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But somebody seeing him for who he used to be... as Diago instead of Vis...
Well, it isn't as bad as he'd expected.
Even the thought of it, when the invitation to Suus had been extended to Vis in the first place, had made his palms sweaty and his throat tighten. It was a wrench in the plan; an inconvenience; a risk above anything else. One misstep, one lingering look, and every wall he'd built, every lie he'd meticulously weaved, would crash down, unravel, expose him. He'd be dead, or destined for the sapper before he could even blink. Stepping foot in this place again, seeing Fadrique there, it had made Vis's stomach turn, his fight or flight wanting to carry him far, far away. He couldn't have imagined that it would be exactly what he needed to get through this forsaken trip.
Or: After his conversation with Fadrique, Vis reflects.
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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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not exactly a damsel in distress by yelyellowlow
Fandoms: The Hierarchy - James Islington
25 Nov 2025
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Spoilers for Strength Of The Few. A re-imagining of an incredibly frustrating scene.
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In a world where Vis is a part of the Anguis and Callidus is still in Class Three, one of them prepares to compete in the Iudicium… and the other one seeks to destroy it.
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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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Callidus convinces Vis to go camping with him on Solivagus. Shenanigans ensue.
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Indol and Vis finally get a moment together after their race.
Book two, Strength of the Few
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I laugh in the face of cannon and say fuck you, Cal lives
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- Part 9 of Em's Whumptober (2025)
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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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As if waking up one arm short wasn’t enough, Vis now has to deal with Ulsiscor.
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"Soon we won't even have people to rule, Bella," Diago snarls. "Have you ever thought of that?"
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Diago the Alupi (Dioggo) follows Vis back to school, and beyond.
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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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Indol will hate that he did this when he's sober again.
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Vis and the Thirds near the shore of Suus aboard a Will-powered ship. It’s the worst, really. This was his home. This was his place. The Thirds’ summer excursion is his own people’s stolen land, now regarded as exotic and tropical, all for their relaxation, and a humble backdrop for their school training. They know nothing. Nothing of its past, nothing of the boy that was once called ‘Diago’. Even acting to keep up appearances is worth little to Vis now that he has returned under the guise of a new name — and an ersatz family who is nothing like his previous one.
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Although Vis makes some attempt to hide his discomfort during his return to Suus, it isn’t too hard to notice. And the Thirds do.
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Its the night before Iudicium. Vis and Emissa sit side by side, preparing for an uncertain future. They speak in teasing words and quiet smiles, but beneath it all lingers a web of unspoken truths and secrets too dangerous to share.
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The passage to Luceum requires a toll to ensure validity.
And Vis has paid it in full.
His left arm is gone. His trust is gone.
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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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cito maturum, cito putridum by daisyberrypie for lyssq
Fandoms: The Hierarchy - James Islington
18 Dec 2024
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Diago is fourteen years old and lying on the warm sand of Suus when he decides his life is quite pleasant. But all is not well.