Fanfic Recommendations: The Next Generation

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Residual Hope by SimplyKaren is a BnHA fic that (at least at first) sets out along a path I haven't seen before at all, though it cites a couple others as imspiration. Official summary:

The Sludge Villain doesn't find Bakugo after escaping All Might, but some other random civilian. There's no series of explosions to draw All Might to the scene of the second attack. It's by pure luck that Izuku stumbles upon them. And Izuku does what he always has when he sees one person hurting another: inserts himself between the aggressor and victim. He finds this is significantly harder to do when one of the parties is a sentient slime.

I enjoyed the early parts quite a bit, and while it ended up getting a little too AO3 for me (ie, shippy and emo) by the late 50s it was still fun for a while, and if you have a higher tolerance for it it's likely enough the other half is of similar quality.

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Published: 2021-09-07 Updated: 2025-08-24 Words: 453,060 Chapters: 130/138
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