#fantasy au erasermic

[finnishwillow]

Some fantasy au erasermic for the soul.

Full disclosure, a lot of poses I use come from pinterest and this is no exception.

[obsessed-dragon]

🎶 Dance at the Tavern 🎶

I love drawing for the fantasy / vampire AU by me and my best friend Moth. This picture may or may not be an upcoming scene in our fic Scorching Moonlight 👀

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

Here, Fantasy AU :)

Their paths will all connect to ultimately the same goal, but first, they have their own little journeys to get through.

[drlessy]

redrawing my fave MHA AUs/fanfics pt. 5 ^-^

a little prince! :)

fanfic link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34353853

[ao3feed-izuku-midoriya]

Move Softly and Lay upon the Shore

Move Softly and Lay upon the Shore by ethereal catharsis

Hizashi carefully gripped the rocks around himself, working on climbing his way down them, and when the boy in the tide pool below him curled back his upper lip and hissed, a long, scaly green tail raising out of the water threateningly, he realized he may have misread the situation. Or… In a world where merfolk are more of an endangered species (if they even still exist at all), Hizashi rescues a merboy named Izuku, and falls into an unlikely friendship. It's all fine and fun until a merman a lot scarier than the kid shows up, demanding to know the human's intentions. If only Hizashi could stop staring at the merman's luscious black hair and toned chest long enough to take his threats seriously.

…this is merman erasermic, heavy on the dadmic and dadzawa.

Words: 4554, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Midoriya Izuku, Other Character Tags to Be Added

Relationships: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Midoriya Izuku & Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Midoriya Izuku

Additional Tags: Merpeople, Merman Aizawa Shouta | EraserHead, Merman Midoriya Izuku, Protective Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Parental Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead | Dadzawa, Quirkless Midoriya Izuku, Found Family, Getting Together, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead Adopts Midoriya Izuku, Cute Midoriya Izuku, Domestic, Fantasy, Fluff, baby's first not-angst fic

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47807323

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

Fantasy au designs and lore post!!

So~ here are my fantasy au designs and some good old character lore!

There will be another post for plot, but here’s the link to the main worldbuilding and lore post.

Info and more characters are under the cut (it’s gonna get long):

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(Can’t remember if I said smth about this but star fae have star shaped markings that these two have and hide)

Jeanist:

So, Tsunagu is half elf, half star fae, and is an elven prince.

His father was an elven king, his mother was a star fae queen.

His father found her fleeing from the village they were destroying, had a change of heart when he saw her (fell in love ooo)

He kept her safe in the palace and tried to convince the others to stop their fae-hunting and let them live in peace but they eventually rebelled against him

They had twins, Tsunagu and his sister. His mother was said to just be a "very magical elf witch" to protect them all

One day, mother got killed and Tsu’s father found her and raised the children by himself

Over time, the king had to tell them about who they were in order for them to hide it so they stayed safe

Unfortunately, darkness took over their kingdom, a dark elf (evil one, very bad) came and killed their father, taking over the kingdom and planting himself as king

Tsunagu follows orders and goes with all the dark and cruel things he says and does in order to keep his sister safe

His sister looked after a crystal necklace, given to them by their mother. She gives it to Tsunagu one day, and tells him to find the piece that it has been split from (it was in a very certain shape, making it clear it had been forcefully split in half - they didnt know what it was) 

This means he follows orders to lead an army into a forest to find and raid one of the last big fae kingdoms

He wields incredibly strong light magic, and can summon special kinds of plants and vines in particular. Isn't great at healing, but he is learning.

His star fae marking is on his neck, which he hides with his clothes and concealing magic.

His sword holds a star beacon piece and was giften to him by his father.

He is nicknamed "the blessed prince" bc of his strong magic

Is afraid of revealing who he is because of how fast star fae (even part star fae) get hunted.

Edgeshot:

Shinya is fully Star Fae, and is the King of one of the last biggest Fae Kingdoms.

Born to the last star fae village, fled when it was destroyed. He was a small child and his parents had been captured

He got taken in by a close (regular) fae kingdom, and the king and queen protected him and raised him as their own alongside their daughter. (hana - my pink fairy sister oc)

((i should mention that he had wings. A lot of Star fae do.))

One day, when he was like- a teenager, the kingdom was attacked and the king was killed, the queen fell ill shortly after and died

Shinya lost his wings protecting his new sister, and eventually the attackers retreated

She appointed Shinya as the new king, because he had shown that he would protect their people and that is how he became king (at a young age)

Him being star fae also meant that his magic could create a protective bubble against the dark, protecting his people

He holds the other half to Tsunagu's piece of the Fallen Star crystal. It was split many many years ago, where two star fae lovers were drawn apart. They split the crystal piece into two, so that they could find each other again.

(unfortunately they never did, but ig maybe they had this chance in a new life ;) )

Naturally, he has strong light magic and can use it to heal very well and create flowers and new sprouts.

He seems incredibly cold and kinda harsh at first, but he's just very protective of his people.

His people do know that he is a Star Fae, but there is a sort of like- vow- for it to never be told to anyone else. (and they are more than happy to not say anything, shinya keeps em safe they like him lol)

Short "how they meet" and their dynamic:

Tsunagu stumbles across the kingdom and gets greeted (at knifepoint) by Shinya at the river bordering the kingdom.

Tsunagu does not want to hurt fae, but he is kinda with an army of elves searching for that very village- so he doesn't believe him.

(even though he was actually looking for the village to warn them all)

He gets knocked out and taken to the fae kingdom, and he wakes up tied to a chair in the middle of a hall like “okay- i was willing to come here why did i get knocked out :(”

Cue Shinya making his proper entrance in his regal clothes and Tsunagu maybe stops functioning for a minute bc god damn he's Hot.

Interrogations.

Elves are approaching too close and so Tsunagu begs for him to let him go talk to them and so he (reluctantly) does.

Tsu tells them to return to camp. And so he goes off with them, leaving the fae kingdom safe

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their dynamic is basically just:

"enemies to lovers" but they're only enemies because they're supposed to be and - "I don't trust you, get out." "you...you strapped me to this chair- i don't wanna kill you??"

Aizawa:

Aizawa is a human with no magic. He is an assassin and a ranger.

What he doesn't know, is that he has some royal blood - but he doesn't care about that when he does find out.

His mother was a maid in a small human kingdom, and she got pregnant by one of the princes in the palace she worked at. She ran away to be safe

A kind fae witch took her in and Shouta was born, but shortly after, she died of illness

The fae witch raised him enough for him to provide for himself and left him in a bigger human kingdom (it wasn't safe and his mother had asked her to do this)

He grew up not understanding why he had been abandoned and survived by scavenging and roaming around.

He met Hizashi as a kid, and they became friends, until the two kingdoms fell apart and he could no longer see him.

As he grew older, he became an assassin -not by choice- and started going on dangerous missions for the human kingdom.

(i haven't decided what his piece should be yet, but I'll figure it out soon /lh)

Since he has no magic, he fights physically very well and with short sharp weapons.

Mic:

Hizashi is an elven prince, and is constantly kept inside and not allowed to leave the kingdom without close supervision

His fathers are very overprotective but caring, but he gets really bored and wants to explore

(even though he is. terrified. of the outside world.)

When he was a kid, he met Aizawa and they became best friends.

When they separated, he gave Shouta his crystal necklace as their "Promise" that they would get back to each other some day

He grows up and grows into his princely duties, but part of him still wondered if Shouta was still alive.

He wields relatively strong light magic and can use it to manipulate the breeze as his strong point

How they meet in the main plot and dynamic:

Shouta gets sent on a mission to assassinate Hizashi, basically, and he sets off knowing fully well that he could not do this, and that this was the time he runs away

He prays that he will remember him

Climbs into his window and, of course, we have a classic "who tf are you and how are you in my bedroom?????" moment

Until Shouta very quickly reveals his face, they have a short sweet reunion, and he explains they have to leave.

Mic agrees within seconds and just whips out his readily-packed-in-case-of-running-away-emergency bag, and off they go

Shouta returns the necklace in a very emotional sweet moment a few days later when they are safe, and they are now just on the run and out in the wild, happily

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Childhood friends to lovers - "You came back...thank you" "I promised, didn't I?"

(aka i give them enough angst in my canon hcs and other aus they deserve this one)

Powerloader:

(if it's not already known, Higari gets all my favourite tropes and design elements all the time- i swear its not favouritism, i swear shush shush /lh)

Higari is half dwarf, half dragon shifter.

He is an exiled dwarven general and a blacksmith :)

His mother was a dragon shifter that got captured by his father (a dwarven warrior). He was an asshole haha a bastard, a complete awful fuck-

Anyway his mother got pregnant with him and managed to run away for a bit and entrusted him to a lovely couple that looked after her before she was captured for good.

Higari was raised as a “dwarf” by the lovely couple that owned a smithy. They told him who he was and everything. He disguised himself as a full dwarf and grew up like that.

Eventually he got into the dwarven army, becoming one of the strongest generals.

(he just claimed that he had distant fae ancestors, which was the reason for some of his non-dwarf-like features)

But, one day they wanted to send them out on a mission to capture dragon shifters to use them to look for gold.

He outright refused in front of the king, the other soldiers and everyone. He refused by basically just stepping down right then and there. Obviously he couldn't say why, but he could not take these warriors to kill/capture innocents (like his mother)

He got ridiculed for this and exiled.

He cannot enter the palace, he cannot fight, and if he leaves the kingdom he can't return

Higari is honestly fine with this, he goes back to the smithy and just lives an easy life. Being half dragon shifter makes that not so easy, but as easy as he could.

Uses very strong and particular dark magic, and can sense magic and treasures and all sorts of those things.

His axe holds a piece of the beacon and he made it himself

When he was exiled, his Axe was taken from him and was gifted to another dwarven king as a "peace" offering

Since he is both dragon shifter and dwarf, he can make The Strongest Weapons in almost no time :)

His eyes give away his dragon shifter self, and he wears those lil metal claw things to cover up dark markings on his fingertips

Is the embodiment of Identity Crisis in this au <3

The soliders that followed him and agreed with him also got exiled. (his two children- i mean, closest friends and soldiers are thirteen and cementoss)

He doesn't know how to shift into a dragon

Ectoplasm:

Oh boy, here we go... /lh

Ecto is an elf, an elven prince to a lovely (and the least problematic) elven kingdom.

He used light magic and was a strong fighter and was often leading any battles that needed to be fought, but well, one day in these battles:

He died :)

They couldn’t find his body, but he did die.

Parents and kingdom are left to mourn him after the battle, and his good ol bestie snipe doesnt wanna believe that hes dead. (this is purely out of denial, he knows he is dead.)

Ecto wakes up in a dark cave-like room, very confused as to where he was and how he got there.

Turns out he got revived by a soulwatcher, but he didnt know why. The soulwatcher simply explained that a time would come where he would understand, but it was important that he was revived.

A few weeks pass and ecto finds out more about himself. 

He lost his legs, those apparently couldn't be replaced. He died, but he was now alive. He had skeletal features….

And he was now a wielder of dark magic instead of light magic. A certain type of dark magic too, one that he didn't fully understand.

The soulwatcher taught him the basics and how to conceal himself to look like how he used to. 

He was going to go back home and act like nothing happened, and that he was okay.

Snipe found him and was like “okay- man- i know i said i wasn’t believing you were dead but you literally got stabbed in front of me why are you alive???”

He explains everything to him bc….besties /lh and they return home.

Everyone rejoices and everything returns to how it was, except he pretends that his magic is weaker bc of the injury so he doesnt use it (bc haha dark magic now)

The soulwatcher gave him a staff with a certain crystal in the end of it. He simply said “it'll come in useful” and ecto has to just explain that a kind wizard healed him and gave it to him to help him get around.

His usual legs are made of wood but enchanted with dark magic to make them look and act normal. He had to explain that to his parents and they were like ????

And his face appears normal to others bc of magic

But (like in the designs) unmasked Ecto has shadow magic legs and his skeletal face <3

Since he is now a soulwatcher, he gets random visions and can interact with the dead.

How they met and dynamic:

Ecto's kingdom was visiting Higari's and Ecto's sword breaks during training but no royal blacksmiths can fix it bc it's "too difficult" (elvish and magic blade)

He ends up going for a walk and a civilian tells him about Higari's smithy so he goes in

Higari takes his sword and says it'll be an easy fix, and that he should come back in a day. Ecto is shocked but happily obliges.

Higari instantly knows that something is off and can sense the dark magic both on him and the sword

He also kinda fixes it immediately with the help of his own dark magic

They meet up the next evening when Ecto comes to pick up his sword, can't find Higari, walks into a lil training area around the back and almost gets hit by an axe that Higari threw at him on instinct

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They have a slightly ??? dynamic, idk how to label it - "You've got secrets, should I trust you as much as I am right now?" "You also have secrets...let's figure them out together"

but also

"everyone thinks i kidnapped you D:" "but you didn't?? This was my idea???"

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The characters get to go on their own separate journeys and adventures, and they all lead to the same point in the end! The journeys and bonds they make separately all contribute to the shared goal of saving the world from darkness :D

I wanted to do more characters (in particular: all three of mirukyubami, hawks, thirteen and cementoss) but this is already long as it is so just these guys for now!

[ao3feed-bnha-girls]

Oh for the Love of Purple

Oh For the Love of Purple by Paintingposting

Kaminari Denki, one of our beloved bakucrew pirates, seems to have found himself fascinated by a certain two purple haired individuals. This is the story of their official meetings, as well as the slow fall of their falling for each other.

I'll add more tags as I think about them.

Words: 1180, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 3 of Some adventures of an unruly pirate crew and the Green Haired Prince and co.

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Multi

Characters: Kaminari Denki, Shinsou Hitoshi, Jirou Kyouka, Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Sero Hanta, Eri, Kirishima Eijirou, Ashido Mina, Todoroki Shouto

Relationships: Jirou Kyouka/Kaminari Denki/Shinsou Hitoshi, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Jirou Kyouka/Kaminari Denki, Jirou Kyouka/Shinsou Hitoshi, Kaminari Denki/Shinsou Hitoshi

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, Alternate Universe - Royalty, Established Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Friends to Lovers, Pirates, Other Ships Not Mentioned in Tags, LGBTQ Themes

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43911097

[ao3feed-izuku-midoriya]

Down the Rabbit Hole (If the Rabbit Hole was a Tear in Reality)

Down the Rabbit Hole (If the Rabbit Hole was a Tear in Reality) by SovereignVoidDragon

With a meteoric crash, light flooded the world, dragging with it a twelfth of the population bag through the rift it formed. Now these people must pick their way through a fantasy-RPG world without their quirks, hoping to get home, or at least survive. A few players, however will find the path home even more difficult than anticipated.

Words: 1105, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Nedzu, Kayama Nemuri | Midnight, Snipe, Uraraka Ochako, Shinsou Hitoshi, Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Past One For All Users, Original Characters, Original Non-Human Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character

Relationships: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Midoriya Izuku & Shinsou Hitoshi, Midoriya Izuku & Uraraka Ochako, Shinsou Hitoshi & Uraraka Ochako, Midoriya Izuku & Shinsou Hitoshi & Uraraka Ochako

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fantasy, It's a DnD AU, But also not because I change a few mechanics to fit the story lol, I will add tags when I think of them, Worldbuilding, Shigaraki is LIVING rn this is his dream, Yagi Toshinori | All Might Bashing, Slightly, It's not a lot but it's there, Shinsou Hitoshi Gets a Hug, Many, Shinsou Hitoshi & Uraraka Ochako Friendship, Midoriya Izuku & Shinsou Hitoshi Friendship, Midoriya Izuku & Uraraka Ochako Friendship, They're MY chaotic trio

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45162523

[plusultraetc]

💗💗💗💗💗!!!!

as someone who only recently started writing shippy fic I can confirm that this is exactly how it feels

[ifyougoillfollow]

pssst. this au refuses to leave me alone while simultaneously refusing to get written in a.) the order i want it to, and b.) a timely manner.

this leaves me with a handful of mostly unrelated yet completed scenes that i'm pretty proud of, but which have no chance of seeing the light of day any time this century, so.

fuck it, have another snippet:

a song for a song, pt. ??

|M/F, M/M. | QPR MicNight & EraserMic (background) | 670 words | Fantasy AU| CW: Implied sexual content*

After, Kayama holds Hizashi against her chest and hums into his hair.

Hizashi’s never done anything like this before. Now that it's over, he's not so sure how to feel about the rest of it – the heat and the high and the whole desperate chase of it – but this part... this part is nice.

Kayama's skin is warm everywhere it touches his. Her humming thrums against his rib-cage, deep and flush and purr-sweet. Her hands pressed against his back and his hair, steady enough to keep him from drifting away in the early spring breeze.

She hums and holds him just like that for a long while. Long enough for the sweat to dry on their skin. Long enough for the crickets to start their chattering, hidden out of sight past the clearing and all the wards Kayama has put up for his sake. Long enough that Hizashi can no longer help himself.

"What if we stayed here forever?" he asks into the breath-warmed skin against her sternum.

Kayama stops humming. "That's the sex hormones talking, hon."

"Nobody would find us here. Not unless you wanted them to... And we have enough magic between us to survive out here for as long as we wanted."

"That's true." She pats his hair, slow and thoughtful enough to let Hizashi know she could humor him if she wanted to. Then she says, "Too bad neither of us is the type to run away and hide." Hizashi buries his face deeper against her chest. Kayama fists a hand into his hair, pulling lightly. "The people in town need us, Yamada. It's as simple as that."

"There are people elsewhere," he mumbles. "They might need help, too."

"There are no people in this clearing," she points out. "But, of course, we're no longer talking about us, are we?"

Hizashi blinks hard. Pressed this close against Kayama, it's easy to pretend the moisture on her skin is just more sweat. "I think I loved him," he says, the words fumbling out of him like they have nowhere else to go.

"Aizawa's not dead," says Kayama, "and you still love him. Enough with the past tense."

"... He's not coming back, is he?"

"Probably not." Her fingers drag against his scalp, gentle, as if in apology. "Good riddance, I say."

"You don't mean that."

"Well, you're too good for him, in any case." She yanks at a lock of his hair. "And that's saying something – you're no prize yourself, snotbrain."

Hizashi snickers in surprise and indignation. Kayama hums, pleased. He wraps himself tighter around her. If he could melt right into her, he would. She'd know what do with him better than anyone, even – especially – himself.

He sighs. "Things would be so much easier if I loved you, senpai."

Kayama's hand stills in his hair. "Are you saying you don't love me?"

Hizashi looks up at her, panicked, but she looks neither hurt nor affronted. She cocks a bemused eyebrow at him. "You know what I mean," he replies, pouting.

"Do I, now?"

"Of course I love you, Kayama! It's just..." He falters, at a loss for words for once, now, when it actually matters. "It's just different," he finishes lamely.

She turns her nose up at him. "All I'm hearing is that maybe I should leave, too. Just to prove a point."

Hizashi huffs and nuzzles against her chest again. "You would never."

"That sounds an awful lot like a challenge, Yamada. You know I can't resist those."

"Nah." He breathes in her salt and earth skin, tries to imagine growing roots there. He'll be a weed if he has to. The most stubborn kind, the kind that won't stay away no matter how many times it's plucked out. "You would never," he repeats, willing himself to believe what he already knows – that words have power all on their own, even when not imbued with magic.

Kayama's hand returns to its place combing through his hair. "Yeah," she agrees at length. "Unfortunately, I would never."

a song for a song

|Gen. | Mic & Midnight | 1650 words | Fantasy AU|

"Can you sing, senpai?"

Hizashi winces. He hadn't meant to cut Kayama off, even if he hasn't been entirely listening to a word she's said for the past hour or so.

Kayama straightens from her crouch, hands him yet another fistful of dirt-clodded roots to stuff into his increasingly soiled satchel. At this point, he's going to have to wash it. And his robes. And his hair, too, while he's at it. He should have braided it; it's getting kind of long. Now there's probably bugs in it.

Hizashi refuses to cry about it. Plenty of other things to cry about nowadays, and he's yet to cry about any of those, so bugs? Not gonna do it. Not today.

Kayama eyes him a little like she was eyeing those roots on the forest floor a second ago, but in the end she only snorts and says, "You're the bard here, not me."

"And you're the witch, yet here I am with dirty, smelly herbs in my robes."

"No one asked you to come, snotbrain."

Hizashi takes a moment to remind himself that he is not crying today, then says, "Well, fortunately for you, senpai, Aizawa has gotten much better at evading me with his stealthy ninja skills, so looks like you're stuck with my lovely, charmingly clingy self for the foreseeable future."

"Lucky me, indeed," Kayama mutters, even as she's foisting more assorted foliage onto Hizashi's wary arms. She waits until he deems each twig adequately bug-free before setting off again into whatever new direction through the trees her witchy senses are leading her towards.

"Yeah, I can sing," she answers at length, "I guess. Probably not as well as you can, though, if we're being honest. Not exactly my specialty, is it?"

There was a time, not two moons ago, when Hizashi would have preened at his senpai's first-ever admission that she likes his singing. Now, it just serves as a reminder of all the songs he's had caught in his throat since Oboro died.

Kayama is not looking at him, too busy charming her way through previously virgin forest brush in order to allow them easier passage. Hizashi feels her scrutiny regardless. The air is clear and sweet and open. Inviting. Hushed like a sated dinner crowd awaiting the first song of the evening. The absence where Hizashi's song would be if he weren't choking on it rings louder than his voice ever could.

Kayama slows, her shoulders rising gently in what could be a breath or a sigh. Hizashi nearly hightails it out of the forest right then and there – bugs and blushing virgin underbrush be damned – but when Kayama speaks it's only to tell him to keep an eye out for a flower that 'kind of looks like two monkeys fornicating,' and then she's off again about herbs and roots and spices and their many medicinal and decidedly non-medicinal applications.

She has a lovely voice, even when just speaking. Full and rich and with a little too much heat, like smoke from a spitting hearth fire. Hizashi's always wondered what it'd sound like in song, can't stop wondering even as she goes on and on about dirt and leaves and bark, until she finally stops to contemplate a vine unfurling from what might very well be the heavens for all the attention Hizashi's paying to it.

"Sing for me," he says, unable to choke the words down.

Kayama snorts, keeps contemplating her vine. "What, right now?"

Because that wasn't a 'no' and because she's not looking at him and because the clear forest air remains bereft of song, Hizashi asks, "Why not?"

"I don't know many songs, for one."

"Choose whatever. Anything at all."

"What if I choose a terrible song?" she asks, affecting a pout.

"No such thing, senpai!"

She rolls her eyes and bats the vine at him, but it's only a few beats before she caves. "Honestly, I only know lullabies," she says. "You know – for fussy little babies."

Hizashi laughs. "Lullabies are good! Sing me a lullaby, senpai!"

Kayama's answering grin is more teeth than anything, and it's also the first sign that Hizashi has walked into a trap. "All right," she says, voice too-innocent, "if you insist. Follow me." She flashes another snaketooth grin at him and disappears behind a curtain of vines.

At the sight of the lone finger she sticks back through to beckon him forward, Hizashi once again considers taking his chances on a solo sprint back out of the woods. In the end, his curiosity wins out over his meager self-preservation instincts. He follows.

The two-step trek through the vines is harrowing, but what he finds on the other side might be even more so. It's a perfectly picturesque clearing. Suspiciously picturesque. The clearing is warm and bright and cozy, with lush cloud-cover trees surrounding a bed of down-soft grass and wildflowers. There's even a brook babbling quietly to itself off to the side. A far cry from the barely tamed woods two steps behind him.

Kayama, perched on the grass below a swaying willow, laughs at whatever expression is on Hizashi's face. "Welcome to my den of decadence," she all but purrs, "where I bring all my... conquests."

Hizashi tries not to balk. Tries.

Kayama cackles. "Oh, don't flatter yourself. You wanted me to sing you a lullaby, so I'm going to sing you a lullaby. Properly." She pats a spot on the ground right next to her. "Come here."

Hizashi, forever hapless in the face of his senpai's schemes, does as he's told. Once he's seated, Kayama roots around in her bag for some incense to light ("For the bugs," she informs him with a roll of her eyes) and a stoppered vial filled with an unidentified lavender-colored liquid.

"For you," she says expectantly.

Hizashi downs the contents of the vial without question. It tastes like too-sweet perfume, but he's had worse tonics from Chiyo-sensei, so he doesn't complain.

"It's a new sleep potion I'm working on," Kayama explains, even though he hadn't asked. "I've been meaning to test it, but I haven't had any willing volunteers due to what happened last time – which wasn't even my fault, if anyone's asking – and Chiyo-sensei says slipping potions into other people's food is unethical because she's no fun, so here we are."

For his own peace of mind, Hizashi elects not to ask what happened last time. "How long will it take to work," he asks instead, "and how long will I stay asleep?"

"No idea, that's why we're testing it. Now lay back, unless you want to crack your skull if it takes effect suddenly."

Hizashi eyes the grassy ground warily. "How effective is this fancy incense of yours at keeping bugs away again?"

"Oh, come here, you big baby." She tugs at him until he's laying down with his head pillowed on her lap. Hizashi does his level best to not perish on the spot. She flicks him on the forehead. "Relax, already. I won't bite unless you ask me to."

"Not helping," Hizashi grumbles, willfully ignoring his fever-hot face.

Kayama's thigh is warm under his cheek, and she smells like twigs and earth and wildflowers, and Hizashi is not crushing on his senpai – he is not – but suddenly he understands all too clearly why Oboro had once badgered him for weeks to serenade Kayama on his behalf, until Hizashi had agreed on the condition that Oboro write the lyrics himself (and make that fact clear to all present witnesses), which he did, happily, and the lyrics had been terrible and mortifying and damned near impossible to put to melody, but Hizashi had put his bardly reputation on the line and done it, and Kayama had, of course, laughed like he's never heard her laugh before or since, but had also been so obviously charmed by it that Oboro didn't stop smiling for the rest of the week. If all of Hizashi's songs hadn't died with Oboro, he'd be singing that one right now.

"Sing for me, senpai," he says, because his eyes are starting to burn and because she promised and because this moment calls for song. Every moment calls for song.

"You're the bard here," says Kayama, fingers tugging knots from his hair, "not me."

"Please..."

"A song for a song, then."

"Sleepy..." he mumbles, and it's an excuse, but it's also the truth, his limbs heavy as sun-warmed sand.

"When you wake up."

He shakes his head.

"Why not?"

"Can't," he whispers, too tired to scream.

"Sure you can. You're a bard."

Is that what he is? Kayama-senpai sure seems to think so. She keeps saying it. Why does she have to keep saying it?

"I'm not singing until you say it."

No. That's not fair. She promised.

"Yamada." She smacks his sleep-numb cheek until he looks up at her blearily. "You're a bard. Aren't you?"

"I'm a bard," says Hizashi, because if there's one thing he's good at, it's telling people what they need to hear.

"Good boy," says his senpai, and she's not smiling any kind of smile, but she does finally – finally – start to sing.

Her voice is as lovely and Hizashi knew it would be, and the song – well, the song is lovely, too, in the way that all songs are lovely, even though this particular song is about a busy baby bee winding down for bedtime. Hizashi lets the lyrics wash over and through him, but the melody – the melody he soaks up along with Kayama's voice, lets it seep into the very core of him, into the sun-spooled place nestled deep behind his rib-cage from where his songs and his soul and his spells flow and flourish, and he knows without a doubt that he will never be without song again, because if nothing else, he'll always have this one simple melody, soft and whole and true.

[machiroads]

Down on his luck after coming back from the war, Yamada Hizashi is pointed in the direction of a gifted fortuneteller for guidance.

Elsewhere, Aizawa Shouta forecasts his own demise.

Erasermic | 13k | T | Taisho era urban fantasy AU | Dadzawa x Dadmic

Read on AO3

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I have literally no friends who still like mha (I only still keep up with it for Shota and Hizashi tbh. Those two have me in a choke hold I love them so much) so I'm going to tumber!

I have a fic idea that is a more fantasy AU and I can't decide if I wanna do another EraserMic x reader or if I should make it Oboro x reader (Yeah he's still alive in this)

[ao3feed-izuku-midoriya]

Children of the Woods

Children of the Woods by Claws And Teeth

Aizawa Shouta has been on this case for over a year. Children have been going missing, dating back to pre-quirk times, with one thing linking the cases. A young boy, blond hair and maroon colored eyes, with a scar over his cheek. He's getting desperate, searching for any clues he can dig up, and this dog that he and Hizashi found is making things difficult. ------------ Midoriya Izuku created a safe haven for kids like him and Bakugou. For kids who feel unsafe, unhappy, or have nowhere else to go. Deep in the forest, every forest, their little village waits, arms open wide to any child seeking refuge from something beyond their strength to fix on their own.

Words: 1593, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Midoriya Izuku, Bakugou Katsuki, Class 1-A, Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, Monoma Neito, Kendou Itsuka, Kuroiro Shihai, Shinsou Hitoshi, Hatsume Mei

Relationships: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic

Additional Tags: Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead | Dadzawa, Parental Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Mineta Minoru Doesn't Exist, Alternate Universe, Not Canon Compliant, Todoroki Enji | Endeavor's Bad Parenting, Missing Persons, Time Shenanigans, Magic, mythical creatures, Midoriya Izuku Has a Quirk, Bakugou Katsuki is a Good Friend, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, technically kidnapping, Crack Treated Seriously

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45793141

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Introduction

(Late)

Name (what u can call me): Penpen, Fae, Fern (I don’t mind wtv one u choose)

Pronouns: she/her (I’m female)

Mainly post abt: good omens, Ofmd, relatable stuff ig, collages, drawings

My ao3 acc

link to my coffee shop au fic

Link to Sweet goldenheart oneshot

Link to Valentine’s Day special

Part one

Part two

I don’t have ao3 sadly

I have Wattpad and my acc is @penpen_someone

Fandoms:

Good omens

Ofmd

Kny

Nimona

Tgcf

Arcane

Dungeon meshi

Mha (kinda)

Spy x family

Kakegurui

Death note

Tpn

Heartstopper (not rlly)

Wednesday (meh)

My fav ships:

Ineffable husbands

Gentlebeard

Ineffable bureaucracy

Goldenheart

Hualian

Obamitsu

Fengqing

Erasermic

Kokuzan

Inoaoi

Hakuyuki

Doukaza

Giyushino

Sanegiyuu

I’ll write mostly any ship from the fandoms I’m in but they can’t be cursed like incest or rape etc u prob know the boundaries

Genre: I absolutely ADORE fantasy and especially (mostly) when mixed with romance

I love some danmei like tgcf

I love watching horror movies and comedies and action movies