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Entwined by burnsea
Fandoms: Conclave (2025) RPF, Real Person Fiction, Vatican (2025) RPF
06 Dec 2025
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An ancient species of banyan tree, with a tremendous trunk entangled in a mesh of aerial roots and strong branches, hung heavy with the weight of hundreds upon hundreds of rosaries of all colors, wreathed, collected, embosomed, across the entire body of the tree. Reds and blues, greens and yellows, purples and pinks, flowed in waves from the trunk.
Luis muttered a prayer under his breath, first in Latin, then in a language Robert could not understand. It sounded like a rougher, more syllabic form of Tagalog.
“What is this, Father Luis?” he asked, hushed, as he tentatively stepped closer to the giant tree, its gargantuan presence exacerbated by the multicolored, beaded ornaments.
“We call it a balete tree, Father Robert,” was the reply. “And these rosaries are keeping its millennium-old spirits at bay.”
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The Rock and The Beloved by burnsea
Fandoms: Conclave (2025) RPF, Real Person Fiction, Vatican (2025) RPF
28 Oct 2025
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Pope Leo XIV and Cardinal Tagle. Robert and Luis. Bob and Chito. In the marble halls of the Vatican, they must navigate the use of their names depending on the constantly shifting nature of conversations, from the formal and the sacred to the comfortable and intimate. Who are they to each other, and who are they when in service of God?
This series of vignettes chronicles their relationship across 13 years. Inspired by a few comments I’ve seen online about how Prevost was destined to be pope, the new Peter, the Rock upon which the Church stands, while Tagle was meant to take on the role of John, the most faithful apostle, also known as the Beloved.
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How to Walk Together by burnsea
Fandoms: Conclave (2025) RPF, Real Person Fiction, Vatican (2025) RPF
19 Oct 2025
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A short while before he is installed Archbishop of Cebu, Abet cheerfully reassures the papal nuncio that nothing has changed between them. “This is the first of many visits, I hope! I know you were fond of Bohol, but I’ll make sure there’s always room for you here in Cebu," he says.
“Please, focus on getting settled here first,” replies Charles, shaking his head. “Look at you, handing out invitations for clergy visits on Day 0 in your new role."
“Invitations? I’m talking only to you right now! No one else is invited!”
In which a papal nuncio from New York and an archbishop from Bohol show the world how to walk together.
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Ing lugud a malyaring hulaan by burnsea
Fandoms: Conclave (2025) RPF, Real Person Fiction, Vatican (2025) RPF
15 Oct 2025
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In which Ambo's niece prods him to finally come to terms with his feelings for Chito, the man he had once loved with a passion, and Isao, the man he had grown to love with ease.
Fic title is Kapampangan for "A love that one can guess".
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For you formed my inmost parts by burnsea
Fandoms: Conclave (2025) RPF, Real Person Fiction, Vatican (2025) RPF
11 Jul 2025
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The Bible used to depict the kidneys as the site of temperament. Before modern translations revised the scriptures to be more anatomically accurate, they were mentioned as the organs examined by God to judge an individual, in conjunction with the heart.
Bob's kidneys? They're fucked. Only one thing brings him joy in the dreary dialysis center where he is cleansed of impurities three times a week — the appearance of an intriguing ray of sunshine, a man named Chito. The two grow closer and closer each day.