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Favored by ninnananna (Emica) for springfling789
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
20 Jan 2026
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For many of the shades in the underworld, even those in the ostensible paradise of Elysium, the only distraction from their own eternal gloom is observing the tribulations of another. And Patroclus, son of Menoetius attracted an ample audience to his wretched suffering. Of course, he had ignored you and all the rest during that time, giving no indication he even deigned to make himself aware of your presence. In any case, you and others kept a respectful distance.
Written for the 2025 Hades Lounge Gift Exchange!
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- Part 3 of Hades Lounge Gift Exchange Fics
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Under the Influence by ninnananna (Emica) for tired_pigeon
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
29 Nov 2025
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“Are you alright?” Patroclus hears Zagreus ask somewhere above him.
Patroclus is staring, he realizes. No need for pointless questions, he thinks distantly. More pressing: Are those feet truly as hot as they appear? Or is it simply godly radiance that makes them gleam so? In his stupor, mind buoyant and almost simple in its curiosity, he realizes that he must know.
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- Part 7 of PZA Party
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The Boy Next Door by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
19 Nov 2025
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Dinner had gone smoothly enough—Melinoë expected to see the apprehension in Daedalus’ expression when his son first introduced his new girlfriend, possessing a sleeve of tattoos from shoulder to fingertips, green stiletto nails, and jade green lipstick to match.
Melinoë visits Icarus' childhood home, which means the two of them get to spend the night together in his childhood bedroom.
Written for Hades Week 2025!
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King of All the Dead by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
08 Nov 2025
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“Oh, but shouldn’t you be in Elysium, then?” he asks blithely. “Why would you be here, at the behest of my father?”
Because…
Because I was a fool.
Because some things should not be forgiven.
Because he deserves it more than I.
“I… I am here to be your tutor,” Achilles repeats, simply.
In lieu of eternal paradise in Elysium, stern Lord Hades tasks the Trojan war hero, Achilles—full of guilt, self-loathing, and missing his beloved terribly—to be a tutor for his frivolous yet willful son, Prince Zagreus.
Zagreus, however, has no need for a tutor… and has another use for him in mind.
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- Part 6 of PZA Party
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Breaking the Rhythm by ninnananna (Emica) for ilikechowder
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
13 Oct 2025
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He grips Zagreus at the wrist, turning him around. Zagreus allows it, muscles unwinding as Patroclus keeps the prince’s arm away from his torso so that he can see him properly. He clicks his tongue as he scans, disapproving.
“My, my… you look dreadful. It’s perhaps even worse than I thought. What happened?”
Zagreus’ demeanor grows even further bashful. He looks away again from Patroclus, his eyes downcast. Patroclus gently guides him down into the grass, having them sit while he leans in to examine him closer, lightly running his fingers over the mottled skin. Zagreus shivers, and then bites his lip, demurring to answer the question.
“Come, you can tell me,” Patroclus says kindly. “Your secrets are safe here. Who did this to you?”
Zagreus fidgets slightly, ostensibly still reluctant, yet the coquettish flutter of his eyelashes suggests he is playacting. A pretty tinge of red graces his cheeks before turning also the color of his ears.
“It was Achilles, sir,” he says at last.
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- Part 5 of PZA Party
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Last Gasp by ninnananna (Emica) for rowanisawriter
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
19 Jul 2025
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“What do you want, Than?” Zagreus asks him again, quietly.
“I…”
I want you to come home. I want you to stay with me. I want you to see me… to see what’s here, inside my heart. I want you to love me. All these pleas are on the tip of Thanatos’ tongue. But he cannot say any of them.
Zagreus may be many things, but if nothing else, he is a prince who wants to do right by his subjects, or so Thanatos would like to believe. He wants to be a beloved, magnanimous sovereign in a way that his father could never be, even if he doesn’t quite know the proper way to go about it—often eschewing steady leadership for frivolousness and fraternization. Still, Thanatos is certain that even Zagreus is canny enough that he would not deny the entreaties of a supplicant. There is nothing from Zagreus that Thanatos wants given to him unwillingly or reluctantly…
Yet.
Written for rowanisawriter, who requested angsty early-game Thanzag first-time sex and making Than suffer <3 A thank you gift for 3000 kudos!
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- Part 2 of Life, Death, & Punishment - MZT
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Daylight Express by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), The Iliad - Homer, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
30 Jun 2025
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He waits for the ticket inspector to come by first. It wouldn’t do to be found missing from his seat before then, only to be caught occupying a space where he does not belong.
He orders a blanc-cassis; he smokes a cigarette while he drinks it. The intertwining of the tobacco and the alcohol helps keep him relaxed.
The drink makes him hungry. He wishes belatedly he had eaten something first.
When he has determined that he has dallied for long enough, he rises from his seat.
Zagreus has two separate encounters with two handsome strangers before getting on a train. He soon discovers that not only do the two men know each other, they’re both going his way. Anonymous three-way sex on a train ensues. As it turns out, sometimes experiences are best when shared.
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- Part 4 of PZA Party
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Pray, Love, Remember by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
27 Mar 2025
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Hange eyes Moblit, the lenses of their glasses flashing with the sunlight’s reflection as their head turns.
“What do you say, Moblit? Up for an adventure?”
“All right,” he replies.
While waiting on important news, Moblit & Hange spend a day together in the capital.
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Liminal Spaces by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), The Iliad - Homer, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
19 Mar 2025
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After several minutes of feverish kisses, Achilles breaks them apart, pulling away from Zagreus just enough so that he can murmur the words quietly against his lips:
“Stay with us, Zagreus.”
Zagreus gently smooths out the tangles in Achilles’ hair, picking off the strands stuck to his sweaty skin, and tucks the ringlets behind his ear. Achilles leans into the tenderness, closing his eyes. He sighs to catch his breath, and it sounds like longing.
“Stay with us,” he repeats.
Zagreus is a university student who feels aimless in life. His girlfriend dumped him, things between him & his best friend are weird, and he lacks ambition in his studies, all while the optimistic visions of his generation’s future are becoming lost. Until one day, he falls into the orbit of Achilles & Patroclus―a charming, yet eccentric pair who completely alter Zagreus’ outlook on life & death, love & loss, past & future, and the transitions in between.
Inspired by The Dreamers, except make it 2010s and ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ
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- Part 1 of Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ Ｆｉｃｓ
- Part 3 of PZA Party
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What We Had Waited For by ninnananna (Emica) for TayaSigerson
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
18 Jan 2025
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“I don’t think you need to worry about it too much, Than,” Meg says. “I believe our Zagreus to be actually quite undiscriminating in matters of pleasure. And I mean that as a compliment.” She turns, nodding to Zagreus. “I think it is a virtue of his to be able to take joy in almost whatever life has to offer. And as I recently discovered, it turns out he has quite a knack for being able to bestow such an outlook onto others, as well. Our prince is perhaps much wiser than I often gave him credit for.” Megaera’s arms are now crossed, looking between them with a subdued, yet knowing expression. “In any case… I believe we have exhausted our ability to deal with this matter over drinks. Come, let us move our conference elsewhere.”
“Where are we going?” Zagreus asks, quickly draining his bottle before he has to abandon it.
“Your room.”
After successfully romancing both Megaera and Thanatos, Zagreus finds that he and Than are tentative about establishing a physically intimate relationship. Luckily Meg, with whom Zagreus already has a sexual history, is willing to help.
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- Part 1 of Life, Death, & Punishment - MZT
- Part 2 of Hades Lounge Gift Exchange Fics
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My Heart's Your Future by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), The Iliad - Homer, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
23 Sep 2024
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At some point, Achilles and Patroclus discovered that if they look out the window from where they sit on Patroclus’ bed on this particular day each year, the sun will set perfectly within a gap between a pair of buildings on the city skyline—approximately two hours from now.
A Patrochilles companion story to Liminal Spaces. Achilles and Patroclus pass the time together in their room on the first day of Spring.
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- Part 2 of Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ Ｆｉｃｓ
- Part 6 of Like Gods At the Dawning Of the World - Patrochilles
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Where The Dead Forget by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018), The Iliad - Homer, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
14 Sep 2024
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Hades gameverse amnesia AU. Patroclus drinks from the River Lethe and loses his memories of Achilles. Achilles attempts to woo him all over again, now with personal growth and wisdom on his side. But it turns out not to be so simple when the fame and reputation he acquired in life contrast with the man that he has become as well as the man that Patroclus always saw in him.
With memories of life and the afterlife interwoven between a slowburn romance, this fic is a canon divergence story, a canon compliant pre-canon story, and an Iliad retelling all in one.
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“Does anyone else know about this, Erwin?” Levi asks.
“No,” Erwin answers.
“This could kill you, Erwin.”
“I am aware of that.”
“Don’t you know what the proper treatment is for an illness like this? Surely you do. They call it—”
“I know what they call it,” Erwin interrupts, his words quick and sharp and full of warning, like the firing of a shotgun.
Harlot’s consumption, it’s often called. Passed on sexually, and yet paradoxically the most effective treatment against it is sexual contact. Raised in a brothel as a child, Levi knew it well. It was not the illness that claimed his mother’s life, but many of the workers there were chronically ill. Flowers were a rare sight in the Underground, where most plants did not grow, so his concept of one was limited to the context of such suffering. That the beauty and simple pleasure of flowers had been corrupted for him was something he did not fully realize until he came up to the surface to see them for himself in their natural form.
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- Part 9 of Stomach & Heart - Eruri
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In Full Bloom by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
22 Mar 2024
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In the dimness, she steps lightly—stealing up staircases and down corridors, nightgown fluttering behind her, until she reaches Nyx’s bedchamber.
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See No ****, Hear No **** by ninnananna (Emica) for Greyhound
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018), The Iliad - Homer, The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
14 Jan 2024
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At first, it is like the moment he died. A dark abyss, the absence of thought.
There is feeling in the darkness however, coming into relief gradually—his limbs sing with the ache from a pleasure-laced bite of a rope, holding him up like the long, weaving sinews that tether the immortal soul to a mortal life. His arms, he finds with a flex of his muscles, are bound tightly behind his back. The bindings weave down from his neck and chest, down to his hips; and then further below, where his calf hugs against the corded flesh of his upper thigh. He feels as if he is kneeling upright upon a cloud, suspended in the air. He struggles against the rope with an experimental fussing—the weight of his dangling body sways slightly from the momentum it creates.
His blood begins to stir at the feeling of such helplessness. But there is also something else he would like to assess.
“Patroclus,” Achilles calls out into the void.
There is no answer. Ah.
One deprived of sight, the other deprived of hearing — Achilles & Patroclus are still able to revel in the ecstasy of one another. Each chapter is the same scene from each pov, experienced very differently.
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- Part 5 of Like Gods At the Dawning Of the World - Patrochilles
- Part 1 of Hades Lounge Gift Exchange Fics
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Closest To My Heart by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018), The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
25 Oct 2023
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Talk to him, indeed, that side of him sneers. To hear his dulcet voice, to gaze upon his handsome countenance again and again, as much as he pleases, before Achilles has even had the chance? How dare he? How dare he??
But then that weakness in Achilles’ long-dead heart begins to throb, and he starts to wonder……
Would Patroclus still recognize Achilles’ scent, if it were lightly emanating from Zagreus’ skin? Would he be able to taste him on Zagreus’ lips?
Achilles suddenly imagines Zagreus traveling to Elysium carrying the smell of their sex. Patroclus surely would not be able to deny Achilles then. He’ll remember how Achilles smells and tastes, he’ll have Zagreus for himself and see that how he fucks is just the same as Achilles, in such a way that only Achilles could have taught him. And then Patroclus will realize: that he and Achilles will always belong together.
**Now includes an 8-page comic (Chapter 4)!**
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- Part 2 of PZA Party
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Sea Of Love by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
07 Oct 2023
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“Er,” Zagreus started, in a way he would have admitted was rather ungraceful for the bearing of a god. “For what reason have you called me here?”
The boys lifted their heads and looked at one another. After a moment, it was the golden-haired prince who spoke.
“Well…” he said carefully. “We had hoped that perhaps you would play with us, Prince Zagreus.”
“‘Play with you’? As in… games?”
Patroclus looked as if he were trying not to fidget. Achilles, however, lifted his chin confidently. His tone was cool and calm, betraying no hint of self-consciousness.
“Yes…. Why not?”
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Flourishing Into Greatness by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018), The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
22 Jun 2023
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“Isn’t he lovely?” Achilles whispers to Zagreus. His eyes shine.
“Yes,” Zagreus manages, remembering just then to breathe. “I’m sorry, sir. I had to know for myself.”
Patroclus arches an eyebrow. “And what was that, stranger?”
Zagreus bites his lip, feeling the ability to express his desire easier when Patroclus’ taste is still caught in the corners of his mouth. “I had to know… what sort of mortal can bring to his knees”—he looks to Achilles—“the greatest hero who ever lived.”
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- Part 1 of PZA Party
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Gripping Erwin’s stubbled jaw firmly, Levi took another drag and leaned in so that their lips were barely touching. Erwin parted his own lips slightly and accepted the puff of smoke Levi blew into his mouth with a docileness that contradicted the fire in his eyes. Levi himself adopted an air of one tending to the injured—it was what Erwin was, after all. Injured, weakened, bed-ridden. Levi’s instinct to care for him was taking over.
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- Part 8 of Stomach & Heart - Eruri
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Upon A Lazy Bed by ninnananna (Emica)
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
31 Aug 2022
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Amidst all of this, Achilles’ outward demeanor remains cool. Yet, as the days drag on, I can sense his mood beginning to sour again, frustrated that Agamemnon is not supplicating himself at our doorstep like he had hoped. I am aware that he is falling into my arms for comfort as much as I am falling into his. Time becomes imperceptible, and the nights spent in bed begin to bleed long into the daylight hours as well. We do not care. Or at least, we do not care enough to stop.
Tensions mount in the Myrmidon camp after Achilles’ withdrawal from the war. And yet it is Patroclus who finds himself receiving the majority of the blame.
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