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After the massacre at the gorge leading to the Nebakov fortress, certain events transpire differently: one, Godwin doesn't get to Henry and Hans on time. Žižka imprisons the young lord of Pirkstein and his faithful squire for a longer time, called away to quell new arising issues... And then, he discovers Toth's agenda, and throws him into the jail as well. Erik soon follows.
And as the fates are whores with a wicked sense of humour: they get separated. Henry lands locked in the cell with István—and Capon's stuck with Erik.
Dirty games play out, and cruelty flows free like blood.
KCD Rarepairs Week! Chapter one is Day 1: Forced Proximity. More to follow.
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04 Mar 2026
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Csoda!
A miracle. The boy was perfect. Unrefined and half-feral, yes, but with the right training he could become an excellent weapon. The weapon that would cut down István Tóth.
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09 Feb 2026
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Years after the events in Bohemia, Erik and Istvan run a tiny estate in Hungary and must contend with Istvan's aging.
AKA Istvan lives and grows old with Erik.
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28 Jan 2026
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The Least of These Brothers by elkennen
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
11 Dec 2025
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As the years wear on in Istvan Toth's camp, Erik struggles to find his place.
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25 Jan 2026
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ours is a strange fate by translorastyrell (nerddowell)
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
22 Feb 2026
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‘A horse must be broken before it can be ridden. But you ought to choose your mount carefully. Consider its purpose. A draft horse will be of little use to a racemaster, and a thoroughbred courser still less use to a farmer with a cart to pull. Teaching a carthorse to leap fences will destroy your homestead, and wasting a fine swift runner on a burdensome yoke will turn the beast vicious. You must choose the right horse for the job, and break it in, before you can set it to work. War is a messy, bloody business, and it takes a certain kind of man to weather it and come out the other side stronger. You have a talent for horses, for understanding them and ensuring that they understand you. I have the same talent, but for men of war.’
Erik is recruited for the 7th Cavalry following the Battle of Little Bighorn by Lieutenant Ištván Tóth. Twenty years later, they reunite when Erik is a deserter from the Mexican frontier and offers his services as a horse wrangler on the retired Ištván's ranch.
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24 Jan 2026
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"What is the most important thing in a fight?" Istvan asked.
It was not pure strength, Erik knew. There was a man in Istvan's company, slender and hardly taller than Erik, who was so quick with a shortsword that he always outlasted heavily armored men in the training yard. Not skill, either. It didn't matter how often a man practiced or what he knew about the sword if his opponent was stronger, quicker, didn't have the sun in his eyes, had slipped into his quarters in the night, had planned ahead with poisons or reinforcements—
Well, there was more, but Erik realized that Istvan didn't necessarily mean a physical fight. Conversations were fights. Istvan said fighting with words was more fun than swords, because the field changed constantly. (Though Erik had seen him kill men with a longsword, and Istvan seemed just as pleased doing that.) Strength mattered in those fights, too, because a man could intimidate with his height and threaten with just a look.
The answer came to him. Erik sat up straighter.
"Advantage," he said.
Erik learns how to swim, how to wield a sword, and what kind of man he wants to be.
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03 Jan 2026
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Nil igitur mors est ad nos by Lamina2505
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
14 May 2025
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Regret gnarled at Ištván even as the world fractured around him into separate pieces. How many things had he left unsaid to Erik? He had recalled Henry’s voice cutting through the red haze in his mind – swearing to make Erik suffer, to split him open just as he had Ištván. His final breath had been spent on Erik’s name – a desperate prayer to God he no longer believed in.
And yet, God still had plans for him.
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17 Dec 2025
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Sirius rises late in the dark, liquid sky
On summer nights, star of stars,
Orion's dog they call it, brightest
Of all, but an evil portent, bringing heat
And fevers to suffering humanity.-
Istvan takes Erik to his summer lakeside estate for a deserved retreat after months of fighting for Sigismund.
In the sweltering heat that threatens to devour him from the inside, Erik tries to come to terms with their newfound closeness.
Realizing his boy has grown into a man, Istvan is determined to do the right thing for once in his life. He will let Erik spread his wings, regardless of the dread that grips his heart at the thought.
The most tranquil hush comes only after a storm.
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16 Dec 2025
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After its all over, Henry starts to dream. Not the usual nightmares, but strangely realistic dreams where he watches Istvan and Erik's life together. And even though they should be just dreams, why does it feel like he's being slowly dragged to Hell with them?
Erik and Istvan through Henry's eyes.
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12 Dec 2025
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“Penumbra (n.) — a part of a shadow where the light is not wholly gone, used especially of the half-shadow cast during an eclipse.”
Evil does not reproduce; it perfects itself. And the Lord does not halt wheels that men themselves insist on turning.
Some would argue whether Henry pushed or István leapt. But they should note, perhaps, that God kept His silence as ever.
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This work is a large-scale István Tóth bildungsroman covering 1372–1403 and is intended as a hypothetical prequel to his main KCD narrative.
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11 Dec 2025
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walk tall beneath these trees by zythepsary
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
13 Aug 2025
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A smudged figure waits in the corner of Erik's eye. Istvan is dressed in black, covered from head to toe with armored limbs and a heavy doublet, but he doesn't reek the way Erik does in the heat. If anything, he smells like nights in camp. Like woodsmoke and a chilly breeze. The comfortable scent of bodies in the same place for too long.
Istvan buys Erik a gift.
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06 Dec 2025
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When you're a pretty little blond nepo-baby Alpha with all of the City at your silvered fingertips, they'll teach you that equality is real and that all subgenders matter the same.
Not everybody believes this to be true.
The South Yards are filled with expansive, friendly family groups who share pups in group nests and make sure everybody is fed and loved even when supply is scarce.
Not all the quadrants are run like this.
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- Part 4 of cyberhounds
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02 Dec 2025
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AU - Henry dies in his duel against Erik
Hans could admit it here, where no one stood ready to prod his dignity for weakness: he missed Henry. Missed him with the helpless ache of a child left alone in an unfamiliar place. Three moonfulls since, grief had made its den of him; lingering where it pleased and inventive as ever in finding new ways to make him feel the fool.
Hans can’t let go. Erik brings back the sword and asks for the noose.
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- Part 1 of mast year
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15 Nov 2025
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Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus by neodyymi
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
15 Nov 2025
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Ištván turned without another word and stepped back through the chapel doors, into the smoke-laced morning chill. The sky was pale with dawn now, weak light seeping through clouds and heavy mist, revealing the remains of what had still been a village before the night fell.
He knew he should’ve simply slit the boy’s throat the moment he found him. That would’ve been the smarter thing to do, for once, and perhaps even a small mercy. No names, no questions – just another corpse sprawled among many.
But he hadn’t. And now the boy had a name, and a voice, and eyes too old for his face.
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01 Oct 2025