Character Development

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My Hero Academia

The Darker Sides of Deku

by OnlyRoomForHope, orphan_account, serenawitchwriter & more

It’s easy to forget with his bright smiles and positive personality that Midoriya Izuku isn’t the living embodiment of sunshine.Or: Moments when class 1-A and company notice that Izuku isn’t quite as pure as they think he is.

General 142k words 39 / ? ch In progress 25k kudos

Angst · Anxiety · BAMF Midoriya Inko · BAMF Midoriya Izuku· +52 more

My Hero Academia

The Way You Used To Do

by edema_ruh

"We're really sorry," his father says, in a teary-eyed, wobbly way. "But your friend, Izuku, he's... He's gone, son." Katsuki can do nothing but blink up at them for moments that feel like an eternity, eyes darting between both his parents in obvious confusion, disbelief, and, more than anything, indignation. "What the fuck are you two talking about? The damn nerd is standing right beside you!" During a battle, Midoriya gets hit by a villain whose quirk detaches his soul from his body. Stuck in a ghost-like state, the boy enters a race against time in order to save himself from permanently dying. Much to his luck - or lack of it -, the only person who can see and talk to him in this state is no one other than Kacchan. Alternatively: Deku and Kacchan are soulbound. Read in: Brazilian Portuguese. Italian. Russian. Spanish. Indonesian.

Teen 670k words 30 ch Complete 22k kudos

Soul Bond · Enemies to Friends to Lovers · Slow Burn · Mutual Pining· +76 more

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù

The Grand Unified Theory of Shěn Qīngqiū: Qi Refining

by 00janeblonde

Shěn Qīngqiū new game pluses himself into a happy ending and unlocks some premium content along the way. This fic is endgame Shěn Qīngqiū/Liǔ Qīnggē/Yuè Qīngyuán. It takes time for the characters to get together, but there is zero partner infidelity and very little angst. There's lots of pining, but it's happy pining. This is fluff. Everyone is happy and loving and supportive.

Teen 619k words 501 ch Complete 19k kudos

Fluff · Slice of Life · Time Travel Fix-It · New Game Plus· +5 more

Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling+5

Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce

by imagitory

Inspired by a post on Tumblr, this is a AU story set during Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts, with one big, foul-mouthed difference. Instead of Horace Slughorn, the position of Potions professor will be taken on by...Gordon Ramsay.

Teen 361k words 99 ch Complete 17k kudos

Cooking · Good Slytherins · Hufflepuff Pride · Gryffindor/Slytherin Inter-House Relationships· +40 more

Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)+2

frog in a well

by unolvrs

In a world plagued by villains, heroes, and supernatural powers that may as well be cursed techniques, Fushiguro Megumi and Kugisaki Nobara conclude that the only way to capture the attention of the missing Itadori Yūji is to force their faces on screen. —or, the frogs learn to live outside the well, while missing a third of themselves, and that is by attending Japan's number one hero school.

Teen 270k words 52 / ? ch In progress 14k kudos

Dimension Travel · Fushiguro Megumi Has Abandonment Issues · Kugisaki Nobara is So Done · Itadori Yuuji Needs a Hug· +28 more

My Hero Academia+1

Two Sides, Same Coin

by Yellow_Canna

Since the beginning of Quirks, Yokohama has announced independence from Japan and closed itself from the rest of the world. To this day and age, no one knows what lies within the city of Yokohama—or that was what the public was made to believe. In reality, Yokohama has long fallen into the control of the world's largest criminal organization known as the Port Mafia. Follow Class 1-A as their principal organized a field trip to Yokohama! In their short trip there, they must change their perspectives and learn exactly what it means to be justice and what it means to be villains. Перевод на русский by Ray19 and Hunteiro Bahasa Indonesia by felixiaken Española by _IdkAtsushi Tiếng Việt by -lina68_

General 218k words 30 / ? ch In progress 13k kudos

Mafia Boss Dazai Osamu (Bungou Stray Dogs) · Alternate Universe - Dazai Osamu Remains with the Port Mafia (Bungou Stray Dogs) · Mafia Nakajima Atsushi (Bungou Stray Dogs) · Alternate Universe - Fusion· +27 more

Thor (2011)+1

Life In Reverse

by Lise

Home is where you make it. Or, the AU where Loki falls to Earth after Thor, wanders around trying to work out what to do with himself, and somehow ends up working for SHIELD. (Mostly because supervillains are so plebian.)

Teen 228k words 44 ch Complete 12k kudos

Loki's a goddamn mess · this fic is a goddamn mess · Post-Movie(s) · Alternate Universe· +33 more

Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon)

Of Saints and Sinners

by morningstar_writes

After destroying the hotel for the umpteenth time, Alastor makes a promise with Lucifer: in exchange for swapping compliments, learning to coexist, and becoming kind of friends, Lucifer will owe him a favour. (Falling in love was not supposed to be a part of that deal.) — in which they fight heaven, each other, and the urge to be together.

Teen 254k words 47 ch Complete 12k kudos

Enemies to Friends to Lovers · Canon Universe · Fluff · Humor· +17 more

Minecraft (Video Game)+1

to be a wanderer, wandering

by ghostbandaids

When Tommy was hungry, he would crouch in the underbrush and waited for a rabbit to come by, shooting it with an arrow before spitting it over a small campfire. When he was tired, he would rest against a tree or maybe climb into one for the night. When he was lonely or scared or sad, he had no solution. Walking through the forest alone was better than being tortured by Dream, better than a pool of lava or a tall tower of dirt blocks, he reasoned. And he was only a temporary forest-man. Still, the quiet grated on his ears.An AU in which Tommy runs away from not only Dream but the entire SMP, finding a new life and peace (and maybe an orphan who needs a home). When he's forced out of hiding seven years later, he's a changed man

Teen 8k words 1 ch Complete 9.7k kudos

Accidental Baby Acquisition · Adoption · Alternate Universe - Medieval · Angst· +20 more

One Direction (Band)

Cold Little Heart

by seducedbycurls

Louis is a soft omega with an abusive past and an alpha child A few months after getting a divorce, Louis meets Harry, an ex-military alpha wolf that offers him something -odd. In exchange for teaching him how to cook, Harry will babysit his son, Abraham Louis really could use the help.

Teen 195k words 32 ch Complete 9.1k kudos

Abuse · domestic abuse · child fic · Parent Louis· +42 more

Avatar: The Last Airbender

the heartless and the gentle

by sokkaesque

[Sokka is five when the first mark appears.  It writes itself in a deep red like a wound, as if someone had carved the word “nonbender” in a messy font across the knuckles of his left hand, as if it was handwritten with a knife. When he asks his mother, as she applies salve on Sokka’s knuckles, she sighs deeply and says nothing for a few moments.  “Sometimes, spirits don’t make much sense.” Sokka has yet to turn thirteen when he wakes up screaming in pain, about ten soulmarks all over each other between his left shoulder and his ear, red and vivid like burning flesh. Among the few words that are somehow possible to read out of the disastrous scribbling, “disrespectful” and “coward” and “burned” and “sorry sorry sorry” are the ones that stand out the most to Sokka. He thinks, at the tender age of twelve, whoever did this to his soulmate will be sorry too, one day. A month after Hakoda leaves him with the job of the protector at the age of thirteen, Sokka realizes, with a bitter taste in his mouth, that he’s got more soulmarks than his entire village combined.] Or, to have a soulmark is to carry the vilest things that your soulmate believes about themselves on your skin.

Teen 23k words 1 ch Complete 8.7k kudos

Aang's temporary death is mentioned a bit · Alternate Universe - Soulmates · Angst with a Happy Ending · Big Brother Sokka (Avatar)· +39 more