redkiterising



Recent works

Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    In which Mydei loses his mother, boxes up his old life, and resigns himself to a future of burned rice and drafty windows.

    Or,

    Phainon is much like a dog himself. Once you let him in, it's over.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    8,610
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    33
    Kudos:
    459
    Bookmarks:
    112
    Hits:
    3,714

    24 Mar 2026

  2. Rec *

    Tags
    Summary

    Mydeimos’s smile is sharp as he shrugs. “What’s your name again?”

    “Phainon of—” Phainon cuts himself off, looking away. It doesn’t matter where he’s from. Not anymore. “Phainon.”

    “Phainon of Nowhere,” Mydeimos says, and those words disembowel Phainon, cutting into his belly and slicing clean across it. “Come to bed with me. We have a show to put on.”

    In the midst of an ongoing war between Okhema and Castrum Kremnos, Mydei's mother gifts him Phainon, an Okheman bed slave he neither wants nor needs. But there is more at stake for both Mydei and Phainon: between Gorgo's ploys, Eurypon's plans, and the advancing black tide, they are pulled between a growing desire for each other and the very fate of their world.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    113,257
    Chapters:
    21/21
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    2,582
    Kudos:
    4,380
    Bookmarks:
    857
    Hits:
    116,185

    24 Oct 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 73

    Tags
    Summary

    Mydei isn’t a cruel opponent, though his sharp tongue and standoffish attitude easily smear the truth to the untrained eye. No, the regretful fact of the matter is that Mydeimos is cruel to no one — apart from himself.

    Or, unstoppable force (phainon's saviour complex) meets immovable object (mydei's suicidal tendencies).

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    882
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    22
    Kudos:
    562
    Bookmarks:
    73
    Hits:
    3,843

    19 Jan 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 21

    Tags
    Summary

    What ties him to this mortal world? What does it matter? He is not mortal. He does not delve into the hidden pleasures of hand-holding, or casual chatter with passersby, or settling down on fields of golden corn. This thing he holds, his burning star, that is him. That is him. That is his world.

    Isn’t it?

     

    “Would you be worse off?”

    The prairie... the familiar shouts... and the smell of malt juice...
    Most people lead lives of quiet desperation.
    Boothill knows this better than most.

    or: Will you embrace a new life?
    Give up. Give up. Give up.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,837
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    80
    Bookmarks:
    21
    Hits:
    595

    28 Oct 2024