7 Works in Aequa Claudius
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The sweetest kind of poison by snowyrainywrites
Fandoms: The Hierarchy - James Islington
25 Nov 2025
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Aequa calls him by his name and he's done.
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I feel sick. I feel like my stomach is tying itself in knots. It only gets worse. As the music lulls and a slower, softer song begins to drift in, Aequa removes her hands from his neck and places them on his chest, his arms. They share a small smile. And, as if nobody is watching, as if they have the whole villa to themselves, her eyes flutter closed, he leans in, and…
I feel like I'm drowning.
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Aequa accepts an arranged marriage for the good of the Governance-Religion united front. Vis doesn't quite know how he feels. Until he does.
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Vis finds a way to summon his other selves back to Res. Whatever he had been expecting, it wasn’t this...
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How The Mouth Must Be Employed by Sappho_Lovell
Fandoms: The Hierarchy - James Islington
01 Aug 2025
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Vis was a linguist. He chose every word carefully, wove his sentences together, let emotion into his voice purposefully. Everything expertly chosen in a cocktail of pure vitriol. Vis had secrets- Aequa knew it, they all did- and he never seemed careless with them.
But rotting gods, did he know how he sounded when he let Cal roll from his tongue? The warmth that colored his voice, the smile that touched his lips? Emissa might have had his arm, had his ear, but Callidus had something… different, and Aequa wasn't sure either of them knew.
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Aequa is pretty sure that Vis is in love with his best friend. Nobody told Vis. Or Callidus. Or Emissa. Or Indol, really.
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half of what you think of me by daisyberrypie for garliicbread
Fandoms: The Hierarchy - James Islington
20 Apr 2025
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He makes himself walk quietly, padding through the steps of the Academy’s staircase, though there isn’t much use to this as nobody is awake at this time of the night, or this early in the morning. This is why he's left the infirmary in the first place. He just needs to be alone. Away from everybody and anybody and maybe the rest of the world. He needs air and he needs space and he needs to thrash around.
He’s about halfway down when he hears her voice.
“Going somewhere?”
He exhales sharply, and then turns to face Aequa, standing at the very top of the staircase. Of course.
Aequa catches Vis in the dead of the night — him feigning for air and maybe something to punch — a week before the students' official graduations from Catenan Academy.
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the full extent of what forever is by achillesheel
Fandoms: The Hierarchy - James Islington
26 Jan 2025
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He is subject to the world, to everything out there that sought to destroy him, that has destroyed parts of him. Callidus is gone from him, Emissa is practically unrecognizable, and he’s to be working within the Senate, the very thing that he had been running from at the start of this endeavor.
It’s nauseating. Even not fully lucid, Vis knows that there is no going back, not if he wants to make any of this even remotely worth it. The betrayal, the blood, the tears, the lives lost. His head spins with it, sweat prickling at his forehead.
And then Aequa walks in.
Or; In the wake of the Iudicium, Vis spirals. Aequa and Ulciscor come to visit him.
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Aequa reminisces, as the days lead up to the Iudicium. She thinks about the Naumachia, about the Telimus name, about the Catenan Academy, and about herself.
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Meanwhile, Eidhin Breac refuses his place in the Iudicium, and so now Vis has to put his trust in the same person that had previously tried to get him expelled.