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Mike would be fine with staying just as they are.
Well, not really. It would eat him alive, there’s no doubt about it. Scoop him hollow and drown him in the possibility of something he should have never even thought about in the middle of the night with his ceiling and the flickering streetlamps outside of the window as his only witnesses. Because he’d doomed himself from the moment the thought seeped through the cracks of his forcefully built normalcy, warm, syrupy, and so, so sweet. Irresistibly so. But perhaps he could find it in himself to tolerate that kind of agony if it means keeping Will by his side. Maybe if he sees Will holding hands with some faceless boy, he could find it in himself to be happy his best friend has found someone to love him, though not more than Mike always has. Someone who wants him a normal amount, someone who hasn’t needed him since before ever even knowing the word for it. Someone who wouldn’t absolutely crush him under the weight of his emotion. Someone nice.
Someone not Mike.
But god, all he wants is for it to be him.
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Mike Wheeler and a future ten years in the making.
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punchline by shrobbery for namikazes
Fandoms: Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid, Heated Rivalry (TV)
04 Jan 2026
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punchline
/ˈpʌn(t)ʃlʌɪn/
noun
the final phrase or sentence of a joke or story, providing the humour or some other crucial element.- - -
Ilya is— he’s allowed to love Shane out loud now. Because he does. He loves his husband. Adores him with every staccato beat of his heart so surely, so intently, that he’s positive that if he were to be hooked up to a polygraph machine and be asked if he loves Shane Hollander, the shape of his pulse as he answers “yes” would coincide with the rhythm of Shane’s bashful laughter anytime Ilya tells him that his freckles are stunning.
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It’s funny, though. He can almost see Irina’s brand of humor slip through the cracks, like sunlight peeking past the gaps in their blackout curtains. He can almost hear her laugh. Gone as she is, she lingers and clings to him like cigarette smoke.
Ilya, Shane, freckles, fate, and his mama. Alternatively titled: the stars outside of Moscow
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Doors by shrobbery for dazed_bumbledee
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
10 Sep 2025
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He tried, during those lost years, he tried as hard as he possibly could. Tore his eyes away from it, threw punches and insults, breathed through the scent of mint. And yet, he fell asleep at night dreaming of freckled skin under his lips, spearmint toothpaste on his tongue anyways. The undying, ever growing affection had curdled into something ugly but it had never died. Even if Katsuki stays dead, it won’t die with him. It’ll live in the sticky-note he stuck on Izuku’s lunch yesterday that he knows the sentimental nerd kept, it’ll linger like bad cologne on the notebook he’d given Izuku when he ran out of pages.
His affection won’t have to outlive him, though. Because he’ll walk this purgatory of endless doors created by a curse of a quirk a million times before he lets Izuku lose the best thing about him. That perpetually heroic, perpetually bleeding heart.
alternatively titled: All The Pieces
In which Katsuki dies. And then, he claws his way back to life.
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Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Feb 2025
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His mom won’t stop badgering him about confessing to Izuku or whatever. Confessing sounds corny as hell.
She doesn’t understand that he likes what they have. He’s content with the sleepovers and the hand clutching his arm on the train and the curls brushing against the skin under his chin when they sit on the couch.
This is the one instance he’ll ever settle for less. Insisting on more might lose him Izuku and that’s not— he’s fine with less. He can make do. He’ll make do even if it tears him apart from the inside out and sends his guts spilling on the floor. He’ll make do until it’s his heart on there beating one name, three syllables.
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Katsuki wants more. Maybe he'll get to have it.
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Even Playing Field by shrobbery
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Dec 2024
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"You gonna start your own agency or something?”
Izuku shrugs, “I’ll probably do it independently, if anything. I don’t wanna take a slot away from someone who deserves it more than me, you know? I’ve been missing in action for over half a decade. I'm… rusty.”
Izuku watches as Kacchan’s eyebrows furrow in the rear-view mirror, glancing at him in confusion, “What?”
“If I’m gonna join your– any agency, I’m gonna have to earn it. And besides– Kota-kun would be a better fit as of right now I think. I see how hard he tries to beat you every time you lead a training exercise and I know you do too.”
“Are you a fucking idiot?” Kacchan pulls over right by a convenience store and whips his head around to look at Izuku, “Are you seriously fucking stupid?”