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Dean’s minding his own business, sipping on a beer and leering at the bartender, when a guy that admittedly has about four inches and a good twenty pounds of muscle on him storms over and shoves him in the arm.
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“I wish I could trust you to not break your promises, Astarion,” the devil said. “You know I don’t want to see you hurt.”
The cold fear in his blood dropped in temperature another hundred degrees to something that could have frozen magma. The devil knew his name.
The devil thought they had a bargain.
Astarion didn’t remember.
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24 Feb 2026
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In a desperate bid for a better life, eleven-year-old Victoria leaves the Open Hand Kitchens with the seemingly kind Dalyria to become the ward of the enigmatic Lord Szarr. But Szarr Palace holds gothic horrors, not a happy home: Victoria is a living pawn in a game of cruel coercion, used to control her father— now a vampire spawn. Trapped in a family of resentful "siblings" where the only rules are survival, Victoria must navigate a web of lies, conditional kindness, and unpredictable punishment, forging a perilous, pragmatic alliance with the least trustworthy of them all—the cynical and cutting Astarion.
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20 Feb 2026
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Flying back to Cherry Street, weaving reckless in the dark, it comes down to this: Dick is the only one of his siblings that Jason has any real claim on. Dick is the only one of that whole mess of victims to Batman's cult of self-immolation who belongs to Jason. Even more than that - Dick is the only person in the world who he shares a parent with, who knows what it meant to be the Robin to Batman of nearly ten years ago.
It's just not the same anymore.
So if Dick fucking kicks it, Jason's the only one left. Jason becomes an only child. Jason becomes the last of his kind. Jason becomes the sole keeper of that memory, of a brotherhood shared under a man who no longer exists. There is no way to replace Dick, because the world that they lived in together is gone, and can never give Jason a surrogate.
The Red Hood pulls the thread on a mystery big enough to bridge the distance between two cities, two brothers: The plot they unravel is far deeper and darker than a garden-variety drug trafficking scheme. A story about siblingship, hauntings, and rivers.
1. Ostium, osti(i): Latin noun, II Declension: Door, opening; (river) mouth; entrance (to the underworld).
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- Part 1 of these and other tragedies
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26 Jan 2026
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“I think you should be more worried about me,” Roland responded in a low, threatening rumble as he stepped forward again, a manic grin on his face. That wasn't his either. It kind of looked like the Joker’s. “We're–I'm right here,” his voice distorted for a half moment in a second low timbre, an echo of something familiar. Maybe he was stealing people's voices along with their mouths.
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Fear toxin is routine. They have antidotes, tolerance, and protocols, so while it's unpleasant, it’s bearable.
It's when they retire into their beds at the end of the night that the fear really begins. After all, it was Seneca that said the mind can be crueler than reality.
17 ~ “Lost in preparations for the birthday party, you forgot who it was for.”
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- Part 2 of Quarter Century Whump
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26 Jan 2026