Days' best bnha finds ⛅
My best picks of well-written my hero fics, mostly Midoriya-centric
(Fics deemed reread-able, grammatically sound, and interesting)
(Closed, Unmoderated)
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Residual Hope by SimplyKaren
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
31 May 2026
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The Sludge Villain doesn't find Bakugo after escaping All Might, but some other random civilian. There's no series of explosions to draw All Might to the scene of the second attack. It's by pure luck that Izuku stumbles upon them. And Izuku does what he always has when he sees one person hurting another: inserts himself between the aggressor and victim. He finds this is significantly harder to do when one of the parties is a sentient slime.
*formerly titled Second Chances are Made, not Given
Arcs
Introductions: 1-5
Vigilante Origins: 6-18
1st Week at UA, Plus Ultra Style: 19-31
Sports Festival and Investigations Thereof: 32-44
League of Our Own: 45-54
Family and More Than Friends: 55-64
Birthday Surprises and Misunderstandings: 65-71
Summer Camp and Kamino: 72-80
Trust Falls and Falling in Love: 81-87
The Shie Hassaikai: 88-105
Respite and Rough Waters: 106-116
Solo Flights are not Meant for Monsoons: 117-139 -
Wait... Why Can't I Leave? by JazzTazz
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
31 May 2026
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Izuku, the infamous hacker Blurr, is stuck.
Literally.
He cannot leave this group chat no matter how hard he tries.
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Oracle by Miss Anne Thropy (Rahndom)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
12 May 2026
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Midoriya Izuku always wanted to have a quirk, to be a hero, to make a change.
Until he realizes he did do all that once, a lifetime ago, and paid for it with his life.
(In which Izuku's quirk allows him to remember his past life and it becomes his driving force to become a hero and mend the mistakes of the people from his past.)
Series
- Part 1 of Oracle AU
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Desperate Measures by InnocentBystander, KitKateC
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Apr 2026
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Midoriya Izuku gets a quirk he never asked for, and everyone deals with the consequences.
UPDATE 04-2026: Rework In Progress
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Locked In Digital by RogueDruid (Icarius51)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Slender (Parsec Productions Video Games), Five Nights at Freddy's, Outlast (Video Games), Alien: Isolation (Video Game), Prey (Video Game 2017), BioShock 1 & 2 (Video Games), Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse), Dead Space (Video Games), Dark Souls (Video Games)
21 Apr 2026
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A day goes bad to worse for 14 year old Izuku Midoriya, as he wakes up trapped in a computer simulation with nine different Horror games. The only objective given by the madman who locked him in? Beat all nine games, or be deleted.
A year later, a very different Izuku shows up at the Gates of UA to take the entrance exam.
What horrors has he faced?
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For Whom We'd Shed Blood by daylightbreaks for SimplyKaren
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
04 Aug 2023
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Izuku prayed Yagi was alright. He had to be. Izuku didn’t think he would be the same without him there. He was All Might. He was Yagi Toshinori. He was his mentor. He was the man who Izuku trusted more than anybody in the entire world. And that, that one thing above all else, was the most important to Izuku, because how could he go on knowing that the person who made him feel the safest was gone?
He felt more useless than ever right now, not knowing where his mentor was.
OR:
Yagi Toshinori goes missing four months before the U.A entrance exam. Midoriya Izuku will stop at nothing to get back his beloved mentor.
[Now with a podfic being made!]Series
- Part 1 of Who's It For (It's For You)
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Phoenix Corp: Guns For Hire by BlueJay49
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
31 Oct 2023
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A chance encounter with a Mercenary leader presented Izuku Midoriya with two choices: Continue living as a Quirkless runt society had rejected with no chance of getting into the heroics course, or become a mercenary once of age and take on the threats governments will happily sign off on.
Joining Phoenix Corp shortly after turning eighteen, Izuku spent eight years out of his home country getting his hands dirty doing other peoples work. All the while hoping he’d never have to go back to Japan.
Saying ‘never’ only taunts the strings of fate.
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Previous Title: Dangerous Quirks Disposal Specialist.
Series
- Part 1 of Mercenary Izuku Midoriya
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 193,085
- Chapters:
- 65/65
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 1,005
- Kudos:
- 1,987
- Bookmarks:
- 474
- Hits:
- 77,182
Bookmarked by Daysingray
11 Oct 2023
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Well written, but gets really dark towards the end. DNR if you don’t like character deaths, gore, and loose morals.
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More Than (Blood) Lust by Spooks_Roxi2Star
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Oct 2023
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Izuku is a vampire hunter. His village was destroyed by vampires, and his mother was slain by them. He spent his entire life learning to hunt and kill them in a guild of vampire hunters. At the age of 19, he and his peers are given their hunter names and sent to kill a roaming band of vampires as a test. When his life is saved by a handsome young man named Shouto, who is the sole inhabitor of a massive and ancient castle, he feels indebted.
The only problem. His savior is the creature he hates above all else. Shouto is a vampire.
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No Trace by illuminatedalley
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
25 Dec 2023
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Aizawa's thrumming fingers froze, any aggravation in his tone making way for hardened disbelief. “That’s impossible. I have the message. It’s from the same automated number as usual. There were no other pros on the scene. …what are you implying?”
“Nothing! I’m not implying you would do anything unprofessional, Eraserhead, I assure you! It’s just that I’m looking through our messages now and no one at our agency reached out to you last night. If you do have a message, it…it wasn’t from us.”
Aizawa brought up a hand to rub at his brow. That made absolutely no sense at all.
“Who would bother doing something like that?”
After being told he couldn't be a hero without a quirk, Izuku joins the support course at UA High. He's determined to learn everything he can. To take matters into his own hands.
Because in the end, isn't that what makes someone a hero?
Series
- Part 1 of No Trace universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 168,209
- Chapters:
- 32/32
- Comments:
- 892
- Kudos:
- 4,761
- Bookmarks:
- 1,010
- Hits:
- 151,609
Bookmarked by Daysingray
27 Sep 2023
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Izuku’s a support course vigilante and one-foot wonder (yikes)
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Matchmaker Matchmaker (Gonna Match Him A Man) by RayShippouUchiha
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
03 Aug 2023
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“You did what?” Naomasa eventually rasps once he can breathe again.
“I don’t want my boy to make the same mistakes I did,” Toshinori explains. “But he’s a great deal shyer than I was at his age. So I’ve taken it upon myself to reach out on his behalf.”
“No,” Naomasa practically gasps, some strange mix of horror and glee in his expression. “Toshinori, tell me you’re joking. You’re trying to matchmake Izuku?”
Naomasa doesn’t wait for Toshinori to actually answer him.
Instead, he just breaks out into loud braying laughter, uncaring of the way everyone around them has stopped to stare.