The First Chorus

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• The Ashwood Incident by MarcusAurelius

  Fandoms: Original Work  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  29 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Polyamory
  • BDSM
  • BDSM as Ritual
  • Demisexuality
  • Genderqueer Character
  • Orgasm Denial
  • Orgasm Control
  • Consensual Sex
  • PTSD
  • Comic book logic
  • Psychology
  • Chastity Device
  • Violence
  • Genre-Typical Violence
  • Gun Violence
  • Drone violence
  • superhero
  • Spanking
  • corner time
  • writing lines
  • Bratting
  • But Really Mild Bratting
  • Healthy Relationships
  • Violation of the National Security Act of 1947
  • Lethal force
  • Hostile Intent
  • Shadow Fang Removes People From the Census
  • Bureaucracy
  • Interagency Friction
  • Office of Global Access

  Summary

  Four years after the events of Skirting the Issues, Nathaniel, Julien, Alex, and Nico are all at college and managing a long-distance polycule in which one member is a red-headed cyberninja with the morals of a paladin and a predilection for D/s relationships.

   

  Dramatis Personae

  Series

  • Part 1 of The First Chorus

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  21,766

  Chapters:

  17/17

  Comments:

  39

  Kudos:

  9

  Bookmarks:

  2

  Hits:

  416

• The First Resonance by MarcusAurelius

  Fandoms: Original Work  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  20 Jan 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Polyamory
  • BDSM
  • BDSM as Ritual
  • Comic book logic
  • Psychology
  • superhero
  • Alien Cultural Differences
  • Non-Consensual Telepathic Contact
  • Black Site
  • Nudity
  • Subspace
  • Emotions
  • Panic Attacks
  • Bureaucracy
  • Consensual Telepathic Contact
  • Full frontal nerdity
  • Tolkien References
  • Healthy Relationships
  • Consent
  • Enthusiastic Consent
  • Explicit Consent
  • Consent as an ongoing conversation
  • We're still talking about telepathy here.

  Summary

  Approximately 4 months after the Ashwood Incident

  Series

  • Part 2 of The First Chorus

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  15,129

  Chapters:

  15/15

  Comments:

  30

  Kudos:

  5

  Hits:

  120

• Living With It by MarcusAurelius

  Fandoms: Original Work  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  06 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Comic book logic
  • Superheros
  • Alien/Human Relationships
  • Alien Cultural Differences
  • Telepathy
  • Polyamory
  • BDSM
  • BDSM as Ritual
  • Genre-Typical Violence
  • Healthy Relationships
  • Sibling Bonding
  • Empathy
  • Tactical Empathy
  • Therapy
  • Psychology
  • Nathaniel Pushes Boundaries Like It's His Job
  • Telepathic Bond
  • Genderqueer Character
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • did
  • System
  • Past Trauma
  • Past Child Abuse
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Trauma
  • Unethical Human Subjects Research
  • Human Experimentation
  • Torture
  • Stockholm Syndrome
  • PTSD
  • C-PTSD
  • Death
  • Referenced death of a child
  • Gun Violence
  • Violations of the Federal Firearms Act of 1934
  • Found Family
  • Moral injury
  • Weaponized children
  • Recovery
  • Healing
  • Trauma-informed care
  • Non-Consensual Medical Experimentation
  • Human Trafficking
  • Survivor Guilt
  • Ethical Dilemmas
  • Throat-singing
  • Child Abuse
  • Hacking
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Cayman Islands Banking
  • Precognition
  • Nathaniel Gets A Good Night's Sleep For Once
  • Billionaire
  • Premeditation
  • first-degree murder

  Series

  • Part 3 of The First Chorus

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  23,824

  Chapters:

  18/18

  Kudos:

  4

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  189