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“Something about your story, Mrs. Balfour,” Arthur told her, and lowered his cup without drinking, letting the black beer lie down in the glass. “Is real strange.”
A complete reimagining of Charlotte Balfour in the tradition of fin de siècle horror: the civilized violence of the Gilded Age, the advent of American serial killers, and the bottomless wellspring of feminine rage.
Or: A peculiar marriage, a series of unusual catastrophes, and the dark secret that brought a banker's wife to Roanoke Ridge. And everything that comes next.
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Up the Slope, Love, of This High Mountain by rednightmare
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
24 Jan 2026
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At the end, Hans knows that every lover—even Beatrice—must die.
My first Hans fic of the KCD2 era. A prose & poem study of Lord Capon’s changing understanding of love and obsession with (his own) death, dragged out into the open by the extraordinary violence that is by knighthood demanded of him.
Also, a resurrection of KCD1’s original incarnation of Lord Capon: ferocity, honest and joyful; the mania of privilege; the cage of youth; and true love above all.
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In These Small Dark Places by rednightmare
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
21 Sep 2025
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Birdie of Pirkstein is nothing like a hare. He never thinks of dying; he has no need for dark, snug spaces; he flits in the sun and grins with his big teeth and rips his joy to bloody shreds.
Only a hare, of course, knows what it means to be ripped apart.
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A brief study of grief recovery and of two opposing shades of loneliness, as presented in Henry's loss anxiety and Hans's claustrophobia. Also, how to love as one when you love very differently. KCD1 & KCD2 vignettes, one shot.
Absolutely lovesick, like enough to hurl.
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The Long Edge of Heaven by rednightmare
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
22 Jun 2025
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For a long time, God has forgotten about Henry. But one day, he's certain, the sword will fall.
A deeply emotional rebuild of the siege of Suchdol with a revised final beat, intended for a Hans and Henry who have already said it all. Established relationship, beauty and grief, a hard punch with a (trust me) happy ending. One big shot.
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The Silence After Suchdol by rednightmare
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
23 Mar 2025
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The dust of Suchdol settles, and it coats Henry's heart with strange magic. It feels as though he can see everything that will happen next.
A relationship study in the post-game to unpack the events of KCD II and prepare for the next phase of Henry's life with Lord Capon. Limited spoilers. One shot, fluffy and philosophical.
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Barney Calhoun character studies set during Blue Shift and Half-Life 2.
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Where fire comes wild, so flowers, too.
Connected short stories about character origins, the disparate worlds of the feudal experience, and the search for beauty after terror. Henry looks-for, Theresa leaves-behind, and Hans Capon hunts.
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How to Sharpen a Stone? by Leoporidae_Lagomorpha
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
21 Feb 2026
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"The son shall bear the iniquity of the father."
In the burning ruins of his village, a boy learns the price of survival: his name, his past, and his future—all claimed by a man in black.
What makes a man? What makes a weapon?
Pressure, friction, and violence.
Bookmarked by rednightmare
26 May 2026
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Your Place Under The Bad Sun by szkot_pielgrzym
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
05 Sep 2025
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“When the sun hits just right in the forest, every raspberry you pick is the sweetest thing you ever had, even the small and bad ones,” Katherine told him once, holding his hand. “But all of us, each and every one, ripened under a wrong sun.”
Henry tries to reckon with the impact his actions have on the world and the lives of others. Confession doesn't help as much as he hoped.
Bookmarked by rednightmare
05 Dec 2025
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The Millmaid and the Robber Knight by Jawanaka
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Game)
03 Feb 2025
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The leaves were sparkling a thousand shades of red and yellow and Theresa’s last apples were hanging ripe and fat on the trees that day when the robber knight led his party through the back-roads towards Pribyslavitz.
Many years after the sack of Skalitz, the wife of the bailiff of Pribyslavitz has to go eye to eye with her erstwhile father-in-law as he seeks shelter from the law.
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06 Apr 2025
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A look into the waking nightmare that is having to carry out mundane, daily tasks after you've experienced horrific trauma.
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Theresa buries her brother—the last family she has—and buries a part of herself with him. Vowing to do better by everyone she loved, and especially herself, she sets her eyes on knighthood, with all the adventure, fears, and friendship that come with it.
Bookmarked by rednightmare
24 Mar 2025