A recommended list of books I own and read
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell
Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke
The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall
What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin
Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin
If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes
The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes
The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes
The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes
Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes
And Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Watching You by Lisa Jewell
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
The Truth about Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell
The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell
A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell
Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates
Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates
The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates
Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates
High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates
I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan
The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Into the Water by Paula Hawkins
A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark
Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell
Dead Run by Erica Spindler
Carrie by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul
A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne
The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett
The Third Twin by Ken Follett
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison
When Shadows Fall by J.T. Ellison
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews
Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews
My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews
The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews
The Logan series by V.C. Andrews
The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews
Ruby by V.C. Andrews
Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews
The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag
The Elizas by Sara Shepard
The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
Wait for Me by Sara Shepard
Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Summer by Edith Wharton
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The Silent Wife by A.S.A. Harrison
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule
If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule
Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule
Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule
The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh
Slenderman by Kathleen Hale
Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory
Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Okay so I’ve been recently getting back into bnha, so uh me and @struckbyelectriclove have been clowning non-stop on a bnha au with our kids
So have exchange student, Eileen Ryder, AKA Lady Valor!
Eileen’s Quirk is called Power Hydra and is a combination of her father’s Twin Dragons quirk and her mother's Orb Healer quirk. Eileen’s quirk allows her to summon four different colored dragons out of her back that, depending on their color, can either send out powerful energy beams at foes to deal damage or heal her allies.
More Info on Elly’s quirk and the AU under the cut!
Her gold and red dragon’s deal damage while her blue and green one’s deal healing.
Although her quirk allows for more flexibility in the field since she acts as both a healer and a fighter, compared to her dad's dragons, they're only half as strong (it's theorized it's due to their small size in their natural state).
Eileen can make the dragons swell in size if she wills it but by doing so the harder they are to control and the greater the risk of her losing control over her quirk
When it comes to the healing part of Eileen’s quirk, the person she’s healing’s overall health and fitness, the extent of their injury and their blood type all factor in on how well she can heal them and how much energy is needed to heal them.
Because her quirk saps out her energy, she prefers to use her tail as a weapon and have her dragons just restrain the foe in their jaws. She likes to finish a fight as soon as possible in order to preserve more energy for the more dangerous foes she might face in the field in the case that there are multiple enemies.
Good at hand-to-hand combat and has a dagger hidden on her in case she can't use her quirk for whatever reason.
The scales on her dragon’s and her tail are very tough and help to minimize impact and can also be launched at will to create a devastating wide range attack but is a move Eileen can only use when in an open space in order to avoid accidentally hurting her allies so she rarely uses it.
When her quirk is not activated, it takes the form of a tattoo on her back.
Eileen actually has a pair of wings that come with her quirk but her right wing has sustained such heavy damage from a villain attack that it has rendered her unable to fly with them so she keeps them tucked away because of the trauma she endured.
All four of her dragons have a mind of her own and help her to spot an enemy's weak spot. Hearing her dragon's thoughts and seeing what they see was very disorienting in the beginning but she's gotten better at handling it.
The dragons also like to play with each other and the rest of her classmates when Elly is taking downtime or having a nap. They often play chess, cards or when Elly is napping in the dorm's living room, video games.
All four of them have names corresponding to the zodiac signs
The gold one is Ari (Aries), the red one Lee (Libra), the blue one Leo and the green one Capri (Capricorn)
Story facts:
Eileen comes from a family of heroes and was the only child of Edward and Julianna Ryder to receive a quirk that was a mutation of their own respective quirks. When she was nine, she and her sisters went to a newly built planetarium/museum in the area only for it to be attacked by villains and for the building to fall apart.
Eileen awoke to find herself pinned under a metal beam and her sister Elaina trying desperately to lift it off. Elaina called out for Eliza to help her only to find her being stared down by a villain that looked like a wolf. Elaina bravely went against the villain despite being so young in order to buy her sisters time to escape but ultimately perished.
Security footage later found out that the girl's older brother Jacob seemed to have helped in smuggling the villains in and even participating in the attack. The family received thousands of death threats and we're under intense scrutiny from the public. It got to the point that Edward was being pressured to resign as a hero but upon learning of this, Eileen bravely faced her dad’s higher-ups and struck a deal with them. She would train to become a powerful hero and become their pawn to use and her dad wouldn't need to give up his job as a hero and the rest of her family would be protected and be left alone. They accepted the deal and immediately put her through hellish training.
Years later, Eileen finds her brothers journal that revealed he had discovered something sinister happening at the hero school he went to in the country and urged Elly that if she somehow managed to find his journal and was currently reading it, to finish what he started and save the kids in that school from the inner villainy going on on its grounds.
Elly somehow managed to convince her superiors to let her continue her training and education at the hero school her brother went to and immediately began her investigation.
Eventually finds out that the school is being used as a recruitment center for a group of highly wanted villains and that the principal and several other school staff are involved in it.
Works with several other students to expose the school's dark acts and is found out by the villains.
One of Eileen's friends are killed by the villain (I guess this AU’s equivalent to Rakepick) and torture Elly by destroying her right wing.
Eventually ends up having one last face off with the villain and is forced to kill them when they manage to break free of their restraints and begin to start charging up their quirk again to release a one last devastating attack that, if reached full charge, would kill every hero and civilian within the area. Eileen uses her dragons to launch herself and the villain straight into a pole, killing the villain upon impact but severely injuring Eileen.
After the battle, her and Kat @struckbyelectriclove) reveal to each other that they’re gonna be transferring to a new school and cry over it
Only to see each other at U.A High’s entrance and running into each other’s arms and ugly crying over it like the dumbasses they are LMAOOOO.
Kat and Eileen often team up and call themselves The Feral Duo.
Eileen’s Hero stats:
Power: ★★★★★ 5/6
Speed: ★★★★ 4/6
Technique: ★★★★★ 5/6
Intelligence: ★★★★★ 5/6
Cooperativeness: ★★★ 3/6
Sass: ★★★★★★ 6/6
THERE’S HONESTLY A LOT MORE ME AND CHARLIE MADE FOR THIS AU INVOLVING OUR KIDS BECAUSE WE CLOWNED FOR ABOUT 3 DAYS STRAIGHT ABOUT IT BUT THAT’S THE GIST OF IT BASICALLY.
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