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The Silence After Suchdol by rednightmare
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
23 Mar 2025
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The dust of Suchdol settles, and it coats Henry's heart with strange magic. It feels as though he can see everything that will happen next.
A relationship study in the post-game to unpack the events of KCD II and prepare for the next phase of Henry's life with Lord Capon. Limited spoilers. One shot, fluffy and philosophical.
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20 Jun 2026
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There are some things Hans would never tell anyone, not even Henry.
Or the one where Henry slumbers and wanders. Hans questions his entire purpose on God’s green earth. And everything crumbles under siege.
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- Part 1 of four articles
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02 Jun 2026
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Hans pulled the door close behind him and lingered under the shelter the small balcony offered, arms folded tight against the chill, his expression caught between suspicion and amusement.
“Has it happened? Have you finally lost your mind?”
Henry turned around, rain already dripping from his lashes, hair plastered to his face. Instead of answering, he bowed low and swept an arm out in invitation.
“May I have this dance, Sir Hans?”
Hans stared at him, rain beginning to speckle his shoulders.
“I thought we weren’t supposed to.”
Henry tilted his head. “Who’s going to see? The horses?”
Hans gave a soft snort but didn’t move.
“Afraid I’m the better dancer, my lord?”
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After Suchdol, Hans and Henry return to the Devil’s Den, where they must relearn their relationship from the start. Or: five times they thought they were being subtle, and one time they discovered they weren’t.
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21 May 2026
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He wishes he didn’t know. Oh, fucking hell, how he wishes he didn’t know.
His life would be so much easier, so much more straight forward and less goddamn distracting if he didn’t know.
But no. Oh, no, he just had to ask the bloody smart-mouthed, rat-arsed peasant, to join him in the fucking baths.
And now Hans is being fucking haunted.
- In which Hans makes an unexpected discovery about Henry, and it throws him for a loop.-
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14 May 2026
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“How did you…”
Hans trails off as Henry rises to his feet, every movement taut as stretched leather. The birds screech in the trees; Henry turns his back to the fire, to Hans, and gazes across the overlook into the forest below. His gloved hands are in fists by his sides. Morning light glints faintly on the rusted rivets of his brigandine.
Here it comes, whispers a faint voice in the back of Hans’s head.
Henry tracks down a poacher in the woods. Unrelated: Lord Hans Capon is experiencing possibly the lowest moment of his life to date. One thing leads to another, someone takes a sword (?) wound in the thigh, and everything gets more complicated.
Set during the canon KCD 2 storyline; spoilers for the Bird of Prey quest.
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- Part 1 of in toto corde meo
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12 May 2026
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“You know…” Hans swallows, then clenches his jaw. “…I won’t hate you if you don’t want to do this. We can just let that night be what it was.”
So, this is it.
The dreaded discussion has caught up to Henry, as he knew it would, but he had foolishly hoped for a little more time. A night of relative normalcy. He feels his heart plummet to his feet with enough force to burst through the floor. He knows the question he has to ask, but every part of him resists the command to ask it.
When he finally manages to choke it out, his voice is unsteady. “Is that what you want?”
Or: after the battle of Suchdol, Henry still isn't positive where Hans stands on their relationship, which makes him nervous. They have a conversation about it while Henry takes care of Hans’ wound.
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05 May 2026
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“I could devour you,” Samiel says gently, and Jay can feel the heat of his words sinking into his translator. “Won't you let me, pretty human? I'd make it ever so good for you.” His voice is intimate, filthy; that of a lover. Of a predator that has caught its prey.
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Wing Commander Jason Lane is doing his best. He's got a political coup to stop; a peace treaty to negotiate; half a planet out to kill him and - oh yes, Samiel.
Always, Samiel.
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- Part 1 of Across the Universe
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15 Feb 2026
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Following the events of "Halo Effect," Thomas Barrow goes to war.
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- Part 2 of Halo Effect
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- 35/35
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20 Nov 2025
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Stede and Ed's relationship ended months ago, but Stede hasn't been able to let it go. He's amazed when Ed agrees to participate in The Ex-House with him, sharing a tiny house on live television for six weeks to win the grand prize.
“Hello, Edward!” he says, forcing brightness. Remembers to look at his face - two seconds at a time is perfectly acceptable, look at the face, not directly into the eyes - tries to remember to turn his lips up into a friendly smile. Behind Ed, the door whooshes closed again and leaves them in silence.
Ed’s fully clad in leather, which is always a good look for him. Slight hint of eyeliner. One arm bare, showing off the winding snake tattooed into his skin. Beard trimmed short. Hair up, as well, properly styled. Small silver dagger earring dangling from one ear.
He looks unapproachably hot. The kind of guy that would skim over Stede without a second glance. The kind of guy that would sniff out Stede’s oddness in a second and push Stede down as a way to lift himself up. There are probably people watching on their televisions right now, wondering how the hell the two people in this room were ever together in the first place.
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- Part 1 of The Ex-House
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29 Sep 2025
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Modern AU. Lieutenant Edward Courtenay is having difficulty adjusting after being blinded by an IED in Iraq. Psychiatrist Dr. Sybil Crawley and hospital volunteer Thomas Barrow-serving a community sentence for assault-help him to understand his life isn't over, but just beginning.
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27 Apr 2025
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this mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon by KiaraSayre
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
19 Sep 2023
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Stede learns to be a sailor, a pirate, a Captain, and, just maybe, the kind of person he wants to be, all on the way to finding Ed.
(The kind of person he wants to be will end up committing mild insurance fraud, exploding a ship, doing some light indirect murder, and making some truly questionable choices while on laudanum, but that will come later.)
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- Part 2 of let what is broken so remain
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16 Apr 2025
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The thing is, when you’re Blackbeard you’ve got kind of a reputation to uphold. When you captain a ship, when you lead a crew, when people look up to you, tell stories, build a legend – parts of that legend are always more accurate than others.
And maybe you just let it slide, some of the things people say. Some of the things they assume. Maybe you swagger around and wear black leather and are a handsy bastard and let the stories tell themselves.
Maybe you don't want to talk about it.
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10 Feb 2025
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06 Feb 2025
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In his teens Stede Bonnet was obsessed with Edward Teach, the handsome young gymnast who secured a historic gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. Nearly three decades later, Stede takes his children to their gymnastics lessons and spies the man of his dreams just across the mat.
Written for the JanAU fill day for Sports!
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28 Jan 2025
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Blackbeard has broken stronger men than Stede Bonnet.
And yet, this foolish, soft, effervescent man refuses to even bend, let alone break.
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Or: Stede comes back, he stays, and he perseveres, much to Ed's chagrin.
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18 Jan 2025
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Ed's minding his business when the new neighbor's kid comes around holding a human puppet. It's creepy as hell, but as soon as the kid's father rounds the corner, Ed doesn't mind.
ETA: Podfic available here from Kninjaknitter my darling dearest
“Hello,” says the strangest voice Ed’s ever heard, jolting him out of his reverie, sending his heart speeding into chaos.He opens his eyes and he’s staring straight at a stuffed animal in the shape of a human person. It is bald with a tiny hat and too-big eyes and it wears a blue shirt and a name tag that says Jeffy in the sort of scrawl normally reserved for words written in blood.
A puppet, he realizes several seconds beyond when it would have been appropriate to respond.
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17 Jan 2025
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Stede comes back.
Ed does too. It just takes a little longer.
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15 Jan 2025
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In which Peter Pelham lives, a butler's position is refused, and Thomas Barrow learns to be a new sort of man.
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03 Oct 2024
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Post S3. Thomas takes up with a horse groom. Lady Mary's gone anarchist. Bohemians invade. Jimmy sorts himself out.
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- Part 1 of Brightonverse
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01 Oct 2024
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Thomas is manipulative, ambitious, and ruthless. He's also lonely as hell.
And then the new gardener starts at Downton, and everything changes.
(a slightly alternate look at season three, or: Thomas might be mean but he also needs a hug)
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25 Sep 2024