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• Repressed Trauma by SpectralGecko

  Fandoms: Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Video Game)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  16 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Queen Vanessa (Bug Fables)
  • Wasp King (Bug Fables)
  • Implied/Referenced Whump

  Summary

  Whumptober Day 16 - Repressed Trauma

  Hoaxe's dealings within his newly-usurped kingdom bore a singular peculiarity. Vanessa, as best she could from her confines, had attempted to unravel it, and had arrived at some interesting conclusions.

  And now Hoaxe is crammed into the opposite corner of her bedroom, making himself as small as possible.

  Series

  • Part 8 of Spectral's (Attempt At) Whumptober 2025

  Language:

  English

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  949

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• Ignoring an Illness by SpectralGecko

  Fandoms: Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Video Game)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, Gen
  • Complete Work

  14 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Mothiva/Zasp (Bug Fables)
  • Mothiva (Bug Fables)
  • Zasp (Bug Fables)
  • Sick Character

  Summary

  Whumptober Day 14 - Ignoring an illness.

  Series

  • Part 7 of Spectral's (Attempt At) Whumptober 2025

  Language:

  English

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• I Hate This Job by SpectralGecko

  Fandoms: Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Video Game)  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  13 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Jayde (Bug Fables) and Hoaxe (Bug Fables)
  • Jayde (Bug Fables)
  • Wasp King (Bug Fables)
  • Hoaxe (Bug Fables)
  • Suicide
  • Self-Harm
  • Character Death

  Summary

  Whumptober Day 13 [Alt. Prompts] - Suicide, "Hold my hand", "I hate this job".

  Hoaxe always did hate his job. The last time Jayde had seen him, he'd been scraped and bruised from abuse. Now she can't find him.

  Series

  • Part 6 of Spectral's (Attempt At) Whumptober 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  599

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• Sacred Place by SpectralGecko

  Fandoms: Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Video Game)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  12 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Astotheles (Bug Fables)
  • Pluto (Bug Fables)
  • original character sort of insofar as Pluto is not canonically elaborated on as a personality
  • Near Death Experiences
  • Whump

  Summary

  Whumptober Day 12 - Sacred Place

  Astotheles finds himself stranded in a strange place full of strange power.

  Series

  • Part 5 of Spectral's (Attempt At) Whumptober 2025

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  807

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• Hidden Injury and Lacerations by SpectralGecko

  Fandoms: Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling (Video Game)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  11 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Astotheles and Isau
  • Astotheles/Isau (Bug Fables)
  • There's nothing overtly shippy here but you could also read it as romantic (which I had in mind)
  • Astotheles (Bug Fables)
  • Isau (Bug Fables)
  • mild whump
  • Injury

  Summary

  Whumptober Day 11: Hidden Injury and Lacerations

  Astotheles wakes up in Isau's clinic. The doctor is hardly impressed with his condition.

  Series

  • Part 4 of Spectral's (Attempt At) Whumptober 2025

  Language:

  English

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  505

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