beauty doesn't end with death
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the dead are all i have by quirk_eater (crystal_iced)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 May 2022
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Izuku had always had an odd obsession with death.
He didn't want to die (or anything else for that matter)! He just thought that dead things were fascinating.
His mother thought he just liked bone-shaped jewellery and realistic animal sculptures and he just never bothered to correct her. His walls were lined with shelves of discrepancies, bright hero merchandise and the stuffed corpses of birds and rodents (and one cat).
He never killed any of these things, but while his mother thought he liked reading surrounded by nature, he actually liked to scavenge through the undergrowth for any new bodies (there was a cat that liked to follow him, just out of sight. He's not sure how he knew it was there, he just figured he'd seen it out of the corner of his eye at some point).
He'd picked up on jewellery making, carefully wrapping wires around meticulously cleaned and maintained rat skulls and deer spines, tying them to his body with twine.
It was probably strange, but his bedroom, lined with death, was his happy place. He always thought better in the company of his long-dead companions.
Yes, Izuku had always had an odd obsession with death.
But he preferred the dead to the living anyway.Series
- Part 1 of beauty doesn't end with death
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but the living do intrigue me by quirk_eater (crystal_iced)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 May 2022
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Izuku had always been able to read people well. It's why people called him a creep all of the time.
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- Part 2 of beauty doesn't end with death
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Decompose by quirk_eater (crystal_iced)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
08 Jul 2025
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Midoriya Izuku has a stockpiling quirk that takes the energy from fresh corpses (lovingly referred to as 'souls') and uses them to boost his natural abilities accordingly. Others call it 'scavenging', or 'grave robbing', but Izuku just calls it recycling.
Of course, it's kind of hard to be a hero when his quirk relies on things Not Being Saved, but that's fine. He'll figure it out.
WARNING: This fic contains a lot of animal death-- death and corpses are very important to the story, and I don't really pull punches with this sort of thing, so if you've got a soft heart for fictional animals, this might not be for you.
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- Part 3 of beauty doesn't end with death