Fine Fics for the Gentry
I attempt to catalogue here only the most exalted encounters of my time "grubbing in the archive." I am a lit nerd and these are the fics I have read with excellent, original concepts as well as good writing. Please mind the tags, since my preferences tend toward grimdark. The only things that upset me are lies and serious conflict between romantic interests, so many of these fics feature moral ambiguity and violence outside of the main relationship, but absolute fluffiness within the relationship itself.
(Open, Moderated)
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Checkmate (ShinDeku) by pancakesat2am
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 Nov 2023
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"What's your quirk kid?"
"Not falling for your bullshit."
Izuku, better known as Occult: The Secretive Hero. His quirk remains a mystery to the public. He's lying to everyone, including his best friend Hitoshi. But when he's assigned to take down LOV he discovers lying only gets you so far.
Hitoshi, better known as Mind Jack: The newest member of LOV, pretends to be an ordinary civilian. The only thing he cares about more than his profession is Izuku.
There's only so much time until their worlds collide.
In the end, who will their true loyalties lie with? What's the safest option? They must tread carefully, picking and choosing which morals to abide by.
After all, only the good die young.
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Midnight Stroll by mama_tot
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
19 Jul 2023
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Freelance villain Shinsou is ruthless, untamed, and merciless. So how on earth did he gain a soft spot for someone with the username “SmallMight420” who indiscriminately doxxes heroes they view as corrupt or shitposts about how they cried when they found a kitten in the street?
Shinsou and Izuku become penpals, but when Izuku makes a desperate call for help by posting his location, they go from online to IRL friends real fast.
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- Part 1 of Late Nights
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Danny had actually been looking forward to Casper High's ghost safety assembly, but, between a ghost attack and his parents' newest weapon, things go wrong very quickly. Now Danny will have to fight not only ghosts and hunters but his own instincts to get everyone back home safely. If at all.
Finally finished! Thank you, everyone!
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Series
- Part 25 of Mortified-verse
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Liar Liar by Carrie_Poppins
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
19 Feb 2023
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"What if you could have all the power you ever wanted, and the strength of body to match your strength of will and mind? An ability that would help you to achieve your dream, your desire to protect others-to change this society?"
"…What do you want from me?"
"Dear child, I thought that was fairly obvious. I want to help you achieve your dream, of course. I want to change this society; change this very world in fact. I want to create a world that is better for people like you."
"And this new world… what would it look like?"
"What else, my boy, but a paradise?"
As a twelve year old boy, Midoriya Izuku is made an offer that he cannot refuse. Three years later, UA's newest Class 1-A is left to deal with the fallout.
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- Part 1 of Liar Liar
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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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Dread and Hunger by LiaS0
Fandoms: Hannibal (TV), Hannibal Lecter Series - All Media Types
11 Jul 2017
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AU in which Will receives a secret admirer with a penchant for writing him poetry and slaughtering the innocent in artistic fashions. No one ever told him that courtship was so bloody or appealing -rather, so bloody appealing? He's a part-time bartender that can't catch a break, but at least he has one loyal customer who doesn't seem to mind bouncing from restaurant to bar to restaurant in order to have his favorite drink made by his favorite person.
There couldn't be a correlation though; Dr. Lecter is an upstanding psychiatrist that just likes his drinks served a certain way, and the Chesapeake Ripper keeps sending love letters in the hopes of one day eating him. One is, quite frankly, flattering, the other...
Will isn't stupid enough to tell anyone that it's also equally flattering, albeit horrifying at the same time. It's up for interpretation.
Right?
Slow(ish) burn, romance, obsession, gaslighting, old(er) Hannibal (10 year difference), university-aged Will
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Complicated Creation by Elemental
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
09 Sep 2020
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Midoriya Izuku is medically quirkless, not technically homeless, perpetually exhausted and doing his damned best despite it all. He also sees spirits, which might be cool if not for the fact that a) no one else does, b) they really don't like him very much, and c) he's pretty sure the heroes now think he's a villain working for the League.
Aizawa Shota just wants to take down Overhaul, rescue Eri, keep his students alive, get some rest, and find out how this Deku kid knows things he absolutely should not know about his personal life and the Shie Hassaikai case.
Unless Nighteye's right, and the kid really is a villain.
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- Part 1 of sum of all (and by them driven)
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Chief Arnook never assigns Sokka to protect Princess Yue, so he goes to fight the Fire Nation with the other men. When the moon dies, and the ocean spirit takes its revenge, Sokka is caught standing on the deck of a Fire Nation ship. Sokka should have drowned… and he would have drowned, if not for a certain Fire Nation raft fleeing the North Pole.
[An enemies-to-lovers season 2 rewrite, where Sokka is separated from the gaang during the Siege of the North, and travels the Earth Kingdom with Zuko instead].
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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.
Series
- Part 1 of Switchblade
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Liar Liar by Carrie_Poppins
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
19 Feb 2023
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"What if you could have all the power you ever wanted, and the strength of body to match your strength of will and mind? An ability that would help you to achieve your dream, your desire to protect others-to change this society?"
"…What do you want from me?"
"Dear child, I thought that was fairly obvious. I want to help you achieve your dream, of course. I want to change this society; change this very world in fact. I want to create a world that is better for people like you."
"And this new world… what would it look like?"
"What else, my boy, but a paradise?"
As a twelve year old boy, Midoriya Izuku is made an offer that he cannot refuse. Three years later, UA's newest Class 1-A is left to deal with the fallout.
Series
- Part 1 of Liar Liar