SimplyKaren
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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 -
A Tail of Two Sons by SimplyKaren
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Nov 2025
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Eat, school, train, eat, sleep, repeat. This has been Shoto's life since he turned four and developed his quirk. Things change when Endeavor starts dragging Shoto along on patrols in middle school. That's when Shoto found Two Tails Cat Café. That's when he was offered a way out. He is still trying to figure out if this is more a monkey's paw or a cat's paw situation.
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Tears Like Falling Stars by SimplyKaren
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Sep 2024
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Things have been good for so long that Izuku should have expected someone to take his quirk less than well. That someone being All Might hurts more than he's prepared for.
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- Part 6 of Starlight
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Once a Hero by SimplyKaren
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
21 Jul 2024
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The chance of a child born to two quirked parents having no quirk at all is smaller than most believe. In fact, it's near impossible. But Hisashi Midoriya didn't always have a quirk. It's a closely guarded secret, as is the identity of the man who gave him his fire-breathing.
Hisashi tries his best to keep Inko and Izuku out of the trouble that seems to follow him. It finds them despite his efforts. Now he must take care of Izuku on his own...or enlist help in seeing his son gets to chase his dream. His son wants to be a hero, and no one's ever heard of a quirkless hero.
The world isn't always as black and white as it appears, and sometimes the labels of hero and villain blur. With his father's friends being far from the ivory end of the spectrum and his own childhood, Izuku knows that society is anything but perfect. The question is, how far is he willing to go to save those that need it?
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Repurposed by SimplyKaren
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
21 Apr 2024
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"One man's trash is another man's treasure."
The phrase, like most things from before, was largely forgotten. All for One, however, had a fondness for old, forgotten things.
He usually applied the saying to quirks, but when The Doctor's newest subject turned out to have been thrown away by All Might? Well, All for One didn't mind applying it to a person. He had a use for the boy already, but he certainly wouldn't pass up the opportunity to show All Might exactly what he thoughtlessly discarded.
Recent series
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Starlight by SimplyKaren
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Sep 2024
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- 23,607
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- 6
- Bookmarks:
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Ball Lightning (but not Really) by SimplyKaren
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
07 Dec 2022
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- 7,518
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- 4
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- 228
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A Splinter in Time by SimplyKaren
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Oct 2021
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Midoriya's misadventures in time travel. Silver Lining will carry out the originally planned ending. After that, I'll explore the 2 alternate endings from their splintering point in their own separate works. Which one is the best ending? That I leave up to the readers.
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- 23,884
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Before Robin by wafflebish
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU, DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe
01 Jan 2026
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When Dick Grayson accidentally portals into the past, he finds himself on the Justice League’s Watchtower surrounded by younger versions of the original members of the Justice League...including Batman.
But none of them have any idea who Nightwing (or even Robin) is.
What a perfect opportunity to create a little chaos...while also trying not to break the timestream.
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- English
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- 173,962
- Chapters:
- 51/51
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- 17
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- 6,696
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Bookmarked by SimplyKaren
27 May 2026
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I See Dead People by Sohotthateveryonedied
Fandom Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Red Hood/Arsenal (Comics), Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics)
10 Jan 2022
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An alternate universe in which Tim was born with the innate ability to see the dead. Originally invented because I have an Umbrella Academy obsession, and it spiraled from there into this whole wild AU that Damthosefandoms and I created.
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Bookmarked by SimplyKaren
18 May 2026
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Those Unseen (Death Speaker) by PeridotLion45
Fandoms: Red Robin (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
01 Sep 2023
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Tim was born different.
Not special—like what some parents would claim; just different. He could see things that others couldn't and that set him apart, even if no one else was aware of it. That was okay, he was still Robin, then Red Robin when that's who he became.
It was okay, he was okay; until something entered Gotham and shoved his differences into the limelight.
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- English
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- 7/?
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15 May 2026
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Little brother (they cannot hurt you anymore) by sagepink
Fandom Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics)
12 Jun 2026
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- 3
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10 May 2026
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Trust Fall (Doubt You'll Catch Me) by Lovechraft
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
26 Sep 2025
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It sucked that Tim couldn't trust his family. They had either been his abusers or bystanders, but even when he tried to take himself off their hands, they clung to him like a sticky residue. Trapped, he felt like a mouse beneath a cat's paw, and he knew the only escape would be a clean-cut break with no room for interpretion.
Somehow, they made room for interpretation.
“Bruce,” Tim rasped, his discarded Red Robin suit a thousand pound weight in his hands, clean and ready to go in its case. “You don’t even *like* me.”
The truth dangled between them like a spider’s web clinging to separate walls.To no one’s shock, Batman said nothing. The only sounds in the cave were the shuffling of bats and Tim’s bike rumbling softly at the entrance, waiting patiently for him to make his escape.
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03 May 2026