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• once a steady gaze and charming smile by BlackMoonRising

  Fandoms: Gladiator (Movies - Scott)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/F, F/M, M/M
  • Complete Work

  26 Mar 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Marcus Acacius/Lucius Verus
  • Marcus Acacius/Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla
  • Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla/Original Female Character(s)
  • Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla
  • Marcus Acacius
  • Lucius Verus (Gladiator)
  • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
  • Epistolary
  • (kind of)
  • Guilt
  • Self-Discovery
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
  • Trauma
  • Lucilla's road trip through the empire while Acacius deals with shit at home
  • (Lucius is the shit)
  • Not Beta Read
  • inventing OCs so that Gladiator II can pass the Bechdel test

  Summary

  Lucilla, the letter starts off, and already she knows something isn’t right.

  Or, the events of feels like fire from Lucilla’s perspective.

  Series

  • Part 2 of as the embers rose (through the Roman sky)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  6,870

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  5

  Kudos:

  37

  Bookmarks:

  4

  Hits:

  364

• feels like fire by BlackMoonRising

  Fandoms: Gladiator (Movies - Scott)  

  • Explicit
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  08 Mar 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Marcus Acacius/Lucius Verus
  • Marcus Acacius
  • Lucius Verus (Gladiator)
  • Ravi (Gladiator)
  • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Emperor Caracalla
  • Publius Septimius Geta
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Sparring
  • Poor Lucius
  • It gets better I promise
  • sassy Acacius
  • inspired by some of the amazing fics in this fandom more than the movie itself
  • also inspired by rené girard's violence and the sacred
  • not beta read we die like everyone in these damn movies
  • POV Alternating
  • Guilt
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • you can pry sparring as an ancient form of therapy from of my cold dead hands
  • don't mind me I just took the “torture me if you want but please don’t lecture me” line to mean acacius is a sassy little shit
  • i wrote this instead of writing my PhD

  Summary

  The plan was always to rescue Lucius. What comes after, well - let's just say Acacius tries his best. He's not quite sure it's enough, though.

  A canon-divergent AU in which Lucius's attempted crossbow murder has unexpected consequences.

  Series

  • Part 1 of as the embers rose (through the Roman sky)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  13,527

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  16

  Kudos:

  102

  Bookmarks:

  19

  Hits:

  1,361