Richard II - Shakespeare
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if you were sick (they'd make you bleed)
Jul 6
Henry IV/Richard II
Teen And Up Audiences
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Graphic Depictions Of ForebodingNever-To-Be-Resolved TensionMemories
Late 1388, and after.
(written for strangeparticles on Tumblr and the prompt: ’things you said that I wish you hadn’t’)
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The Blow That Envy Gave
Apr 25
General Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
Young Henry knows he’s playing with fire.
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An Heritor of Bliss
Dec 7
14th Century CE RPF Richard II - Shakespeare
Richard II/Robert de Verecanon levels of Richard II/Anne of Bohemia
Mature
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
TeenagersFriends to LoversDelayed Royal BangingCanon Levels Of Marriednessbee stingsPoesy RingsSpeech Disorders
King Richard’s attempts to solidify bonds of friendship by gestures rather than words haven’t always turned out as planned.
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True-Love Tears
Oct 28
Not Rated
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
POV Original CharacterMiserable Unsexy Baths
Two things are unavoidable: death and laundry.
(A take on the bathing scene from ’…on the earth, and not on him’, from a perspective other than Richard’s.)
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As With A Sword In My Bones
May 5
Richard II - Shakespeare 14th Century CE RPF
General Audiences
Major Character Death
Death and DyingChild SaintsGhostsAlternate Universe - Historical DivergenceBad Eschatology
August, 1388: Richard II of England has been dead for seven years, and his cousin the Prince of Wales is having a hard time.
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Drabble: 'nor care nor pine'
Mar 7
14th Century CE RPF Richard II - Shakespeare
General Audiences
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DrabbleGrief/MourningPost-Canon
Ask meme drabble written for this challenge. Prompt: Tim Hart & Maddy Prior, Bruton Town.
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...on the earth, and not on him
Nov 3
Teen And Up Audiences
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Miserable Unsexy BathsPost-Flint Pre-Deposition Scene
After the long ride from Flint, Richard takes stock of himself.
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A Signet On Thine Arm
Oct 10
Anne of Bohemia/Richard II
Mature
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Shiny Bang PalacesBath SharingA Whole Lot Of Fingering
Kisse he me with the cos of his mouth.
For thi tetis ben betere than wyn, and yyuen odour with beste oynementis.
Richard and Anne make out in the bath.
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Fright The Fixed Stars
Aug 30
Richard II - Shakespeare Henry V - Shakespeare Henry IV - Shakespeare
Richard II/Mary de Bohun (speculative)Henry V/various
Teen And Up Audiences
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Inexplicable Changeling FantasiesHal Is A Sad Asshole
When he’s ten years old Hal determines that he must be a bastard, and that the man he calls his father is not his father.
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Patience
Aug 23
Teen And Up Audiences
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ImprisonmentWhatever The Opposite Of Food Porn IsAdditional Warnings In Author's Note
John Barwyk has better things to do than wait for a man to die, and yet here he is.
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Strong As A Tower In Hope
Aug 16
Teen And Up Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
IntrospectionParenthoodMentions of PTSDWaiting For Canon To Happen
What would you have me do? I am a subject,
And challenge law: attorneys are denied me.Henry of Lancaster has had ample time to think over what he wants and what he intends to do. Not that this is a whole lot of help.
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Espoir, Desir
Aug 2
Henry IV/Richard II
Teen And Up Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
Pre-CanonSporty Medieval Teenagers
Henry Bolingbroke is an absurdly youthful jousting champion and a man of few words. But his cousin is King of England, so that has to count for something.
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of the first nothing the elixir grown
Jul 9
Not Rated
Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Additional Warnings ApplyStarvationCharacter DeathImprisonment
For now hath time made me his numbering clock–
At Pontefract, Richard waits, and waits, and waits.
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Ultima Forsan
Jun 20
canon levels of Richard II/Bushy/Bagot/Green
Mature
Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con
Additional Warnings ApplyImpending Canonical Character Death
Bushy and Green are shortly to be dead.
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either; neither; none
Jun 5
Duke of Aumerle/Richard II
Teen And Up Audiences
Major Character Death
Additional Warnings ApplyAU Via InactionAngst
Aumerle doesn’t kill his king, but he can’t save him, either.
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Perilous Beasts
Mar 30
Duke of Aumerle/Richard II
Mature
No Archive Warnings Apply
Hand JobsHand Feeding(Separately Not Together)mild orgasm denialDiscussion Of CollaringMildly Offputting Hunting ImageryNo Actual Hunting
Two kinsmen make an auspicious start to a hunting trip by avoiding their relatives and having sex in tents. (They’re very nice tents, though.)
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To Work And After, Holiday (High Hereford Mix)
Mar 25
background Bushy/Green/Richard IIHenry IV/Richard II
Teen And Up Audiences
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Skin ConditionsGraphic Description of CorpsesRSC-Inspiredpov swapAll Pairings Both Vague And Awful
You have misled a prince, a royal king,
A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
By you unhappied and disfigur’d clean…Henry thinks he’s being helpful. How cute.
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to win thy after-love
Mar 23
Henry IV/Duke of Aumerlementions of Richard II/Duke of Aumerle
Explicit
Rape/Non-Con
Extremely Dubious ConsentPost DepositionSuicidal ThoughtsRSC compliant
Aumerle lives to regret many things.
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To Work And After, Holiday
Dec 28
Bagot/Bushy/Green/Richard IIHenry IV/Richard II
Mature
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Graphic Description of CorpsesSpite KissesEmotional Baggage
–For ’twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood
From off my hands, here in the view of men
I will unfold some causes of your deaths.This has all happened before, and it is happening again.
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Old / New
Dec 23
Duke of Aumerle/Richard II
Teen And Up Audiences
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Post-CanonMentions of SuicideFamilySemi-Dysfunctional YorksCanonical Character DeathYuletide Treat
Aumerle doesn’t seek absolution.
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A Dear Account
Nov 30
Richard II/Thomas Mowbray
Teen And Up Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
Richard likes secrets, and Mowbray likes oaths.
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Faded And Were All Undone
Nov 25
Henry IV/Richard IIpast Richard II/Anne of Bohemiapast Henry IV/Mary de Bohunpast Richard II/Robert de Verepast Richard II/Bushy/Bagot/Green
Mature
Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Consent IssuesForced MarriageIntercrural SexHaphazard WorldbuildingExchanges Of PowerUnhappy SexmonarchsExtremely Dubious Consent
Jonathan was much the happier, being mourned by one king and loved by two, and do not the loves and griefs of kings exceed those of other men?
Or, capture and death.
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Vis et Voluntas
Aug 28
14th Century CE RPF Richard II - Shakespeare
General Audiences
No Archive Warnings Apply
AdolescenceUnnecessarily Complex Dice GamesPodfic AvailablePodfic Length: 0-10 Minutes
Young Richard looks too deeply into the workings of chance.
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just a fish in the atlantic
Aug 4
The Hollow Crown (2012) Richard II - Shakespeare
Henry IV/Richard II
Mature
No Archive Warnings Apply
Alternate Universe - Modern SettingAlternate Universe - OfficePantiesPlot What Plot/Porn Without Plot
Well, it’s not quite a hairshirt.