TheDarkRecede
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Regret, sorrow, shame. Arthur Lester is no stranger to such emotions. They have dictated his life in more ways than one. Grief is a companion he has known since he was a young boy. And yet, the desperation he feels. It’s different from the times before.
It eats at him. Strangles his heart till he’s numb. Freezes the very blood in his veins. Flings him off a cliff into the frigid arctic sea.
When faced with such desperation, such loneliness, who could blame him for turning to the warm embrace of madness?
*Canon divergence after Part 23: The Past.
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Needles Full of Blood by TheDarkRecede
Fandoms: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (Video Game)
28 Dec 2024
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“I’ll figure you out,” Ted trembles, “even if everyone trusts you for no reason, even if no one believes me yet. There is something fundamentally wrong with you. I know it. I will uncover it for everyone to see.”
The supposed man grins, “oh hero of humanity, what sharp words you have.” He places a hand on Ted’s shoulder and squeezes. Ted tries not to flinch. “I’m sure it’ll be a fine good effort on your part, eh Teddy?”
Ted shoves the shorter man away. There’s just something about the way he says his name. It pricks at his brain like a deadly wasp.
Or, Ted realizes he’s bisexual in the absolute worst way possible while being our lovable paranoid asshole. Also humanity got rebooted, yay!
—12/24/24 rewrote chapter 1 and 2. Am now working on the next new chapter 🫡
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Hannibal tries to show how much he’s willing to do to show Will how serious he is about their relationship.
Will decides to try being the therapist for once.They both realise that, perhaps, Will should never try to be a marriage counsellor. (Mall shenanigans ensue)
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Stars were never meant to align so perfectly. Especially stars that were so different, yet, the impossible can always become possible.
A path of mending, growth, and decay.
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For some, corruption comes almost naturally. For others, it’s a near impossible path. Yet the path is there, constantly beckoning, inviting. It hungers strongest for the ones its path is most narrow. Who wants to catch multiple flies with honey when vinegar will do the trick just as fine when the target is a single fly?
(Or, Dong-sik makes an extremely dumb decision when he regains his memories)
I’ll try to update once a month, but no promises.
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Hannibal has met Will Graham before. Once among the luscious forests of a remote corner of the world. Once in a city, in the cradle of the Reneissance. Once in the warm, humid nights of New Orleans.
And now, here they are again. In many ways, it is a shame: it never does end well for either of them.
A story told in four parts, over four decades and four encounters.
[Parts 1 through 3 are complete. Brief hiatus before the final part - coming soon-ish]
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13 Sep 2026
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Got to chap 7, read for later. Story is great, I’m scared it’s gonna be super sad 😭
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It all starts with an injury Will sustains while sleepwalking.
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- Part 1 of Crystal Ship
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Bookmarked by TheDarkRecede
13 Sep 2026
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So goooood! Still need to finish chap 12 and the next fic
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Hannibal looks up into Will's eyes and sees the surrounding chaos sinking into them like screams into a pillow. Will's calm expression is puzzling. Surely, with his empathy, the level of distress around them should short every circuit in his mind.
"Didn't you get the news? We're all about to die," Hannibal says.
"Oh, it doesn't matter, I die all the time."
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After a home invasion gone awry, Hannibal Lecter finds himself dying and coming back to life so often it grows mundane. Mundane, that is, until he realizes he's not the only one.
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In a world where Neville is the Boy-Who-Lived, Harry still grows up with the Dursleys, but he learns to be more private about what matters to him. When McGonagall comes to give him his letter, she also unwittingly gives Harry both a new quest and a new passion: Transfiguration. But while Harry deliberately hides his growing skills, Minerva worries more and more about the mysterious, brilliant student writing to her who may be venturing into dangerous magical territory.
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- Part 1 of The Art of Self-Fashioning
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One mistake causes irreparable damage.
Harry Potter, Fourth Triwizard Champion, falls in the first task. He is injured past the point of survivability but for some reason he simply cannot die. Harry is taken to St. Mungo's where he's subjected to painful and humiliating experimental healing techniques. Robbed of his voice, he wishes for nothing but to be put out of his misery.
Meanwhile, despite the sorry state of his fated enemy, Lord Voldemort wants Harry Potter for his resurrection ritual. Whatever power tethers the boy to life-Voldemort must possess it. Harry, helpless and trapped in his body, is entirely at the mercy of his nemesis.
And Lord Voldemort, who never backs down from a challenge, becomes obsessed with solving the problem of Harry Potter once and for all. He will do the impossible-not destroy the boy, no, but remake him.