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• my old lad of the castle by longlivequinlanfluke

  Fandoms: Henry IV - Shakespeare, Henry V - Shakespeare  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Prince Hal (Shakespeare)/Edward "Ned" Poins
  • Sir John Falstaff & Prince Hal (Shakespeare)
  • Henry IV of England & Henry V of England
  • Sir John Falstaff
  • Henry IV of England
  • Mistress Quickly (Shakespeare)
  • Prince Hal (Shakespeare)
  • Edward "Ned" Poins
  • Henry "Hotspur" Percy
  • Francis (Henry IV)
  • Bardolph (Shakespeare)
  • fuck historical accuracy we die like shakespeare
  • No beta we die like hotspur
  • hal and poins are kind of like "it's not gay if we wear socks"
  • it is gay
  • Major character death - Freeform
  • (no you do not know who)
  • kinda implied abuse???
  • War
  • kinda graphic injuries
  • Theology
  • References to Prostitution
  • Alcohol
  • pint o guinness wi the lads
  • Canonical Character Death
  • also
  • Non-Canonical Character Death
  • yay!
  • very tiny reference to homophobia

  Summary

  "John has honour. He doesn't know where. But he has it. If only he knew what to be loyal to."

  or I give Falstaff his old name and hope he doesn't run off with it. Times are hard. No one knows what to be anymore. But there's sack and ladies and maybeeee God. And Sir John Oldcastle needs God.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

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  Chapters:

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