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    В ходе неудачной пьянки Гриф теряет память. Артемий вызывается помочь ему всё вспомнить.

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    The Town and the Kin, an Odongh had once whispered, were sewn together wrong. The plague had torn those old connections apart, and it was left to Artemy Burakh to suture the severed halves back together in a better way. Blood could, and would, flow through them as one common body. And it would, and must, start with solidarity.

    This, too, could be its own form of utopia.

    In which Artemy unionises the butchers and workers, strikes against the rulers, and finds a new way to unite the Town.

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    Daniil Dankovsky was spiralling. There was no other word for it. As much as he wanted to go back to his comfortable academic life in the Capital, he found himself rotting in it instead. Past research in ruins and any ambitions of a new one pushed aside in favour of alcohol and pointless wallowing. The putrid air of smoke-filled bars and busy streets suffocated him just as the plague had. So, before he could properly think about it, he paid his way onto the first coal supply train to town-on-Gorkhon and turned up on Burakh’s doorstep unannounced, but more welcomed than he would have expected.
    In which Daniil Dankovsky confronts his existential crisis in the comfort of the Burakh household, while flirting his way into Artemy’s bed. Other shenanigans ensue
    (Not dead-dove but do mind the tags)

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    After shooting himself, Daniil wakes up five years in the future as the husband of the Haruspex.

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    Day unknown, in which an opportunity arises for one Artemiy Burakh, and he decides to take it.

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    Думал, после ужасов ковыряния в потрохах паразитированной беременной бычихи против обычаев Уклада хуже удара уже не хватит, так вот — погубил! Погубит всех!..

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    One foot in front of the other; the wheels keep on turning.

    Left hand following the right; the gears whir in motion.

    Breathe in and breathe out; the fuel is refilled, ready to provide.

    If Thanatica required the public’s support to exist, Daniil Dankovsky had to function solely on belief in his own self. Or else they’d both fail.

    ***

    Written for Pathologic Fest 2025: Day 1 - Mechanism

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    Daniil cleared his throat.

    “The Powers That Be are the embodiment of order. There are always threads in the universe that dare to hang loose, and like a moth to a flame, they are always there to tug on them. The Powers That Be unravel everything simply to see what falls.”

    “So what? The plague is... it's all gone.”

    Daniil noted the slight tremor in Artemy’s voice. Artemy Burakh also lost many things in the chaos. He must also suffer from the nightmares. He must.

    “They wanted me to die in the plague along with Aglaya and Block and yet, the more information they received from us, the more they urged us to cure the incurable. To preserve the town. Do you hear me? They will not leave a town of miracles alone. It may not be right away… but they will send someone.”

    -

    There's no choice but to build a new life and live with the consequences, and so they do. But the events of the plague left deep wounds with the pain and fear of loss ever looming.

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    14/30
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    — Он причиняет боль, Медведь. Ты это знаешь.
    — Да. Но он и лечит. То, что мы видели в нем тогда, было отражением нас самих. Он стал тем, кем должен был, чтобы делать свою работу. Мы с ним враждовали, Стах. Представь, каково было нам и каково это было для чужака... каково чужаку до сих пор. — Артемий опустил взгляд. Чума закончилась несколько месяцев назад, и все же они относились к Данковскому как к чужаку. Он сам относился к себе как к чужаку. Как-то иначе называть его было бы неискренне... и все равно это казалось неправильным.
    — Конечно. Людям нужно приспосабливаться к окружающей среде, чтобы выживать. Но змеи не приспосабливаются, когда сбрасывают кожу, не превращаются во что-то новое. Они еще больше становятся собой, — медленно сказал Рубин, глядя на фирменный плащ Даниила на вешалке и подбирая слова осторожно и тщательно.

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    Chapters:
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    Он заперт в Каменном Дворе с ними всеми: горсткой уцелевших горожан, выжившим из ума Судьей, неизвестным разносчиком заразы. И призраком Бураха.

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    Chapters:
    1/1
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    8
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    30
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    So what if his former associates thought of him as a lowlife? So what if he was disgraced from academia? So long as he was still welcomed back into the town-on-Gorkhon, nothing else mattered.
    With quivering hands, he picked up the letter and carefully opened it as though he was afraid something would jump out at him from inside it. But nothing had changed, it was the exact same as when he had first read it a week ago.

    Bachelor Daniil Dankovsky,
    There is another way.
    — Victoria Olgimskaya Sr., The Light Mistress.

    Yes, there was hope for him still, and hope he would cling to till death did them part.

    ———

    Over a year later, Daniil Dankovsky returns to the Town, with a letter from a dead woman and a ticking time bomb inside his own body, in a last-ditch effort to defeat death.

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    Chapters:
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    47
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    4
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    Артемий так и не сумел как следует связать то, что разорвал отец. Зато обрел нечто ценное.

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    13
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    Recruiting a stalker that came straight out of the Zone is a shitty job. And Dankovsky is used to shitty jobs.
    (from chapter 5, unofficial translation)

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    Chapters:
    4/12
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    22
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    Recruiting a stalker that came straight out of the Zone is a shitty job. And Dankovsky is used to shitty jobs.

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    Chapters:
    5/5
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    16
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    Following a year of imprisonment and his escape at Artemy Burakh’s hands, Daniil Dankovsky has spent two months hidden safely in Artemy’s home. Despite a challenging history and a mixed reputation, it might soon be safe for Daniil to step outside. To resume some form of (marginally) public life, it seems a logical first step to start with a few trusted acquaintances.

    …A dinner party with all of them may not have been the best idea.

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    1 September 2165 will be remembered as a momentous day that rattled the scientific world and upended what humanity thought was possible.

    On this day, Thanatica Laboratories completed its greatest project yet: the AVA, a robot that carries within it the sum of a human being. It is a rebirth most marvelous. A breakthrough like never before.

    And most sacrilegiously, a Focus for none other than the soul of Daniil Dankovsky, the man who dreamed of defeating Death.

    Ad Vitam Aeternam.

    -----

    A 22nd century Thanatica AU with some illustrated chapters.

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    14/?
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    Daniil has purpose now, and that can be enough. He can make it be. He’d lived on the dregs of nothing but self assignment and discipline for years and he’d gotten by, had gone as far as town on Gorkhon on the half life of his own ambitions. Daniil knows he can grasp a field of study with both hands, knows that despite all that has occurred in the dark and wrinkled skein of the year behind him—there is this. Purpose.

    His old life restored, in a fashion, though decidedly less fashionable. Daniil finds he hardly minds. And after all of it, after each and every day of purpose, he’ll have a warm bed to return to and a beloved body to lie alongside.

    Or: After a fraught and roundabout journey back to one another, Daniil and Artemy take their first steps into a shared future.

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    Comments:
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    32
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    4
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    I'm cornered. I'll never be able to look the people I've failed to protect in the eye. My allies will end up in prison or exile, my research... in fire.

    When the plague was cured, the Polyhedron destroyed, and the Haruspex victorious, Daniil Dankovsky did not remain in the town on the Gorkhon. Instead, wise to his presence and determined for retribution, the Inquisitor and the Army brought him back to the capital to be tried for his research—for crimes against natural reality, and therefore against the Powers That Be. After a year in prison, he has at last been sentenced to death... and there is only so long one man can fight against fate before he finally submits to the inevitable.

    Artemy Burakh has no intention of letting that happen.

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    English
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    54,981
    Chapters:
    11/11
    Comments:
    89
    Kudos:
    104
    Bookmarks:
    17
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    1,843
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    “I’m not the same as you.”

    “Not in every way, no. But we’re the same sort of man. Doomed to fail to save this place and to suffer as we try.”

     

    ——

    Artemy Burakh finds Bachelor Dankovsky worse for wear at the Broken Heart.

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    1/1
    Comments:
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    The 678th day, in which the Haruspex contemplates haunting, ghosts, and mortality.

    Edit: Now with art by @blankgabulu <3

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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    11
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    43
    Bookmarks:
    8
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