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    Five perspectives on Thanatos and Zagreus as they fall, and in the aftermath.

    “He's not leaving,” Thanatos bites back. “There's nowhere to go.”

    Ah, the words of a god. To Achilles’ once-mortal eyes, there are cracks and open windows and doors with just the right key and escape routes aplenty from the House. “So you'd think. I guess wherever he goes, you'll be seeing him either way.”

    Thanatos turns to him and it's as if this had never occurred to him. “What do you mean?”

    “Didn't you tell him? It's a hard world out there. I’m sure he'll find out, and I don't know anything that can bleed that doesn't wash up here eventually.”

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Thanatos takes him away when he can. Not far and not for long, of course, but together they venture into the Underworld, seeing the domain that is Zagreus’ by birthright and yet is unfamiliar to him as the moon. He has to work twice as hard to allow for the respites and, while he doesn’t particularly enjoy the feeling of eternally playing catch-up, he suffers it for Zagreus’ sake.

    He would suffer many things to bring Zagreus a measure of peace, he thinks.

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    Where Thanatos keeps stealing Zagreus away for short trips around the Underworld, against his own better judgement.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    “Is a love unrequited not the purest form in the world?” Ares asked, pointedly. “To love unbidden, knowing that you will receive nothing in return. To love purely because there is no other option, unsullied by discontent and ulterior forces. Tell me, Thanatos, is that not good?"

    Or, Thanatos is in love, and does not know how to say it. Zagreus is too busy trying to undermine his father to stop and listen.

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    24 May 2026

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    Takes place after the events of Kings Rising and The Summer Palace. Damen worries about a specific threat to the unification of their kingdoms; the problem of an heir.

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    25 Feb 2026

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    When Laurent set out to plan a royal wedding between two 1) men, who are 2) actively ruling kings, of 3) tenuously peaceful lands, with 4) widely-known reasons to have killed, or possibly 5) still kill each other, he expected the process to come with a few difficulties.

    He did not expect getting his perpetually amorous new husband aroused on their wedding night to be the hardest of them.

     

    (Or: ‘Not in front of the court,' said Laurent, as if this were unspeakably foolish, 'in front of the Council.’)

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    24 Feb 2026