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  1. Summary

    An exploration of growing relationships, bonding, and friendship between Maxwell Gotch and Torse, as well as an exploration of post canon adventures gone horrible wrong.

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  2. Summary

    Rednecks is about Hick Vampires.
    It's also a queer, slow-burn love story between two men so deeply broken on their own that when they fumble their way across Appalachia they mess stuff up for everyone else too.

    There's supernatural intrigue, subterfuge, double-lives, secret societies, cryptids, cryptid-hunters and so much toe-curling angst that the rating has to be high.

    Settle in for a long time. We're still debating on the tense for writing this sucker.

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    It would have been a lot easier, probably, if they could have fallen in love while Torse was still here. But count on them to do things the hard way, of course.

    Also: holy shit, you're thirty.

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    28 Dec 2025

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    just so freakin good

  2. Rec 16

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    He has learned this lesson. He has. He can want companionship, and accept allyship. He can want trust, and accept tolerance. He can want solace, and accept shelter.

    (He can want worthiness for iron, and accept gold.)

    He knows better than to ask for more than he’s offered. He knows how to want so quietly no one else ever hears it. Torse is painfully aware that the transaction ends when the hand retracts.

    He tightens one fist around the other, substituting pressure for heat. 
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    Or, Torse asks for what he wants. And gets it. (Physical affection. From Maxwell, specifically.)

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    26 Dec 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    He does not know how to stop playing the part of tamed monster, even in the presence of someone who sees him as a man.

    Are you kidding me with this line.

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    It’d been a month or so since…everything happened—and Sonic’s nightmares had shown no sign of granting him mercy. Sometimes he would jerk awake in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, gasping for breath; other times, his eyes would snap open and he would be gripping his blankets with trembling hands, as if his body wanted to reach out and save Shadow.

    Today, he woke up feeling completely numb all over, his muzzle drenched from fresh tears. The morning sun was just barely rising over the horizon, streaks of light peeking through the circular window on the ceiling and bathing the floorboards of the attic in warm orange.

    How cruel was it that mornings were so beautiful when Shadow couldn’t be here to see it?

    OR: Shadow isn’t dead. Sonic just doesn’t realize it until he catches Shadow on the Wachowski’s security camera, sneaking into the house night after night.

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    18 Jan 2025

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    Fluffy Fluffy Fluff Fluff

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    Sonic dreams of alternate universes. He has for the last couple weeks since he and Shadow returned to the restored Green Hill. Sometimes he finds himself wondering if any of it happened at all, or if it was just a dream. He has nothing to prove that it was real.

    Nothing, of course, except for the strange looks Shadow's been giving him.

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    16 Jan 2025

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    Super cute and Short Shadow for the WIN

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    Six months ago Shadow the Hedgehog died. Maddie hadn’t known much about this other hedgehog besides his allegiance to the Robotniks and his assault on Tom, so she was a little hesitant when Sonic insisted on having a symbolic funeral for him. Her son, almost to tears, explained Shadow’s history, his friend Maria, his change of heart, and his eventual sacrifice to save Earth. Maddie realized, much like her own sons, that Shadow was a kid who hurt a lot. But unlike her boys, he had no proper guidance, no place to call home, and no one to love him unconditionally. They held the funeral in their background and Sonic performed the eulogy, even though he only learned about the word ten minutes before. Maddie was proud of her sons’ empathy and maturity—even Knuckles refrained from punching anything unnecessarily.

    Five months ago gifts began showing up on their doorstep.

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    13 Jan 2025

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    Perfect Shadow and Maddie bonding.