19 Works by pomgore
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ghost story by pomgore
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
23 Mar 2026
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“… What makes you different from another man?” Sooga begins, phrasing his question as delicately as he can manage. “What sets you and I apart?”
“Hmm.” Kohga settles with this for a while. Not until Sooga works out the second braid from Kohga’s hair does he provide an answer; “The soul.”
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After three days of capture at the hands of the Sheikah, Sooga learns more of what Kohga has hidden from him.
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- Part 4 of i am your spaniel
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lay claim by cunning by pomgore
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
21 Jun 2025
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“Explain to me again why you need this relic.”
“All these long years, you’ve been my very sharpest lackey,” says Kohga, eyeing a map. “Don’t get stupid on me now.”
Sooga scowls. He crosses his arms to more openly demonstrate his displeasure. “Do not mistake my dubiety for stupidity,” he admonishes in that snappish little tone that Kohga inexplicably lets Sooga get away with. “This enterprise seems too risky to hazard for the sake of spiting the Gerudo chief alone. You would best have a more practical reason before coming to me and saying you want to steal the Thunder Helm.”
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Kohga and Sooga steal the Thunder Helm, and only get distracted, like, twice.
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- Part 2 of i am your spaniel
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the seat of being by pomgore
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
02 May 2025
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“Welcome, all you most fortunate Yiga. Today is a day of high honor and significance for our clan, which many of you have traveled from afar to witness for yourselves. With the naming of the third Right Hand of the Yiga Clan will the nobility of the fallen lineage of the Right Hands be restored. Blademaster Sooga, eminent among you as a peer and leader, will receive this honor for his exemplary service to our clan, and the title of Lord bestowed to him as Minister of War, Blademaster General and Right Hand. He is your lord. He is your better.”
“He is our lord and better,” chant the gathered Yiga.
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After many years of service and a sudden, costly sacrifice, Sooga is promoted to Master Kohga's Right Hand. The promotion necessitates a ritual that neither Sooga nor Kohga find themselves eager to act out.
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- Part 1 of i am your spaniel
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cruelty has a human heart by pomgore
Fandoms: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
09 Mar 2025
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Sooga’s jaw works. His fists—unbound, restrained only by the blade still leveled at Kohga’s throat—clench and unclench, demanding something be done. The Shiekah divested him of his swords and knives, even the blades wound into his bracers. He isn’t sure how to retaliate. He isn’t sure if he can retaliate.
Sooga hates being caught off-guard the very most.
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Kohga's secrets, of which there are many and all of them strange, are imperiled upon he and Sooga's capture by the Sheikah tribe.
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- Part 3 of i am your spaniel
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It is senseless, really. No man would die if he were never touched again, never held again. That secret longing Baldwin feels when Balian draws close to his vile, mottled skin between which layers and layers of cloth and air exist is only longing, and not longing worth quenching.
Baldwin is a mere man, though, and men are often given to desire.
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Meaning to rectify an unfair loss, Balian offers Baldwin something he can neither accept nor refuse.
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“Bending me over,” he grunts, “like I’m some cheap whore.”
Margaretha’s fingers return to Joker, and he clutches the sheets above his head. “You’re no cheap whore,” she murmurs. “You’re the finest lay money can buy.”
Joker laughs breathlessly, turning his face downwards into the bed, hot with the warmth of their bodies. “You’re not paying me.”
“No,” Margaretha agrees. “I enjoy your services for free.”
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Margaretha indulges a curiosity of Joker's. It goes far better than either of them could have hoped.
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two young savage things / barely worth remembering by pomgore
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies)
21 Feb 2023
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For a moment, Thorin looks winded, his eyes wide and his jaw set tightly like Bilbo has wrung him out to dry. He seems out of his depth—it’s written all over his face, really—and Bilbo would be moved to sympathy if he didn’t know that somehow, this warranted Thorin seeking him out in the middle of the night. He remains guarded for both of their sakes.
“I have never courted anyone before, and I was not educated in the art before the dragon came.”
“Alright.”
“If I remember correctly, you have been- involved, with other hobbits before.”
“... I have.”
“Please teach me how to kiss.”
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It barely reached to the turn of his jaw, and it was thin enough that his skin showed through behind it, but it was a beard, light and far softer than the coarse hair Bilbo had come to be familiar with of beards. He was most stunned by the mustache, which was not thick at all, and yet defined against his pale skin. Unthinkingly, he pinched the left end of it and twirled it between his fingers, then again on the right.
“How odd!” He remarked to himself. “How odd!”
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No self-respecting Baggins would admit to shaving, but then again, no self-respecting Baggins would go on an adventure, or come back with a dwarf on his arm.
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Of course, Thranduil is not on high alert for children when the battle in Erebor rages because battlefields are no place for children. Indeed, even a lofty being like a Doriath elf feels faint among all the death - darkness is dwelling strong here, and Thranduil feels dim and alone as he walks the war-torn streets of Dale.
He is untethered as he drifts among his fallen soldiers like a ghost. So, when a child turns a corner and runs directly into his leg, Thranduil almost doesn’t notice.
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Bard's youngest, a talkative creature named Tilda, is separated from her family. Thranduil knows something must be done, but it is a challenge to figure out exactly what.
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Nature does not bow and mourn Boromir. In spite of all the dreadful misery he caused, the sun is shining. The sky is blue. By all intents and purposes, it is a lovely day, in spite of the fact that Boromir will be dead in short order.
What comes after death? Do I want to know?
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Boromir dies at the end.
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Thorin follows Bilbo home as requested. Everything goes a bit sideways after that.
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- Part 2 of fairies and folklore
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There’s a few words for hobbits like Bilbo. Overcurious is by far the most common. His mother and father use it endearingly, but it is just as capable as an insult with the right tone of voice. Wight is another, meaning something like unfortunate though it has multiple definitions. Bilbo has spectacularly terrible luck and a lack of coordination to match - he can’t count how many times he’s tripped on air, bumped his shoulder on nothing, been followed about by a raven.
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Bilbo Baggins, unconfirmed bachelor but very much wishing to be confirmed, is growing weary of courtship proposals.
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- Part 1 of fairies and folklore
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It is the first time the Four Hunters have had mattresses and sheets and blankets since Lórien, and even longer since they had such a thing of Man-make - threadbare enough for one such as Boromir to feel at home.
Evidently, he does feel at home. When Aragorn comes to their room, in the middle of putting his pipe out, he finds Boromir collapsed face-down onto the bed with all his clothes on. He hasn’t even bothered to remove his boots.
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The manner in which Boromir sleeps prioritizes, above all else, convenience.
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“Bilbo.”
Bilbo looked up from his pack, a bedroll under one arm and a bundle of laundry under the other, to Thorin, who was standing over him cross-armed and ever-scowling. “Yes?”
“We need wood for the fire. You are going to help me gather it.”
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Thorin isn't one to go around propositioning any willing participant he can find. Something tells him, however, the hobbit will take care of him exactly how he prefers to be taken care of.
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Margaretha recognizes his hesitation. “Joker-”
Joker squeezes her throat so hard that she sees spots. “No.”
“Joker, please-”
“Shut up.”
“Let me go-”
“Can’t you ever shut your hole,” Joker hisses, leering down at her.
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Bitterness is to Joker as dead flesh is to a fly, disgusting revelry. Solace is to Margaretha as the peach was to Tantalus, ever-grasping and always-receding.
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strange things happen for no reason by pomgore
Fandoms: The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
26 Aug 2022
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Bilbo couldn’t provide an answer just yet, but he suddenly thrust a tiny bundle of wet fabric into Thorin’s arms and shuddered, “Bring him to the fire. Warm him up, warm him up, he’s cold as death.”
Thorin peered at the bundle and was met with the wide, pale face of an extraordinarily tiny baby.
“Bilbo,” he finally spoke as his words returned to him, “what is this?”
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Frodo is orphaned at a far younger age in a far worse situation.
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Was this what his mother meant, when she told a young fox-eyed Bilbo he was destined for amazing things? Did she intend her little bramblebunch to entangle his affairs with a king? Thorin was amazing, he was brilliant and clever and gentle as a lamb, but what was Bilbo?
What am I to Thorin?
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Bilbo is prone to having doubts, particularly regarding things that seem too good to be true.
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Thorin did not know why he was doing this. There was nothing he needed to say to the hobbit at the end of his journey, and yet from the moment he’d left, Thorin pondered him fiercely, desired to see him well and happy again as though the hobbit had stolen his own personage and taken it all the way back to the Shire, under Thorin’s nose itself.
No turning back. Thorin did not know why he was doing this, but he knew he needed to do it.
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Thorin tracks Bilbo down after recovering from the Battle of the Five Armies. He stays longer than intended.
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"How is he?” Bilbo asked softly, trying to keep the worry from his voice.
Balin’s face went dark, and he sipped thoughtfully on his tea. “... It’s slow, but his fever has begun to break,” he said. “Still, it’s the worst I’ve seen him. I think it’s the worst he’s ever had.”
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Thorin recovers from both physical and mental afflictions. As with all recovery, the path of healing is non-linear and agonizingly difficult.