19 Bookmarked Items in Depressed Kaladin (Stormlight Archive)
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Before The Otherness Came by Wimble_Rose
Fandoms: Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson, Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
15 Oct 2024
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“I’m fine.” Kaladin said shortly, sinking back further into the wall. “I just want air.”
“You sure everything’s alright?” Adolin asked. He stepped out fully to join Kaladin, his eyes alight with soft concern. Stormfather, he hated that he’d made Adolin concerned again. He was fine, honestly, there wasn’t a reason why he wouldn’t be.
He slouched. “I just don’t feel good.”
Adolin’s brow creased. “Sick? Or something else?”
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Alternatively: Kaladin, Adolin and Shallan go out to drink and play cards! Kaladin really wishes he could enjoy it.-
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Captive Radiant by chappellroansgf
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson
14 Oct 2025
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In a world where lighteyes worship Odium, darkeyes and singers are reduced to a number and sold at auction. At the age of twenty-three, all lighteyes are required to buy a slave. Refusal means punishment or potential death.
When Adolin turns twenty-three, he’s invited to his first auction, where he ends up with slave #9152, who he later finds out is named Kaladin.
Everyone around him treats their slaves with the cruelty modeled by Odium himself. But Adolin can’t bring himself to do the same. What begins as small acts of kindness—acts Kaladin rejects—slowly grows into trust and something neither of them had anticipated. Love.
But when others notice how differently Adolin treats his slave, he’s forced to choose between getting away clean or suffering punishment for his defiance.
And when it’s revealed that the Radiants aren’t gone after all, and that Kaladin may be involved… everything changes.
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Or: Adolin Kholin is forced to buy a slave. Kaladin is said slave. This is their love story with a whole lot of angst and heartbreak in the forefront.
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So, this is it. My breakout era for Stormlight fanfic! This collection is for my ongoing Kadolin saga, Sun & Storm.
The one where Kaladin and Adolin are too busy trying not to fall in love to notice they already have. It's a slow-burn, character-driven romance that lives in the space after the "will they/won't they," asking: "How in Damnation do they?"
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I must be favored to know you by basilbeans
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
14 Jul 2025
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Kaladin Stormblessed had survived war, starvation, slavery and now multiple highstorms without shelter. He had not only survived these things, but miraculously also managed to keep his sanity roughly in tact.
That sanity, that miracle, had been shattered by a single, half hour sexual encounter with Adolin Kholin.
Everything Kaladin had worked for—his knowledge, his control, his focus—was slowly being subsumed by a foppish little man with perfectly tousled blonde-black hair and eyes so clear blue they rivaled a midsummer sky.
OR: Kaladin and Adolin trip into courting and love, one ill-advised sexual encounter at a time.
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Kaladin sings at a concert with the rest of his band, Bridge Four, and remembers when it all started, that time a strange girl dressed in blue appeared when he most needed it.
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[Spoilers for Way of Kings, this is set halfway through Words of Radiance, after the big duel with Adolin. If you know, you know]
Kaladin is kidnapped by Sadeas. How does he cope with thinking no one will come for him?
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“Tell me honestly,” [Adolin] said. “With an oath. Tell me that you should be left alone tonight. Swear it to me.”
After their return from Hearthstone, Kaladin had been dismissed from active duty by Dalinar, giving him time to heal. Kaladin must now learn to grapple with his new role in Urithiru, wanting to be left alone in his misery, while also grappling with his newfound feelings for Adolin, who proposes a unique relationship between him, Shallan, and Kaladin. All they want is for Kaladin to be happy. And they can all be happy, together.
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Kaladin mentally and physically overdoes it, ends up running extremely low on Stormlight and on the brink of collapsing.
He goes to Adolin and Shallan’s rooms for help, but can’t help his thoughts from turning dark and the wretch from taking over. A story of my fave polyamorous throuple caring for, tending to and looking after dear Kaladin when he won’t take care of himself.
(This takes place sometime after RoW, but honestly this is self indulgent whump/hurt/comfort/soft gentle fluff for my own pleasure so who cares when it happens?)
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Exhausted Kal gets taken care of.
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Soldiers with Scars by cosehoes
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
05 May 2020
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“Honor is dead.”
Zuko set his gaze firmly ahead. “Not so long as the Avatar lives.”
Kaladin looked up. “The what?”-
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I'm always here for when you need me by The_Ice_queen_623
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
30 Mar 2025
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Kaladin is perfectly fine... Although Syl and Adolin don't think so, they're not going to get into his way. (at least he thinks so until he collapses in the middle of the market).
Spoilers for Oathbringer.
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- Part 13 of sick fics because I can't stop.
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Well, If You Insist... by Username_Error404
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
05 May 2021
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Kaladin’s having a bad day. Adolin knows just the right way to fix this. With a hug!
Mostly fluff with a teensy bit of angst. Because Kaladin. Super short and sweet because my boi needs a hug.
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Kaladin, can't breath and can't think, he breaks down under pressure and decides to do something about the pain. lirin does what every good doctor does, until he can't.
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what is this feeling? (loathing, unadulterated loathing) by pleaseinsert_namehere
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
31 Oct 2023
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When Kaladin had tried to kill himself after his ex-boyfriend had baited him, he had thought his life was at his lowest. The only thing that could compare would be the death of his little brother, Tien, at the hands of a drunk driver that got away without justice.
But this? This was worse.
His new roommate was an extrovert and seemed to delight in Kaladin’s suffering. A spoiled rich boy who had introduced himself as Adolin Kholin.
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Adolin notices that Kaladin can't sleep, and makes him go on a walk. They get to talking, and Adolin has to wonder if Kaladin's tried absolutely everything to fall asleep. It turns out he hasn't, and Adolin's willing to help him out.
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- Part 1 of Swordy Fellows with Benefits
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Swordy Fellows with Benefits by whoreship
Fandom: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
22 Nov 2022
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Barbed Heart (But You Held It Anyway) by Calcifur
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson
14 Apr 2025
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Adolin comes to Kaladin’s room to gift him a cactus and it unexpectedly helps more than Kaladin thought. That’s it. That’s the fic. I accidentally added feelings.
CW: depression, canon typical depressive thoughts, major description of depression. I don’t think there are any other.
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Kaladin is enjoying the sunset from his vantage at the top of Urithiru, when the emotions he’s been suppressing for weeks finally catch up to him. Luckily, Dalinar shows up and is there to comfort him.
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After moving in with Shallan and Adolin, Kaladin's feeling conflicted. He's pretty sure that he loves both of them, but he and Shallan keep getting into arguments. After their latest fight, he decides (while listening to Shallan cry in the other room) that this was a mistake and he'd better move out. Adolin, however, has some interesting ideas about diplomacy, and Kaladin overhears him comforting Shallan...
And then he kissed the back of Kaladin's hand, terribly tenderly. "Please, stay." And then he kissed each of Kaladin's knuckles, too.
Kaladin just let his hand lie limply in Adolin's grasp. "Well, what about Shallan?" he asked, his voice tight with stored-up emotion and pent-up arousal. "Does she want me to stay?"
"I'm not going to speak for her," Adolin said, kissing his way up Kaladin's arm, to his shoulder, his collarbone, clambering over him. "But I want you to stay."
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rooting in your heart by Stormcursed
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson
01 Nov 2021
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Hoid, Kaladin's therapist, advised him to do new things to deal with the mourning. One of his ideas was to bring flowers to Tien's grave, and it was the best idea around the other awful ones.
It had been almost a year since that. Tien's grave saw bouquets with carnations, forget-me-not, chrysanthemum, gardenias, daffodils, or lilies. But one little change, the presence of Adolin Kholin, would change it all.
Or: Kaladin buys flowers for Tien's grave, and Adolin is a too cheerful attendee.
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