“It still following us?” Logan grunted, reloading his rifle and pistol.
The truck jumped with an impact like an earthquake.
“I think it's still following us!” Bucky yelled back, leaning out the passenger's side and shooting a handful of bullets at the giant robot.
And I Love You, Random Citizen!: Become a hero. Or, at least, get into hero school. Doesn’t have to be UA. In fact, if it’s not UA, we’ll give you double the rewards listed. Be original, why don’t you? Anyway, if you manage to get into UA and attend a...
2025-10-28 02:40:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Back to school.
Oh.
Boy.
“You know, for someone who never really went out for sports, you're not bad,” Algernon complimented as I kept pace with him. “...and break!”
But first, exercise.
Astrid, on the other hand, took a few faltering steps and sli...
2025-10-24 10:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Uuuuuuuuuuugh...”
I hummed and leaned back against the bar, flipping through the book I had open and reviewing its contents. It'd been a few decades since I learned basic magecraft, after all, and I'd need a refresher if I was going to not be a Kiritsugu.
“Worrrrraaaaaa...
2025-10-21 10:08:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Dude... you sure you're okay?”
I hummed, staring listlessly into the camera and sipping an energy drink colored like toxic sludge through a crazy straw. Why did we have crazy straws? I didn't know. But it was a crazy straw kind of day.
“Random topic, ch...
2025-10-17 03:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostI tore out of the backdoor of the house, running over the back lawn and past the warre, and was in the forest almost before my mother's voice could ring out-
“Be back for dinner, Arden!”
I would have called back an affirmative, but I was in the middle of hurdling one of t...
2025-10-13 11:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostMay all the gods and demons above and below help me, but my worst fears were confirmed the very moment I stepped inside the classroom.
It was full of teenagers.
Worse, they were wearing uniforms.
Which, by th...
2025-10-08 10:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostI hummed thoughtfully at the magical newspaper.
“Anything interesting?” Sara asked, typing away at her laptop.
“Wizarding World losing its shit over Sirius,” I commented. “How're those subcutaneous tracker on the rat?”
“I've got it cued to set off an alarm ...
2025-10-06 08:14:16 +0000 UTC View PostMost of you know what's going on by now, but here's the deal...
Your choices for what I focus on for October are below. Pick whichever one you like most, the project with the most votes wins. Second-most gets second-most attention, third gets third and so on. I usually have a pretty good...
2025-10-01 10:27:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe green-haired girl skidded to a stop in front of me, her red eyes going wide in the dim light.
She was panting and her clothes were tattered and torn despite being of likely-decent quality once upon a time. What was left of her pants were riddled with holes, which couldn't have b...
2025-10-01 04:52:37 +0000 UTC View Post“-and, I'm uh... sorry, that it's taken so long to arrange this, Toga-chan,” Shinso Niko stated, coughing into his fist. “I've just been, um... very busy with work orders, recently.”
“That's okay! Father often has to stay late at work!” Himiko chirped happily. ...
2025-09-29 09:12:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe tattoo blinked at me.
My eye twitched.
I took a deep breath, pulled my underwear up, and resolved to shove the issue of my new brand as far into the back of my mind as I could. On one level, I'd tried testing things out by looking over some work I was sup...
2025-09-25 08:01:07 +0000 UTC View Post“-now punch!”
Izuku surged forward at my shout, his glowing fist crashing into a stone wall and sending hairline cracks through the material. Steam was coming off his body, light wisps of vapor as he breathed harshly with the exertion. Walking up, I examined not only th...
2025-09-22 09:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhat it says on the tin, basically. Nothing huge changes about the chapter, but one piece of feedback said that it might read better if there was a reminder about who Ami was and what her relationship with Toga is, since she hadn't been in focus for a while.
Also, embarrassingly, my copy-pa...
2025-09-18 01:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostAmi sighed as she sat down next to me, absently adjusting her long black hair over her shoulder. “I guess I should congratulate you, huh? You and Himiko got into UA. So... I guess you won.”
I reached up and rubbed my eyes tiredly as I stared at the people milling about in the sh...
2025-09-17 12:50:41 +0000 UTC View Post“I can't believe we had to help Drakken and Shego escape!”
Kim groaned, flopping back on her bed and rolling around in a fit of frustration and disbelief.
“Ugh! I feel like I need a damn shower after that!”
Me?
I was pacing...
2025-09-14 08:37:46 +0000 UTC View Post“-and I'm sure we'll all wish Shinso Hitoshi-kun the best in his endeavors at UA next year,” my homeroom teacher stated grandly, smiling widely.
The eyes of my classmates were wide, vacant with disbelief and shock, as they stared at me.
Which, you know... fair...
2025-09-10 11:12:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe precepts of my new life were as follows:
Stay under the radar for as long as possible; more time to grow means a stronger debut,more experience with my powers, and being in generally fewer life-threatening situations.
Get stronger by d...
2025-09-07 10:29:09 +0000 UTC View PostHonestly, I didn't know what I was more disappointed in.
I'd finally lost my temper. After all of the bullshit and bargaining and playing nice I'd indulged in to be a functioning member of society, I'd finally snapped. And, like most things, it was just a pissant little argument that had br...
2025-09-04 11:15:22 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, going to shuffle the voting options up a little bit this month and see how things shake out.
For those who don't know how this works, the project with the most votes gets preferential treatment for this month. The next-most votes gets the next-most attention, which admittedly didn't ...
2025-09-01 08:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, the votes are in,” Kirishima – Buster, currently – chuckled as he looked over the final tally. “Top two slots are another karaoke party and a test of courage for Golden Week.”
I sighed, bringing my hands up to rub at my face. “I reserve the rig...
2025-09-01 08:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post“So how does this all work?” Yagi Toshinori asked, cocking his head at the screens. “I've never been on this side of things before.”
Eraserhead sighed from the corner of the room he was leaning against.
Nezu simply chuckled, waving his paw at the banks of monitors befo...
2025-08-28 13:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostSo, to recap, I needed to make a split-second decision after being confronted with the consequences of my actions. In particular, these consequences manifested in the form of the princess of the forest elves and the daughter of the dark elves' chieftain fighting to the death in an encounter that ...
2025-08-24 10:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Whoa, hey... are you a student here?”
I blinked, turning towards the white-haired man wearing a pretty standard blue school blazer. Decent semi-athletic build that told me he either didn't have a physical enhancement quirk, or it was entirely modal in nature. The lack of a casu...
2025-08-19 11:33:22 +0000 UTC View PostI looked down at the remaining ticket I had, frowning.
Dinner had just finished and, even though the days were getting longer, the sun still set pretty early, especially with the mountains arranged like they were. I had... maybe thirty minutes of daylight left, all things considered...
2025-08-15 11:12:30 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so a lot of people criticized Arden's actions towards the end of Chapter 5 as uncharacteristically/unnecessarily stupid/silly/problematic.
Let this be a testament that I can, in fact, take the hint when people raise valid critiques.<...
2025-08-11 09:15:27 +0000 UTC View PostI took another moment to make sure my cell was in incognito mode.
I stared at it, my fingers refusing to move.
There were better ways, I knew. Simpler, easier tactics to take at this point. But none that would ensure compliance from the hero I needed. Regrettably, Aizawa had refus...
2025-08-10 00:39:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a compilation of all of the gacha stuff that Arden has pulled/rolled so far.
This document is set to Read Only due to its nature as a list and not a story post, so I'll be making it available to everyone with this post.
Hope this helps people who want to have a good reference ...
2025-08-05 10:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostI had the week off from school.
As much as I enjoyed it, that also meant the week crept by without a reliable schedule or time sink. The only thing that mattered in any real way was the daily set of medications my mother thought I still needed to take and the movies or television shows I wa...
2025-08-05 10:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostHere we go!
Another month down and another to go!
For those who are new, the system is pretty self-explanatory, but here's how it works in a nutshell. The project with the most votes gets the most attention in the next month. The project with the second-most votes gets second-billin...
2025-08-01 07:50:39 +0000 UTC View Post