Ajax's Exemplary Dialogue Recs
These are fics I have compiled that have the best written dialogue sequences I have read on AO3, for future reference when writing my own.
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Where your love has always been enough (for me) by classicequinox
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
07 Nov 2025
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It's a dark coil of anger deep in the pit of his stomach, reminding him that he was the root, the catalyst, the trigger for their family's downward spiral. It did happen - he reminds himself harshly. He can't forget that, even if time has actually reset itself.
Todoroki Enji gets a second chance. It's up to him to see what he can do with it.
Series
- Part 1 of From ashes to dust (and embers again)
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Beyond the Broken Horizon by JoWithTheFlow
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Mar 2024
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About a week after that, All Might asked Izuku if he was aiming for the hero course at UA. The question was so sudden that Izuku nearly dropped a microwave on his toes.
The truth was, if All Might had asked him that a week ago, there would have only been one possible answer to that question. All Might had gone to UA, UA was the best, so Izuku was going to go there too, if he could. But things were a little different, now that he was going to receive All Might’s Quirk.
“No,” he said, decisively.
All Might looked caught off guard, which was a very rare expression on him. “No?” he echoed, like he couldn’t believe it.
A laugh bubbled out of Izuku’s throat. He honestly couldn’t believe it either. “No,” he repeated.
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Or, All Might tells Izuku about All for One before he gives him One for All, and everything changes.
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Sero (00:03): MAYDAY
Sero (00:03): MAY FUCKING DAY
Sero (00:03): MIIIIIIINA HELP ME
Mina (00:04): what is it
Mina (00:04): whos dying
Mina (00:04): and why are you texting me instead of one of the responsible onesSero (00:06): CHECK YOUR SNAP
Sero (00:06): I WAS JUST TRYING TO SAVE STREAKS
Sero (00:06): I THOUGHT I WAS BEING FUNNY
Sero (00:06): CHARMING AND A LITTLE CHEEKYMina (00:07): you think a selfie captioned “send nudes” makes you ‘charming and a little cheeky’?
Sero (00:07): NOT THE POINT
Sero (00:07): (but it totally does)
Sero (00:08): BUT MINA
Sero (00:08): I JUST GOT A SNAPCHAT FULL OF TODOROKI I-TAKE-EVERYTHING-LITERALLY SHOUTO’S NAKED FUCKING BODY
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Beyond the Broken Horizon by JoWithTheFlow
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Mar 2024
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About a week after that, All Might asked Izuku if he was aiming for the hero course at UA. The question was so sudden that Izuku nearly dropped a microwave on his toes.
The truth was, if All Might had asked him that a week ago, there would have only been one possible answer to that question. All Might had gone to UA, UA was the best, so Izuku was going to go there too, if he could. But things were a little different, now that he was going to receive All Might’s Quirk.
“No,” he said, decisively.
All Might looked caught off guard, which was a very rare expression on him. “No?” he echoed, like he couldn’t believe it.
A laugh bubbled out of Izuku’s throat. He honestly couldn’t believe it either. “No,” he repeated.
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Or, All Might tells Izuku about All for One before he gives him One for All, and everything changes.
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This will sound a little ridiculous, no matter how Sasuke phrases it. I see dead people is embarrassingly tacky, and I'm half-spirit seems like something Sakura might say when she's stoned sky high. So he settles for a shrug.
Series
- Part 2 of Sharingan Rising