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Lament of the Asphodels
Title: Lament of the Asphodels
Author dracox-serdriel
Artist: LiamJcnes
Major pairings: Emma Swan/Killian Jones (Captain Swan)
Minor pairings: Emma Swan/Graham Humbert (Gremma), Milah/Killian Jones (Millian), Emma Swan/Walsh (Monkey Swan)
Progress: Written as part of Captain Swan Big Bang 2016.
Word count: ~145,000 (135,000 posted)
Disclaimer: I claim no ownership to the characters, universe, and mythology of Once Upon a Time.
Rating: NC-17/Explicit/MA (except on FF.net, where it's R/M)
Warning: Lament of the Asphodels contains graphic, adult content and possibly triggering content, including the following:
- Graphic descriptions of violence
- Graphic sexual content
- Declaration/threats of sexual violence
- Minor character death
- Social stigmatization/abuse
- Detailed descriptions of hopelessness/depression/inner turmoil
- Descriptions of the effects of extreme phobias/social anxiety, including anthropophobia, thalassophobia/hydrophobia, and hylophobia/dendrophobia
- Descriptions of shipwrecks and storms at sea
Killian Jones is the Keeper of Stagrock Light, the Sole Beacon of Northedge, and he lives a simple life apart from the society he serves. His entire world turns upside-down when a shipwreck leaves him with a stranded woman, the Survivor, or as her parents called her, Emma Swan.
As she recovers from her ordeal, it becomes clear that she's harboring a painful past and may even be a fugitive from the law seeking refuge in the Northmost Lands. What starts out as a simple attempt to aid someone who has fallen on hard times becomes complicated when they both begin to experience a rush of other memories that might just be from another life.
Lament of the Asphodels contains themes, stories, and motifs found in Greek Mythology, including adult content such as violence, mentions of incest, graphic sexual descriptions, and other content that may be disturbing for some readers. For a comprehensive list, see the warnings listed above.
Lament of the Asphodels is a multi-chapter epic completed as part of Captain Swan Big Bang 2016. Check back every Tuesday for two new chapters!
Cross-posted: Read Lament of the Asphodels on AO3, FF, or Tumblr.
Lament of the Asphodels
Chapter 1: A Lyre for Apollo
Chapter 2: The Aleion Plain
Chapter 3: For the Sustenance of Charon
Chapter 4: In Memory of Charybdis
Chapter 5: The Ills of Asclepius
Chapter 6: With the Blessings of Aether
Chapter 7: Mnemosyne's Cursed Clockwork
Chapter 8: The Wrath of Melinoe
Chapter 9: Nemesis, Adrasteia
Chapter 10: The Mask of Lethe
Chapter 11: A Tribute from Lycaon
Chapter 12: The Marionette of Aletheia
Chapter 13: The Mirador of Helios
Chapter 14: Polydeuces's Choice
Chapter 15: To Invoke Hestia with Sweet Wine
Chapter 16: A Tempest for Eurydice
Chapter 17: For the Descent of Hermes
Chapter 18: Between Ares and Athena
Chapter 19: By the Forge of Hephaestus
Chapter 20: The Tears of Andromeda
Chapter 21: An Insult to the Nereids
Chapter 22: Aphrodite's Reprise
Chapter 23: A Nocturne for Morpheus
Chapter 24: Whispers from Dione
Chapter 25: An Imitation of Prometheus
Chapter 26: Ariadne, Dionysus, and the Minotaur
Chapter 27: For the Footfall of Artemis
Chapter 28: With the Hubris of Bellerophon
Chapter 29: The Thread of the Moiria
Chapter 30: Sisyphus, He Sat upon his Rock
Chapter 31: Roses for Harpocrates
Chapter 32: Tyche's Spinning Wheel
Chapter 33: The Kiss of Achlys
Chapter 34: The Elm where Ivory Dreams Roost
Chapter 35: The Eleusinian Mysteries
Chapter 36: That Final, Spitting Head
Chapter 37: An Elegy to the Erinyes or, the Labors of Heracles
Chapter 38: Hyperion's Shadow
Epilogue: The Cornucopia of Demeter