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Zagreus stared dizzily at the clear, sparkling water, the many blessings of Aphrodite spreading a rosy glow over his reflection. He splashed the cool water over his arms, watching cuts disappear, and cupped some in his hands to drink. It was so refreshing, and seemed to sharpen his hazy thoughts so much, that he leaned over the edge to plunge his head under the surface.
He raised his head, droplets flying from his hair and trickling down his back, evaporating from his skin. And perhaps it was Aphrodite’s influence, but he felt a small, exhilarating thrill at the cool drops against the nape of his neck that made him clamber over the marble edge, so that he stood submerged in waist-high water.
The sensual coolness made him realize how hot his skin had been, flushed even more so than usual with the warm glow of Cytherian power.
It was then that Thanatos appeared in the chamber.
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In which Zagreus spirals a bit as he and Thanatos go through a rough patch, gets some unasked for relationship advice from on high, gives himself shamelessly to his lover, and finds that the words of goddesses are harder to shake off than one might think.
(direct continuation of Pierced Butterfly)Series
- Part 2 of To Cease Upon the Midnight
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20 Oct 2025
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“It’s just, the way you looked standing in the sunlight, you were like one of the Nikés Father told me about, who live up on Olympus.” Zagreus’ lips absently found Thanatos’ shoulder, the bare cool skin where the fabric ended. “You looked like you should have wings, Than, like you could make me blind to everything.”
He felt Thanatos’s arm stiffen, and shivered as fingers slid into his hair and coaxed him to turn his face upwards.
“You make me blind to everything,” Thanatos murmured, as he sought Zagreus’s mouth, “it’s why you’re so infuriating sometimes, Zagreus.”
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Zagreus is severely wounded in Elysium and wants to end his latest escape attempt on his own terms, in a way of his choosing. When Thanatos turns up looking for him, Zagreus asks him for help. Thanatos' attempt to make it painless for him has some unintended side affects.
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- Part 1 of To Cease Upon the Midnight
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20 Oct 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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18 Oct 2025
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Half a year after the events of 'plant new seeds in the melody', Thanatos and Zagreus are expecting a new arrival. And Zagreus is finding being benched from dancing a little hard to cope with.
But something has been occupying him all day and Thanatos is curious.
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- Part 2 of Thanzag Stripper AU
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17 Oct 2025
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Zagreus dies again. And again. And again.
Thanatos feels it every time.
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In which Thanatos struggles to process his feelings towards Zagreus and cannot figure out why it hurts every time he feels Zagreus die.
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17 Oct 2025