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Nyx tells him to stay in the House, to be wary. There are dangers outside, things that he doesn’t yet understand.
Thanatos promises, and why would Nyx doubt him? He is a precocious child, and one eager to please his mother. As Nyx is quick to say, he is a good son; he wears his godhood with the maturity of one far older.
But it is new, so new. When Nyx isn’t looking, Thanatos can't help but explore.
So new: the stone and gloom of Tartarus, the orange burn of Asphodel, the rolling fields of Elysium. The coolness of the ground beneath the bushes, the way they catch at his hair when he hides in them. The light touch of the butterflies that soon begin to follow him, lonely souls that they are. The way they fluster and flutter as Mort snaps at them.
It is a calm life, a still life, but one so very quiet around the edges.«««««««« ─────── · I · ─────── ««««««««
It isn’t easy growing up, even when you aren’t Death Incarnate.
OR: a story following Thanatos as he learns to navigate the living, the dead, and, worst of all, feelings.Series
- Part 1 of to see again the stars
- Part 1 of war and death
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01 Apr 2025
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“This doesn’t make sense to me. Clearly he’s bound to the House. In his long and immortal life, no matter how many times he ends up on the surface and lives there for a year or ten or a hundred or a thousand, eventually he will face a death and just come back down here. So what’s the point in helping him escape? Why can’t he just stay here? Is it that intolerable here? Are we that intolerable?”
Nyx is quiet as Thanatos catches his breath. He doesn’t need to breathe but there is a pressing feeling in his chest, a pressure that eases as he sucks in the still air. He keeps his eyes on the floor, unable to look at her.
“My dear child,” she says. “Your feelings for him run deep. Your anger is built on a foundation of love and friendship. Draw on that instead.”
“I can’t.” To his horror, he can feel his eyes prickle and burn. He swipes at them impatiently. “I can’t feel anything but anger.”
Years and years after Zagreus’s successful escape to the surface, an untimely and unexpected death brings him right back down to the underworld, and shatters Thanatos’s fragile truce with himself.
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- Part 11 of aspect
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07 Nov 2024
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The age of chivalry was one of gentility, respect, and courage among men, when honor and dignity were chief among the desirable qualities, and war was glorious.
It might once have been so.
Thanatos, at least, knew that chivalry was the great golden lie of his time.
Bookmarked by goatgut
21 Sep 2023
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A Study in Gold by hechima
Fandoms: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
06 Aug 2022
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Rent in a city like London is far too expensive for a foreign exchange student, especially after he's been victimized by the city's famous pickpockets. Mikotoba needs a roommate and, after getting involved in the murder of a wealthy heir, is successful in obtaining one.
Sholmes/Mikotoba first meeting fic (or a retelling of A Study in Scarlet).
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- Part 1 of ACD Adaptations
Bookmarked by goatgut
21 Jun 2023