ancient civilizations
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This is a drabble based on the following imagine from imaginexhobbit: Imagine falling into Middle-earth only to find that you were originally born there but Gandalf had brought you to the real world to protect you from Sauron. It is a gift for Jax Nova on Arwen Undomiel.com for a Secret Santa.
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I suck at summaries. Basically, a college girl gets trapped in the Hetalia world and has to deal with it. Plot Twist: she's actually a reincarnation of a long dead mountain civilization. Double Plot Twist: she has a very interesting connection to the Nordics.
[ON HIATUS UNTIL I CAN GET MY LIFE BACK ON TRACK AFTER FUCKING UP SPECTACULARLY--MORE INFO IN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN NOTES]
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This was inspired by a friend who listened patiently to me one day after a nightmare. Encouraging me to work through the bad dream with the written word. They have been nothing but supportive over the last year. Helping me grow as a person and writer. Giving me the confidence to face up to my fear of butterflies (lepidopterophobia) and Moths (Mottephobia). As well as many other things. And I really am thankful for them being brought into my life, even if I am an idiot. Now, I share the strength they have given me.
Team Natsu was exploring a newly discovered Ruin. Only to run into trouble like usual, except this time they have lost one of their own. Now, the whole guild is trying to get back one of their family members, with the help of the Rune Knights and the Royal family of Fiore. While said member is trying to make sense of the new world that they literally got dumped into. Where she is the strange, tiny alien. Of course, it is a bit easier said than done with their own magic is more or less cut off from them.
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The Witching World of England is dying. There isn't much of a future left for witches and wizards with the numerous laws being put in place by the council. And so many families are moving out of the country.
Pippa Pentangle is best friends with Hecate Hardbroom especially after meeting in school. Now that graduation is upon, they decided to search for a fabled lost city. Along the way Pippa will discover many new things about her best friends, realizing that she doesn't quite know the sole remaining Hardbroom as well as she thought she did, as well as the fact that she is in love with said best friend.
Problem is Hecate is oblivious to the matter. Or rather too focused upon their adventure filled quest of discovering this fabled lost city. Not to mention Pippa doesn't know heads or tails of what to do about the situation as she learns new things left and right.
Will they discover the fabled lost city and ancient civilization that was said to have lived there?
Will Pippa confess her feelings or will things go another way?
Is Hecate Hardbroom truly the person who Pippa has known practically her entire life even though there are secrets between them?
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The Goddess was kind as she was cruel; calling Siyeon to live as she wished on The Polaris, but leading her here to fall in love with the princess bound by her duty.
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Ephemeral Cities by charlesdarwininthetardis for CorundumBleu
Fandoms: Le città invisibili | Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
25 Jun 2021
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In the depths of the jungle lies an ancient city that only reveals itself to outsiders at noon on the summer solstice. So little is known about this city that I was convinced it was merely a myth and this tour merely a tourist trap. But, she needed a travel companion, and well, for better, for worse, til death do us part, right?
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The weeks leading up to the start of the expedition, Elisabet had been arguing with Aloy, saying that she wasn't taking either one of them with her, that it would be dangerous, and that she wasn't will to risk losing them to the various diseases that abound in that region. Aloy would argue back, saying that this would be good for her education, field work is essential to her graduate degree, she would be able to spend more time with her family, etc.
But late one night, just days before the trip, Elisabet and Aloy were going at it again.
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An expedition find could spell the end of the world... If the artifact falls into the wrong hands
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Bastard of the Sea (Remake) by thorkiship18
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) RPF, Actor RPF, Walker (TV 2021) RPF
20 Oct 2022
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Prince Jared Tristan Padalecki is the Prince of Albion, a kingdom which has been ruled by the Padalecki bloodline for generations. He dotes on his older sister, Megan, who is suffering from a rare illness that slowly kills its host. Upon discovering a way of saving her life, Jared sets sail to a long forgotten island in search of a cure. However, upon reaching his destination, Jared is taken by band of thieves led by the notorious Pirate Captain Jensen Ackles.
When Jared discovers that Jensen has need of him, Jared reluctantly agrees to join him on a long voyage to a land that holds a dark secret that could determine the fate of everything there is and ever will be. Along the way, Jared and Jensen will learn what it means to trust one another, culminating in a showdown between good and evil, and love and greed.
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Leo doesn't get grabbed out of the prison dimension, and instead stays stuck within. He survives the krangs rage-fit and once the krang is gone somewhere in the prison dimension, leo finds himself floating through the vast emptiness until he comes across a civilization of yokai? Having nothing better to do, and frankly, nowhere to go, he joins them and finds peace with his current situation.
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You Were Reincarnated?! by Iris_Igris
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime, Transformers (Bay Movies)
17 Apr 2025
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When two unknowing explorers stumble upon an ancient civilization in a reclusive part of The Amazon that has never been seen or heard of before, they find that the people of this city were protected by a giant metal, bipedal creature that could transform into a giant dragon-like form.
Word reaches N.E.S.T and the Autobots, so they go to check it out. What they find surprises everyone, especially the new assassin disguised as a historian they brought with them. And the Decepticons they accidentally bonded with.
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The Valley of Time (Part 3 of Secrets of the Broken) by Polyphonic_Garden
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
11 Dec 2024
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Story continues a few days after the end of The Waiting Sky. The Bad Batch has crossed into the Outer Reaches with the hopes of evading the Emperor and living out their lives in peace. For the first time in their lives, they are finally free to make their own choices. In the meantime, there is so much to explore, certainly involving their new environment, but particularly concerning the enhancements Nala Se made in their creation. Plenty of psychological exploration, bonding, whump, adventure, and action for all. If you love the Bad Batch, and clones in general, this fic is for you! Hope you enjoy!
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- Part 3 of The Broken
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Young explorer and scavenger, Rey, descends into the inhospitable jungle of Dagobah in search of relics and rare artifacts from a past civilization. She is tasked to collect and record all her findings. But in no way was she expecting to run across something far more.
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The Black Unicorn and the Destruction of the Interstellar Tomb by LudoAvarius
Fandoms: Corn Kidz 64 (Video Game), Final Freekend (Video Game)
24 May 2024
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Seve and his new best friend Trevor have been hard at work building a gateway to another world in the basement of their college, and the machine is well underway. But a source of great magic is needed to power the machine. Seve is sent to the mysterious Island of Capraecorn to retrieve the Rainbow Crystal, an artifact just powerful enough to get the job done. Peril awaits Seve in the Great Rhombus Tomb of the Capraecorn King, as well as many shocking truths and surprises. As Seve discovers a curious demon goat girl named Ally, trapped within a crystal, he begins to wonder. What exactly went on those many thousands of years ago? And what does it have to do with him?
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You're falling. Not the wake-up-gasping kind. The real deal.
Welcome to the edge of sanity, where nightmares bleed into reality and desire tastes like fear.
Your lover's mouth is a cosmic "fuck you" to everything you thought you knew about intimacy.
Tonight, you'll learn that sometimes the only way to face your demons is to let them swallow you whole.
Buckle up, buttercup. This ain't your grandma's bedtime story.
(Unless your grandma's into existential horror and metaphysical mindfucks. In which case, rock on, Nana.) -
King of Devas by Marioni
Fandoms: Ramayana - Valmiki, Mahabharata - Vyasa, महाभारत | Mahabharat (TV 2013), महाभारत | Mahabharat (TV 1988), देवों के देव... महादेव | Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev (TV), Hindu Religions & Lore
24 Sep 2025
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In the blink of an eye, a modern man wakes up not in his apartment... but in the celestial palace of Svarga. He's no longer a nobody- he's Indra, the King of the Devas.
Can a modern mind survive the politics of the Svarga or the traps of fate, or will he be just another name lost to history?
SI-OC. Self-Insert.
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Taming the Wild Bonds of You by RaynaFox
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
26 Feb 2025
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In the custom region of Zephiron, Professor Caitlyn Kiramman is a researcher focused on the ancient bonds between Pokémon and humans, particularly the primal instincts that shaped historical battle strategies. Her research uncovers a complex network of ancient fighting techniques, especially involving fire- and fighting-types, and their role in past civilizations. When Caitlyn meets Vi Vanderson, a Gym Leader known for her canine-inspired fighting Pokémon, their research collides in unexpected ways. Vi, who has mastered battle methods rooted in ancient warrior traditions, offers Caitlyn an inside look into her own battle style—unconventional yet effective. Despite Caitlyn's scientific approach to Pokémon bonds, the more she learns from Vi, the more she wonders how much of history is built on instinct and the unspoken connections between trainers and their Pokémon. As Caitlyn and Vi join forces, they explore forgotten ruins, uncover long-lost battle techniques, and form a bond that stretches back to the ancient past. Together, they begin to question the future of Pokémon battling itself.
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- Part 1 of Echoes of Zephiron
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Assassin's Creed: Ra'yon by Devil_Pirate
Fandoms: Christian Bible, Assassin's Creed - All Media Types
22 Jul 2025
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"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
A thought can change the world. A vision can destroy it.
The age of ancient gods has long since come to an end.In Roman-occupied Judea, the line between faith and falsehood is blurred. A former slave seeks answers in dreams of another world, while a child born of mystery walks toward his destiny. And with it, a vision begins to take shape.
But above all, a choice: to serve what is written...or to fight for what is right.
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In a crumbling temple where gods have long since rotted and the rain tastes of rust, a bound mercenary and an immortal war relic circle each other beneath the ruins of forgotten empires. Chains hum with old magic, lies unravel like silk, and power is never taken—it’s chosen. Some predators hunt. Others wait. But when fate tangles two of them together, neither is prepared for what bleeds through the cracks.
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Harry and the Unexpected redo by TS_292
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Stargate SG-1
22 Sep 2025
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In a future fractured by nuclear devastation and magical collapse, humanity stands on the brink of extinction. The Muggle world has burned itself down in the final gasps of war, while the magical world lies in shambles—its heroes scattered, its sanctuaries lost. But one figure remains: Harry Potter, no longer the Boy Who Lived, but the man who refuses to let the last embers of hope die out.
After vanishing for years, Harry returns from the hidden edges of space with knowledge, power, and a plan. He gathers what remains of his people—wizards, Muggle children, magical beings, and scattered survivors—and leads a mass exodus.
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It wasn’t unthinkable, not at all. But for some reason the idea of Rune with his throat laid bare, with an unfamiliar bond-mark healed silver against his pale skin. It made Varr’s gut twist anxiously, made his heart pound in the cage of his chest.
Varr turned and paced, stepped into the circle of dry dirt where Rune had brought his opponent to heel. There were specks of rust mixed into the earth, blood from this fight and a hundred others before it.
“You’re right, Tove,” he bit out finally. “I would be a fool to deny the plain truth. There will be a day when Rune chooses a bondmate, it is as good as done.”
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- Part 2 of bone. hand. river. flame.
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After he has returned from the battle against one of their enemy tribes, Mats longs to find comfort in his mate's arms. Things get a bit complicated though...
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- Part 1 of Tales from the Tribes
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Playing with Fire, Falling for Ice by arxaris
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 Feb 2020
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“No rush to choose,” the brothel-keep said, an artificial sweetness overtaking her tone. “I’m sure any of my boys or girls would be delighted to spend the night with someone as esteemed as you…”
She continued to speak. Sero, however, was no longer listening.
In his attempt to still his own swaying, his gaze had fallen, and caught, on one of the whores. Sero just blinked at him for a moment, trying to take in all his shocking features through the drunken fog of his mind and the drone of the matron’s compliments.
“He’s a whore?” he blurted, cutting her off. Barely waiting for her nod of affirmation, “Yeah, okay. I want him.”
-Or, three guys walk into a brothel, and one meets the love of his life.
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- Part 2 of The Gladiator AU
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In the Dark of the Night by arxaris
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
25 Jan 2020
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Bakugou woke to chants sounding through the Colosseum. “Red Riot! Red Riot! Red Riot!”
Red Riot?
“Sero,” he snapped at the Head of his Council, seated a few meters to his right in the Emperor’s box. “What the fuck is a Red Riot?”
Sero nodded his head to the pit and Bakugou followed his gaze, watching as another gladiator walked out of the gate and towards the center. “New gladiator prodigy. He’s only eighteen, but he hasn’t even come close to losing a fight since he started a couple months ago.” Then, Sero smirked. “I think you’re gonna like him.”
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Or, all's fair in love and war.
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- Part 1 of The Gladiator AU
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Castor is a gladiator and he has been for more than twenty years. He's used to the fighting, and to fulfilling the desires of Rome's elite.
Following an injury, he's taken to a rich patrician's villa up the coast. Valens is handsome and familiar and twenty-six years old, and despite his better judgement, Castor finds him almost irresistibly attractive.
But Valens has enemies. And Castor has a choice to make.
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Opiter Lucretius Triciptinius is fascinated by the Persian gladiator from the moment he saw him in the provincial arena, wielding his net and trident, long past the age when most gladiators had retired and died. When the gods put the retiarus's fate in his hands, all he knows is that Manu is strange and beautiful and full of complications, and that he cannot bear to see him face an ignominious execution.
In return, he places his own fate in Manu's scarred hands. His fate, and his heart.
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“There. I was going to ask you for a spar, but I think you should be resting,” he said.
“I won,” Baxo replied.
“You did,” Daciculus said, with an oddly soft tone in his voice, “So I want you to be in your best shape when I get my revenge.”
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Obsessed with his slave Formosus, Roman nobleman Quintus Aelius Aurelius undertakes to have his lover's form immortalised in stone. But Formosus is not as cold and unyieldling as his marble image, and the statue is only finished after Formosus has completed a long and arduous journey.
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Pretend to Be Tonight by Hedgehog_kun
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
26 Jun 2021
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Katsuki has very little to his name. A family name, long since written off, a faded ink on his shoulder and an old collar, hidden for now in the darkness of his room.
Kirishima Eijirou has a silver feather of a royal guard, a mouthful of razor sharp teeth and sickeningly sweet attitude Katsuki has no idea how to deal with.
They meet by the fountain like a clock, whether Katsuki wants it or not, and as the time goes on, he thinks he has it all figured out. Some things are just not meant to be, and one day Kirishima would get tired of playing pretend. It's the law, after all, that states Katsuki to be nothing but property. Someone else's property, too. He would indulge, though, in this little fantasy, as long as Kirishima will want to keep the act up.
Katsuki doesn't know the law as well as he thinks he does, though.
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The Chariot Ride by SuspiciousLandlady
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 May 2019
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"You know Eijirou, no one's here so you can stop calling me your master." Katsuki crossed his arms and stared the other young man with investigative gaze.
"It's a habit, young master."
"Eijirou...."
"Forgive me.... Katsuki."
Or a oneshot where Katsuki is son of military family in ancient Egypt and Eijirou is their slave.
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Aware of His Pain by SuspiciousLandlady
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
30 Sep 2020
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It felt absurd to even think that Eijirou had gone through all that shit and still he was capable of smiling very sweetly. How he managed to keep his heart softened, even though there were all chances for him to lose everything and become a mindless puppet for his owners?
It's a good question.
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- Part 3 of Carved in Stone, Written on Papyrus
Bookmarked by JulesBeJewels
18 Apr 2024
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Part 3 of 3. Part 1 is ongoing. Wait to read part 1 first.
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Ancient Rome, year 98 BCE;
The roman consul Levi has just arrived in the northern province of Gallia, and goes to the market looking for new servants.
He's still single, and rumor has it he isn't even interested in women.
Right when he's about to leave the marketplace, he notices that a young man was being put up for auction: immediately, he could tell that he was the most handsome he himself had ever seen;Love at first sight.
"Hey, your heart's beating way too fast, you aren't calm at all..."
Levi listened, and let out a sigh.
"What is it..? Ya know you can tell me everything.
Now that I can finally understand what you say, I don't wanna miss one single occasion to speak with ya", the brunet whispered, playing with that black hair."Eren, you..."
"Yeah, I'm all ears..."
"Do you desire to be freed?""YOU'D FREE ME?!", the brunet almost shouted.
"Sorry... I shouted... they could have heard us".
Levi didn't reply.
He just hugged the other man tight, buring his face in Eren's chest."I want you to be happy.
I promise you, that you'll be happy.
Whether with me, or without me", and began kissing him again. -
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A kiss sparks up the past lives of a pair of teen boys. ( BL, angst, reincarnation, further warnings in the chapters) (COMPLETE)
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- Part 1 of EPDA
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Domitian thought he would be able to handle it. He knew, when it came to the end, by watching Hermes die that he would hurt, but he could survive. After all, he had cared for the boy in his own sick way.
So when everything in him started screaming to save the boy when he saw him struggle against the ropes, he was confused. This is what he had wished for wasn’t it. It’s what was right, after all the boy had betrayed the crown. And yet the thought of those beasts taking away his Hermes had him screaming and running through the seats of the amphitheater to get down to the bottom. He could faintly hear his brothers yells from behind him, calling him to come back to his seat, but he ignored it, only focused on the task at hand. The guards on the boat looked shocked at the sudden chaos, but Domitian just kept screaming at them to stop.
“PULL HIM UP IDIOTS. PULL HIM UP NOW!”Bookmarked by JulesBeJewels
11 Aug 2024
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I took a chance on something not finished and I’m so glad I did 🥺 -
An Offering to the Czar by Born2WriteVictuuri, PlisetskyTrash (Ineffably_Yours), sanguineprincess for Destielismylove
Fandoms: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime)
16 Dec 2018
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When Yuuri is shipped across the world as a birthday gift for the leader of the world's largest country, he’s nervous. What he doesn’t expect to find when he arrives is a beautiful, ethereal, pale human unlike anyone he’s ever met before who takes better care of him than he’d ever expected. Still, how can Yuuri best navigate these rocky waters all the while knowing his life is in the Czar’s hands?
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- Part 4 of The 12 Days of Christmas
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For a long time, Victor has always returned home to coldness.
But these days, he can return home to warmth, and to a light that lures him in, and that embraces him when he finds it.And so, Victor’s step quickens as he walks up the stairs to his new place of refuge. He opens the doors, walks through the hallways towards the light, and falls into the arms of his beloved.
It is there, in the arms of his concubine, where Victor closes his eyes, and buries his face in his darling’s hair, and forgets the worries of the world.Series
- Part 1 of The Senator and His Concubine
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Yuuri comes into the senator’s house with nothing but the clothes on his back and with blisters on his feet.
He owns no shoes, and therefore walks barefoot like the majority of slaves. He can feel the dust and the dirt crawl up between his toes, the small stones digging into his flesh, but he has already become oblivious to the pain. Only when he focuses on it, he feels it, but he tries not to. In his situation, one has to choose carefully which sensations to allow, and which ones to lock away, and pain is never a good choice if one wishes to survive.
But he forgets it all, forgets about the pain, when he dances.
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- Part 2 of The Senator and His Concubine
Bookmarked by JulesBeJewels
14 Aug 2024
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Little angst sprinkles
Slave is a dancer
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Roman Prince Midoriya Izuku loves tending to his royal champion, Bakugou Katsuki, after a fight in the colosseum.
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- Part 18 of Kinkmas '22
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What if Domitian... didn't suck? The alternative telling of Hermes and Domitian's relationship from the day they met.
"It didn’t make sense—I was a sovereign, and he was a slave. This was the natural order of things. But I hated it anyway. Despite his grime covered cheeks, the boy looked more like a statue than a slave. He was art, living and breathing, and completely unaware of his own perfection. Who was this boy to make me want to kneel at his feet and worship him?"
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Starting Point by JaneDavitt
Fandoms: DAKAICHI (Anime), 抱かれたい男1位に脅されています。 | Dakaretai Otoko Ichii ni Odosarete Imasu (Manga)
24 Nov 2024
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Another alternate meeting, but this time is the first time.
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- Part 4 of Destined