Man, trying to list the tropes for Shigaraki and Dabi is like trying to count the cracks in the sidewalk—they’re everywhere and they all lead somewhere different. The absolute king is the Enemies to Lovers slow burn, but it's never just bickering to kissing. It's usually threaded with this intense, mutual recognition of damage, like two broken mirrors reflecting each other. You’ll see a ton of 'touch-starved Shigaraki' meets 'burned-out Dabi', where physical contact becomes this huge, dangerous thing because of their respective quirks and histories.
Then there's the whole 'Shigaraki is the only one who sees Dabi as Touya' angle, which ties into redemption or at least understanding arcs. It's less about becoming heroes and more about finding a twisted, private peace outside the League's mission. Hurt/comfort is massive, often with Dabi nursing Shigaraki after a fight or a decay episode, which lets writers explore a protective side he'd never admit to. The power imbalance—leader and subordinate—gets subverted into this deeply codependent partnership where neither could function without the other, which feels very true to their canon dynamic.
Honestly, half the fics feel like character studies dressed up as ship fics, and that's why I keep coming back. They're so good at filling in the silences 'My Hero Academia' leaves about what these two talk about in the bar after everyone else has left.
I have a bit of a contrarian take on this. While everyone rushes to the angsty, psychological depth, some of the most fun I've had are with the surprisingly popular 'Domestic AU' trope. You know, the ones where they're roommates in a crappy apartment, Dabi works some dead-end job and comes home to find Shigaraki has decayed the remote again. It's weirdly wholesome in a grimy way, and it highlights their bickering chemistry without the world-ending stakes.
There's also a niche but persistent trend of body-sharing or quirk-swap scenarios. Like, what if Dabi had Decay and Shigaraki had Cremation? Those fics get messy in the best way, forcing them to literally walk in each other's shoes and confront the other's pain directly. It’s a clever workaround for the 'they never talk about feelings' problem canon has.
Less common but memorable are the fics that flip the script and make Shigaraki the more dominant one in the relationship, emotionally or otherwise. Dabi's all bravado but he's the one who's secretly clingy, waiting for Shigaraki's attention. It’s a fresh spin when so many stories paint Dabi as the cooler, more collected one.
A lot of their stories revolve around fire and decay as metaphors. The imagery is always so potent—Dabi’s blue flames both destroying and purifying, Shigaraki’s decay creating space for something new. You see this in tropes like 'forced proximity during a snowstorm' where Dabi has to keep them warm, or 'shared bed' scenarios where the threat of accidental decay or combustion adds this constant, low-grade tension. It’ fact not just romance; it’s about two destructive forces finding an equilibrium where they don’t annihilate each other.
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I spend way too much time poking around that corner of the fandom, honestly. The 'brotherly angst' trope is huge, obviously. Everyone loves writing about Shoto discovering Dabi's identity, the fallout from that, the slow and painful attempts at reconciliation. It’s less about redemption and more about navigating this awful shared history. I've seen a lot of AUs where they're raised together from the start, which erases the canon trauma but creates a whole different dynamic—protective Touya, jealous Shoto, that sort of thing. The fandom also has a weird fascination with making them roommates in college or pro-hero settings, forcing proximity on them. It can get pretty dark, exploring themes of legacy and parental failure, or surprisingly domestic if the writer just wants them to awkwardly share an apartment.
Some of the best fics use the 'mutual understanding' angle, where Shoto is the only one who can see through Dabi's anger because he recognizes the same cold fire Endeavor left in them. It’s less about romance and more about a messed-up, profound connection. I avoid the super OOC fluff pieces, they just don't feel right for these two.
Finding something fresh within a pairing as established as Shigaraki and Dabi feels tougher every year. Most writers default to a few worn-out grooves: hurt/comfort after a battle, reluctant allies forced into proximity, or the classic 'who’s manipulating who?' psychological duel. Those can work, but I crave scenarios that push past the obvious. What about exploring their shared history as failed projects? Not just talking about it, but a story where they stumble onto records of other subjects from their respective 'creations'—Ujiko’s other Nomu candidates, maybe Endeavor’s earlier quirk marriage attempts—and that shared context of being discarded prototypes bonds them in a quieter, more nihilistic way. Another angle I rarely see is them leveraging their public notoriety. A fic where they have to lay low and share a grimy apartment, not for romance, but because the League's safehouses are compromised, and the mundane friction of that is the entire plot. The tension comes from Dabi burning the toast and Shigaraki accidentally decaying the remote, not from grand declarations.
I also think there's untapped potential in a role reversal where Shigaraki’s leadership is more strategic and cold, and Dabi, for all his chaos, is the one who has to be the pragmatic voice to rein in Tomura’s more self-destructive, impulsive whims. Most fics paint Dabi as the loose cannon, but what if Tomura is the one who’s dangerously unhinged and Dabi has to manage him to keep their goals on track? That dynamic feels more true to late-series manga developments to me.