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“I do not wish for you to die,” Patroclus tells him one day, sudden-spoken enough in the stillness of their coexistence that half-sleeping Achilles jolts at the sound of his voice. There is a moment of quiet as they lay, and Patroclus briefly wonders if he has spoken at all or merely imagined it. But he feels movement in his arms as Achilles pulls away from him, and watches Achilles’ silhouette sit up, blanketed in the hazy storm-darkness of the tent like a shade roiling in the Styx.
They have done a wonderful job of not speaking of this. How many long years has it been? Seven, nearing eight? To weep now would dishonor Achilles, would devalue all the glory he’s earned and yet to earn. All Achilles’ efforts, reduced to what? Fodder for Patroclus’s misery? Woe, that he would do such a thing to his love, who has shared with him all this glory — but he can do nothing else.
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Patroclus’s voice is like this, always: it draws Achilles’ attention as if guiding it by a taut line, makes Achilles feel as obedient as the many dogs Patroclus rears in his free time.
Deeply, sometimes, and the simile is almost not a simile. Bared teeth and carnal want give way to a gentler thing, a mind that could respond to a heel, eyes that watch a handler’s face with wanting: this is what you wanted? Show me it is what you wanted of me.
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Wyll Ravengard, companions in tow, makes it back to Baldur's Gate.
He is not welcomed. The city is unrecognizable to him, stolen by a man miserably unlike his father, with automated abominations prowling its streets. His own visage, that of the very sort of monster he'd brought home to the Gate seven years prior, taints every step he takes further into his former home. Perhaps worst of all, he speaks his name- to the guards, to the citizens- and no one breathes a word of his banishment in their rejection of him. Do they not believe him? Have they not been alerted of his status, of his exile?
Had he been exiled in any official capacity at all? Or was it merely the utterance of "Go," and his trembling obedience that had severed him from his home for so long?
Yet, it is not only his to call home. And Astarion, an opinionated Baldurian in his own right, feels quite strongly that Wyll deserves as much as any of them to take that identity back for himself, as the two of them navigate the tangled web of their former city.
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“Prison realm,” he murmurs, his voice a touch gentler than he normally lets it be. As gentle as it always has been.
And he finds the words before they can register to his conscious mind. Speaks them before he can— before Kenjaku can— before his body stops himself, his mind stops his body, before—“Open.”
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Getou's consciousness has been quietly whirring at the back of Kenjaku's mind, a familiar but overall unconcerning predicament. His thoughts, wills, and wants will fade into the background, as has been the case with every other body Kenjaku's overtaken and every other living person he's erased. Right?
A canon divergent "Getou lives!" fic.
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“I heard this song,” Suguru says, “about dying.”
His voice breaks the near-silence they’d been sitting in comfortably, more crisp and clear than the occasional spark of the flickering candle on the nightstand or the chirp of a bird outside, audible through the open window. It draws Satoru’s interest in a way the rustling of leaves as the autumn breeze blows past doesn't, commands his attention when nothing else does.
“The song never says it,” Suguru continues. ”That it’s about dying, I mean."
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No, no he wasn’t going to think about the man who robbed him as handsome. He wouldn’t think of the man’s warm skin touching his hand. Or the way the blond hair peaked out from under the hat he now wore. Or the way his hips moved on the saddle as he rode. No, he wouldn’t think about any of those things.
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The first meeting of a young up and coming, Dutch Van Der Linde, and a charming but hotheaded con man, Hosea Matthews.
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- Part 2 of Mercy and Redemption
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20 Aug 2026
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"But Dutch does feel good wrapped around him like this, below him on the cot, with his chest heaving and babbling like a fool. Hosea knows exactly where to poke and prod to get the best reactions. To hear his usually composed and bombastic voice break with need and pleasure. Push him to the edge then sit back and wait for the puppy-dog eyes before starting the whole thing all over again. Right to the edge."
Or; Hosea often has to regularly remind Dutch of his place. This time isn't any different.
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19 Aug 2026
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Old Town Road by Miss_TeaDDK for Alibonbonn
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
14 Jun 2024
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"However, the ones that really made money were the train robbers, and of those in these parts, the Myrmidons were the swiftest and most dangerous. It surprised everyone then, when their smug leader- a handsome, fine-haired man with sharp green eyes and a glittering horse, looking more like he belonged in a wealthy brownstone out east than out in the sun and dirt- struck a strange peace with the townspeople...
So if any of the townspeople were willing to pay closer attention, they’d notice that out of all the shiny shops in town that the gang could go to, they always start with a small, dusty store right at the edge of the town limits. It’s a two-floor structure, wood bleached white by years of heavy sun, kept nicely swept with clean enough windows and organized stock.
Most important to Achilles is the handsome man that lives inside it."
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29 Apr 2025
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was it my august by wyrmwood (archangelgf)
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
19 Mar 2023
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Achilles scoffs. “My dad could’ve called anybody. He has a million drivers—”
“Your dad,” Patroclus says, firm, “is worried about you.”
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Singer/influencer/nepo-baby Achilles is going through his first celebrity meltdown in the heart of LA. At his father Peleus' behest, his ex-best friend Patroclus is there to bail him out of jail at 3 in the morning. Somehow, their friendship gets repaired in the process.
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- Part 1 of the sun swallows up the world
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12 Apr 2025
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you're a walking disaster, and yet— by Johaerys
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, Hades (Video Game 2018), The Iliad - Homer
18 Feb 2024
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—I'll follow in your wake.
"You'll meet my son, Achilles, soon," Mr Pelides told Patroclus on their drive there. "You two will get along just fine. He's as wild as they come, though." The indulgent pride with which he said the words made them sound almost like a compliment. "Don’t let him talk you into anything."
Patroclus blushed as he swore, with strong conviction, that he would absolutely not do that. No sir.
He knows better than that.
Or: Achilles is a threat and a menace. As they grow up together, Patroclus falls for him anyway.
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- Part 25 of This and This and This: Achilles & Patroclus
- Part 1 of Disasters AU
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07 Dec 2024