Marmartea



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    Phainon is twenty-nine years old, possessing a degree that does nothing but sit in display, and working odd jobs. Oh, and also close to losing his home thanks to Aedes Elysiae’s delightful housing costs.

    An opportunity comes in the form of a Jadeslist posting made by concerned parents seeking a ‘date’ for their son, Mydeimos, who has been suffering the curse of being single for all twenty-one years of his life. The pay? Nymphbook Air and twenty-five thousand Balance Coins.

    Phainon might just be the person for the job.

    (or: one sweltering summer, two people who are absolutely not in love, and a play in three acts.)

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    28 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 79

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    5 times mydei's friends dont think his boyfriend is real + 1 time they do

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    28 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 81

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    "Do you have work for me, or are you simply gawking like the rest?"

    Work. Monsters to be vanquished or demons to fight. One doesn't hire a witcher unless they're desperate.

    Phainon shivers. "Not work," he says, watching the witcher blink, breathe, study him. From his mannerisms alone, he reminds Phainon of a half-tamed animal. Alert, keenly aware of everything. They say witchers can smell fear. What, then, does he smell on Phainon? "But I have another request."

    "Speak, then."

    He inhales, swipes his tongue over his lips to taste the rainwater on them. "When you set off," Phainon says, "take me with you."
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    Mydei just wants to fight monsters, collect his paycheck, and move on to the next miserable village and the next miserable client with something to slay. Phainon would do anything it takes to grow stronger and escape his past, even follow a witcher around. Neither of them was ever meant to fall in love.

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    11 May 2026

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    Following Irontomb's defeat, Phainon merges with Kephale and falls into a deep slumber.

    Ten years later, he wakes to discover that all memory of him has been erased.

    No biggie, he'll just...befriend his teenage son and try to get Mydei, the King of Castrum Kremnos, to fall in love with him again. What could possibly go wrong?

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    In which Phaidei have a son, but Mydei and the son do not remember Phainon anymore.

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    19 Apr 2026

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    Skopas died in his cot a little before dawn, on the morning of the eleventh day after the Council of Elders had voted by a margin of three votes to permit Kremnoans to draw water from the eastern cisterns of Okhema. His death was a quiet one in linen sheets that smelled faintly of herbs, with the morning bells of a foreign land ringing over the makeshift camp.

    It was a most inglorious death. His brother, who had sat with him through the long night, did not weep. He set his palm flat upon the corpse’s forehead, traced the sigil of Nikador above his eyes, and rose to leave the tent.

    Mydei knelt by the cot, setting the back of his hand to Skopas's cheek. The flesh was already cold. He'd thought about it a dozen times over the past months, known from the first that they would have a death in the camp before long, and he had known that when it came, he would have to do this. He had simply hoped that he would have a little more time to prepare.

    Funerary marches are no easy thing, not when your people are much diminished in a foreign land and every action is suspect---especially when a white-haired nuisance with bright eyes and a charming smile insists on tagging along.

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    09 Apr 2026