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• La Vallée de L'Ombre de la Mort by I4indie (HandWriter)

  Fandoms: OFF (Game)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  05 Oct 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Major Character Death
  • The Batter & Cob (OFF Remaster)
  • Pablo | The Judge & Valérie (OFF)
  • The Batter & Hugo (OFF)
  • The Batter (OFF)
  • Cob (OFF Remaster)
  • Source (OFF Remaster)
  • Hugo (OFF)
  • Pablo | The Judge (OFF)
  • Valérie (OFF)
  • Vader Eloha | The Queen
  • Japhet (OFF)
  • Spoilers
  • Tags Contain Spoilers
  • Death
  • Canonical Character Death
  • Child Death
  • Animal Death
  • Spoilers for the Batter Ending (OFF)
  • Symbolism
  • Biblical Scripture References (Abrahamic Religions)
  • Biblical Allusions (Abrahamic Religions)
  • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
  • References to Macbeth - Shakespeare
  • Open to Interpretation
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • Fanart
  • Cover Art
  • Cross-Posted on Tumblr
  • Grim Reapers
  • The two main characters can be interpreted that way
  • Tbh it's more complicated than that
  • At its most basic form the whole story could be summed up as being about a righteous holy warrior baseball player and his OP death sheep friend
  • Can also be read as a hurt/comfort fic
  • Epilogue
  • Song: Pyramid Song (Radiohead)
  • Song: Don't Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult)
  • Fanwork Research & Reference Guides

  Summary

  Death was not without a pith-bearer. A short story in Cob's POV about his relationship with the Batter.

  UPDATE: I added my own analysis of this fic and the game! Note that there will be spoilers (see more info in the appendix/"Chapter 2")!

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  11,565

  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  17

  Bookmarks:

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