a real, actual chance, because if Uraraka doesn’t know him, and if she caught him when he fell, and if Eri’s quirk can rewind, rewind, rewind someone— something along its existence, then that can only mean—
“Today’s the Entrance Exam.”
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Shoto's fight with Dabi goes sideways. This creates a ripple effect that decimates hero society.
Izuku's final confrontation with All For One saddles him with a ghost quirk. It, OFA and Rewind don't play nice — and Izuku finds himself back on the day of the Entrance Exam.
This time he'll save everyone.
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- Part 1 of Take It From [The Universe]
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Floral & Fading by astralluna
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Sep 2020
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Hawks greedily begins sucking in as much oxygen as fast as he could. Every breath he takes caused his chest to tighten and a sharp pain to flare up at his sides. His vision was swimming in front of him, only adding to the horrible dizziness of his mind. When he finally gets his bearings, he looks down at his hand.
Only to freeze when he sees a single white flower petal resting in the palm of his hand.
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It's his second year at UA, and Shinsou is finally, finally, transferring to the hero course. He's ready, he thinks, or hopes— either way, it doesn't matter, 'cause he's going to show everyone he's got what it takes. And it also doesn't matter that the longer he spends in the program, the more he can't stop thinking about a certain freckled wannabe-friend, and the more he's noticing that a certain stoic classmate is paying him a lot more attention than he'd like.
Whatever. Irrelevant. He's here to be a hero, not make friends. Even if they would be the first ones he's made in...ever. But it's his second year, and he's going to make it count by focusing on what's important.
His name is Shinsou Hitoshi, and he's going to be a goddamn hero.
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- Part 1 of Cotyledon