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Pious brother, to your vices
You were shunned, and burned your cradle
Claim killer, you claim martyr
My brother Cain, my brother AbelThe tale of the Wittebane brothers has been one drenched in loss since it’s beginning, from their early childhood in England, to their arrival in to the New World. Caleb Wittebane dedicated his whole life to protecting the only family he had left.
In the tiny settlement of Grave Field, so named after the Colony’s catastrophic first winter left less than 60 of the original 500 settlers alive, Caleb learns that when everyone is in survival mode fear is more dangerous than any weapon.
Basically, this fic exists because I am a giant history nerd with a hyperfixation on early 1600s America and frankly, as much as I love Wittebro fics, an awful lot of authors seem to fashion their settings in the style of Salem, but the colonial life in the 1610s did not look the same as it did in the 1690s. To put it in perspective: the time difference between the Wittebros arrival and the Salem Witchcraft Trials is the same amount of time between the sinking of the Titanic and the premiere of the James Cameron movie.
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- Part 1 of The Ballad of Cain and Abel
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30 Oct 2025
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"Hunter stared up in cold terror, blood still dripping down his chin, at the chunk of flesh Belos was holding up. His tongue. His uncle had cut out his tongue.
Belos turned it side to side, examining it. Then his sharp gaze landed on Hunter. 'Don't look at me that way, boy. This tongue was a privilege. A privilege you abused. Thus a privilege that has been revoked.'"Or, being the Golden Guard is much more difficult when you can't speak.
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16 Oct 2025
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“There’s four of them—fight, flight, freeze, and fawn," Hunter explains. "My therapist wanted me to write about some times when I felt like I reacted each of those ways.”
“And you’re having trouble thinking of some?” Luz asks, propping her feet in his lap.
“It’s not that I can’t think of any,” Hunter says, cradling his journal. He rubs the soft leather cover, grazing his fingers over the bumps of the many vinyl stickers Luz has given him. “It’s that I’m thinking of too many.”
“Oh.”
[Or: Hunter, homework, and some really rather horrible memories.]
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- Part 2 of birdhouse
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01 Sep 2025
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Life for Caleb and Evelyn is going pretty good. They are happily married and expecting their first child when suddenly a boy shows up that looks identical to Caleb.
They know they have to take care of this boy, while figuring out who he is and why he has so many scars.
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Hunter timepool au featuring characters from the My Brother Cain, My Brother Abel series. *note you do not have to read that one to understand this one
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- Part 4 of The Ballad of Cain and Abel
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07 Aug 2025
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(Hollow Mind AU)
The Grimwalkers were a creation, in the most literal sense. Born of recipe and experimentation.
Belos included a failsafe.
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22 Jul 2025