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    Never Meant To by

    Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)  

    02 Jun 2026

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    Seabright Bay is too small to breathe in, and Izuku Midoriya swore he’d never come back. But his mother is sick, so he does. The town, the ocean, the painful memories and the boy who made it hell all waiting where he left them. Katsuki Bakugou isn’t the golden prodigy anymore, he’s a sun-bleached apology in a surf shop, a storm he never learned to name.

    What started at thirteen with salt, a kiss and a cruelty... never stopped pulling. Years of silence calcified into hate, regret, self-loathing and a want neither of them knows how to survive. Now they keep colliding in doorways and bars, on sandbars and sidewalks, caught between who they were and who they’re terrified to be. Izuku is done drowning. Bakugou is done pretending the tide isn’t his fault.

    This is about the love you survive, the apologies that come too late, and the kind of forgiveness that feels like standing in the break and choosing to stay.

     
    “Because the truth was, loving Bakugou had never been the problem. It was surviving it.”

    “You don’t get to call this unfinished, you hear me? You ended it the second you made me wish I was someone else.”

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    11 Apr 2026

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    Operation: Rookie Llama by

    Fandoms: SK8 the Infinity (Anime)  

    24 Mar 2025

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    Koyomi is tired of watching Reki and Langa ignore their obvious feelings for each other. She decides to take matters into her own hands - with a little help from a friend.

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    21 Mar 2025

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    didn't know I needed you by for EnthusiasticCynicist

    Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

    25 Dec 2024

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    Ten years ago, Orym abandoned a deadly career and a life in shambles to become a bartender. Soon after, he met Dorian—a beautiful, kind, extremely talented lounge musician. Then, in a blink, he left. And Orym tucked his feelings away for what he'd thought would be forever.

    On an unimportant Tuesday, forever may find its way back to him.

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    25 Dec 2024

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    Set in Stone by

    Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)  

    13 Dec 2024

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    There's a beautiful statue of a boy in Yuuei University. No one knows how long it's been there or where it came from, but legend has it that one touch from the statue's soulmate can bring it back to life.

    Katsuki stares down at the scarred hand holding his and shakily concludes that, yes, he's hallucinating and yes, he probably needs to lie down.

    But his rationalizations are quickly dashed when he looks over his shoulder and finds his idiot friends sitting upright with their jaws on the ground, and identical looks of shock and disbelief on their dumb faces.

    Katsuki's heart falls through his stomach.

    No, no, nope, no, no fucking way, he thinks as he slowly turns around, hoping, no, praying to see pure, solid marble again.

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    Or a DKBK modern-day retelling of the myth Pygmalion and Galatea, featuring a very much in love Izuku and a very much in denial Katsuki.

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    13 Dec 2024

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    Nothing, Everything by

    Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)  

    14 Mar 2025

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    Katsuki Bakugou has had his heart broken too many times, yet the thought of kicking Izuku out of it is nauseating.
    Izuku Midoriya is an idiot and doesn't understand context clues, and runs off with a girl he barely knows, really.
    Ochako Uraraka thinks dating a boy she liked in high school is a good idea.

    All of them are incredibly stupid and self sabotaging.

     

    (Maliciously canon compliant if THATS the epilogue Horikoshi wants us to accept as canon)

     

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    09 Dec 2024