All fics are completed unless otherwise noted, listed by date. Fics are standalone, but designed to complement & enhance each other.
Continuity Note: I have been writing for this fandom since 2018, so some older fics don't perfectly reflect KCD2 canon. I'm slowly fixing this where it is prudent and possible to do so. (Thanks for being patient with those Pebbles pronouns!)
*my faves; IMO the best examples of my work
Hansry / Hans Capon x Henry
One-Shots
Up the Slope, Love, of This High Mountain | Explicit | 17k *
In These Small Dark Places | Explicit | 9.5k *
The Long Edge of Heaven | Mature | 16k
The Silence After Suchdol | Mature | 4.5k
by a heel | Teen | 4k
Prayer Before Morning | Teen | 5k
With Horn and Leash | Teen | 15k
In Caes of Disastur | G | 1k
Lost in the Trees | Explicit | 30k *
Without Home | Mature | 9k
In Spring | Mature | 17k
Multi-Chapter Fics
The Gold Godâs Bones | Explicit â Release TBA
The Virtue of Courage | Explicit | 34k â WIP; undergoing major KCD2-enabling rewrite
A Strange Hunt | Mature | 21k * - Where it all started! I was a much younger writer, but still feel affection for this piece; I think it was the first kcd fic on ao3.
Other
The Kindest Kill | Teen | 3k | Pairing: Theresa & Bianca
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We're sucked into medieval Bohemia again, serfs, so I thought Iâd whip up a list of my KCD1 Hansry-focused fics⌠since I realize folks may be hungry for Hans x Henry content that doesnât spoil KCD2.
(Plus a couple fics with limited spoilers, clearly flagged below.)
If anyone wants âem, here they are! (Please consult the tags on ao3 for additional content warnings, and thanks @charlie-rulerofhell for making this pretty gif!)
rednightmareâs Hans x Henry fic list
A Strange Hunt
Mature. Complete.
NO KCD2 SPOILERS.
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true?â â John Wesley
Hal, Hans, and Theresaâchasing ghosts who cannot love them back.
Description: Three connected character pieces, one for each lead of KCD1. My first KCD fic, and I still think itâs my best.
Warnings: Canon (non-graphic) sexual assault in Chapter 1.
With Horn and Leash
Teen+. Complete.
NO KCD2 SPOILERS.
It is Henryâs first winterhunt, and wolves are howling in the fields. Hans cannot understand why everyone is so afraid.
Description: Henry confronts Hans about his piss-poor lordship and the consequences thereof.
Lost in the Trees
Explicit. Complete.
NO KCD2 SPOILERS.
Henry uses his time in the monastery to reflect on his lifeâas it is, and as it used to be, and his relationship with Lord Capon.
Description: A lengthy relationship study of Hansâs role in Henryâs life and recovery from grief.
In Spring
Mature. Complete.
NO KCD2 SPOILERS.
Spring cannot last forever. Eventually, he will grow up.
Description: An exploration of the end of Lord Caponâs extended adolescence as he faces the inevitability of his future.
Without Home
Mature. Complete.
NO KCD2 SPOILERS.
Ma, who knew more about ash and ruin than youâd think, once warned Father not to heal a wound with hot coals. âYou be careful rushing things with fire,â she said. âYouâll get the bleeding stopped, for certain. But once it hasâif it sickensâyouâll have a Hell of a time ever letting the blood back out.â
The whole world goes to fire. Henry waits to bleed again for a long time.
Description: Henry confronts his grief and takes the only path forward: through it.
Fortune Favors the Bold
Explicit (eventually). Longfic, UNFINISHED.
NO KCD2 SPOILERS.
An Amorous Adventures + Caponâs Champion DLC redux romp staged during a joust and narrated via three alternating POVs: Lord Capon, Henry, and Karolina. Silly and sad in turns. (Mostly silly, though.)
Description: A deeply dramatic longfic-in-progress. Alas, I probably need a new name for it nowâŚ
Prayer Before Morning
Teen+. Complete.
NO KCD2 SPOILERS.
At Christmastime, even Hans must go to church. Because he is still Hans, he brings Henry along.
Description: Winter-themed sugary fic with a hard shot of lordship angst. One shot.
by a heel
Teen+. Complete.
LIMITED KCD2 SPOILERS: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Godâs truth: It does not occur to Henry until the moment he spies Hansâs heel hanging over the edge of the block at Trosky that Birdie of Pirkstein could ever die.
Description: My take on For Whom the Bell Tolls. One shot, "missing scene," canon outcome with an established relationship flair. KCD2 SPOILERS FOR SAID QUEST.
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.
Description: 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 KCD2 spoilers. One shot, fluffy and philosophical.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Rating: ExplicitÂ
Relationships: Hans Capon/HenryÂ
CWs: Hurt/Comfort, Depression, Protectiveness, Penetrative Sex, Masturbation, Claustrophobia, Sex Work, Animal Death, Explicitly Bisexual Hans & HenryÂ
Summary:Â 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. KCD 1 & KCD2 vignettes, one shot.
Absolutely lovesick, like enough to hurl.
Psst: Iâll make a better post for this later - for now I just want it out of my hair!
Rating: Mature (subject to increase)
Relationships: Charlotte Balfour/Cal Balfour, Charlotte Balfour/Arthur Morgan
Major Warnings: Graphic Violence, Serial Killers, Gendered/Sexual Violence (referenced), Mental Illness, MH Arthur Morgan
Summary: 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.
Read here.
CHAPTER 10 - EXCERPT
The needle she will use on him in just a moment sits on its little silver dish, and she holds it into the lantern flame for a while to cleanse it. As she waits for it to warm up, Charlotte imagines she can see it shifting color, its atoms threatening to change their form.
âWhat else?â
âI donât know. Four, five. They was all like that,â he says, factually. âOne way or another. Shoot enough people, the next looks the same.â
The needle is hot between the calluses on her fingertips. She should open a window, but out there, the wind on the dark water makes it far too cold, and if Arthur shivers, she might hurt him. So she lets the air go bad.
âWhat else?â
âWho all I killed?â
Charlotte knots the catgut in the needle eye and snaps the length with the knife. His voice sharpens as he figures it out.
âThat ainât what you meant to ask me. Charlotte.â
She stills her palm over the large wound on his back. It is still bleeding, only not quite so dreadfully fast. Above it, his shoulder blade, where raised bone disappears into the flesh of the body like the moon sliding behind a mountain.
âAsk me what you meant to ask me,â Arthur says.
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Fandom: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Hans Capon/Henry
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Hanging, Execution, Pain with a Happy Ending, Established Relationship
Summary:
Godâs truth: It does not occur to Henry until the moment he spies Hansâs heel hanging over the edge of the hangmanâs block at Trosky that Birdie of Pirkstein could ever die.
My take on For Whom the Bell Tolls. One shot, canon outcome with an established relationship flair.
My first KCD2 fic! I have entered the new era. Better not read it if you havenât played the quest!
New chapter of Our Worst Creatures (aka the probable title holder of Shadiest Charlotte Longfic, a distinction no one would ever want). It's a biggie. THE biggie, you might say.
Chapter CWs: mental illness, menstruation, abduction (though perhaps not the expected dynamic), being a woman in the 1800s and really pissed off about it, SERIAL KILLERS
With a crinkle of smile and a too-fast laugh, he shoots out his hand to shake hers. Desperate, she realizes, in his hope she will be kind to him.
âIâm Edmund. Doctor Edmund Lowry, extremely embarrassed to make your acquaintance in a place like this.â
Some part of her cannot seem to help it. Charlotte reaches out to accept his handshake, and though he pumps her arm three times like a man of the worldâlike a man of egalitarian societyâlike Cal, good God, once upon a timeâhis fingers are frigid in her hand.
âElba Callahan,â she lies. âDoctor Lowry, I need to know everything you know about that horse.â