Red

They/He, AuDHD, I rec MHA fics, I am a multishipper

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Hello 👋 I’m Red. I use they/he pronouns. This is my My Hero Academia Sideblog

I am neurodivergent, and struggle with my wording at times, so I apologize if I word something poorly and it comes off as rude, that is never my intent

I’ll probably be reccing a bunch of fics, depending on how I keep up with it (I’d fallen out of the fandom a few months ago, but am being sucked back in)

I’m reccing a mix of fics, but be warned that there’s probably gonna be some darker ones, so be cautious. I’ll also try to suggest fics of a variety of length, although by nature it’s easier for me to reread shorter fics and so there may be a good portion of those near the beginning as I have a large backlog. (There will also be a wide range of ships, including but not limited to ShigaDabi, TodoDeku, ShigaDeku, BakuDeku, DabiDeku, ShinDeku, and more. You have been warned. Some fics may also contain sexual content, but I’ll avoid reccing porn without plot)

Hopefully you enjoy 😊😋

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It’s Ondine - Anaranzine

Words: 1578 (1/1)

It was their third year of UA, July, and, as these things were wont to repeat every year, it was Midoriya Izuku’s birthday in a couple of days. As the good friend he is, Eijirou agrees to help a frazzled Katsuki find a present.

This was, he reflects, his first mistake.

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He pointed to some candles that he thought might be nice, “what about those?”

Katsuki’s tone was derisive. “If those don’t spell out for him that I stare into his eyes and imagine our wedding on Dagoba beach, presided over by All Might, I don’t know what else would.”

Eijirou was starting to think they might have a problem here.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25755097

This oneshot is absolutely hilarious. It’s short and fun and just has me dying of laughter every time I reread this.

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The Right to Be - Strawhat_Pirate

Words: 10235 (1/1)

Shoto wants to marry a boy. Unfortunately, that isn't legal in Japan... at least, it's not yet. Enji has his work cut out for him.

(Or: Enji Todoroki is determined to be a better father. And that means supporting his kids in any way he can. Put on your rainbow shades: this ignorant straight man is about to get his pride on, and he's about to make it everyone's problem.)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/47764939

This is such a fun fic, and I love that even though it’s lighthearted, it considers something that a lot of fics in this fandom don’t, which makes sense considering it’s presumably set in the future, but fiction often reflects reality and so I find that it reminds me that it’s not just so simple, while it’s just such an amazing fic. I just adore how Endeavor goes absolutely over the top.

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Hysterical - spark_the_fangirl

Words: 119398 (90/90)

Midoriya’s quirk isn’t what anyone is expecting. That's not to say it’s bad, quite the opposite, it’s just that things are put in a different perspective when you regularly die. Midoriya still dreams of becoming a hero, and when he does- well no one was expecting this.

Aizawa needs a vacation. All Might doesn’t know how to handle his suicidal successor.

Bakugou is the only student that isn’t absolutely terrified of this cheerful yet surprisingly deadly hero in training.

And Midoriya? Well, he’s a little bitch with no regard for personal safety, and someone decided to give him an enhanced strength quirk on top of it.

AKA Midoriya has an immortality quirk and no one knows how to handle it, including Midoriya himself. Might as well fake it till he makes it. What’s the worst that can happen?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27552703/chapters/67389841

I’ve seen this fic recced a lot on the my hero fanfic subreddit, but I just had to bring it up here. I absolutely adore crack fics, but I often struggle to get into longer ones due to them feeling repetitive, but this one maintained the plot very will and has me dying every time I read it. I also absolutely adore op/immortal mc, and Izuku is both of those things in this fic. As much as I love fics where Izuku is immortal and struggles not to kill himself, it’s also nice to see a little more of a lighthearted approach.

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Fall from Grace - AgarJelly

Words: 5589 (1/1)

When Bakugou gets promoted to number one hero, Izuku is understandably frustrated but accepts the result. After all, he's already made himself known as the Symbol of Peace. He doesn't need a ranking to prove that.

However, it seems his childhood friend doesn't see it that way, and after an evening of listening to an onslaught of insults, Izuku finally snaps at him.

He reveals to the world exactly what their number one hero used to do to him.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28671051

Honestly I’m so shocked I don’t think I’ve recced this yet, but this oneshot I return to constantly. Izuku standing up for himself as a pro hero, with some minor TodoDeku and Bakugou actually faces consequences. This fic is so good and it’s probably one of my favourite quick rereads before bed

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It Tastes of Ash - Myakachan

Words: 2423 (1/1)

Dabi never let the flowers in his lungs bother him, not when his fire kept cooking them away, but when he catches Shigaraki cough up petals it's suddenly something he can no longer ignore.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31175924

Oh my god, Hanahaki disease is such a good angst vessel. And ShigaDabi? Flower symbolism?? Possessiveness? Aaaah this fic is so cute and so good I adore it

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surprise reunions and childhood rekindling - ladyofsnails

Words: 89959 (16/16)

Bakugou Katsuki and Midoriya Izuku haven't seen each other in five years. But when their friends suddenly bring them together and they finally meet again, it's like no time has passed at all.

AKA Katsuki and Izuku see each other again after a long time and immediately start acting like the crazy best friends they are, the Baku and Deku squads are very, very confused.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29009871/chapters/71199921

This fic is so sweet and adorable and cute. No quirks modern AU where childhood friends BakuDeku meet again after years of being apart. Watching the fall back into their old habits was so adorable and some of the things they got up to had me giggling and smiling the whole fic. A very cute and fluffy fic.

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With or Without You - Demented_One_777

Words: 54693 (10/10)

Tw: sexual content (fully consensual)

Series: 5 (incomplete, 293488 words)

While out with his friends Izuku thinks he sees something down an alley, it couldn't hurt to take a look right? What if it was a poor injured kitten or something? The next thing he knows, he's trapped in some kind of experiment with his arch nemeses.

Tomura just wanted some snacks, he was on his way to the conbini when out of the corner of his eye something moved in the alley. Always cautious of any threats, he decided to take a peak and now he's stuck like a lab rat with Midoriya Izuku, of all people.

Isolation and medical manipulation lead Midoriya and Shigaraki to a very interesting predicament.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53693398/chapters/135919756

I tend to usually avoid ABO fics, but this is still probably one of my favourites in the fandom as a whole. This series is one I find myself regularly returning to in order to get my fix of ShigaDeku, and I love the way they’re characterized in this.

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Class 1-A v. The Curse of Rule 34 - anubisisms

Words: 5363 (1/1)

Rule 34 of the internet states that if something exists, so too does porn of it. And if there isn't, there will be.

Fortunately for the former Class 1-A, after months of legal trivialities and an agonising trial, their high-school adversary and supervillain Shigaraki Tomura, has been found guilty and confined to prison for the foreseeable future.

Unfortunately, at the same time that justice finds him, so too does the internet. And thirst-posters.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35990890

Class 1-A discovers the internet is thirsty for Shigaraki ft some very cool coding. Absolute banger, I’m so glad I managed to dig through my bookmarks to find this, this fic is hilarious.

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The Mystery of Student No.18 - cloud_nine_and_three_quarters

Words: 85230 (37/37)

Getting crushed by falling building whilst shielding a little girl wasn't the worst way to die. Only, Midoriya's not quite dead yet.

He still has so much to prove - to do - to finish! All Might gave him his power, but now look at him... how is Midoriya meant to be the next symbol of peace if he's stuck in a coma?!

Meanwhile, his future classmates are left to wonder...

Who is student 18?

And where is he now?

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I wanted to write a comedy about accidentally creating multiple identities and then having them all fall in on one another - so here it is

https://archiveofourown.org/works/17802974/chapters/42003089

Recently as I’ve been back to a hyperfixation on this fandom, I’ve been going back and rereading a lot of the fics I read when I first joined, mainly gen longfics. This was one of the first fics I read in the fandom, back when I still didn’t know who was who, and it’s such a good one. It’s such an interesting potential application of one for all, and I love the pile of reveals we get at the end, seeing other’s reactions was so fun.

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Pre-Gaming a Funeral Should be Fine. Right? - Mushroomy_6767

Words: 1334 (1/1)

The top heros get just a little drunk before Endeavor's funeral and Shoto has to give a memorial speech.

What could go wrong?

"my father was a……...man..….. yes a- uh- great man!….

Wait. Guys, did we pre-game Endewhore’s funeral?”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37203709

Genuinely one of my favourite fics, absolutely hilarious. Even though it’s short, it had me dying of laughter.

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Fairy GodBrother Dabi Au - SanctuaryRemix

Series: 7 (incomplete, 67079 words)

The world is full of what-ifs. So what if Touya had gone back to that house after he died? What if he had spoken to Shoto before he became Dabi?

What if he became something else? Say... a Fairy Godmother?

Or

Dabi accidentally becomes Shoto's Fairy Godmother, Shoto's life goal is to become a Hero while committing as many crimes as he can, and the two of them have a multitude of fun antics fueled by spite, flavored candy canes, and lots of 3am McDonald's.

And some times they cry. :)

(if Endeavor can commit familial abuse, Shoto can commit arson, I don't make the rules....EXCEPT I DO and the rules say the Todoroki siblings can do whatever they want)

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2284841

This series is criminally underrated. It’s just an absolute masterpiece. Good brother Dabi and focus on the Todoroki family relationships and just the right amount of crack. What more could you want, with tags like ‘Canon is God and I’m riding Lil Nas X’s stripper pole to AU hell’ and ‘Endeavor’s knees are weak from the weight of all the suffering he’s caused’? Actually, just read all the tags. And the fics too. I love this AU so much.

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Shadowstep - TarynMcT

Words: 60348 (26/26)

All Izuku wanted was to become a hero…

But when his quirk - Rogue - finally manifested, all anybody said was that he was going to go villain. A desperate late-night search into underground heroics with few results left Izuku feeling crushed.

Months later, the bullying is worse than ever and Izuku's been arrested for a crime he didn't commit. Thankfully, Tsukauchi Naomasa is there to vouch that his words are the truth. The underground hero on site didn't believe Izuku even after it was confirmed that Izuku was innocent.

Now his parents are dead, and Izuku has been rescued by Aizawa Shouta. He's thrilled to be living with Present Mic and Eraserhead but what happens when the person who killed his parents shows up again? Izuku was never destined to be a hero.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40565439/chapters/101630520

BAMF merc Izuku??? Sign me the fuck up. Plus, his quirk is so cool in this!!! Plus, I like seeing snippets of how he interacts with others, even minorly just throughout different chapters.

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Take My Breath Away - bugnest

Words: 13860 (3/?)

Izuku and Shigaraki are hit with a quirk that completely takes away their ability to breathe unless in close vicinity to one another. The pair are forced to stay together until the quirk wears off, but it brings up a lot of emotions that Izuku has tried to push away since the war. And on top of that they're now the accidental guardians of the child who caused the incident.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48970684/chapters/123543082

I love this fic so much, the idea of a quirk that forces proximity is really fun to think about, and the addition of the child only makes the situation all that much more complex

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With Confidence- TimelessTears

Words: 84527 (20/?)

“Midoriya also wants to go to Yuuei.”

At this statement, Izuku’s classmates mocked him and on any other day, he would have taken it. But getting hit with a quirk while watching a villain fight before school changes the scenario.

In which Izuku’s class learns you don’t need a quirk to take someone down a peg.

Slow updates.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/27787300/chapters/68025400

I absolutely love confident/BAMF Izuku, it is one of my favourite tropes. I’m usually very hesitant to recommend WIPs, but I just adore this one so much. Plus, the other Aldera students definitely deserve to be knocked down a few pegs.

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Zero Potential - FragWit94

Words: 5139 (1/1)

Tw: violence

‘No potential?’ He'd show that fucking quirkist hobo no potential!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63245017#main

I’ve been reading a lot of bashing fics lately, and I always find it so interesting to look at characters with crimson tinted lenses. How much worse can we push them to be? What can we make them become? This one is a great bashing fic, mainly focusing on Aizawa bashing, with Bakugou and a couple other characters being bashed as well. I also always love when they get karma, but it’s not so quick as just death.

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Consequences of Expulsion - The_Mad_Mystic

Words: 7838 (3/3)

Tw: Suicide, death, violence

Aizawa plays his little expulsion game with Class 1-A. They do not take it well.

Read the tags, this is gonna get dark.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33037369/chapters/82004686

As is probably evident by a lot of fics I’ve been reccing, I love a good dark fic. I’ve also, since returning to the fandom, been reading a lot of bashing fics. This fic is an Aizawa bashing fic. I really enjoy the way this shows the consequences of his actions, not only to Izuku but to the entire class. Aizawa’s teaching methods are very flawed, and it’s interesting to consider the effects it’s had on students.