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He’d seen glimpses of her before, the real Rumi, the girl behind the idol and the blade. He’d seen bits and pieces of her in her choo-choo pants, in the girl who wasn’t weirded out by his dumb tiger and arrogant crow, in the insecurities slithering beneath the patterns, in the compassion she’d shown him again and again, in the desperate soul before him who, despite all he had done to her, had told him that he was more than the mistakes he’d made, somebody who’d seen him for all he really was and accepted him all the same. That had been all Rumi, he knew, and still this was the first time he felt he was seeing the whole of her. Half hunter. Half demon. Resilient. Iridescent.
Breathtaking.
The final battle through Jinu's eyes, and what comes next.
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cupid shot the arrow (and it hit me in the ass) by WriterInTheShadows
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
09 Feb 2024
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The stranger next to you is crying. The stranger next to you is crying a lot.
Although you suppose he must be doing his best to conceive his pitiful sobs, the fact that the train carriage is so full it resembles a can of tightly packed sardines is not really working in his favour. He isn’t necessarily being loud, per se; it’s just that the two of you are standing too close to each other, and so every time his chest heaves with excessively deep breaths, you feel it brush up and down against your arm.
It’s honestly pushing you a little bit further to the brink of insanity.
Or; when you get stood up on Valentine's Day, you think your night is done for; that is, until you meet a stranger who claims to be in your current predicament.
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through a rainbow lens (i see you) by WriterInTheShadows
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
14 Jul 2023
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As if Rody didn’t have enough on his plate (but, honestly, what was new about that), stupid Greenie kept nagging him and–
And suddenly there were guns pointed straight at him and Greenie became the least of his problems and Jesus Christ he did not want to die.
Everything became a blur after that, but there was something he remembered clearly: green. There was a lot of it as Greenie flew them through the air: an electric green, a green so dark it could have been black and then a green so bright it could have been white and–
Ah, yes, of course the arrows trying to kill them had to be green, too.
Or; Rody and Izuku's story told through the colours.
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the battles we fight (for the people we love) by WriterInTheShadows
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
17 Feb 2023
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All in all, you were taking the very particular hardships of dating a Pro Hero in stride.
You would never have guessed that meeting Izuku’s parents, something completely mundane and not at all out of the ordinary for a normal couple, would be what finally did it for you.
Or; it's finally time for you to meet your in-laws, and you may or may not be having a mental breakdown about it.
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"The Blue Spirit begins appearing in proximity to rumours of the Painted Lady. She cleans a polluted well and the sickness it caused in a tiny coastal town. The very same night, a crate of rice and cured meat wrapped in flame embossed bamboo appears by the well. Valleys of sword strokes and kisses of ash adorn the rough pine crate.
It is said, the Blue Spirit is hunting the Painted Lady. Or that he’s under her spell.
In a way, both are true."
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- Part 1 of Rumour Has It verse
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05 Jun 2026
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‘The Chemistry of Cooking,’ wasn’t exactly rocket science, but it wasn’t going to be a total cake walk, either. Well, except maybe in week 8 — that was when they were supposed to be baking cakes. The instructor tells them to pair up, and the girl in front of him turns around.
Zuko panics. This girl is way prettier than he expected, and now she is smiling at him hopefully.
“Do you have a partner?” she asks.
“No.”
“…Do you want to be partners?”
College AU where Zuko and Katara are chemistry 'lab' partners. Zuko will get more than he bargained for by saying yes.
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01 Jun 2026
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the beginning of a new and brighter birth by aloneintherain
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
13 Jun 2018
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“I’m so proud of you, my nephew.” Uncle cups Zuko’s face in his lined hand. The gesture is so tender, his palm so warm, that Zuko has to take a fortifying breath against the sudden swell of emotion in his chest.
“I want to be a good leader, Uncle,” Zuko says. “I want to look after my people.”
“You will,” Uncle says. “You are, nephew.”
In a new era of peace, Zuko works to be a very different Fire Lord than his forefathers. Based on this tumblr post.
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19 May 2026
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Part of her wonders if she should thank him—if she could—but when she pulls away from her father and tries to make sense of the tangled words brewing in the back of her throat, Zuko is busy securing the balloon, dragging it off to the side and neatly folding the fabric back into the basket. The deep furrow of his brow and the tense set of his jaw gives her pause. His eyes are stormy and conflicted, so Katara bites her tongue, spins on her heel, and remembers a prince clad in black and red who spits fire and only knows how to take.
Against all odds, in the moments between now and the end, Katara falls for Zuko.
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18 May 2026
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All of Izumi’s teachers prior to this one have used the term “partners in learning.” But never before has it seemed true. And now, here he is, eyeballs deep in markers and glitter glue, somehow the most involved parent in the classroom.
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In which Izumi idolizes her new teacher and Zuko falls a little bit in love.
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- Part 1 of Zutara Month 2021
- Part 1 of Partners In Learning
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12 May 2026