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A bundle of letters sits shoved in a dusty saddlebag on the Karsite Border. Hundreds of miles away, their sender lies on his death bed.
Or: Herald-Mage Tylendel is fighting on the front lines of the Karsite War. In Forst Reach, Vanyel Ashkevron is dying.
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Walking On Eggs Shells and Broken Glass by isnt_it_pretty for AirgiodSLV
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
28 Feb 2026
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It’s easier this way. They can pretend it’s only sex, that there’s no love hidden beneath it all, no matter how much they still feel it. It bubbles up in Tylendel’s chest, words he has to suffocate before they escape. I love you. I miss you. You’re everything to me. Please don’t go, I can’t bear it. Another piece of me dies every time I watch you leave.
Rumour is that Herald-Mage Vanyel and King's Own Tylendel have hated each other since Vanyel first came to Haven. The truth is far more complicated.
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Whatever Ours Souls Are Made Of by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
03 Feb 2026
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Six years after the death his half brother in a Frelennye cattle raid, Vanyel Leshara is set to Haven alongside his cousin Evan.
(AU where Vanyel is Wester Leshara’s son, not Lord Withen’s)
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Leucovorin, Zovirax, and AZT by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
24 Jan 2026
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June 1995: Henry starts his twelve-hour shift on the AIDS ward of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, where he meets the newest admission, Hans Capon, a pretty blond with fluttering eyes and a taste for attractive nurses.
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When Ren thinks of his mother, he thinks of laughter and science. Periodic tables, diagrams of human brains, eating ice cream in the rain. He thinks of bedtime stories and late-night movies and sturdy arms around his shoulders. Family trips with Futaba in the back seat next to him, playing Pokemon on her DS as their mother sings along to the radio, the motion of the car lulling him to sleep.
He hopes that's what Futaba thinks of, too.
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AU where Ren is the son of Wakaba Isshiki.Note: very slow updates due to health issues and other works, but not discontinued.
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All Our Tomorrows by Ashertmarn, Avocadont (Ashertmarn), isnt_it_pretty
Fandom Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
25 Nov 2025
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How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps + Extra by isnt_it_pretty
Fandom Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
24 Nov 2024
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Involutus Devotione Ardenti by Aiyanna_w
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
01 Aug 2025
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“And when they sing, send me a message with what you’ve learned.”
“Wait!” Hans snapped. “Wait.”
Both men turned their eyes on him, some surprise on their faces. Hans had been subdued up until that point, his pain taking precedence over futilely trying to escape. But the terror he felt now - as images of Henry’s mutilated corpse flashed unhelpfully before his eyes - made what he’d felt trapped under that roof feel like child’s play.
“He-Henry is Sir Radzig Kobyla’s son,” Hans said to Otto. “You will get a much bigger ransom for him than you will for me, take him too.”
Von Bergow scoffed. “I very much doubt that. He’s a bastard. Besides, it’s not money I’m after.”
“That may be, but he’s his only son. If you want to hold Sir Radzig by the throat, take Henry. We both know who the brains behind the Leipa Lords’s movement is.”
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A different take on Maleshov where Henry is taken prisoner too.Bookmarked by isnt_it_pretty
15 Aug 2025
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Involutus Devotione Ardenti
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“And when they sing, send me a message with what you’ve learned.”“Wait!” Hans snapped. “Wait.”
Both men turned their eyes on him, some surprise on their faces. Hans had been subdued up until that point, his pain taking precedence over futilely trying to escape. But the terror he felt now - as images of Henry’s mutilated corpse flashed unhelpfully before his eyes - made what he’d felt trapped under that roof feel like child’s play.
“He-Henry is Sir Radzig Kobyla’s son,” Hans said to Otto. “You will get a much bigger ransom for him than you will for me, take him too.”
Von Bergow scoffed. “I very much doubt that. He’s a bastard. Besides, it’s not money I’m after.”
"That may be, but he’s his only son. If you want to hold Sir Radzig by the throat, take Henry. We both know who the brains behind the Leipa Lords’s movement is.”
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It only takes a moment to change someone's life. If that encounter on the roof had happened differently, what would have happened to Nice? Would it have changed anything, or would he have accepted forever living in this facade the public had painted of him?
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Lin Ling stops Nice from ending his life and it changes the trajectory of their lives forever. Found family shenanigans ensue, among other things.
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Bookmarked by isnt_it_pretty
02 Sep 2025
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would the doves cry?
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It only takes a moment to change someone's life. If that encounter on the roof had happened differently, what would have happened to Nice? Would it have changed anything, or would he have accepted forever living in this facade the public had painted of him?
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Lin Ling stops Nice from ending his life and it changes the trajectory of their lives forever. Found family shenanigans ensue, among other things. -
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Henry takes a wrong turn on his way to Kuttenberg and ends up at Maleshov. He decides to take matters into his own hands.
Bookmarked by isnt_it_pretty
16 Oct 2025
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Henry takes a wrong turn on his way to Kuttenberg and ends up at Maleshov. He decides to take matters into his own hands. -
Corpore Sano by Titlark for spectral_catsith
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
19 Nov 2025
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For thirty years, Henry has stood at the door as Hans's bodyguard — his sentinel, shadow, protector. His body bears the cost: scars hardened into stone, pain hidden behind silence, devotion carried alone. When Hans discovers the truth, fury and tenderness collide.
Bookmarked by isnt_it_pretty
19 Nov 2025
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Corpore Sano
Summary:For thirty years, Henry has stood at the door as Hans's bodyguard — his sentinel, shadow, protector. His body bears the cost: scars hardened into stone, pain hidden behind silence, devotion carried alone. When Hans discovers the truth, fury and tenderness collide.
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Back when he had been Kai-Enna, he had never woken up in the Kentdessa clan tent and been afraid to hear rain falling on the canvas. Today was no different. Nevermind that this was the first storm he’d seen since before the Summer Halls, or that it had only been a few weeks since Bashasa took him away from the Cageling Demon Court. It shouldn’t matter. It didn’t matter. Kai wouldn’t let it.
Bookmarked by isnt_it_pretty
02 Dec 2025
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The Rain
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Back when he had been Kai-Enna, he had never woken up in the Kentdessa clan tent and been afraid to hear rain falling on the canvas. Today was no different. Nevermind that this was the first storm he’d seen since before the Summer Halls, or that it had only been a few weeks since Bashasa took him away from the Cageling Demon Court. It shouldn’t matter. It didn’t matter. Kai wouldn’t let it.