Best of Dodo’s Hero Academia
I have read too many fics in a disturbingly short amount of time to have been healthy for anyone, so now I need to share the best ones here I guess.
*announcer’s voice* So I present to you! Dodadae’s fic recs!
Enjoy.
(Open, Moderated)
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Simply Superstitious by CryCaladrius
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 Jan 2026
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Izuku Midoriya’s father is a Hou-ou — a Japanese phoenix.
For some reason, this means yokai have a standing invitation to pester Izuku with their existence. Birds assemble choirs for his birthday. If there’s no cedar leaf under the welcome mat, the amazake babaa that lives two apartments over will be knocking on their door by evening. His yokai-purifying excursions get mistaken for vigilantism far too often.
(What’s going on with All Might? Is Principle Nedzu a yokai? Tokoyami, could you please get Dark Shadow to stop calling me ‘my Lord’?)
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the lies you tell yourself by TheHangedMan317
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 Nov 2025
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Izuku has always had a strange relationship with fear. He realized, after his quirks began to manifest in their entirety, that the daring he'd known in his youth wasn’t bravery, but an ignorance that masked itself as certainty.
He was afraid. All the time. But so was everyone, and that was where things really started to get interesting, wasn’t it?
Or, when an incident at home leaves Midoriya Izuku motherless and homeless, disillusioned with hero society and just wanting an escape from it all, he falls into the hands of All for One. Things only get worse from there.
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Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth by TheHangedMan317
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
25 Jul 2025
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Era doesn't have high hopes for her future. Truthfully, up until a few months ago there hasn't been a future; just the blurry promise of suffering to come. The journey from villain to ex-villain to vigilante has been... rough, to put it mildly. But Era can handle it. The journey from vigilante to hero-in-training? That, she has less of a grasp on. Era doesn't consider herself to be optimistic, but she is confident in her skills and her quirk, sure that her training will carry her through anything UA has to throw at her, and that in turn UA will keep her protected from the shadowy figures of her past, the threat that lurks in the corner of her eye.
If only heroes weren't so god damned nosy, stubborn, persistent. If only she could remember to keep her useless emotions in check, avoid any unnecessary attachment, save herself and others from future pain. If only her quirk would just let her die. Funny, how that would make things so much simpler.
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- Part 1 of the art of our necessities
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Words as Weapons by NearoRo
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
04 May 2024
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When Midoriya Inko dies in childbirth, Midoriya Hisashi—better known as All for One—decides to raise his son Izuku by himself... without ever telling Izuku he’s Japan’s worst supervillain.
While navigating his father’s high expectations, insidious emotional abuse, and overpowering quirk, Izuku fights to become a hero.- - -
Old summary:
Midoriya Hisashi is All for One.
Midoriya Izuku is going to become a hero.Series
- Part 1 of Words as Weapons
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throw me a goddamn rope - just enough to hang myself with by mutalune
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Jul 2022
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Shouta’s plan had been ill-defined and desperate from the start, but he figures the important shit boiled down to, “Change as little as possible, make sure Midoriya doesn’t get himself killed, and stock up on lychee jelly pouches because that flavor got discontinued three years from now.” Keeping it simple’s always better, and he’s normally good at improvising.
Somewhere along the way, he must’ve fucked up since now he has:
A quirkless problem child hanging off of his every word
His best friend going through a sexuality crisis thanks to said problem child’s mom
His other best friend clinging to him like a security blanket
Some two-bit mob boss threatening him with bouquets of daffodils
To wring the number one hero’s fucking neck for not telling him anything useful before sending him decades into the past
All he did was walk Izuku Midoriya home. It wasn’t meant to turn into whatever mess this is.
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Everything I Want to Do is Illegal - a Self-Help Book by ADyingFlower
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 Dec 2021
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Izuku has game nights with the League of Villains, accepts that he's probably a villain, befriends a sleepy panda, has a bunch of Todorokis sleeping on his couch, terrifies everyone at U.A., denies having daddy issues, falls in love with a shotgun, infects the League with his shitty fashion sense, challenges Kacchan to a Just Dance competition, watches the disaster courtship of Dabi and Hawks, adopts a traumatized child, gets said child addicted to Among Us, and fists fights an entire army. In that order.
Or: Izuku is a villain. Kinda. A villain is defined by the use of their quirk, and he's quirkless. Besides, the worse thing he's done is erase Tomura's save files. And befriend the League of Villains. And accidentally kidnap the son of the number two Hero. Shouto likes it better on their couch anyway. Oh, and there's the whole 'traitor' thing too. Welp.
“I’m pulling you over because you were driving with three people on a motorcycle.”
Dabi shifts in his seat, Himiko and Izuku squished in front of him. And then it hits them. “Wait, three?”
They glance behind them.
“Oh fuck,” Izuku curses. “Tomuchan fell off!”
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Team Killing is an Acceptable Punishment for Annoying Friends by ADyingFlower
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
17 Sep 2020
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Izuku plays video games with the League of Villains, denies being a villain, has his beloved animal crossing file threatened, kicks ass with a shotgun, is proposed to, learns to deal with his depression, and accidentally kidnaps the son of the number two hero. In that order.
Or: Five times Izuku played online with his friends, and one time he played with them in person
Then Himiko screams.“CAPTAIN!”
“Y-yeah?” Tomura asks almost hesitantly.
“LOOK!!”
All four of them spin around, right as a cannonball comes soaring inches from Izuku’s head from the Galleon less than a three feet away from them.
They scream.
“OH FUCK NO NO NO NO! NO!” Dabi yells, running to load the cannons. “DUDE WE HAVE SO MUCH SHIT! NO! HOLY FUCKING SHIT!”
“Hey guys, guys! Hey, chill!” Izuku shrieks frantically, right as one of the players boards their ship and starts shooting. “CHILL THE FUCK OUT!”
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aisle seven, near the chocolate by softlyblue
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
06 Jan 2018
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They call him Dad Might when they think he isn’t listening.
He’s listening. He just doesn’t mind it enough to tell them to stop, and anyway, it’s kind of nice to see people like Iida and Bakugo and Todoroki say, "oh yeah, that’s what dad-might said," as though he’s someone more to them than just a mentor.
When he tells Aizawa this, Aizawa tells him he’s being a sappy fool, and to grow up.
(They call him Dadzawa, and Toshinori debates telling him until he realises that Aizawa already knows.)
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Night Parade by Metronome_I_Hear
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
13 Apr 2018
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Izuku is born with the ability to wander into the spirit world and ends up bringing madness and absurdity with him wherever he goes as a result. Shinsou Hitoshi, his best friend and the only reason Izuku hasn't accidentally destroyed the world or something equally ridiculous, can attest to this.
Or: Izuku has yokai friends and Hitoshi is Done With His Shit.
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From the Mists of Our Pasts by nolov (louscr)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 Mar 2021
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Two months later, apparently just before Midoriya's birthday, Tomura begins calling the boy Izuku. Some days, when Kurogiri passes his room in the dead silence of night, he can hear him laughing.
The muffled, carefully dampened sound, engineered not to carry, breaks his heart. The laugh is not one of a carefree sixteen year old, but of a terrified child so unused to joy.
(Kurogiri's heart breaks often and sharply, and he never does get used to it.)
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- Part 3 of our trust shot full of holes