A Picky Reader’s Top Picks
I’m a picky reader and I have a hard time finding fics I like. The fics in this collection are my all time favorites — just perfect pieces that check all my boxes. If you’re a picky reader you might just find something you like :)
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Basic medicine and sanitation are simple. During the Warring Clans era, they become revolutionary.
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Kintsugi (Broken But Not Unfixable) by melodysrefrain, PhantomReads
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 Jan 2025
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Kintsugi: The Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold. It represents the idea that broken doesn't mean unfixable. That even something shattered can be made into a stronger, more beautiful piece of art.
Izuku knows that life will always be unfair to people like him. He knows that he can't bring his mother back from the dead or make his father love him. He knows he's destined for a life of loneliness and pain. Knows that his goal to be a quirkless hero is nearly impossible.
Izuku knows that he's broken.
But can the people that come into his life help put him back together?
Will Izuku let them?Series
- Part 1 of Broken Doesn't Mean Unfixable
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Aizawa Shouta was tired.
Crouched on the edge of the roof as he was, he observed the streets below him silently. He was coming to the end of his patrol, and if everything remained as it was, he'd be able to catch a decent nap before having to report in to the school for another round of proctoring.
Which, of course, is when he saw the kid being chased down the alley.
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Or Izuku is your average 21st-century kid. Being sucked through a time-traveling portal and dropped in the middle of a fantasy world with supervillains was not his idea for a good start to the new school year. Good thing he has everyone's favorite underground hero keeping an eye on him. With a hero by his side, how much trouble could he possibly get into while trying to find his way back home?
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Verdant Eternal by redactedgoose
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 May 2023
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“Yo, Izuku-kun!” The boy smiles down at him- curse his short height- slinging his arm around the only marginally shorter teen to his side. “Me’n otouto here were wondering when you were going to show up!”
The short teen smiles bashfully and brushes a hand through his curly green hair.
Yep. You read that right: green.
Izuku, along with his senpai Amari Kazuo, were among the first wave of people in Japan to be what most people were calling “Quirked.” Thankfully for himself, his “quirk” just seemed to be a mutation- hence the greenish hair. It might be much more visible than other “quirked” people, but it was mild in the long run, especially for something that he could pass off as hair dye.
Midoriya Izuku
DoB: July 15, 1999
Parents: Midoriya Inko, Midoriya Hisashi (deceased)
Quirk: Green Hair
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Take my Brain, or What Remains by Deathlysilence
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, Portal (Video Game)
30 Apr 2023
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Midoriya Izuku was alive before the birth of quirks. Stuck in a testing facility by a sadistic A.I., Glados, he is forced to go through test after test in the Aperture Science chambers forever.
That is, until a rescue operation takes place to infiltrate the building, and now Midoriya must re-enter a society he didn't belong to with changes to his body he never wanted.
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Midoriya is a test subject in the years after Portal 2, where he undergoes human experimentation at the hands of Glados.
You don't need to have played/watched Portal to understand this, almost all Portal lore is explained.
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A series of fics where Harry Potter discovers that he is a stolen Malfoy child in second year, and everything changes from there.
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Like Fractions (Baby We're Breaking Down) by RayShippouUchiha
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
31 Oct 2021
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The Final Exam is the final straw for Izuku when it comes to Bakugou and the past decade of abuse.
With Todoroki at his side Izuku sets out to finally begin to heal.
And step one might just be a move that no one would ever see coming.
Leaving UA.
Can the teachers of UA open their eyes enough to do what needs to be done to keep from losing two of their most promising students?
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Harry Potter & Seven Years of Chaos by JessalynMichele, Severitus812 (JessalynMichele)
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2025
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July 8, 2021 - June 14, 2023:
706 days.
1,262,342 words.And Chaos Harry’s journey is at an end.
(Afterlife and Missing Moments to be updated eventually, but the main series is over)
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live to tell a tale by Skiewrites
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
15 Nov 2021
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Being quirkless in today's hero society is the closest thing you can get to a legal death sentence. Most quirkless people choose to take their own life, if hate crimes don't kill them first.
So when Izuku, who should be quirkless, finds out that he has a quirk after falling from a rooftop, it leaves him with more questions than he possibly has time to find the answers for. And if those answers lead to him making friends with people in and out of Yuuei, making some highly questionable and probably illegal choices, causing people to have mental breakdowns over their quirks and maybe even the start of another social revolution, well, at least he isn't trying to kill himself anymore.
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A series of unconnected oneshots involving neighbours Hatake Kakashi and Umino Iruka.
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