Kate / Brynn. 30s. they / them. Star Wars. Tolkien Legendarium (Rings of Power Positive). Hellblade (Current). Black Sails. TTRPGs (GM Main). Fic on AO3 is user-locked!
[Senuaβs Saga: Hellblade II; Mature, WIP, a ThΓ³rgestr-centric Redemption Arc fic with slowburn Senua/ThΓ³rgestr - read the new chapter on AO3 here]
[chapter one | chapter two | chapter three | chapter four | chapter five | excerpts post one | excerpts post two | full hellblade fic masterpost]
βThere was a moment,β Senua says, before ThΓ³rgestr can think of anything else to say or do.Β βWhen Γleifr was on the ground, everyone looked to me, waiting for what I would do.Β Who I would become.Β And I felt it.Β The same shadow in me, the pull of the Tyrant.Β How it might feel to be honored, loved, feared.Β The way everyone calls me Giantsbane now, Iβ¦β
Clarity comes to him again.Β Recognition.Β βYouβre afraid, too.β
A fire is kindled by another fire.
Well, since AO3 is back!!!!! :D
Thanks everyone for your patience on the release of this chapter! HUGE shout outs to my beta team, and especially @eisoj5 @stitchingatthecircuitboard @ichabodjane and @laurenplayspeople with this one. Thank you, friends! <3
I hope y'all enjoy this one! I like to think of it as a break through for Senua and ThΓ³rgestr's relationship. :) As always, I would love to hear thoughts in the replies, tags, or comments!
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[Senuaβs Saga: Hellblade II; Mature, 15 chapters planned, a ThΓ³rgestr-centric Redemption Arc fic with slowburn Senua/ThΓ³rgestr - full hellblade fic masterpost]
[chapter 1 tumblr post | AO3]
βHeβs gone,β someone says, soothing but for the note of desperation crackling through their voice, βΓleifr is gone and cannot hurt you anymoreβnow rest, heal, live for me, I will not lose you, too.β
But ThΓ³rgestr is lost, blind and trapped somewhere between Midgard and Niflheim. Alone in the dark.
βFollow my voice. I wonβt leave you.β
In the aftermath of events in Borgarvirki, Senua and ThΓ³rgestr navigate legacies and leadership, healing and moving forward.
[chapter 2 tumblr post | AO3]
βIt is good to see you awake,β Senua says once he has caught his breath, though he leans heavy into the bedding, worn out from even so little an effort. βI thoughtβ¦β She trails off, moving away, and he reaches almost without thinking to grasp her hand and to rest her palm against the unmarred side of his chest.
βDonβt worry,β he says, trying to pull a smile to his face. His voice is stronger, at least, though still threaded with weariness and the pain he is determined to ignore. βIt will take much more than a sword cut to send me to Hela.β
Awakening from illness, ThΓ³rgestr learns what has happened over the past few days in Borgarvirki.
[chapter 3 tumblr post | AO3]
ThΓ³rgestr! He hears not with his ears, not in his mind, but deep in the marrow of his bones. At first it is the enraged snarl of Γleifr, the promise of brutality if he does not come to heel. He freezes, prey in sight of danger. But thenβThΓ³rgestrβanother voice joins his fatherβs and outlasts him. It draws ThΓ³rgestr away from fear, deeper into the dreaming but away from the dark.
In the dreaming again, in the space between worlds, a spirit makes her presence known.
[chapter 4 tumblr post | AO3]
The hall beyond this room is quiet. More often than not, his door has been kept open for the convenience of those coming in and out, sound traveling easily in and out of the main room.Β In daylight, there is a rolling river of mixed languages and sparse laughter, and truth be told, he has been too weary to hear it as more than the murmur of life beyond illness, waiting patiently for him to rejoin it.
But for now there is this room and the woman who watches over him in it.
ThΓ³rgestr and Senua have a midnight conversation about the importance of rest.
[chapter 5 tumblr post | AO3]
βI want to know,β ΓstrΓΓ°r seethes. βI want to know you regret itβall of it. The sacrifices. The tributes. Your fatherβs tyranny over everyone he deemed weaker than you.β
Another important and inevitable conversation finally happens.
[chapter 6 tumblr post | AO3]
βThere was a moment,β Senua says, before ThΓ³rgestr can think of anything else to say or do.Β βWhen Γleifr was on the ground, everyone looked to me, waiting for what I would do.Β Who I would become.Β And I felt it.Β The same shadow in me, the pull of the Tyrant.Β How it might feel to be honored, loved, feared.Β The way everyone calls me Giantsbane now, Iβ¦β
Clarity comes to him again.Β Recognition.Β βYouβre afraid, too.β
A fire is kindled by another fire.
[chapter 7 tumblr post | AO3]
βDid I hurt you?β he asks, dreading it, but still needing to be certain.Β βLast night?β
βI think it is everything.Β Crashing on the beach, traveling across the land, the giants, all the fightingβ¦Β It was a hard journey.βΒ She shrugs.Β βIβve had harder.Β Iβll live.β
A day of rest, and then another dream, at last.
[chapter 8 tumblr post | AO3]
βYou were the chieftainβs son, were you not?β
ThΓ³rgestr does not flinch outwardly, but only because he has been bracing himself for this. For a moment, he feels his fatherβs heavy hand gripping his shoulder. Senuaβs knee is still pressed against his leg beneath the table and thankfully her touch prevails against the shadow of the past. Youβre with me. βI was,β he tells Audunn. βWe severed ties.β
βYour father nearly severed you,β Iseult says, pushing a plate of bread and dried fruit across the table. βSave talk for later and eat something.β
ThΓ³rgestr finally meets the former captives.
[chapter 9 tumblr post | AO3]
A figure approaches, weaving through the bodies of giants, steps slow and methodicalβa traveler who has come far and with purpose, as relentless as the sea in his pursuit.
βChieftainβs son,β the stranger says, a Vestmann by his accent, but he says it in smoke-rough Norse. βIβve been watching you.β
In the dreaming between worlds, an old fool delivers a message.
[chapter 10 tumblr post | AO3]
He has to find a way to carry all that has happened and not let it weigh him down into a grave.
Find your strength, Druth had said, he who knew Senua somehow. His words still have the resonance of a battle-cry and ThΓ³rgestr will not shy away from that. This is not your final resting place.
ThΓ³rgestr and Senua speak of the past and a few of their ghosts.
ThΓ³rgestr also gets a haircut.
[chapter 11 tumblr post | AO3]
Silence stretches long until Solveig hums like sheβs learned something already.Β βYou look well for a man who took a blade through his back.β
ThΓ³rgestr has a meeting with Solveig Silvertongue, skΓ‘ld of Borgarvirki.
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Also on the topic of Senua - I think it's interesting that the titles (in order) go "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice" to "Senua's Saga: Hellblade II" to simply "Senua"
We go from Senua going through the five stages of grief (sacrifice) to going on another journey (saga) to just her name - perhaps alluding to the ending of 2 in her taking the reins and becoming the author of her own destiny. Her voice. Her choice(s).
Kelli: Do you have an answer about how frequently Armand was wiping Louis's memory?
Rolin: Yeah probably but I don't know how important it is... Everybody, Assad probably has a different idea, Jacob does, and maybe some of my writers room do βI love that, I think that's okay. For me I actually think it was very very very little. And I actually think βmany people probably disagree with meβ that Louis probably did ask him in Sausalito to erase it. I think he did. I always felt Armand having two really extraordinary lies. And just two. But because you have to continue with those, it becomes a series of lies and lies and lies, and it seems worse to me than it is. I always wanted to find this empathetic version of Armand, but I house it like everything else I did in the show: I house my idea about it, and there are open interpretations of the actor who is embodying it, the people who have had reactions about that, and I think that's cool. And it ends up letting the audience membersβ you get to see yourself in how you feel about all those things.
Kelli: I always thought that it might be believable that Louis could ask for that, but I don't know if he did, what do you guys think? Do you agree with Rolin?
Jacob: Yeah, I like Rolin's answer, I think it's open to interpretation. And kind of for me, the thing is that... I sort of don'tβ
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*gently takes your face in my hands* hey. remember that fandom is for fun. if you're not having fun it is ok to step back. if you're intentionally making it unfun for others it is ok to step back. none of this is real. go sit in the sun and smell a flower. i love you.
Hey, man, c'mere. Listen. Get in real close, this is important.
You're gonna make stuff again. You're gonna make stuff you're proud of. You're gonna make stuff you're excited to share. You're going to feel that overwhelming drive to create, not just the frantic I want to want to you're stuck in now. You're going to have awesome ideas, and you're going to make them into reality. You're going to create again. You're still an artist. You're still a writer. You're still home to the same passion you had before. You'll find it again. It's not gone. It's just resting. Let it rest. You're going to make stuff again. I promise.
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maybe tuorβs gift of men was revoked as a curse for arriving exhausted and sunburnt after like 7 years at sea to find out his kids are effectively respectively banished to a tower and the stratosphere for all eternity and calling the valar a bunch of pompous autofellating dickheads has this been considered
Welp. Google's AI horseshit has arrived. And I'm not complying. They can pry my ID out of my cold dead hands. I will simply go elsewhere. Remember folks, DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR IDs. Do not comply. Resist, fight it, use other browsers or sources beyond youtube and google controlled services. Call them. Email them. Make noise. Fight back.
I've been using Google as my main mail service since 2006, and every single account or service I've ever signed up for was made with that address. For a long time I thought it'd be impossible to divorce myself from Google.
It took less than 5 minutes to switch to a ProtonMail account, less than 2 hours to download and/or offload every byte of data from my Google account, and less than 3 days to change every single account or service I've ever signed up for to the new address.
As of today, the only single one I have that's still tied to it is YouTube. It's the only thing I'd lose access to if I deleted my Google acount entirely.
They really, really want you to believe that it's a hassle to switch to a different email system. But it's not. Most websites and/or services allow you to change the email address associated with it.
I've been using Google for almost 2 decades and it only took a few days to move everything. It's not a painful sacrifice; it's an easy change that, frankly, has absolutely been worth it.
You can and should switch to a free, encrypted Proton email account. You also get all of the below perks. For free. There is no trick. It is paid for by the people with paying plans. I am one of them. The (completely functional) free tier is there to entice you into getting a paid account with even more perks. (It worked on me.) But there's no penalty or pressure for staying with the free account.
Also get your stuff off the google drive and put it on Proton's drive. It is encrypted. Only you with your password can access it. Not even Proton can see what you put in there.
