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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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Achilles cannot imagine what this prince from the surface might be like. Raised by Demeter! A young god with his father’s wrath and his mother’s impetuousness, fuelled by his grandmother’s calculated spite. He thinks of the swathes of dead that disembark Charon’s ferry still shivering and huddled together as though their shades could hold warmth.
Perhaps the Zagreus who has grown up with cold eternal is as icy and cruel as Demeter herself. Perhaps he will bring nothing but strife. Olympian history is full of sons overthrowing their fathers, after all.
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"Sisyphus?" Zagreus sees his own brow furrow in the mirror. "I run into him sometimes in Tartarus. I know he's sentenced to roll a boulder up a steep incline for all eternity, and I know he named it Bouldy."
"Do you know what earned him that punishment?"
Zagreus opens his mouth to answer. To say he cheated death, and to argue he does not deserve such a harsh eternity. He opens his mouth, only to close it again. There is something sharp behind Thanatos' words. Something jagged, rusted, but no less harmful if it catches your skin.
"You know… Suddenly, I'm not sure I really do."
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“You’re so beautiful,” Zagreus whispers as if it’s a confession. He’s breathless with the truth of it. He kisses Than’s jaw before finding his lips. His skin thrills beneath Than’s touch. His heart lurches. “I—Than… you were just so beautiful.”
Speaking it doesn’t ease the pain; his chest feels as if it will crack, sending the love multiplying within him spilling forth, but such sublime suffering it is.
Than gets the recognition he deserves.
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Who Does This Belong To? by akindofmerrywar for greyduckgreygoose
Fandoms: The Witcher (TV)
09 Jun 2021
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It takes every last drop of Geralt’s well-honed self control not to stride over there and grab him, to wrap his arm around Jaskier's waist, bunch those maddening pearls beneath his fingers and scare away the interlopers. Mine, he thinks. He’s mine.
"Who does this belong to?" It's a simple question - one that keeps coming up whenever Jaskier is involved. At first, Geralt can ignore it, but soon enough there's an answer on his lips. What a pity, then, that Jaskier isn't really his.
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