12 Works by howghostly
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keep your soul like a secret in your throat by howghostly
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Apr 2026
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The rain picked up, sideways and wild, and Gale noticed he was shivering. His body was so flooded with pain from the Orb that he hardly registered the cold. “You’re suggesting I become…”
“A vampire, yes. Clever boy,” the figure said. “And much more than even that. A member of the Szarr family and an apprentice to the greatest mage unliving,” he said, with a congratulatory sort of bow.
Gale looked to his reflection in the rush of floodwater below him. He tried hard to commit his own face to memory. The brown eyes he’d gotten from his mother. The small scar over his lip from when Tara was a kitten. The slight freckles across his cheeks that darkened in the summer sun. Gale wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to look at himself again.
He turned to the vampire and nodded.
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Shortly after the orb was lodged in his chest, Gale went to Baldur’s Gate to find a cure. Instead, he found Cazador Szarr.
Blood, and its latent magic, proved enough to feed the orb as Gale’s un-life spiraled. A year, a Nautiloid, and a tadpole later, Gale is sitting under stars he thought he’d never see again. He can’t decide if having Astarion with him is a blessing or only a grim reminder.
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The sky felt wide, too wide, even as the dusk swallowed it whole. The wheat fields swept along the edge of the horizon like a broom collecting the last remnants of the sun. Anders felt sick.
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Post-DA2, Hawke refuses to give up on Anders. -
tell me if i'll ever know a blessing in disguise by howghostly
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
02 May 2025
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Six times Dorian thought about Andraste.
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“I can’t tell him,” Josephine choked, like she’d just barely managed to wring the words out of her throat. She held up an envelope in her hand. “It’s all my fault.”
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What is thy sentence then, but speechless death? by howghostly
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
25 Jun 2024
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Claudia had left. And like God ripping words away at the Tower of Babel, she had taken with her Louis and Lestat’s ability to have a genuine conversation.
(Revisiting their seven years during the Depression with the post-S2E7 details)
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had paled that sunny sky by howghostly
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series
13 Jul 2023
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Jonathan breaks his arm, Jervis has to set it.
One-shot, no prior reading in the series necessary!Series
- Part 3 of vorpalverse
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as the moon chants its bitter language by howghostly
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman: The Animated Series
18 Jun 2023
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He looked back at the questionnaire. "How would you describe a dream as if it were happening in the present?"
'Like this,' Jonathan thought. 'Like staring at someone through the eyes of fate.'
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A collection of moments from their beginnings at Gotham University to the ends of their civilian lives, and the first time the Hatter met the Scarecrow.Series
- Part 1 of vorpalverse
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long may it poison our hearts by howghostly
Fandoms: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
07 Jun 2023
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As Gotham falls asleep, Arkham spits back out a disoriented Jervis. Jonathan picks up the pieces of his technicolor psyche.
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- Part 2 of vorpalverse
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the center cannot hold by howghostly
Fandoms: Elder Scrolls, Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
17 Jan 2022
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And yes, of course, some moth priest had seen this long ago. Light and shadow warring on canvas, a great, ugly battle that would claim over a thousand lives, and all the entwined limbs before that.
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shawn had passed out before the ambulance arrived. henry held him the entire time, stone-faced and silent. but now no one was watching. it was just his son, sleeping, haloed by fluorescent lights, and the steady beating of the monitor. the rhythmic beeping seems to fill in the hollow spaces of the room. henry steps closer.
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everyone's reactions post 'shawn takes a shot in the dark'. each chapter is a different character's pov, in time sequential order. also abigail and shawn never happened, and gus and shawn are pining over each other because that's basically the whole show. -
Pity by howghostly
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
14 Apr 2017
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the rain runs along the window and taps against the roof, but all he focuses on is gently calling her name.
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priscilla gets a nightmare, dandelion is there to comfort her, and it gets Angsty. ends in some fluff though :)