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“Dion. I know the Empire has asked much of you. That it still does. But when all of this is over… you can be whatever you wish to be. Not a Dominant, not an Emperor, not a soldier. Just… you.”
You. Dion’s mouth felt suddenly dry. Who was he, really, without those things? For as long as he could remember, he had built his life around Bahamut’s wings. He had desired that life, grown into it. Perhaps his bones were crooked and he ached with every step, but it was part of it, was it not? What was life without a little pain?
“When that time comes, whatever you choose – know this. You will not be alone. You will never be alone again.”
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Dion wakes to an Empire in ruins. His wings clipped and his home destroyed, he must find a way to live again and atone for his sins. But destruction seems to follow him wherever he walks, and the hardest task is learning to forgive himself.
Re-telling of post-Twinside until the end of the game and after, from Dion's POV. Mostly canon compliant with missing scenes, filled in. Angst with a happy ending.
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“Do it. Plunge the blade deep. Go on, you coward.”
Desire is bright in Joshua’s eyes. It’s obvious that he’s fighting this – to deny just how much he wants to make her words come true. When he speaks, his voice is dangerously low.
“I don’t think I’ll need to use my blade to end you.”
Jote is an assassin, sent to hunt down and kill the monster that is the Phoenix. But only a blade's edge separates love and hate from each other, and in a struggle of life and death, she is confronted with both.
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“No love is lost between our nations.”
“But things were not always so, or were they?” Joshua gives a coy smile, one corner of his mouth lifting. “Some legends even say that the Phoenix and Bahamut were once lovers.”
“Would you like that”, Dion's voice drops, low enough to make Joshua’s breast tremble, “my firebird?”Thirteen years after Phoenix Gate, a masquerade ball is held to commemorate Prince Dion's coming of age. His identity concealed behind a Phoenix mask, Joshua sees an opportunity to learn the prince's true intentions. He does not expect falling in love.
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“But… Harpocrates. You needn’t bother yourself with my plight. I am certain you have far better things to do than… this. Besides, this is hardly your area of expertise…”
“I can assure you that if it is knowledge of the intimate you seek, what would be a better place to look than the Tomes?”
After Dion confesses his feelings to Joshua, the latter finds himself at an impasse: how to impress Dion the Bold himself? Joshua's inexperience with the intimate leads him to the Tomes, where he comes across a most particular guide on the topic. Dion's body is not ready.
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“Why?” Bahamut begs. “Why are you doing this?”
“Do you not understand?” The Phoenix replies. “Revenge.”
The landscape below them is a burning inferno. It reminds Dion of all the cities he has razed, of all the innocent civilians he has killed. Many would call Dion an evil man. A butcher. A tyrant. But this evil is different. Unthinking. Undiscerning. Unyielding.Dion Lesage is a tyrant. The ruthless emperor of Sanbreque, also known as the Dread Wyrm - he will stop at nothing until he rules all of Valisthea. Joshua Rosfield is a phantom. A spark extinguished, then reborn from the embers as Odin's apprentice. He works from the shadows to gain back everything he has lost. To gain vengeance, he must cross paths with the Mad Prince. But is Bahamut's light strong enough to drive away the darkness in his heart?
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Dion is helpless to stop this blaze. He does not know which of them initiates the kiss – the Phoenix, Bahamut, or the humans imprisoned within. All he knows is a yearning that has lasted thousands of years. Their teeth and tongues clash like blades, a battle which Dion is doomed to lose. His hands yearn to touch, to tear, to take, and yet he is powerless to move, hopelessly entangled in the Phoenix’ wings.
“You are mine”, the Phoenix’ heat presses against his lips, his body a furnace. “Mine, Dion. Swear it. Upon my name.”
After Twinside, Dion Lesage seeks death. In the flames of the Phoenix, he finds life.
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“Father once told me that our Eikons sense our emotions. That they feel our pain, our fear, our anger, just as we do. That is why they lash out when we feel things. But he also told me that they are beings beyond our comprehension, great beasts with minds of their own. Thus, we must learn to control them. To not let them destroy us.”
Or what really happened at the remembrance ceremony, to leave an mutual impression that lasted 20 years.
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"Your highness", Joshua said, "do not yet speak of the end. You and I, we will yet take to the skies again. We will search for those we have lost. And if they truly are lost forever, then let us forge a new path, with them in our memory."
"Dion", the prince gritted out. "I told you to call me by my name."
"Only if you call me by mine", said Joshua. "Say it."
After the end of all things, the Phoenix meets Bahamut on a broken battlefield. Words of consolation are exchanged, and a hope rekindled.
Fix-it for the game's ending.
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curse of longing by falindis
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018), The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
17 Mar 2023
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”Of course you would think so”, Achilles spat. “You made me like this.”
“No”, Ares whispered. He leaned closer to plant his words in Achilles’ ear. “You did this to yourself. You could have remained home with Patroclus. You did not. Because this is who you are. A weapon. And no matter how you try to delude yourself, you enjoyed the carnage.”
Achilles confronts the god that made him and ruined him, and learns a thing or two about himself.
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find me in the dark (i'll meet you below) by falindis
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 Nov 2022
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“You must know this", Melkor said, his piercing gaze pinning Mairon in place, cold like a cuff against his skin. “The pleasure I offer is great, but it comes with a price. I will not make this easy for you. I will not be gentle. I will not be kind. Do you understand?”
Mairon swallowed. “Yes, Master."
“No." Melkor's tone was sharp as a whip. “Do not say it unless you mean it. Unless you are willing to suffer for it."
Mairon is a burned-out PhD researcher with a messy apartment, a deteriorating relationship and co-workers that hate him. All this changes when he applies for funding from the infamous company Utumno. There he meets the enigmatic Melkor Bauglir, who awakes a part in Mairon that he did not even know existed.
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“The musician,” Nikandros clarified, as if that was supposed to make things any easier to understand. “In your quarters. They were very good - excellent, even. I was wondering whether it would be a chance to meet them. Perhaps even get a performance.”
Nikandros returns to Marlas, where Damen seems to have acquisitioned a new drummer to entertain the royal bedchamber.
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“I can help you, if you want”, Damen offered. “Take me to your parents, your brother, whoever… and I’ll prove myself worthy of you. I’d do anything. Please let me prove my worth.”
You are already worthy, Laurent thought. But what he held in worth had never mattered. He could do anything, and still never live up to the expectations that Auguste set for him.
"Very well”, Laurent conceded. “I’ll talk to my brother. Promise.”
A few months into Laurent's and Damen's secret relationship, they cannot hide from each other's families any longer. As a result, two Veretians and two Akielons meet at a dinner table. The night does not go as expected.
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- Part 2 of tell me you'll stay (whatever it takes)
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A guy like Damen would never match with a guy like him. Laurent knew his type. He was looking for someone sporty, easy, and preferably dumb. Someone to laugh at his jokes and fawn over him as he ran on a field chasing a stupid ball or lifted weights. Laurent did not think on how it would feel to be lifted in those arms instead, or how hard they would crush him as they threw him on the bed, bending him into position as easy as clay.
No man is good enough for 21-year-old Laurent DeVere. That is until he matches with Damianos on the dating app Flare. There's only one problem - Damen is sporty, social and loved by everyone - everything that Laurent is not. The worst of all: he's Akielon.
But there's nothing a few drunk texts and manhandling can't fix.
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- Part 1 of tell me you'll stay (whatever it takes)
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“I won’t get you flowers, if that’s what you want.” They drew apart. Then collided once more. Two heavenly bodies caught in endless motion. “We’re not doing this. Courting.”
Damen tiptoed around Laurent's blade, effortless as dancing. That was what he did, even in these days of peace. He made death look like an art. “Is that not what we have been doing all this time?”
A year after Laurent's ascension, Damen's thoughts turn to marriage. But convincing his lover is easier said than done.
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Her name. Her name was Theia.
I carve it in sand. I carve it in ash. I carve it into the flames of stars above.
I will not forget. Not even once I am born anew in another body. Her name is burned onto mine. We orbit each other like Ganymede and Jupiter.
A veteran of Ganymede copes with the loss of a love. With her final words, she begged her to forget. But to let go of her she must let go of herself.
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death by a thousand cuts by falindis
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
22 Jan 2022
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"The Rings will be mine, Annatar thinks, as he sharpens a banner that he feels he has already sharpened before, in a clouded memory. It is a victory, he convinces himself, as he orders the volley of arrows to be fired, and watches them arc across the ash-covered sky like a flock of ravens.
Then why does it feel like defeat?"
Eregion falls, and a slow suffering comes to an end. Annatar is forced to relive his biggest failure, for no matter what he does, Tyelperinquar will always die.
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“Tell me what you would do to me.” Laurent’s voice was rough. “If I was your pet.”
Damen felt his breath catch in his throat. He had often thought of those things, just like he had imagined them together – he just had kept them inside. He had never thought that Laurent would want to hear them.
But now, getting permission from him… how could he stay silent?
Damen and Laurent visit an inn disguised as a lord and his pet, hoping to revisit some of that magic from Nesson-Eloy. What could go wrong?
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a starburst crown upon tresses of gold by falindis
Fandoms: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
13 Nov 2021
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Laurent lifted his brows. “I thought you were past playing servant.”
“I am not doing this as your slave. I am doing this as your lover.” Damen lowered his wrist on Laurent’s own, so that their cuffs touched. They both still carried them, as both memory of the past and promise of their future. “Let me serve you tonight. My king.”
At those final words, Laurent’s breath caught in his throat. Perhaps it was then that they fully sunk in. Laurent, king of Vere.
He let go of his laces, then spoke. His voice was husky with want. “Then serve me.”
After the events of "Kings Rising", Damen returns to Vere to attend Laurent's coronation. Their reunion is passionate, but neither of them can fully escape the ghosts of the past.
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Little Dark One by falindis
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
25 Jul 2021
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“Sometimes the state of things as they are cannot last. We may attempt to order them, to bend them to our will. But if ordering them is not enough… destruction is simply an inevitable end. There is beauty in the order brought by destruction”, Sauron said, his voice a low whisper in Maeglin’s ear. “Or do you tell me that you are happy with the way things are? There is nothing that you wish to make anew?”
“No”, Maeglin said, back in the now, in the darkness of the dungeon that his eyes had already grown accustomed to. “There is nothing that I wish to change.”
But his long hesitation gave him away, and in the shadows beside him, he could hear Sauron smile.---
A series of discussions in the dungeons of Angband. The story of how Maeglin betrayed Gondolin for love – not the love of Idril, but for Sauron.
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Nevis is an assassin whose face changes like the wind. One second he is a wise old man, the next a young elven prince, the third a beautiful traveler from a distant land. But with a face comes something else: an entire life. The more faces he tries, the more he loses of himself. And finding one's own face is not that easy, when one has struck a bargain with the God of Chaos.
A.K.A. a found family story featuring a cursed assassin, a city guard with a shady past, an eccentric elven druid who can turn into a bear, and a 14-year old dwarven girl occasionally possessed by a malevolent deity; loosely based on the Dungeons & Dragons campaign "The Ghosts of Saltmarsh" and the tale of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.