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1. The Prodigal Son by RoryMarx (AuroraKant)

   Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - All Media Types  

   • Mature
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   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   11 Oct 2026

   Tags

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   • Jinshi (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)
   • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
   • Past Sexual Assault
   • Mutilation
   • Self-Mutilation
   • body issues
   • Gender Roles
   • Jinshi/Ka Zuigetsu Has A Complicated Relationship To His Own Body
   • and gender
   • Introspection
   • ego death
   • self-image issues
   • Burn Wounds
   • Self-Harm
   • Hopeful Ending

   Summary

   Ka Zuigetsu would turn fourteen next month. He wasn’t stupid. He knew how the palace worked, knew what was expected of him and his brother. At his age, he was basically an adult. When his brother had been fourteen, he’d taken his first wife. Lady Ah-Duo.

   His new quarters were still foreign to him. Just because he’d intellectually understood that he wasn’t allowed to remain in the Rear Palace now that his father was dead (and he’d lost the protections of childhood) didn’t mean he was ready to cope with the reality of it.

   He was a man now, no longer a child.

   OR: Faced with the reality of his brother ascending to the throne, Ka Zuigetsu needs to make a choice.

   Series

   • Part 10 of HSB Whumptober 2026

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