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theories of quantum mechanics (you, in every universe) by ochako (kunimi) for raerart
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Jan 2022
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Universal wavefunction theory dictates that when a problem has more than one possible solution, they are not alternatives, but simultaneous outcomes.
For instance: when a boy tells you he loves you, there are many responses, but mostly two: acceptance or rejection. These seem to be contrary possibilities, as if one ought to be rendered impossible by the other’s eventuality.
Everett-DeWitt theory posits that a new universe is created with every choice, every juncture. It says that all possible outcomes must occur, and at the point of divergence, the universe splits itself.
One Katsuki, now two.
Deutsch-Schrödinger theory says that there are many identical universes, filled with many identical boys in love with another boy, and they remain identical up to the point where he confesses. Then in some universes, you reject him, and in others, you accept him. From that moment on, the paths are changed from the point of common history.
Infinite Katsukis.
All this to say that in one universe, you probably love him back.
Katsuki grapples with love and many-worlds interpretation theory. The former is more difficult. / quantum mechanics soulmates
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- Part 1 of nights like these (author's picks)
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“She likes you,” Akita observes.
“She’s trying to eat my knee,” Osamu says.
“It’s an expression of affection,” Saito says.
“Yeah?” Osamu raises an eyebrow. “Oi, Kiyoomi, how come you never bite my knee?”
Saito chokes on air. Akita starts laughing so hard she ends up coughing.
“They’re not your most appealing feature,” Kiyoomi replies, not missing a beat.
Kiyoomi likes dogs. And Osamu, well, he likes Kiyoomi.
—omigiri dogenda / osamu is in love, sakusa is bad at names, and hoshiumi is rightfully outraged. roughly in that order
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- Part 2 of nights like these (author's picks)
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BOY/BOMB by ochako (kunimi)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Jul 2021
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Yell, maybe. That’s what Katsuki would do. He’d turn it into a fight – knuckles scraped raw against the ground, fingers bloody, teeth bared. He’s never learnt how to get to the heart of something without ripping it out of a chest.
Bakugou wakes up again, Deku is gone, and he and Todoroki are the only ones still left in the hospital. There is a letter he doesn't know how to open on his bedside table. There are too many thoughts in his head, and he holds onto his anger, because he doesn't know what'll be left if he doesn't.
—BNHA 306: bakugou katsuki, in the wake of atonement / bakugou katsuki, in the aftermath. on deku, on dabi, on todoroki family tragedies.
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- Part 1 of in the aftermath [a duology]
- Part 3 of nights like these (author's picks)
- Part 2 of the personhood files
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a burden shared by ochako (kunimi)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
06 Aug 2021
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Bakugou’s face clears. “You need to learn fucking inflection,” he mutters. “‘Is that it?’ Fuck, I thought you didn’t care for a second.”
Shouto frowns. No, that’s not right. He had meant… he had meant is that it, as in is that all, as in did Midoriya think this was enough to – to –
Shouto doesn’t know.
“No,” he says. “I just…” He pauses, unsure how to explain.
Bakugou waves him off. “No, I know, I got what you meant,” he says. “Dunno when the fuck I became a goddamn Icyhot whisperer,” he grumbles, “but apparently I fucking am.”
Something expands in Shouto’s chest, just a little, at that.
Bakugou is still looking at him. There’s something a little strange about his gaze. It’s searching—demanding—but that’s not new; Bakugou Katsuki has always looked at him like Shouto still has more to give.
The day his world changes for the nth time, Shouto wakes up to banging on his door, Bakugou Katsuki’s voice, and a yet-unnoticed letter slipped onto tatami floor.
—BNHA319: class 1-a comes together to bring back their wayward friend. todoroki shouto thinks about trust.
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- Part 2 of in the aftermath [a duology]
- Part 4 of nights like these (author's picks)
- Part 3 of the personhood files
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“I have a proposition,” Kiyoomi says, clearing his throat.
Osamu raises an eyebrow, leaning forward. “I’m all ears,” he says, resting his forearms on the bench.
Kiyoomi’s gaze flicks to the bench—meticulously scrubbed—and the way Osamu’s skin presses flush against it, before snapping his gaze back to Osamu’s. “I think it would be advantageous to enter a sexual relationship,” he says brusquely. “Purely pragmatically.”
Osamu's arm slips from the bench.
Unlike several of his peers his age, Sakusa Kiyoomi abhors the idea of casual sex with strangers. It’s disgusting, no doubt unsatisfactory, and inconvenient for someone as recognisable as he is. His teammates are all out of the question as well, largely because he has no interest, but also because they exist too closely within his orbit. Enter Miya Osamu.
—omigiri fwb / or, sakusa kiyoomi navigates being friends with benefits with the hottest guy he knows. maybe falls in love along the way.
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- Part 5 of nights like these (author's picks)
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closed loop by ochako (kunimi)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
27 Apr 2021
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The first thing you think, when you see Shigaraki Yoichi for the first time, is that he does not look like the brother of a monster.
The second is that he looks sad.
a closed loop is a circle, by any other name. everything leads you back to him. to this moment, where you reach out to save him. in this life, he saves you.
—the second user saved him, once. / the second user, the first user, and all the ways history repeats and twists in on itself.
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- Part 6 of nights like these (author's picks)
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You’re more cruel, he thinks of Kunimi saying. He couldn’t be as sharp if he tried.
He looks at Kyoutani’s teeth, and thinks, I want him to try.
tsukishima kei dreams of sharp teeth & sad colours.
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- Part 7 of nights like these (author's picks)
- Part 4 of the personhood files
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when a war ends by ochako (kunimi)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
21 Nov 2021
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“You haven’t left this house in a week,” Bakugou says. “And I’d put money on you not leaving this exact spot.”
“I don’t have to go anywhere,” Shouto says, and it should be obstinate, but instead, it sounds to his ears like i don’t have anywhere else to go.
Todoroki Shouto learns to grieve. / when a war ends, what does that look like, exactly? –— andrea gibson
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- Part 8 of nights like these (author's picks)
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“You’re staring,” Kita comments. His eyes are still closed, but Wakatoshi looks at him a lot. It’s not a surprise that he’s learned what it feels like to be watched.
“I like looking at you,” Wakatoshi says honestly.
RICE protocol: guidelines for injury recovery. Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation.
Rice protocol: all roads lead to Kita Shinsuke's farm, if you're 28, slightly injured, and looking for a way to rebuild. If you're Ushijima Wakatoshi.
or: wakatoshi knows what the RICE protocol is. he thinks he's found something more healing.
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- Part 9 of nights like these (author's picks)
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post-battle rituals by bakutodo (kunimi)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
31 Dec 2021
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“Izuku says you’re in love with me,” Todoroki says conversationally, out of fucking nowhere.
Katsuki spits out his drink.
Being at this shitty laundromat at half 3 in the fucking morning with goddamn Todoroki wasn't on Bakugou’s plan for the day, but he's not going home covered in blood and gravel, fuck off.
—bktd the feeling of fingertips trailing over a bare shoulder blade
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- Part 10 of nights like these (author's picks)
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Kei tries his hardest not to hold onto impossible dreams. He repeats that to himself as he watches Kageyama walk towards his room, and clenches his own fist instead of reaching out after him.
“I think he's in love with Kunimi,” Kei says ten minutes later, peering at Yamaguchi and Yachi through Skype.
“Hmm,” Yamaguchi says mildly.
Kei stares at him incredulously. “Hmm?” he echoes.
“Hmm,” Yamaguchi says again. Yachi smiles gently at Kei over her boyfriend's shoulder. “I'm not sure that's the roadblock you think it is,” Yamaguchi says, too casually, after a moment.
What, Kei thinks.
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Kei's heart's reactions to Kageyama are embarrassing. He thinks this would be easier to ignore if they hadn't ended up at the same college, if Kageyama hadn't relaxed enough to find a smile that never fails to make Kei's heart stutter, if Kageyama didn't sometimes look at Kei like he'd hung the moon instead of just kept it in his name. He thinks this would be easier to hope for if Kageyama didn't sometimes look at Kunimi the same way.
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- Part 11 of nights like these (author's picks)
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rinse & repeat by billdenbrough (kunimi)
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
13 May 2020
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Richie doesn’t care about theoretical physics, doesn’t waste his time contemplating parallel lives and all the minute variations of reality that could exist in alternate universes, but he thinks if there are infinite versions of who they are, infinite versions of their lives, there’s got to be one where they get to be happy, where they get to love each other back with no strings attached.
(He doesn’t even question the idea of whether he’d love Eddie in every universe; it’s a fundamental fact of existence. Water is wet, grass is green, and Richie Tozier falls in love with Eddie Kaspbrak stealing his cigarette and stamping it out beneath his shoe.)
When Eddie’s a bit fuzzy about the date the next day, they put it down to the head trauma. He got stabbed in the face, and then the chest, and then thrown across a fucking rock cave before being dragged out of a collapsing structure by terrified, desperate people; there’s no surprise it’s having some impact.After two weeks pass, though, and Eddie still wakes up with a frown, thinking it’s June 1st, Richie’s heart sinks.
The universe has never cut them a break. Why would he think it would start now?
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- Part 12 of nights like these (author's picks)
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your face, my hands (a recurring theme) by ochako (kunimi)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
09 Sep 2021
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It must be raining. Bakugou’s hair is stuck to his forehead, the sleeves of his jacket are dripping onto the mat outside Shouto’s apartment, and there’s pink running down the side of his face in rivulets.
Pink.
Shouto moves before he can think, one hand reaching to cup Bakugou’s face, the other going towards his chin to tilt him towards the light.
Bakugou flinches, just barely, and Shouto stops, his fingers less than an inch from Bakugou’s skin.
“Fuck,” Bakugou says, with feeling, then locks his eyes on Shouto’s. His expression is complicated; almost as complicated as Bakugou himself, as impossible a feat as that seems.
It’s at war with itself; again, Shouto thinks, not unlike Bakugou. Hesitation and want. Anger and affection.
It's ten pm on a Tuesday, and Bakugou Katsuki is at Shouto's door.
—todoroki shouto and bakugou katsuki keep running in circles around each other. / bktd & recurring themes
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- Part 13 of nights like these (author's picks)
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Osamu doesn’t reply. Doesn’t say that he keeps it for a reason. Doesn’t say that Kiyoomi brushing it back is part of his routine now, built into the rhythm of his everyday life.
It doesn’t matter. Motoya can see it written across his face, plain as day.
“So,” Motoya says lightly. “You’re in love with him too.”
To his credit, Osamu doesn’t flinch.
komori motoya watches miya osamu outside shin-ōsaka station on a saturday night, and sees a man in love.
this is not news to osamu.
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- Part 1 of like waves (we break and we build)
- Part 14 of nights like these (author's picks)
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one two, one two, always on beat by ochako (kunimi)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
08 Aug 2021
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They’re swaying a little, just moving in a slow circle on the spot. It makes Shouto think of one time back at UA, when Katsuki had rubbed slow circles into the soft skin of Shouto’s inner wrist, his fingers delicate in a way Shouto hadn’t known they could be.
Most people, Shouto thinks, look at Katsuki’s hands and see weapons. They’re not wrong, but Shouto knows how gentle they can be when they’re not being asked to destroy.
“I don’t think you could knock me out,” Shouto says thoughtfully. He curls one hand around Katsuki’s shoulder, presses his palm over his shoulder blade. “Not with a headbutt. I don’t think you’d be able to reach high enough to get the force you want.”
Katsuki steps on his foot.
There are things one is meant to do at a wedding. Dancing, for one. Todoroki seems to have missed the memo. Luckily, Bakugou is there to remind him.
—todoroki shouto thinks about all the boys bakugou katsuki has been, and the way he's built himself into shouto's chest over the years.
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- Part 15 of nights like these (author's picks)
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(His parents and coach had asked if he’d consider playing in college. Dropped scholarship possibilities in his lap. He’d refused calmly each time. He thinks that had confused them. He’s pretty sure Atsumu got it, though. Pretty sure Atsumu knew that Osamu had no intention of playing without his brother, even if he loved the game. Pretty sure Atsumu loved him better for it, even if he’d never say that, even if part of him still wished Osamu would keep playing.
Osamu doesn’t regret it. He misses the sting of the ball against his palms sometimes—a lot of the time—but he’s happy with his choices. There are some things you just have to quit completely. Things you love, mostly.)
miya osamu goes to college, misses his brother, meets boys he used to know in kitchens at parties. thinks about how things change, and how they don't.
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- Part 16 of nights like these (author's picks)
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specificity by ochako (kunimi) for lelex
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 Dec 2021
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“Look,” Bakugou had said. “It’s like -- scientific theories get accepted when there’s nothing else that can explain an observed phenomenon, all right? Back in first year, when you thought Deku could be All Might’s kid despite the glaring lack of physical resemblance—” here, Shouto had frowned, which Bakugou had ignored, “—it was because you saw the quirk similarities and obviously had no fucking reason to think that a quirk would be inherited beyond, y’know, genetics. So that was your theory, until it wasn’t.”
Shouto remembers that now, with dirt beneath his fingernails.
It’s a dream.
It’s a dream, because Katsuki is alive, and Shouto wakes up, and he’s not there.
It’s a dream, but now Shouto has dirt under his fingernails.
It’s a dream, until it isn’t.
Bakugou is gone, except for in Shouto’s dreams. (He thinks.)
—bakugou, todoroki & dreams / an inception-negative-zone fusion canon compliant au
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- Part 17 of nights like these (author's picks)
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“I figured it was because I was the most single person you know,” Kuroo says, raising an eyebrow.
“What?” Koutarou asks, sitting upright. “No! I mean, that’s useful, I’m not a homewrecker, even for pretend, but like – you’re so cool, dude! And chill! And funny, and good at things, like – who else would I ask?”
Kuroo stares at him for a long moment.
“Okay,” he says finally.
Koutarou tilts his head. “Okay?”
“Okay,” Kuroo says, taking a deep breath. “I’ll be your pretend boyfriend, or whatever.”
“Really?” Koutarou exclaims, before immediately falling off the couch in excitement. “Ow,” he says, before shooting back up. “But seriously, Kuroo, y’mean it?”
“Yeah,” Kuroo says, shrugging nonchalantly. He rubs the back of his neck again, then meets Koutarou’s gaze. “What’s the worst that can happen?”
People keep having theories about who Bokuto is dating. It's very inconvenient for all involved.
—five times bokuroo are "dating", and one time it's for real / magical realism fake dating 5 1 for the bokuroo exchange!
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- Part 18 of nights like these (author's picks)
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i don't believe in luck (but i do believe in you) by kunimi for TeddyKrueger
Fandoms: Haikyuu!!
14 May 2021
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He supposes it isn’t all bad. It is still very much not his scene, but milling around the sidelines, ducking overly determined courtiers and generally trying to look as unapproachable as possible is a good distraction, he finds.
“Since when do you pursue distractions?” Hakuba had asked after Kiyoomi had shared this insight when they found each other near the refreshments table. Not that Kiyoomi was partaking in anything other than beverages.
“Since Miya Osamu walked into his life,” Motoya had said, popping up out of nowhere and throwing Kiyoomi immediately to the wolves.
Kiyoomi goes to Inarizaki as the head of Prince Aran's guard, focused only on seeing his friend happily wed. He accounts for a lot of things.
He does not account for Miya Osamu.
—omigiri royalty au / sakusa kiyoomi does not believe in luck, nor omens. maybe he can believe in people.
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- Part 19 of nights like these (author's picks)
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stop holding back (inevitable, like the tides) by ochako (kunimi)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
17 Feb 2022
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“I’ve been trying to get your attention,” Shouto says. He’s not usually embarrassed or nervous, but he thinks if he said this any other day, he would be. Today, he’s too ticked off to feel anything other than frustration. “For so long, because you won’t even look at me, and I -- I miss it. I want you to look at me, ever since that mission, ever since before that, and I’m doing everything I can for a reaction—”
Bakugou spins, almost too quick to see, and suddenly Shouto’s back is being slammed up against the wall of lockers, and Bakugou is leaning in close, breathing heavily.
“You want a reaction?” he demands. His eyes are just burning now. No embers, just open flame. “I’ve been trying to hold myself back, you fuckin’ asshole, and you want a -- you want a goddamn reaction?”
“I want you,” Shouto corrects, stubborn and staring him right in the eyes, even pinned against the lockers.
Shouto finally asks why Bakugou’s been acting different. He gets an answer, kind of, and so much more.
—bktd locker room confrontations
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- Part 20 of nights like these (author's picks)