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    Midoriya Hisashi cries tears of relief when a 5 year old Izuku looks him in the eyes and tells him:
    "I'm quirkless."
    Then, he forces his son to swear that he'll survive - to care for Inko, if nothing else - and it's a demand that Izuku is too young to understand and all too eager to accept.

    Midoriya Hisashi is 29 years old when he dies the next morning; killed by his own quirk.

    It takes 5 more years for Izuku to begin to regret making that promise, and only 3 more after that for a girl, older than him, and with much sharper canines, to ask him if it's worth it: to live a life of suffering in the name of an exhausted mother and a dead man.
    Apparently, he gives the wrong answer, as Himiko Toga laughs in his face, and tells him it absolutely isn't- and they exchange contacts.

    So, Izuku is 13 years old when he blackmails the staff of Aldera Middle, and Katsuki, for his own peace of mind, and decides:
    If he's going to be a hero, he might as well make himself untouchable, and make some connections early.

    (On a totally unrelated note: both Mr. and Mrs. Bakugou are delighted by his sudden interest in the fashion industry!)

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    14 Jun 2026

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    "Maybe," Peter thought, "I can make a life here."
    Hence the tears and the guilt and the grief, because was Peter allowed to move on? Was he allowed to… to leave it all behind? Leave all the bad things in the past?
    Peter was "The Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man!" after all, and wasn’t he letting Queens - his people - down if he didn’t fight tooth and nail to get back to them?
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    Peter's tired. He's so tired, and he doesn't know what to do, but maybe things will get better.
    (They do.)
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    Spider-Man: Finally Home
    technically inspired by Dark Matter by mysterycyclone but really only the "Peter in the DC Universe" part

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    05 Jun 2026

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    Harry Potter was never meant to be ordinary - but he was never meant to be this, either.

    Every child in the wizarding world knows about Harry Potter. The-boy-who-lived, the Lights symbol of hope and power, their perfect little saviour. Every child apart from Harry Potter. Harry Potter only knows that the shadows are his true family and that listening to them is what he wants to do.

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    24 May 2026

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    Harry had always been strange, as the Dursleys delighted in telling him. His hair was too wild, his eyes too green, his ears too sharp. Until he looked in the Mirror of Erised, he'd never seen anyone who looked like him. And then he fell through it, and found a whole world of things he'd never seen, and people who would not accept that he didn't belong in it.

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    An exploration of family, and belonging, and being not entirely one thing nor another.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    Petunia may suffer the boy to live under her roof and come into her care, but she will not let him ruin everything she’s built. She is a normal woman with a normal family and a very normal life.

    It is, she defends as she clears out the cupboard under the stairs and puts together a little bedroom for the boy there, a good protection for the boy too.

    She doesn’t trust whatever magic has been put over him to actually protect them.

    What better protection is there for both the boy and for her family than for no one to know he’s even here. Not the neighbours, not the freaks trying to hunt down a baby, and not anyone else who might come looking for him either.

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    26 Mar 2026

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