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1. Playing It Like A Chessboard by orphan_account

   Fandoms: Homestuck  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   11 Jul 2013

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Gamzee Makara/Tavros Nitram
   • Gamzee Makara
   • Tavros Nitram
   • Aradia Megido
   • Karkat Vantas
   • Sollux Captor
   • Eridan Ampora
   • Feferi Peixes
   • Equius Zahhak
   • Alternate Universe - Military
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
   • Diplomacy
   • Illustrated

   Summary

   War consumes everything.
   It takes everything.
   It has no mercy and takes no prisoners.
   It holds no qualms about stealing from the old and killing the young.
   And what doesn't kill, it scars.
   Tavros is one with such scars he tries to hide. Scars that have yet to heal. Most still raw and fresh from the trenches, infected with guilt and clotted with pain. Called a hero but aching like a victim. Yet now with the weight of a whole nation and possibly the planet put on his shoulders, those wounds threaten to tear its mental stitching wide open. And this time, even with help, he just might very well bleed out.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   18,462

   Chapters:

   4/?

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