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• On dying alone by loreu

  Fandoms: Red Valley (Podcast)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  21 May 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Warren Godby/Gordon Porlock
  • Warren Godby
  • Gordon Porlock
  • Character Death
  • but it doesn't last
  • Meet-Cute
  • Car Accidents
  • Blood Loss
  • but he's chill about it
  • Immortal Warren Godby
  • Grim Reaper Gordon Porlock
  • Stabbing
  • Sickfic
  • Kinda
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death

  Summary

  It’s not exactly that Warren Godby could not die. He was, in fact, rather good at dying. He enjoyed it even – though that didn’t sound very healthy, and so he preferred not to think about it too often.

  But the fact was that dying wasn’t all that bad. When he tried to put it into words (which was, by definition, impossible), he said it was like the end of a long summer day. The first breeze of cool air that brings promises of night, promises of peace, promises of an ending.

  So no, dying wasn’t a problem for Warren, but staying dead was.

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  Warren dies a lot but never for long, and Gordon is the socially incompetent Grim Reaper assigned to take his soul. Shenanigans ensue.

  Language:

  English

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