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We'll see where it ends by TheDarkChocolateLord for magsintherain
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
13 Aug 2025
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Odysseus is home. Athena’s wounds have, for the most part, healed. The suitors are no longer terrorizing Penelope and Telemachus. It should be a happy ending, yet the aftereffects of twenty years of trauma are slow to go away.
Chapter 1: Odysseus has been traumatized by war, and now his son is training with a war goddess. Athena has been traumatized by her king-father, and now Telemachus has his king-father back. Telemachus, tired of his father and his best friend to trying to protect him from each other, just wants them to work out their issues.
Chapter 2: Athena and Penelope are both ignoring their own issues and pushing themselves too hard trying to take care of the people they love. After Athena reveals what happened during God Games, they find this out about each other.
Chapter 3: Odysseus is furious at Zeus. Telemachus doesn't disagree with his father's reasoning, but Odysseus's rage still scares him. Both of them want to make sure Athena doesn't get hurt again—but neither of them know how.
Can be read as a follow-up to my series Aftershocks, or on its own.
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- Part 5 of Epic: The Musical hurt/comfort
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maybe showing one act of kindness leads to kinder souls down the road by TheDarkChocolateLord
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
24 Mar 2025
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In which Circe learns that ruthlessness isn’t always necessary, Hermes learns that even the god of lies can’t hide from the truth, and Athena learns that sometimes help can come free of charge. Featuring a potion that turns men into pigs, a dose of Moly, and the fallout of a game.
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True nature will be revealed by TheDarkChocolateLord
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
17 Feb 2025
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Telemachus was expecting to feel euphoric. Wasn’t this what he wanted? Didn’t he want for the suitors to be gone, for his father to be back, for his family to be together at last? Didn’t he want to prove himself, fight battles, become a warrior?
He did. At least, he thought he did.
But this is…different. He doesn’t feel happy, or proud, or even relieved—well, maybe there’s some of that, but there’s anger and regret and grief mixed in there too, and it’s all dulled, like everything he’s feeling has been enveloped by fog.
(or: after the battle with the suitors, Odysseus, Athena, and Telemachus are all working to process what happened, and all starting to see each other—and themselves—in a different light.)
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- Part 4 of Epic: The Musical hurt/comfort
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“Don’t touch me!” she yells, even though she knows it’s futile.
But the other person lets go, and she rolls from his grasp, sitting bolt upright, hugging her arms around herself— just a dream, just a dream, yet the hands touching her felt so real.
Penelope blinks awake, seeing familiar brown eyes, full of fear and concern, and a face she’s known since she was seventeen, and… oh .
(or: Odysseus learns about Penelope’s nightmares).
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- Part 6 of Epic: The Musical hurt/comfort
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And, no matter how hard they train or how much they strategize, both Ares and Athena are vulnerable to elemental attacks. It’s impossible to send a fleet of soldiers out after a tsunami, to take down fire with a skillful sword strike. Impossible to craft a shield that will protect its wielder from lightning—metal conducts electricity, wood will burn, leather will conduct electricity if wet and burn if dry.
Athena has always carried two shields: the Aegis, and the security of being Zeus’s favorite child. Neither of them protected her in the arena that night.
(or: after God Games, a late-night visit causes Ares and Athena to realize how much they have in common)
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- Part 3 of Aftershocks
- Part 3 of Epic: The Musical hurt/comfort
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Epic: The Musical hurt/comfort by TheDarkChocolateLord
Fandom: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
13 Aug 2025
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This is to help people keep track of what order the trauma goes in!
(or: my canon compliant epic hurt/comfort fics listed in chronological order)
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Aftershock (noun): a minor shock following the main shock of an earthquake; an aftereffect of a distressing or traumatic event.
The fallout of God Games.
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Lumenaria by TheDarkChocolateLord
Fandom: Keeper of the Lost Cities Series - Shannon Messenger
07 Mar 2021
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Keeptober 2020 by TheDarkChocolateLord
Fandom: Keeper of the Lost Cities Series - Shannon Messenger
04 Nov 2020
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and sing another verse by indigotigress7 for AngelBunny53
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
19 Dec 2024
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Apollo is the god of music, and so when his half-sister comes to him with a plea for a mortal’s rescue, he yawns low and long.
But he is also the god of archery, and so he is wise enough to treat Athena’s sudden appearance as the threat it is.
(And then again, the physician in him feels for the sirens. The unyielding god of the sun and truth doubts Athena’s idealism. The prophet knows how he will respond before she opens her mouth.)
Or, five different ways Apollo responds to Athena when she comes to him with a plea for Odysseus’s release, in accordance with his godly domains.
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11 Aug 2025
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you'll need a mindset change for this by figureitoutinthemorning
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
23 Aug 2025
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Athena has always told the mortals under her tutelage that in the midst of battle, pain should be disregarded. Push it aside, she’s always said. Turn off the part of you that hurts. Find a place beyond it and stay there. But she’s not currently in battle, and she’s certainly never advocated for ignoring wounds after the fact. For mortals, that’s a one-way passage to blood loss, infection and death — not necessarily in that order.
Yet Athena is not mortal, and she’s not technically wounded. Her burns have sealed up, leaving thick, uneven wads of scar tissue in their wake. They make her skin feel tight and sometimes they itch, but they are not open wounds. She’s not bleeding. Her insides are not exposed to the air. It all just hurts.
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More than three months after the events of God Games, Athena's scars flare up, leaving her with little choice but to come to terms with the long-term effects of her injuries.
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- Part 5 of Epic Post-Canon Fics
- Part 4 of three days
Bookmarked by TheDarkChocolateLord
17 Jul 2025
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Hardison is generally a great boyfriend.
His feud with the bandanna-wearing chef at Waffle House is pretty weird, though.
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10 Jul 2025
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assorted found family with a generous helping of feelings by the_most_cooliest_of_cowboys
Fandoms: Leverage
23 Jul 2021
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A little more than a team... and something like a family....
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hey y'all, this is a collection of short ficlets and drabbles that i've posted on tumblr, and i'm uploading them here to keep them in one place! each chapter is stand alone and pretty brief, hope you enjoy!
Bookmarked by TheDarkChocolateLord
30 Jun 2025
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29 Jun 2025