Febuwhump
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A collection of works for Febuwhump 2023. Tags added as they become relevant - anything tagged is likely to appear in multiple works, and many may appear in close to all of them. The focus here is on finishing. Index in first chapter with individual tags/summaries/warnings.
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- Part 1 of Febuwhump
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Collection work for Febuwhump 2024 - contains an index, as well as a handful of short works and works we felt couldn't stand entirely on their own. Tags will be updated as work continues, and characters and tropes tagged should appear in multiple works, if not all.
Most recent work in collection: Day 2 - Solitary Confinement (335 words - Bug Fables - Canon/Canon Divergence. Summary: "Hoaxe is still alive.")
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- Part 2 of Febuwhump
- Part 1 of Febuwhump 2024
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The Hollow Knight was created as the Vessel for a god. To restrain Her, against all odds. To keep Her light from Infecting the country.
The Hollow Knight failed.
Though it lives still, it is feeble and weakened, stripped of a purpose, of the very thing that it was created to do. In absence of its siblings, it guards Hallownest, a glorified boundary marker until the day something may strike it down.
Or, perhaps, until something gives it a new path to follow.
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- Part 3 of Febuwhump
- Part 2 of Febuwhump 2024
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A geis or geas (pl. geasa) is an idiosyncratic taboo, whether of obligation or prohibition, similar to being under a vow or curse, yet the observance of which can also bring power and blessings. It is also used to mean specifically a spell prohibiting some action. Geasa are common in Irish and Scottish folklore and mythology, as well as in modern English-language fantasy fiction.
(Geas. (2024, Feb 5). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geas)
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- Part 3 of Febuwhump 2024
- Part 4 of Febuwhump
- Part 1 of Selkieverse
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Nightmare King Grimm seems like a challenge, the first time. A fun fight, the second time. The Ritual burns to be completed, an immortal drive that pulses like a burning heartbeat, and The Knight rises to meet it, again and again and again, slashing and struggling and dying and dying and dying until it is thoroughly sick of it all.
To dream, one must have a mind. To act, one must have a will. Without a voice to cry suffering, one can do nothing but struggle in silence. It is, perhaps, a mercy, that most situations don't chain you down when you need to leave.
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- Part 5 of Febuwhump
- Part 4 of Febuwhump 2024
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It has been shown, in some studies, that traumas experienced by the ancestors of an organism can have tangible effect on the later life, biology, and psychology of the child. As prey knows its predators by instinct, the experiences of those who came before you weave their way into instinct, guiding their descendants even when the threat may no longer exist.
Instincts exist to drive primal fear in response to predators that have long since gone extinct. Those whose ancestors survived famine store fat with more efficiency, storing energy for a food shortage that may never happen. Mice who have learned to expect shocks at the smell of cherry blossom give birth to children that show aversion to that same smell, even without having experienced shocks themselves.
When your ancestors' survival relied on remaining unknown even to those closest to them, what does that pass on to you?
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- Part 6 of Febuwhump
- Part 5 of Febuwhump 2024
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This ritual is illegal on so many levels, it should terrify her. But if it's the only way to get Falin back, she'll do whatever it takes.
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- Part 7 of Febuwhump
- Part 6 of Febuwhump 2024
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On Event Of Permanent Death by MantisGod
Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
13 Sep 2024
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A trip into the dungeon goes sour. Chilchuck Tims is eaten by the dragon, lost to the depths in a single moment. Despite everything, there is still paperwork to be done.
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- Part 8 of Febuwhump
- Part 7 of Febuwhump 2024
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Skin Deep (Bone Deep) by MantisGod
Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon
28 Mar 2024
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The spurs on his heels are long and sharp enough to decapitate with a kick. He tries very, very hard not to think about what that might mean.
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- Part 9 of Febuwhump
- Part 8 of Febuwhump 2024