Archive of Our Own

Recent bookmarks

1. Public Bookmark 58

   reaching stars by bohmec

   Fandoms: NaPolA | Before the Fall (2004)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   13 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Albrecht Stein/Friedrich Weimer
   • Albrecht Stein & Friedrich Weimer
   • Albrecht Stein & Original Characters
   • Friedrich Weimer & Christoph Schneider
   • Friedrich Weimer & Original Characters
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Katharina/Christoph Schneider (NaPolA)
   • Friedrich Weimer
   • Albrecht Stein
   • Original Characters
   • Christoph Schneider (NaPolA)
   • Katharina (NaPolA)
   • Minor Characters
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Angst
   • Military Inaccuracies
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Secret Relationship
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
   • Historical Inaccuracy
   • Lack of Communication
   • No Smut
   • Sharing a Bed
   • Panic Attacks
   • Suicide Attempt
   • Slow Burn
   • Religious Content
   • First Kiss
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Sharing Clothes
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Letters
   • Mild Gore
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Found Family
   • the doom of knowing oneself to be alive
   • do not feed my work to ai
   • NOW WITH FANART!!

   Summary

   Experience changes perspective.
   And perspective changes experience.
    

   Albrecht doesn't drown in Allenstein. Instead, he is sent to the front.

   Now that the war is over, he has to find his way back to life.

   Series

   • Part 4 of universe of lights
   • Part 1 of [napola]

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   155,058

   Chapters:

   54/54

   Comments:

   503

   Kudos:

   890

   Bookmarks:

   58

   Hits:

   14,582

   Bookmarked by Lhjc

   19 May 2026