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Marco’s Splendid Chest by island_of_reil

Rating: T

Words: 351

Pairing: Marco/The Rat

Characters: Marco Loristan, The Rat

Additional Tags: Crack, Double Entendre, Bad Puns

Summary: Marco has a magnificent chest, and the Rat enjoys looking at it and fondling it.

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Five Times Marco Reproduced in a Special Loristan Way, and One Time He Did It the Standard Way by island_of_reil

Rating: T

Words: 9422

No Archive Warnings Apply

Pairing: Marco/The Rat

Characters: Marco Loristan, Stefan Loristan, The Rat, Lazarus, The Old Priest, Original Characters

Additional Tags: Crack, Sex Education, Reproductive Weirdness, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Egg Laying, Implied Mpreg, HOW IS LORISTAN FORMED, 5 + 1 Things
Summary: Loristans are very special people. They don’t produce children through anything so common and mundane as heterosexual fucking. (Well, okay, maybe that one time, they did.)

Inspiration: "Most Fervently" by halotolerant.

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Lover and Scholar by island_of_reil

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: The Lost Prince, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Rating: M

Word count: 6383

No archive warnings

Relationships: The Rat/Original Female Character; Marco Loristan/The Rat (past)

Characters: The Rat, Original Female Character

Additional Tags: Internalized Ableism, Angst, Intercrural Sex, Heavy Petting, Post-Canon, 1920s

Summary: The Rat is in love with Antonija, the American-born daughter of the Samavian scholar who tutored her alongside the Rat and Marco. Antonija wants to spend her life with the Rat. But she also wants to follow in her father’s footsteps, and she is leaving Samavia to study abroad. The Rat fears he may lose her someday to a man who can stand up straight and walk without crutches. Even more than that, he fears she might die trying to bear any child he could give her.

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Vassal (32,437 words) by island_of_reil
Status: Complete (2 of 2 chapters)
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Marco Loristan/The Rat, Marco Loristan/Original Female Character, The Rat/Original Male Character
Characters: Marco Loristan, The Rat, The Emperor's Favorite (Prince Rudolf of Vienna), Original Female Characters, Original Male Characters
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Threats of Rape/Non-Con, Implied/Referenced Torture, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Ableism, Execution, Hanging, Infidelity, Angst
Additional Tags: Loyalty, Political Intrigue, 1920s
Summary: It is six years after the events of "Lord and Liege." Happy in his marriage to Paulina, who has since borne two little princes and a princess, Marco has been able to resist his longing for the Rat. In the meantime, the Rat has attached himself romantically to a nobleman whom Marco does not fully trust.
     Marco has enacted some reforms to Samavian law, but nowhere near enough. When the nobility’s violent opposition put the Rat in danger, Marco gave up on reform temporarily. But he cannot do so forever, especially not with the threat of the Soviets so close at hand. The Rat suggests they quietly slip away to his lover’s remote mountain dacha to work on the reforms without opposition or the attention of spies. In this peaceful rural setting, they must acknowledge what they are to one another — and face grave danger.

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