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He had a ledger that reminded him of all the ways Zagreus had died before, and he had a prodigiously good imagination. That was all he really needed. It gave him answer enough.
He felt the way Zagreus’s mind shifted and swayed towards unconsciousness as his fight went on and he must have sustained more injuries, seeking desperate shelter from pain. The mind always shied from its own suffering — when agony was too sharp, too much, it reached desperately for that solace that Hypnos held at his command. It yearned for unconsciousness. So whenever something hurt Zagreus enough for his mind to start reaching for the oblivion of Sleep, desperate to faint rather than endure some acute torment, Hypnos felt it.
And then he always felt Zagreus struggling to master his own mind. Trying — just through sheer force of will — to pull away. To stay conscious. To stagger on.
And Hypnos had to decide what to do.
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You can tell a lot about a person by how they eat.
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- Part 21 of Choice of Death
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There's a mountain with a view of everything, where the wind never stops. The view is worth it, but it's the journey that matters.
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- Part 20 of Choice of Death
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Eros likes bows.
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- Part 19 of Choice of Death
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Eros has so many smiles, but this one... this one might be Zagreus’ favourite.
They’re in Elysium, together, Eros’ idea—you’re always coming here, why don’t I go there—and Eros is picking flowers from Zagreus’ footsteps. He likes doing that, and Zagreus likes walking, so it works for them both. Zagreus is giving him a tour of Elysium as they wind their way along the Lethe to the stadium. Eros has a big bundle in his arms already, and he’s smiling with every flower he picks—that’s the smile that’s Zagreus’ favourite, possibly, out of all the smiles that Eros has.
He has a lot.
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The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest. Being able to travel both ways matters, and sometimes the way back into the heart of the question begins by going outward and beyond.
-Rebecca Solnit, "The Faraway Nearby"Hypnos has been reaching out for a very, very long time. Thanatos asks the Fates to help him reach back.
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The Captive of Shame by Nelja-in-English (Nelja) for avaloncat555
Fandoms: Arthurian Mythology
16 May 2025
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Galehaut wants to spend the night with Lancelot; Lancelot isn't sure about what he agreed to.
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“They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.” T.H. White - The Once and Future King
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15 Dec 2025
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Hypnos first met Hermes a very long time ago, the way mortals count things, and not any time ago at all, the way he and his family do. He did not fall in love at first sight, because Hypnos knows better than to do that--his eldest brother is Eros, after all, and Eros has never been mean to Hypnos, though he understands sometimes Eros is mean to other people for Hypnos; love is like that, sometimes.
He was mostly angry and upset and then, after, a bit guilty. He hadn’t meant to burn Hermes’ feet through to soul.
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23 Mar 2025
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Perfect! A tale of Homeric Hermes and Orphic Hermes accidentally switching places.
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Apollo’s got a temper, that’s all, like most Olympians, but his is definitely a scorching summer sun sort, withering, and he’s got that name, right, Paean in the old way, the striking way. Mortals still mean both, or they did when Dionysus was mostly mortal.
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16 Dec 2023
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Hermes and Thanatos have been a thing for years.
"It's great, not even half a mile to central park, and if you go half a mile east there's the river trail, runs straight out of the city," Hermes is saying, climbing the high and narrow stairs to the guest bedroom without looking back. Hypnos is following and Dionysus is behind him, and Dionysus must feel cramped because the stairwell is making even Hypnos uncomfortable and Hypnos is a twig.
A lot of people think they're married.
"Here you are, bathroom’s just down the hall," Hermes says, pushing open a door to a guest room--a queen size bed with perfectly turned down blankets, half a dozen pillows. “Get settled, I’ll get us drinks, just down the stairs.”
They’re not.
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11 Feb 2022