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• weeping icon by ficsfillmewithdetermination

  Fandoms: The Silt Verses (Podcast)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • Other
  • Complete Work

  24 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Faulkner/Rane (The Silt Verses)
  • Faulkner & Rane (The Silt Verses)
  • Val & the Saint Electric (The Silt Verses)
  • Faulkner (The Silt Verses)
  • Rane (The Silt Verses)
  • Val (The Silt Verses)
  • The Saint Electric (The Silt Verses)
  • Faulkner's Father (The Silt Verses)
  • Carpenter (The Silt Verses) (mentioned)
  • Angst
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Non-Graphic Violence
  • Carpenter always on the peripheral
  • Toxic Relationships
  • Character Study
  • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
  • Religious Guilt
  • Religious Cults
  • Religious Fanaticism
  • Gender Dysphoria
  • not too intense but it's there
  • False Prophets
  • Co-Dependency
  • is it the title they love or the person
  • when the burden of being a prophet is too much
  • Forced Deification
  • iconography
  • some violent imaginings
  • deification (with something fundamental lost in the process)

  Summary

  He goes to them in the night, having shed his vestments hours ago. Right now he cannot stand to be the prophet. He feels that if he tries it will break what is left of him. Right now there is nothing left for him to do but slough himself bare.

  Faulkner enlists Rane's help on a special mission, and they oblige.

  Meanwhile, Val the battle-saint is advancing towards Nesh when she begins to receive strange visions from long ago, of a girl not so different from herself.

  Written for The Silt Verses Big Bang Event 2025!

  Artwork done by @localechoes on tumblr!

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  11,409

  Chapters:

  12/12

  Collections:

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  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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  Bookmarks:

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