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blood runs free by stygius for goldenjuniper
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
18 Jan 2026
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Nightshade, moss, lotus, thalamus. Melinoë has Zagreus hold the ingredients while the cauldron's ether is brought to a boil, and then, when it is ready, she holds out her hands to receive them back. Zagreus asks, not for the first time, "Is this really all of it, sister?"
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Melinoë works her magic to allow Zagreus to explore the surface without dying, and he accompanies her on her nightly task.
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"This is my nightmare, then?" he asks instead.
"It is, or it should be. But it seems you would defy the will of us gods even in this."
Icarus smiles. "I mean, you're here. So long as you stay, how bad a dream could it be, hey?"
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The Ectoplasmic Draught was a one-time solution, but there are other ways. Some nights after that romance scene, Melinoë gets resourceful, and Icarus is not about to resist.
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"Who are you? Are you a bad person?"
He stopped approaching, not wanting to spook her any further. "My name is Silence," he said, which was a truer answer than yes or no. "And this is my friend Scratch."
"You're safe now," barked Scratch.
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The Dark Urge finds an orphaned child by the road near the farm. This is a daunting charge to take on, for two people who don't remember their own childhoods at all.
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- Part 4 of cottagecore murder
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The Dark Urge thrashed, and chewed vainly on the golden scales of Gortash's fingers.
"Feisty little creature." Gortash was amused at its expense, and the Dark Urge screeched its one and final warning. "Oh, what a scary expression. You remind me of a late friend of mine."
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After Orin's betrayal, the Dark Urge grows a new lizard body from a chunk of flesh.
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This is a collection of short scenes I wrote in a mad haze over the course of my first Durge playthrough, at the start of 2024, to fill in gaps in canon and flesh out some of the companion interactions. Includes: Shadowheart/Durge, some Astarion/Durge, past durgetash, as well as just general scenes.
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- Part 3 of cottagecore murder
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In the year 1482 DR, the Lord of Murder Bhaal regained his lost divine essence, and was reborn in the city of Baldur's Gate. His return revived many a nefarious plot throughout the Realms, not the least of which was this: the Dead Three's annual gift exchange was back on.
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The Dead Three prepare for a Midwinter tradition.
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The Dark Urge takes over the Absolute, and the result is different than both they and Minthara had imagined. Fortunately, neither one of them is the type to take things lying down.
(This fic asks the question: What if the evil endings continued into more messed-up shit, blood and terror and desecration, but through it all there was still an enduring thread of love?)
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exorcism for an absent friend by stygius for lakrisrot (enheduane)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Sep 2024
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"Hey, soldier," says Karlach. Her bedroll is tucked under one arm, her teddy Clive under the other. "Think I could move my bedroll over here tonight? My tent is..."
She trails off, glancing back over her shoulder, and Wyll can't help a wince as he follows her gaze. He wouldn't feel comfortable alone over there, either.
One tent over, Astarion finishes her sentence: "Right across from where the githyanki's was. And that damn grindstone."
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After Shadowheart kills Lae'zel at night, the sound of Lae'zel's grindstone haunts the camp.
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- Part 1 of cottagecore murder
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As an admirer and patron also of arts less controversial than yours, it has come to my attention that Gond's Hall of Wonders in the Upper City has just acquired and installed an exhibit you will be very interested in: namely, a set of Bhaalist torture racks of ancestral renown.
OR: The Dark Urge and Gortash pull off their first heist at the Hall of Wonders.
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an equal exchange by stygius
Fandoms: Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games), Hades II (Supergiant Games Video Games)
09 May 2024
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Out on the battlefield, Nemesis proposes a deal. She doesn't even consider the possibility of losing, but it turns out she might have underestimated Melinoë.
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"I love you," he says to Shadowheart, and it's so effortless to say it back. "I'll bring clean water to wash the floorboards when I return."
Shadowheart nods. She watches him carry the dead girl like a marionette with her strings cut, out the back door and into the night.
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OR: Shadowheart is finally happy with her parents, her partner and their many animals, and Shar hates to see it. Fortunately, Shar's opinions aren't worth a damn in this household.
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- Part 2 of cottagecore murder
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When you lead a life of detachment, you are the only person you can rely on. But if you're a dunamantic prodigy, you are all the help you need.
AKA: the beacons heist.
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As per their deal, after Ikithon's murder, Bren takes the Shadowhand to visit the Assembly's beacon in the sanatorium.
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- Part 2 of evil wizard enrichment
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The Shadowhand helps Bren Aldric Ermendrud dispose of his master.
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- Part 1 of evil wizard enrichment
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"Hey Nott," Jester says—upward lilt, without a pause between the words, like she doesn't want to lose her nerve, "have you ever, like, kissed a boy?"
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The peace talks are over. Caleb can't trust Essek, but he can still make the best of a bad situation.
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- Part 2 of honeypotting mishaps
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Caleb sees his friend arrive.
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Caleb wakes before dawn, the morning after, to find the other side of the bed empty.
Meanwhile, Essek prepares breakfast, or tries to.
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When Caleb shows up unexpectedly at Eseek's towers to gift him a copy of a powerful spell, the Shadowhand takes a chance to find out once and for all what Caleb actually wants from him.
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- Part 1 of honeypotting mishaps
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"We're each other's home, and when you leave you'll take me with you." Inside his dead chest, flowers blossom: poppies and marigolds and plums like those that adorn her hair this season, weaving through her braids. Branches burrow in the deepest crevices of himself and endure despite the unending darkness around. That is what love means. "I'm with you, even when you can't see me. You know that by now, don't you?"
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- Part 8 of Hades Ephemera