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1. once a steady gaze and charming smile by BlackMoonRising

   Fandoms: Gladiator (Movies - Scott)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F, F/M, M/M
   • Complete Work

   26 Mar 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Marcus Acacius/Lucius Verus
   • Marcus Acacius/Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla
   • Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla/Original Female Character(s)
   • Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla
   • Marcus Acacius
   • Lucius Verus (Gladiator)
   • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
   • Epistolary
   • (kind of)
   • Guilt
   • Self-Discovery
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Trauma
   • Lucilla's road trip through the empire while Acacius deals with shit at home
   • (Lucius is the shit)
   • Not Beta Read
   • inventing OCs so that Gladiator II can pass the Bechdel test

   Summary

   Lucilla, the letter starts off, and already she knows something isn’t right.

   Or, the events of feels like fire from Lucilla’s perspective.

   Series

   • Part 2 of as the embers rose (through the Roman sky)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   6,870

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   5

   Kudos:

   37

   Bookmarks:

   4

   Hits:

   364