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Chapters: 3/? Fandom: X-Men (Comicverse) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Sean Cassidy/Emma Frost, Emma Frost/Scott Summers, Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Theresa Cassidy/Jamie Madrox, Lorna Dane/Alex Summers, Theresa Cassidy & Black Tom Cassidy & Cain Marko, Lorna Dane & James Proudstar, Lorna Dane & Charles Xavier, Black Tom Cassidy/Cain Marko, Sean Cassidy & Black Tom Cassidy, Jean Grey/Scott Summers, Lorna Dane/Rogue (X-Men), Theresa Cassidy/James Proudstar, Theresa Cassidy/Lorna Dane, Lorna Dane & Scott Summers, Lorna Dane & Erik Lehnsherr Characters: Emma Frost, Sean Cassidy, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Alex Summers, Scott Summers, Jamie Madrox, Cain Marko, Black Tom Cassidy, John Proudstar, James Proudstar, Lorna Dane, Theresa Cassidy, Rogue, Raven | Mystique Additional Tags: Porn With Plot, Irish mythology au, Canon-Typical Violence, Infant Death, Táin Bó Cúailnge AU, Bad Parenting, Angst, Blood and Gore, Blood and Violence, Hurt No Comfort, Manipulation, Grief/Mourning, War, Duty vs. Desire, Loyalty, Daddy Kink, (Lesbian) Daddy Kink, Pregnancy, Toxic Relationships, Alternate Universe - Medieval, trans!Alex Summers, Cheating Summary:
"I'd be the last shred of truth/ In the lost myth of true love/ I'd be the sweet feeling of release/ Mankind now dreams of/ That's found in the last witness/ Before the wave hits/ Marveling at God/ Before he feels alone/ One final time/ And marries the sea." - Talk, Hozier --- Lorna Dane is the chosen one, not by her choice, but through her actions in a childhood marked by pain. Theresa Cassidy ought to be a princess, but has instead been assigned the war-servant of the chosen warrior princess. Jimmy Proudstar is an honorable man commanded in battle by those who would pursue war for the wrong reasons. Alex Summers wishes that things could return to normal, but knows of course, that war changes all things. And Death of course, follows War, and Grief wraps its cloak over them all. A retelling of the Táin Bó Cúailnge.
