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undo, underdog by Raayide
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
30 Jan 2026
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UA has a rule—no quirkless students. It was added years ago, after much hemming and hawing about safety concerns and lessening blame in the inevitable circumstance of death. There's no real reason to remove it, not as the percentage of quirkless people plummets further and further.
Of course, this rule doesn't actually matter to Izuku, because he's got an analysis quirk.
As far as anyone knows.
The Plan is simple: have a quirk, become a hero, and avoid anyone who could disprove those first two things.
In hindsight, UA isn't a great choice. And that's before the villains.
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12 Feb 2026
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Essek is invited to a multi-reality Essek convention. An Essek Thelyss Dies. An Essek Thelyss investigates.
On possibilities, and confronting what could have been.
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12 Dec 2025
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When Scott went to the trouble of finding a magic user to help him sustain his immortality, even against vampiric means of death, it seemed like a great idea. He wanted to live forever, and the magic made sure that a little stake of wood couldn't be the thing to do him in. Which was shown to be necessary, considering the attack on him that occurred soon thereafter.
Unfortunately, it seems that the upset masses scrounged themselves up a magic user too. No one so talented or skilled, of course. Only money can bring that. But the witch got their job done in a simpler way.
By enchanting the tomb they shoved him into to never open again.
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Or: Scott was awake for the 600 years that he was locked in a tomb. No amount of vampirism or stubbornness can save him from the horrific effects of such sensory deprivation.
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07 Dec 2025
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What if there had been a choice? What if the world- or at the very least, a certain vampire- had been a little bit kinder? No massacres, no beacons, no cursed slumber. How would our story change, and what would remain inevitably the same?
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Basically a Pyro centric fic where I make Scott significantly less evil (mostly because I wanted to explore the logistics and world building of ethical vampirism), but don’t worry- he still gets to be scary sometimes as a treat. He’s been allowed to develop and grow a lot more as a person in the last 600 years, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still skeletons in his closet. After all, there must be a reason he decided to change for the better.
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05 Dec 2025
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Blood and Ichor by Anonymous_Mango
Fandoms: Vampires SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
01 Jan 2026
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Avid is a bounty hunter paid by The Militia to take down criminals in a world where the majority people have no special powers. The Militia is an elite agency that hires powerful beings to become heroes that can stop powered villains.
The Coven is a group of villains with mysterious powers that seem to be made with evasion and evil in mind.
What will happen when Avid finds himself crushing on the head of The Coven?
How will Scott make sure to keep his feelings for average coffeeshop worker Avid safe and secretive?
Will the author be able to stop the decent into chaos this au is falling in before Parkour Civilization becomes involved?
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I ADD TAGS ONLY WHEN THEY BECOME RELEVANT. MORE CHARACTERS TO COME.Bookmarked by cryptidorchid
04 Dec 2025
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Mollymauk doesn't know how he survived nor does he know why Caleb is currently a little kid or who the other kid is; but, he does know that he would do anything to get the rest of his family back. Including walking the spaces between the stars.
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- 26/?
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02 Dec 2025
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Shelby doesn’t realize her roommate Scott is a vampire. Owen cannot stand the fact that a happy village has been built over the ruins he left behind. Scott intends to protect what belongs to him.
This AU is set in roughly the 1930s. Oakhurst is an actual village where people live. There are no beacons, and some humans are just born with mystical powers (no holy texts). Aside from that, plot will be similar but different from the actual SMP events, to keep things interesting.
My main motivation is domestic fluff between V.Scott and Shelby, but my co-writer has convinced me to beef up the intrigue aspects.
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19 Nov 2025
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Waking up from a 600-year long cursed sleep—and finding his manor and town completely destroyed—inspires a lot of feelings in Scott. Anger. Vengefulness. Annoyance. Hatred. Insatiable hunger for human flesh and blood.
But more than anything, he is reallyyyyyy tired.
Too tired to bother with an elaborate song and dance for the human intruders in Oakhurst.
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Or: Scott is 10% tireder when he wakes up from his slumber and doesn't hide that he's a vampire from the beginning.
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16 Nov 2025
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Essek tore his gaze away from those red eyes, seeking desperately something safer, softer. He was among friends. Cognouza was seconds ago and a timeline away. It hadn't happened — it wouldn't happen.
He settled on Jester, who beamed.
"Hi," she said, kindly, "I'm Jester. I like your weasel."
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In another timeline, the Mighty Nein fall to Lucien. Essek, with Artagan-the-weasel's help, travels back in time to save them.
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31 Oct 2025
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The fact that six mercenaries and a weasel have stowed away on the highest-security vessel in the Dynasty’s fleet is, technically, a serious problem that bodes poorly for the rest of their journey. But Essek is delighted. He’d been dreading a long and tense voyage to Mutalos, without any company except for a skeleton crew comprised mostly of military personnel, the awkward spare scourger, and his—
It feels strange, to think of Becke as his wife. Even calling her his enemy feels too intimate.
(In which Essek agrees to a political marriage to ensure intergalactic peace and keep himself alive, only to discover that his wife has married him for exactly the opposite reason.)
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30 Oct 2025
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Essek has a moment to consider that gravity-based trust exercises have never worked for him, and then the spell hits. He leans back into it, falls, falls.
(In which Essek is resurrected by the Mighty Nein and framed for innocence.)
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28 Oct 2025
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Essek Thelyss comes to Soltryce to deliver guest lectures and, on the side, cultivate the brand new Archmage of Domestic Protections. He’s hoping that Caleb Widogast will oblige him by picking up his predecessor’s interest in conspiring to steal Luxon beacons, after so rudely murdering Da’leth mere weeks before the culmination of their schemes.
Essek is prepared for espionage. He is not prepared to find a love that will change the course of his life.
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02 Aug 2025
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The Empire is winning the war. In the wake of his master's death, Volstrucker Bren ascended to Archmage of Civil Influence, but he's been secretly undermining the Empire by feeding intelligence to the Mighty Nein, a group of adventurers fighting for peace. When his rival and friend the Shadowhand is captured, Bren acts on the only idea that will spare a Kryn politician from execution: claiming him as a war prize.
Bren and Essek are forced to perform a fake politican/concubine relationship, including all the tension and jingoism it entails, while taking advantage of their circumstances to spy on and steal from the court around them. Bren may wield the leash, but Essek has cards up his sleeve, and even so, Bren fears hurting Essek almost as much as Essek fears losing Bren. Their mutual trepidation must graduate to mutual trust — maybe even love — if they have any hope of surviving the lie they started.
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01 Jul 2025
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Lucien regards Essek. “You know I steal things for a living, don’t you? You know I’ve got a few dead men to my name, too?”
“I am aware of these facts, Mr. Tavelle. I considered them to be among your highest qualifications for this job.”
“And yet you came here alone?”
“...Yes?”
Lucien digests this. “Okaaay. Well, how’s the pay?”
“200 gold."
Lucien bursts out laughing. “Nope! Nope. Absolutely not. Do you think I was born last night?”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Lemme get this straight.” Lucien leans forward, staring Essek down. “You’re telling me you came to a distant kingdom, arranged to meet a known criminal in a bathhouse, and thought nothing of stripping nude for a parley—but now you’re telling me that you need protection for your meeting with some spook? You’re dangerous enough on your own, my friend. If you’re in the market for a merc, it’s because you are about to walk into some fucked up, unsound, insane shit—and I’m not getting flayed alive and broken on the rack for 200 gold. For 500 gold? Sure, fine, that’ll get you some light flaying, maybe a turn or two on the rack—but not for 200.”
Essek sighs. “Do you prefer it in gold or platinum?”
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20 Jun 2025
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When Beauregard asks for Dairon's help freeing a friend held captive by the Cerberus Assembly, they agree, expecting a rescue mission to clear the way to bring down Trent Ikithon for good. But when they meet Essek Thelyss in the depths of the Vergesson Sanatorium, they discover that Beauregard hasn't told them everything.
As the clock runs down and Dairon and Essek find themselves in a game of wits not only with the Assembly but with each other, they must find a way to trust each other--or risk neither of them making it out alive.
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Written for Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2021.
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15 Jun 2025
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In another universe, all six of the Tadfools were vampire spawn under the heel of Cazador. In a raid on a Gur camp gone wrong, all of them end up kidnapped by mindflayers and then subsequently break free of Cazador's control.
In order to survive they are going to have to figure out how to rely on each other. But like, not too much on each other, because that'd be Weird and maybe incestuous? Astarion's convinced it's incest.
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30 May 2025
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Wyll Ravengard has read a lot of romances. He knows how this story goes: the beautiful, consumptive courtesan falls in love with an idealistic man who wants to rescue her from her lot in life, only to die of the disease before they can wed.
Wyll has read a lot of romances. He knows the signs. Astarion's deathly white pallor, his thin frame, the specks of blood lingering on his lips. Astarion, like Mimi, like Marguerite Guatier, is dying of consumption. Any romance between them is already doomed.
Or, Wyll is genre savvy. Too bad it's the wrong genre. He thinks he's the hero of a gothic romance, but he's really found himself in a gothic horror.
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22 May 2025
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Blood-slaked and vital as he has never been before, Astarion finds that his regenerative abilities have returned to him a certain ironic piece of anatomy. Naturally, he decides to play the virgin for Wyll.
This goes about as well as could be expected.
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22 May 2025
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Three commands has Astarion broken, and now the fourth with a rapier through his gut and crossbow to his skull. Centuries he's wanted to be free—well, here it is. Dirt under his nails and blood behind his fangs. He's free. Isn't he fucking satisfied?
Astarion has not been a person in two hundred years. His journey to become one does not start off well.
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15 May 2025
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the kindness of a liar (to fool the burning fear) by not_whelmed_yet for TheBirdThatIHate
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Dec 2024
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Wyll Ravengard is a journalist, investigating a medical corporation promising a solution to the organ donor waiting list. Wyll schedules an interview with one of the vampire spawn acting as a living donor for Cania Innovations, trying to puzzle out if this is exploitation or altruism.
Astarion Ancunín has been traded to a new master, one determined to wring all potential profit out of the 7,000 spawn he has acquired.
That was then? Now? Now they’re roommates.
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29 Apr 2025