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Hob has been around death. Living in London throughout multiple plague outbreaks and fires, as well as making a living soldiering and dabbling in banditry, will do that to you. What he doesn't know is that Death has been around Hob as well. He has no idea that when his Stranger left him that night in 1389 after their first meeting, the woman who came up to him, laid a hand on his shoulder and said, “Good luck, friend,” was Death incarnate.
Hob doesn’t know that he is one of few things in this world that has been Touched by Death and lived. Had he known this, he might not have been as confused as he is when his body slams into the floor of a dim, candle-lit cellar and he finds himself surrounded by hooded figures and a gold circle on the floor. That is all he manages to perceive before everything goes blurry and consciousness slips away from him again.
Here in the Darkness.
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Roderick Burgess' spell does not summon Death, but someone who has been touched by Death. Hob Gadling ends up in his cellar instead of Dream.
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Turning Glass in Sand by Lumerotte
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Sandman (TV 2022)
04 Dec 2022
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Death cannot really quit her job, even to assist her baby brother...but maybe she can send some help instead ?
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Rodrick Burgess settled into a threatening quiet, smiling without humor or mirth, his teeth glinting as his upper lip curled back into a sneer. His gaze settled on his son, ever so goddamn obedient.
“Alex.”
-Burgess forces his son upon his prisoner in a vain attempt to break him.
It does not end as he expects.
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Over the centuries, Hob had dreamt plenty of dreams about his friend from the tavern. All good dreams, of course.
Very good dreams.
Usually not dreams that featured either of them wearing very much clothing.
But until the talking bird told him otherwise, he hadn't considered that those dreams might be real.
(Featuring: a live Jessamy, Hob rescuing Dream from the fishbowl, a mess to clean and a happy ending.)
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Reflections In Glass by BeccaOfThePen
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
19 Dec 2025
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“Sister,” Morpheus cut over her, “why are you doing this?”
Death glared at him. “Why?? You seriously have to ask me that? I don’t want to see you scarred, Dream!” she snapped angrily, hurt. “If this goes wrong, you’ll carry the scar of this until the end of this universe! I don’t want that, and setting aside the part where I love you, brother, the very thought of it is abhorrent to me, to my very nature! And I don’t want to see that poor women withered away into little more then a spiritual tumour for you to bare!”
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Lilly's gaze fixed on his eyes and the stars, the galaxies, the universe in his pupils. When he reached for her she stepped back with a gasp. “What are you?”
“I am everything I have ever told you I am, that my sister told you I am. You just didn’t understand, didn’t appreciate, the scale of what that meant. I have never lied to you, Lilly.”
Her eyes were wide and frightened as she whispered, “Dream...”
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When a single mistake creates a cascade of events with only two possible outcomes, either joy, or tragic devastation, all pieces on the board must be brought to bare.
With the Endless, magic, and love, lies just a hair's breadth away from the depths of insanity.
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"Reflections In Glass" by BeccaOfThePen.
The Sandman.
Dream of the Endless | Morpheus / Original Female Character. Reflective seer Lillian Green apprentices to Roderick Burgess in hopes of finding a cure for the sleepy sickness only to find the cause of it.
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The Shapes of a Dream by HelenaWarner
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
17 Aug 2025
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"Alex Burgess had made a mistake, and he only realized it when the blood stained the cage."
Or: The containment circle severed the connection to the the Dreaming, but it does not stop the Lord Shaper.
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Hob heard about Roderick Burgess capturing the Devil about a year after it happened. When his friends wondered about it, he went to see for himself. In a whirlwind of events, he ended up breaking out his oldest friend and taking an abused child away from his home. An abused child Dream told Hob to adopt.
Well, Hob was going to jump into this with both feet. If Alex needed a dad and a place to belong, Hob could provide that. So, he had a kid now, he supposed. Fuck.
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Magnus Bane receives orders to investigate what is a trapped warlock (or something demonic) in the basement of one Roderick Burgess. He isn't expecting to come across two creatures already planning a rescue of said captive. Even more than that - he isn't expecting the captive to be an Endless, of all things.
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Hob Gadling, when a talking raven (named Jessamy) shows up to tell him that his oldest friend has been captured and needs his help, isn't expecting to get plunged into a world of magical beings, time travel, and more than his fair share of violence, but. For his Stranger? He would do anything.
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When Hob Gadling made a drunken deal with a mysterious man in a pub, he didn’t expect anything to come of it. Waking up the following morning with a golden mark on his wrist was a shock, though less than finding out that he couldn’t die. Who had he made a deal with, and what did he want? His Stranger was far from forthcoming, so he’d have to figure it out himself. That his mark was not just a passkey to an underworld of supernatural beings but the sign that he wasn’t meant to spend eternity alone was enough to send him down paths he never knew existed and ask more questions than were answered. Who, or more importantly what was his Stranger, and did the mysterious man know who Hob was destined for?
(An AU where only immortals have soulmarks that mark their species/type as well as their partner, and Hob has something no one has seen before)
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Maybe sprout wings by Moorishflower
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
21 Dec 2022
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There's a dead man in The Dreaming.
Hob Gadling navigates life after death, falling in love, friendship with otherworldly entities, and ravens. A retelling of a story about stories. A study of a complicated man.
See end notes for art! <3
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As the embodiment of all the earth's magic, Merlin is responsible for its magic users, and thus it falls to him to find out just what the old Roderick Burgess has trapped in his basement.
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The first thing Hob notices is that he is sopping wet, the next thing is a stranger standing in his kitchen. Not his Stranger, another man.
The third thing he notices is that this man is absolutely furious.
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Hob saves Dream, not everyone is really aware of that fact and still worries deeply. Well, one long lost sibling worries very deeply.
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A story in which, in the early 1920’s, Hob Gadling fashions together a rather impressive net and goes fishing.
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Hob, a werewolf from a grotty little estate on the wrong side of London, still can't quite believe he's starting his first term at St. Ignatius University. His goals don't extend very far beyond playing some quality football on the scrim league, and becoming the world's first (and best) lycan astrophycisist.
Then... he meets Dream.
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Hob wants to hate difficult, perfect dressage rider Dream -- but he might have a bit of a crush on him instead.
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Dream was mind-numbingly bored while trapped inside the fishbowl. He quickly found something to do.
Or, how he came to be known as the ‘Devil’ in Burgess’s basement.
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Dream is a model who looks for stress relief from his life, his job, and his trauma, in the arms of a Dom at the London BDSM club Asphodel, twice a year, after each fashion week season.
Hob is a BDSM club owner who has spent the last few years serving a single client, who he knows very little about, twice a year, always at the same time of year.
After their latest Scene turns sour, and they part angrily, enough time passes for both of them to realize how much they miss each other. And when a second chance arrives unexpectedly - both of them leap at the chance for more.
(Also known as: Model Dream, and BDSM Club Owner Hob. They have an Arrangement until it goes Tits Up and then they get together and figure out how to live Kinkily Ever After through their respective Trauma™️ and have ridiculously hot sex.)
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I decided to give this a try despite the length because it sounded really interesting, and the first two chapters utterly unmade me. I'm hooked.
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Sixty years of dreaming did nothing to prepare Dream for the reality of Hob Gadling.
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You Say You Want Your Freedom by sane_abandoned
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
02 Sep 2022
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Dream POV of "For Want of a Name"
Dream knew this voice, and he knew exactly where from.
Hob Gadling.
Had their acquaintance truly meant so little to the other?
Had he revealed his immortality to Burgess, telling him of the being he believed to have gifted him with it?
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