Simple_Clay
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Hunger Artist by Simple_Clay
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Tokyo Ghoul
02 Jun 2026
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Izuku had heard of the uncanny valley.
Two words, meant to summarize a vast feeling of insurmountable description.
The uncanny valley, at its core, was an instinctual feeling of wrongness humans experienced when seeing something non-human with human characteristics. Birds with mocking capabilities or emotionally intelligent AI could trigger it, or even other humans that were sick or dying.
Izuku thinks there’s something more. When he looks in the mirror, he can see that the body in his reflection is identical to his own.
When his reflection touches his face, he feels the caress on his own skin. When Izuku moves his arm, the reflection copies him.The reflection is real, yet it is not. It couldn't exist unless Izuku himself was there to give it life, to give it something to copy.
If Izuku shattered that mirror, his reflection would cease to exist, erased.
But it wouldn’t erase the feeling that Izuku got when he looked into the eyes of his own reflection.The uncanny valley was an instinctive response when seeing something non-human that was trying very desperately to pretend that it was.
When Izuku looked in the mirror, all he saw was a ghoul.
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In Search of a Lost Voice by Simple_Clay
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 Aug 2025
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If Katsuki died from this, he was going to find a way to haunt their shitty spaceship and poltergeist the fuck out of anything that looked even marginally important. Because fuck if aliens were real then whose to say that ghosts aren’t? And probably bigfoot. And the fucking tooth fairy. All those conspiracy theorists wearing tinfoil hats and raving about anal probes had gotten at least one thing right.
Katsuki had yet to be probed. He might die before that happens; in which case he wouldn’t be there to care that aliens were shoving sticks up his ass.Oh. He was delirious. He was turning into Deku in his final moments, mumbling on about pointless shit.
"God, kill me now."
Or: Katsuki is abducted by aliens. It goes about as well as you could expect
Series
- Part 1 of Voices in the Stars
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In Search of a Lost Appendix by Simple_Clay
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
19 Nov 2024
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Primary resource for In Search of a Lost Voice and any contextual stories I might feel like telling in the future. Link is available for every chapter when new words or concepts are introduced. If I don't have one listed here for something you feel needs clarification, feel free to comment and I will update it accordingly!
Thanks!
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- Part 2 of Voices in the Stars
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The Nameless Man by Simple_Clay
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Feb 2022
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“Izuku Midoriya… that’s my name.”
The clerk shook her head, a sad yet resigned expression on her face. “No honey, it’s not.”
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In a world where your name decides your class, only can being quirkless become synonymous with being nameless.
Recent series
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Voices in the Stars by Simple_Clay
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 Aug 2025
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Tears of Gold by CloudsDown
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
04 Jun 2026
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If there was one thing Izuku Midoriya was good at, it was crying. Ever since he was four years old, when he was diagnosed quirkless and everything started going wrong, crying had become his most sharply-honed skill. But crying couldn't make you a hero. And that was all he had ever wanted.
One night, after a particularly painful beating from his childhood friend Kacchan and his lackeys, Izuku found himself once again practicing his only true skill.
And something changed.
Izuku was overjoyed at finding that he did, in fact, have a quirk, even if it was a useless and even slightly uncomfortable one. His joy was short-lived, however. Who could have predicted that the one thing he had always dreamed of and that society had shunned him for lacking would mark the beginning of the end of Izuku's life?- Language:
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09 Jun 2026
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Trial and Errors by MahouMou
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Jun 2026
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“It’s already a fucking miracle you’re not in juvie while being charged with murder—” Izuku flinches “—you can’t afford to slip up.” Mr. Aizawa’s tone is harsh as they slow, his dark eyes resting heavily on him. “Do you understand?”
Izuku nods, whispering a small, “Sorry.”
Mr. Aizawa glares at him, tugging him along, like he doesn’t believe him. “Stop being sorry and just follow the rules.”
Izuku isn’t going to juvie. They said he’s different – doesn’t matter that he’s killed someone, the police is worried about a quirkless child being around other ‘troubled’ kids.
Now this Mr. Aizawa is stuck with him until his trial, and Izuku’s completely, a hundred percent certain that the man absolutely hates him.
Unbeknownst to them, someone is watching from the shadows...
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Let Sleeping Gods Lie by Cogni_Diss
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
31 Aug 2023
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The lack of people did not mean there was nothing waiting inside. Not when the air grew stale and faint tremors shook the earth with each step leading Yuji closer to the shrine’s front doors. An unnatural pressure had taken hold of this place. Its grip refused to falter, as the enshrined spirit had been presented this land as their place of worship as well as their chain to the physical world. An unease plagued Yuji’s chest as a result. His movements were hesitant as he pushed his way inside to be met with an unnatural darkness. If only his lantern had not been blown out by the wind, as he possessed nothing to battle such horrid weather in an effort to rekindle the flame. Now that he was inside a place devoid of anything but the howling sound echoing from outside, he could not even see his own fingers in front of his face, let alone search through his tools in an effort to start a fire.
“This shrine… The kami they worshiped must be of the earth.”
❤ Yuji seeks shelter in an abandoned shrine for the night. Sometime later, Sukuna does the same.
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- Part 59 of Cherry Blossoms Dyed Red
- Part 1 of Enshrined
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08 Apr 2026
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Be My Virgil by Hardwood_Studios
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Apr 2024
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Izuku is an unregistered Guide, dead set on protecting his identity. He won't be passed around a Guild, nor shackled to an Esper's side. Bakugo Katsuki is the country's most powerful Esper—with an aversion to guidance. Without it, he poses a terrible risk to himself and others.
[ Well, I can't let you die, can I? ]
Izuku performs the act of a heroic bystander, guiding Katsuki out of a rampage. Thus, a classic game of cat-and-mouse. Katsuki believes he's found his one-and-only Guide, whereas Izuku would rather die than live as an Esper's drain.
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Midoriya has a fixation on the new nurse. They're mysterious, constantly angry, and starting to get fed up with his obvious attempts at killing himself.
Bakugou is just trying to think of a way to get back to the front lines, but All Might has managed to saddle him down with a new (necessary) burden.
They speak in slow awkward pauses and subtle gestures in their faded, sunlit infirmary. It's so good and slow, until it's not.
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22 Jan 2026