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i won't give up, so don't give in by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Feb 2025
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Tomura Shigaraki is worn down by All For One’s relentless control, but Deku and the League of Villains refuse to let him go down without a fight.
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- Part 1 of Life Lines
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in time I will leave the city, for now I will stay alive by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
02 Mar 2025
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Dabi and Tomura survive the final war at a heavy cost. Hospitalized and in immense pain, Dabi wonders why he even tries to stay alive. He soon finds his answer.
Part of my Life Lines AU, not canon compliant.
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- Part 2 of Life Lines
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hug all ur friends by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 Feb 2025
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Tomura Shigaraki survived the war, much to his dismay. When he and the other injured League members return from the hospital, Toga decides to celebrate with an arts and crafts project: hug sweaters. What starts as a harebrained, paint-splattered scheme becomes something that might have been exactly what Tomura needed. Not that he'd ever admit it.
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- Part 3 of Life Lines
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feelings are fatal by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Feb 2025
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For the first time in his life, Tomura Shigaraki actually wanted to cry, a need so intense it resembled the feeling of wanting to vomit, to exorcise the pain. However much it hurt coming out, keeping it inside was torture. But it was like his body was rejecting it, trying to build scar tissue around it.
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- Part 4 of Life Lines
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poltergeists for sidekicks by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
22 Feb 2025
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Every other League member had… something. Compress had his, apparently, burgeoning YouTube career. Toga had her growing friendship with Ochaco and Izuku, her volunteer work, her attempts to catch up on normal teenage experiences. Spinner had his revolution. Dabi had his tentative reconnection with his family. Twice… Twice seemed to be content with the way things were, and now he and Hawks were playing chess in the park like old men.
And Tomura… he was a relic. Here he was back at the start, as weak and scrawny as he was when he first started the League, his eczema returning as if it had never left, his empire reduced to rubble that was rapidly being cleared away to build a new world that had no place for him. Soon, the war would be just a bad memory, and he along with it. Maybe he should have died in that final battle, then at least his family would remember him at the height of his power.
Now, he was a ghost haunting the safehouse, watching the League move forward while he stayed behind.
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- Part 5 of Life Lines
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all my filthy life I loved someone I barely knew by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
19 Feb 2025
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After the death of All For One, Tomura Shigaraki struggles with his conflicting feelings. Unable to sleep, he wanders the safehouse to find that Toga is having nightmares of her own.
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- Part 6 of Life Lines
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sifting through the wreckage by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Feb 2025
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Tomura and Izuku meet up after the war under the watchful eye of Hawks to discuss what happened and begin to process everything they both went through.
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- Part 7 of Life Lines
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The Egg Incident by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
22 Feb 2025
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Tomura Shigaraki tries to crack an egg. Mr. Compress realizes he's never learned how to cook and decides to teach him.
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- Part 8 of Life Lines
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i feel so brain dead next to you by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 May 2025
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The words made sense individually, but the sentences just didn’t… string together.
Something about a protest that went south.
Something else about a school’s heteromorph club.
A restaurant offering spare food to an event.
The protest… what happened? That sounded bad, urgent. He scanned the subject line again and again but the words refused to form meaning.
Spinner looked back at him, and only then did Tomura realize he was digging his nails into the reptilian’s shoulder. He released his grip and stepped back, raking a hand through his hair and pulling at the strands as if that would restart his brain.
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- Part 9 of Life Lines
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every desert heart that wants the flood by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
25 Feb 2025
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“I’m used to it. It shouldn’t hurt. But it does.”
“It never gets easier,” Hawks agreed.
Toga shot him a dubious look. “Everyone loves you.”
Hawks chuckled without humor. “They don’t love ‘me,’ but that’s a whole other story. Before the Commission took me in, I wasn’t… Hawks. I was just the child of a criminal. Even my own parents didn’t want me around. That kind of thing leaves scars, and they don’t fade.”
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- Part 10 of Life Lines
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the body settles the score by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
28 Feb 2025
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Toga squeezed onto the couch between Tomura and Dabi. She drew one knee to her chest and rested her chin on it. “Death is, like, a whole thing. A process. When someone - person, animal - thinks they’re gonna die, they don’t just freeze - they collapse. Their body shuts down.”
Compress tilted his head. “That’s… surprisingly insightful, Toga.”
Toga stuck her tongue out at him, but her usual exuberance was subdued.
Compress continued: “Collapse is a good word for all of us lately.”
Toga sighed. “Animals can just snap out of it. They run around for a little while, then they’re back to normal. Lucky them.”
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- Part 11 of Life Lines
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the skin i'm in feels ordinary by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
04 Mar 2025
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Tomura stepped aside to let Spinner grab his hairbrush from the medicine cabinet. “Okay, first of all, I can’t believe I have to add this to the house rules, but do not pick the lock to the bathroom.” He returned to brushing his hair, the ache in his scalp momentarily distracting him from the constant itching of his skin.
Spinner coughed awkwardly. “Right. Sorry. Won’t happen again.” He glanced sideways at Tomura, his brow furrowed with concern. “Dude, are you trying to rip your hair out?”
Tomura stopped, his brush caught on a particularly stubborn knot. “What am I supposed to do, just let it mat?”
Spinner rolled his eyes to the ceiling with a sigh. “Watch me.”
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- Part 12 of Life Lines
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it's broken, i don't want to play by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Apr 2025
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“You’ll always be Toya to me.” Fuyumi’s voice was so gentle, so devoid of malice or anger, it made Dabi sick to his stomach.
“I can’t change your mind on that,” he bit out, “but Dabi is what I prefer to be called.”
“Okay,” Fuyumi said with a sigh. “That’s okay. You look better with white hair, by the way. I’m glad you stopped dyeing it.” She tucked her own red-flecked white hair behind her ears with a faint, sad smile.
“Wasn’t worth the effort now that everyone knows who I am,” Dabi said flatly. “Did you have something to say, or are you just gonna keep pretending nothing’s changed? ‘Cause if you’re not gonna talk about it, I have better things to do.”
Fuyumi’s smile faded, and Dabi’s heart clenched instinctively at the realization that he was the reason. Some big brother he was. He’d failed at that responsibility at every turn.
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- Part 13 of Life Lines
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falling into love now with falling apart by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Apr 2025
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Hawks let out a forceful exhale that might have been a laugh. “Alright. You wanna fight? Let’s fight.”
Tomura narrowed his eyes. “Seriously?”
Hawks took off his flight jacket and tossed it to the side, rolling his shoulders. “Seriously. Doctor says you’re good for ‘normal activity.’ And hey, beating the crap out of your parole officer counts, right?”
“Yeah, I’m assuming ‘normal’ doesn’t include breaking my master out of prison, letting him take over my mind, and becoming an eldritch abomination.”
Silence.
“Yeah… you clearly need to work through some shit.”
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- Part 14 of Life Lines
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the artistry in tearing the place apart by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
15 May 2025
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“What’s your plan now, Shigaraki? What are you supposedly working toward now that your days of villainy are behind you?”
Tomura opened his mouth to fire off a flippant retort, but no words came. He closed his mouth, pulling at his sleeves, acutely aware of how the fabric irritated his skin. His ears rang, the silence yawning before him, his mind blank.
Plan. He always had a plan. Always. What was his plan now?
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A press conference. A night out. An old enemy.
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- Part 15 of Life Lines
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your heart is a muscle the size of a rat by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Apr 2025
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“Okay, what's going on?”
“What? Nothing,” Toga said, rocking back on her heels and avoiding eye contact.
Tomura decided to let the silence stretch, a go-to interrogation method.
Twice’s eyes darted back and forth between the two indecisively, so clearly something was up.. Toga's ears turned pink under the scrutiny. She shifted her weight from foot to foot.
Then, movement beneath her sweater.
Everyone froze.
Toga giggled nervously as a triangular head peered out from under her sweater collar, looking this way and that, its boba eyes glinting and its whiskers vibrating as it sniffed out its new surroundings. Too big to be a mouse. Tomura realized with dread that it was a rat.
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- Part 16 of Life Lines
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both arms cradle you now by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
16 Apr 2025
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The sound of crickets and distant traffic was interrupted by the clicking of claws on asphalt. Tomura stopped and turned, fingers twitching as the familiar fighting reflex took over.
His fingers stilled as a tiny, pathetic creature stepped into the light. A patchy, mangy, brindled coat. Short, stocky legs. A naked, ratlike tail. Foxlike ears, although one flopped over halfway. Wide, wet, wary eyes and a nose that twitched hopefully.
Cardigan Welsh Corgi, he realized in the back of his mind.
How did he know that? When had he learned or cared about-
“Go away,” he said, turning away and continuing his walk.
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- Part 17 of Life Lines
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safe in the arms of those who know that you deserve a place by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
21 Apr 2025
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“Uh…” the young vet assistant, probably just barely out of high school, checked her notes no less than three times before clearing her throat. “Misters Shigaraki, Todoroki, and Bubaigawara?” She couldn’t quite hide the nervous tremor in her voice as her eyes darted to the trio and then away.
Twice bowed deeply as they passed, probably deeper than strictly necessary. “Thank you very much, young lady,” he said, his eye twitching as he struggled to keep his other personality from chiming in.
The vet assistant laughed nervously as she led the way to the exam room, looking over her shoulder every other step, her blonde braid swinging wildly.
“Relax, kid,” Dabi drawled. “Worst we’ll do is give you Tomura’s mange.”
“Since when is it my mange?”
“Since you took Chabo in. And since I’m not allowed to blame the dog, I’m blaming you.”
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- Part 18 of Life Lines
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everything lies in the eyes of you by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
03 Jul 2025
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"Atsuhiro, you know the tango, right?”
The bright hint of hope in her voice, the slight lifting of her head, made Atsuhiro’s heart clench. He would bring a smile back to her face or he wasn’t Mr. Compress.
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- Part 19 of Life Lines
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behind curtain number one is... by thewriterhyena
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
06 Jul 2025
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Jin set the camera down and watched the picture print. It looked like a gray expanse of nothingness for a long while. Jin wondered if the film was a dud. Maybe he had accidentally exposed it somehow? Nonsense. I know exactly what I’m doing at all times!
Dabi crawled across the floor, matching Turt’s ambling pace, the cricket forgotten by both as they watched.
Finally, the outline of a familiar head of spiky white hair appeared, quickly followed by bright, reflective eyes.
White eyes and hair, a charred, skeletal creature held together by staples, its jaw hanging loose, every tooth exposed…
No… no, that was wrong, too… I need to make another one. I need to try again. Dabi didn’t look like that… think, think, think…
Jin blinked. Somehow the film had finished developing. Dabi’s expression was impassive except for a faint upward tilt of his mouth, while Turt stared down the camera like it might pounce.
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- Part 20 of Life Lines