17 Works in Refreshing Fics (BNHA & More)
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Simply Superstitious by CryCaladrius
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Mar 2026
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Izuku Midoriya’s father is a Hou-ou — a Japanese phoenix.
For some reason, this means yokai have a standing invitation to pester Izuku with their existence. Birds assemble choirs for his birthday. If there’s no cedar leaf under the welcome mat, the amazake babaa that lives two apartments over will be knocking on their door by evening. His yokai-purifying excursions get mistaken for vigilantism far too often.
(What’s going on with All Might? Is Principle Nedzu a yokai? Tokoyami, could you please get Dark Shadow to stop calling me ‘my Lord’?)
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My quirk is one gun, zero fucks. by Tired_and_over_caffeinated
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
17 Dec 2025
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Midoriya Izuku was quirkless. In the eyes of many, he was weak. Nothing.
But Izuku Midoriya was more than that. He was Serpent - the moraled hitman for hire. He was the son of Hisashi Midoriya, a dorky and lovable father.
He had guns, and no fucks to give.
He would be a hero. Society be damned. -
Etherian Dreams by DukeSigward78
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
19 Jul 2025
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The universe wasn’t fair to Izuku Midoriya.
Only 8, Three years over when a quirk SHOULD appear and already wishing for his non-existent quirk to activate. To do... something.
Every night he hoped that something would happen. That he would wake with his quirk and become the hero he always dreamed of.
Then he started dreaming of something else…
This is the story of a powerless boy and his journey through a strange ancient world still full of life and mystery.
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Graves in the Rain by Lian93
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
29 Mar 2024
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Midoriya Izuku was cold. Shivering, in fact, against the cold coffin he was trapped in six feet under the ground. Armed with a mockingly green glow stick, a tape recorder, and two bottles of water, Midoriya waits for someone to rescue him before he drowns in his own thoughts. Will anyone find him? Will anyone hear him? Will anyone save him?
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Aizawa sat at the conference table. It took every bone in his body to keep his emotions in tack. It didn't help that his student was screaming his name so loudly, the audio cracked through the projection screen, or that All Might was six seconds from breaking down next to him. Aizawa envied the man's ability to openly show his emotions. He could easily do the same, but not here. Not with All Might secretly thanking him for not breaking composure. Not with his student dying on camera in front of them.
Not when Midoriya Izuku was so close, yet so far.
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- Part 1 of Free Whump Fics Sold Here
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Take my Brain, or What Remains by Deathlysilence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Portal (Video Game)
30 Apr 2023
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Midoriya Izuku was alive before the birth of quirks. Stuck in a testing facility by a sadistic A.I., Glados, he is forced to go through test after test in the Aperture Science chambers forever.
That is, until a rescue operation takes place to infiltrate the building, and now Midoriya must re-enter a society he didn't belong to with changes to his body he never wanted.
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Midoriya is a test subject in the years after Portal 2, where he undergoes human experimentation at the hands of Glados.
You don't need to have played/watched Portal to understand this, almost all Portal lore is explained.
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Traveling in the Night by Lian93
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Nov 2022
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7 months. It's been 7 months since Midoriya Izuku's been missing. No one knows who took him. Why they took him. Or how they took him. However, when he is found hanging by wrists in a basement, everyone notices something else missing from the poor student, something more than just innocence, something no one knows if he'll ever get back.
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Blind. Deaf. Scentless and Tasteless, Midoriya has only one connection to the world: his sense of touch. In a journey of trust, manipulation, and strength beyond the physical level, Midoriya is forced to lean on those around him. Trust is tested. Reality distorted. And life forever changed.
The road to recovery will be a hard one, but even in the darkness of the night, one never travels alone.
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- Part 2 of Free Whump Fics Sold Here
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As Cold as the Grave by Magolor72401
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 May 2022
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Izuku Midoriya, an aspiring hero hopeful, is murdered on his way home from school. A being, known as Tenebrum, offers to return him to life on one condition: Kill All For One. Initially rejecting the deal out of hand, Izuku finally excepts after Tenebrum tells him that countless people will die if All For One regains the power he as lost. By agreeing to the contract, Izuku Midoriya forfeits all control, where he is forced to walk a path of desolation and despair.
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if you got a second chance, would you take it? by just_another_stressed_out_fangirl
Fandoms: 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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This was not how Izuku Midoriya thought he would die.
After the raid on Overhaul ends tragically, Izuku is dying. It seems as all hope is lost, until Eri sends him back in time to the day of the USJ attack. Now, with a second chance at everything, Midoriya must decide what choices he must make to ensure a better future. But how will these choices affect his friendships and the world around him? And how will he explain how he has nearly a year more training and knowledge without sounding suspicious?
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Hope to Die by LiteralPieceOfTrash
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
19 Dec 2021
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There’s only one more epinephrine pen. Only one more chance to bring his incredibly stupid, stubborn, hypocritical mess of a classmate back from the dead. He stabs his last remaining hope directly into Midoriya’s chest. There’s a beat of absolute and complete silence.
And then, the most beautiful sound Shinso has heard in his entire life. A gasp. He nearly cries with relief.
“You,” he manages to strangle out between too-quick breaths. “Are fucking insane.”
“And right.” Despite the intense shivering, Midoriya’s smile is something to behold. It’s brilliant. Like he’s seen God, held him at his mercy, made him beg, and despite it all, killed him. “Shinso. It Worked.”
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OR: Midoriya thinks he's found the secret to Quirk Awakening. Shinso thinks he's either horribly delusional, or worse, unimaginably brilliant. Either way, this seems like far too much effort to put into a school project, even if it is a major grade. -
The Boy Without a Fairy by TheLoneStar
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time
07 Nov 2021
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Evil stirs, and the Hero of Time awakens to begin his legend. How will the hardships of saving a kingdom sculpt and harden a peaceful ten year-old child?
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- Part 1 of The Hero of Time's Fate
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Between by Sister_Says_Go
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 Sep 2021
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Midoriya Izuku has seen and heard things no one else has since he was four. If he didn’t know things he shouldn’t have been able to, nobody would have ever believed him. Most people still don’t want to. He’s a strange, almost terrifying child, who knows far too much and gives most people chills, despite his best intentions.
After all, he’s currently a window to what’s between.
One for All makes him a door.[If you see this fic anywhere that isn’t the official AO3 website, it’s stolen.]
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- Part 1 of The Between
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Where there is strife, there is Pride by juurensha for Museflight
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
30 Jul 2021
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The plan should have been to pose as Wrath’s son to better oversee the youngest of Father’s homunculi.
However—Roy Mustang had risen through the ranks too quickly, and as a potential human sacrifice, he bore closer watching. And perfectly, Mustang’s closest friend was having trouble conceiving with his wife.
So enter Selim, an orphan boy from King Bradley’s hometown who just happened to have gotten lost while coming to Central for the first time and pitifully bumping into Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes.
Maes Hughes adopts Selim, and everything that changes from that.
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Killua's thoughts before he hung out with Gon for a while. What made him decide Gon would be his first friend.
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Into His Kind Arms, Again by NotMasonPines
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
19 Jun 2021
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Eri Aizawa's life didn't start off with sunshine and rainbows, but she couldn't be happier with the life she has now. She has a father, a big brother, friends and she's training to enter UA. She has left behind that dark beginning and isn't looking back.
But what will she do when an opportunity to make things better shows up? One with huge risks attached to it. Will she take it?
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- Part 2 of One-Shot Ponies
- Part 1 of Rewind, Again
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Hitoshi joins class 1-A and immediately gets hit with a body-swapping quirk, because of course he does.
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Scorpions and Chains by SevenRenny
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Jul 2017
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Izuku hadn't expected his morning to be anything special. Yeah, it was his sixteenth birthday, but his birthdays weren't anything special. He hadn't expected this. Just how had it gone all wrong? His vision blurred and black spots danced at the corners of his eyes. He could make out Uraraka's tear-stained face looking down at him in horror. Every breath threatened to be his last.
Or, Izuku gets hit by a Villain with a Scorpion Quirk, leaving him in a nightmare induced coma. His friends struggle to save him, and accidentally find the side-effect of the Quirk: allowing others to see Izuku's memories before UA.
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- Part 1 of Scorpions and Chains
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Brendan's fight against Crom Cruach lasted only minutes for him, but outside the cave, two days passed.
How did Aidan, Cellach and everyone else react to Brendan vanishing?