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one need not be a chamber (to be haunted) by intothewildblueyonder for roguekaiju
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
04 May 2025
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As asked on Quora, 2023:
Do you think that Jesus Christ, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross and temporarily thought of home?As asked by Vincent Benítez, after the conclave:
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- Part 1 of maketh the man
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14 May 2025
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A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush by Neverending_Rainbow
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
09 Feb 2025
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The conclave is at a standstill. The cardinals are arguing. Thomas is at his wits end. He prays for a sign- for God to tell them who he wants to be crowned Pope.
He gets one. Just not the one he expected.
Warning: This is pure crack. Not a serious fic at all
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14 May 2025
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Isn't this what you wanted? by Neverending_Rainbow
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
31 Jan 2025
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A 4+1 fanfic
Four different AUs. And the canon we all know and love.
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Vincent/Thomas
They could've met differently, or not at all. They could've parted ways, or never separated.
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14 May 2025
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November is an uphill battle against bureaucracy. It goes without saying that December is a hell in itself. In January, Vincent misses his sister’s wedding.
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14 May 2025
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He expects ruins and rubble in the street. Burned out buildings and bomb damage. He expects to be greeted by the signs of a well-known chaperon, confused when he doesn’t appear. Why would he? War hasn’t been to Rome in ages – it’s Vincent who is foreign.
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14 May 2025
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“I don’t know, Thomas,” Vincent's voice comes strained and tired through the phone, “You told me to go and see a doctor with the wrist and I did that and then she took some pictures and then she told me that it was ‘definitely broken’ and that I’m kind of an idiot not to notice and now I’ll get a fucked-up cast but not before I can name my insurance and I don’t even–”
“Vincent.”
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14 May 2025
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For so many years, that was what Vincent thought God’s plan was for him:
To bear love in his heart even in the face of the greatest evil.
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14 May 2025
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A prosaic motto for a prosaic man.
Thomas' self loathing leaves him with some rather glaring blind spots.
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- Part 1 of Servus Fidelis: Ray/Thomas/Vincent AU
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14 May 2025
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In which Vincent discovers that he's accidentally become the homewrecker in a relationship that neither Ray nor Thomas will admit they're in.
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- Part 2 of Servus Fidelis: Ray/Thomas/Vincent AU
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14 May 2025
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Ever see, ever be, ever know my heart by yourcryinghost
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
08 Mar 2025
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“I have coffee at home.” Lawrence says before the implications of what he says could really sink into his mind.
“Oh.”
He probably should not have said that. Not with his current state of emotional affairs.
He clears his throat and clenches to a piece of paper he is holding onto, “yeah, ughm,” he underlines some words on the paper pressing into it slightly more than needed. He hopes to sound nonchalant and distant. This is like offering a colleague to take a coffee break. Everyone does it all the time. Maybe they can gossip near the water cooler later. Or whatever, “I mean, if Your Holiness does indeed not have any other plans for the evening, we could… fill in the time.”
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14 May 2025
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the boy I love is up in the gallery by rupert0graves
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
16 Jan 2025
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"The former Archbishop of Kabul had his fair share of experiences dealing with boring parties, political reunions with men of straight fascist views, and of course, embarrassing family dinners, the usual when you have thirty-plus relatives stuck in the same place. But no one had prepared him for this situation. There was nothing about it in some rulebook or a class in seminary about how to deal with a drunk, soft Thomas Lawrence leaning against Vincent Benitez’s body, arm around his hips, trying to catch his balance and failing with every step."
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- Part 1 of Moriría Por Vos
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14 May 2025
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the word (the head, the heart) by Metallic_Sweet
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
05 Apr 2025
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Pope Innocent XIV’s predecessor was known as a genius of strategy. Bellini’s inability to beat him at chess was just the tip of the iceberg.
Innocent, however, is something else.
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13 May 2025
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feed the wildlife (feed the soul) by Metallic_Sweet
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), Conclave - Robert Harris
19 Mar 2025
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No man is an island, but Vincent sure feels like he’s stuck on one albeit in the middle of Rome.
(or, Vincent deals with the identity crisis of becoming Pope)
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13 May 2025
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When Thomas Lawrence came by the papal apartments that evening, he came, unsurprisingly, with a bundle of papers under his arm.
Vincent tried on and discarded four separate teasing comments about it, but didn’t get to decide on one before Thomas silently handed them over, and he realized they were newspapers, opened and refolded over the weekly comics, his favorite. Three of them, one for each week he’d been away.
Ah, he thought, with the feeling of a sudden hard deceleration in his chest, the press it put on his heart. Ah. All right then.
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13 May 2025
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“You’d like him, you know,” Thomas said.
“I do like him,” Aldo said automatically, twirling the stem of his wine glass, looking into its deep red like it was a scrying mirror.
“I mean as a friend. If you spent more time with him. You have a lot in common.”
“Do we use the same shampoo?” asked Aldo, raising an eyebrow. Thomas gave him a warning look but his mouth was tugging up.
“You’re both stubborn,” he said bluntly.
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Cardinals like Thomas Lawrence and Aldo Bellini know all too well how slowly things move within the walls of the Vatican. But with Vincent Benítez's election cracking their world open, and the new Pope cutting away the old branches to make room for the new, both find that change is flooding in everywhere, mostly within themselves.
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13 May 2025
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from admiration to love, from love to matrimony by moongallery
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
16 Jun 2025
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"Forgive me, Lord Phainon, I can't help but be curious. How could you possibly not know that Lord Mydei has been your spouse for... four months?"
"To be honest, Miss Castorice, I haven't the slightest idea."
Through a series of events that may or may not have involved a Kremnoan courting ritual, Phainon had somehow managed to ask for Mydei's hand in marriage.
For some reason, Mydei said yes.
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13 May 2025
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It is an open secret in the Vatican that Thomas Cardinal Lawrence is not entirely human... and that he can never leave the borders of Vatican City. An open secret to everybody, that is, except for the unexpected new arrival, Vincent Benítez.
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12 May 2025
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“You speak about the announcement as if it were your execution,” Vincent jokes, though there is no malice or reproach in his voice. Just compassion.
“Perhaps,” Thomas confesses, so low Vincent can barely make it out, “Perhaps it is.”
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Dean Thomas Lawrence becomes Pope John XXIV.
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- Part 1 of new exegeses on the old testament
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12 May 2025
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the restoration of vincent (two different words for love) by ruthvsreality
Fandoms: Conclave (2024)
14 Mar 2025
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Peter denied his love for Christ three times before the rooster crowed.
With the way Vincent is denying his own feelings, he might give Peter a run for his money.
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12 May 2025
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As Cardinal-Deacon, Thomas Lawrence is the papal confessor.
He does not wish for it to be anyone else. This is but one of the reasons he retains his post. He misses the late Holy Father still, but Innocentius XIV is someone he cannot stop himself from serving. He feels, sometimes, as though he has been waiting for this man his whole life. He no longer speaks of resignation, but feels buoyed with spiritual energy, empowered by the Pope’s most divine leadership, by a life full of worship.
It is almost amusing, then, to hear the little sins of the Universal Church’s Supreme Pontiff.
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11 May 2025