6 Works by wickmachine
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The Executioner of Skalitz by wickmachine
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
05 May 2026
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As Executioner he would be a pariah, an outcast. Radzig would never have to look upon the living face of his most embarrassing mishap for as long as he lived. Henry would be off, tucked away; safely outside the confines of town and hidden from the eyes of the world. Not even the latrine diggers would see him...
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After the sack of Skalitz, Henry approaches his father, the noble Sir Radzig, for aid. Though rather than taking on the mantle of squirehood, Henry instead finds himself shunted into the ostracised position of Rattay's local executioner - a perfect locale for hiding one's motifying baseborn son.Exciled and outcast, Henry lives for many years alone. Until a chance meeting with a young nobleman changes everything...
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Back in Prague, the sophisticated Black Bartosch had suffered from an abundance of lovers. Though here in Trosky, there was naught but loneliness and drought. For a formerly decorated tourney champion and soldier of Prague's very own Royal Garrison, the provincial little town seemed a backwater by comparison.
Henry of Skalitz had made for a wonderful divergence from Bartosch's woes when he'd arrived in Trosky. Though when his hopes for a fling are unfortunately dashed by that toff Capon, the only benefit is that the reserved Captain Thomas is spurred into action.
And what did Thomas expect? That the worldly and handsome Bartosch would remain here and unclaimed in Trosky forever? He'd surely been a fool when he'd called time on their fleeting romance. Does he have time to win his Black Cat back?
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This story kicks off on the eve before Nebakov. Minimal Henry and Hans mentioned. This tale is about Thomas and Bartosch.
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Hans was very drunk. They had sat together, side by side by the fire. The young lordling was near dosing; his eyes shuttered at half-mast. His gilded lashes were very long, and cast shadows upon the panes of his high cheeks.
Pretty. He was very pretty. The thought was upon Henry before he could outrun it. The other lad was very drunk, and his eyes were glazed and unseeing. Unchecked, Henry was left to look his fill. And, furthermore, he found himself much too sotted to care, let alone chastise himself for the impropriety.
Hans confided, that he had once fancied himself in love with a bathhouse whore. Her name had been Klara. He had brought her flowers. She had preferred some other fellow though, and now she would not entertain him. He wasn't sad about it, though.
And then, the young nobleman had said the queerest thing. So queer, that Henry had turned his words, over and over in his head since laying down upon his bedroll.
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This works is based around the events of KCD1, with the added element of a romance between Henry and Hans.
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- Part 1 of KCD Stories
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This work is an accompaniment to the larger works Everything is Permitted. Extra Lucas tidbits!
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- Part 2 of KCD Stories
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The Boy with the Thorn in his Side by wickmachine
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
13 Apr 2025
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Were Istvan a superstitious man, he would have supposed the boy to be an omen. The harrowed face of him; pale hair, pale eyes, pale skin. Spectral in his loveliness. As quiet as the grave. He did not even know how old he was. He might be seventeen or seventy. He was old, yet he was innocence. He since stopped belonging to the constraints of time, when everyone who had ever known him had died. Now that there was nobody left to know, Erik existed in a frame that was entirely his own. The world belonged to nobody but himself, and he was a reflection of it.
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This story explores the meeting of Erik and Istvan, and eventually, Erik's healing and redemption.
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Where Will You Sleep Tonight? by wickmachine
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
26 Mar 2025
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He heard the bed creak, though he did not even deign to open his eyes. Peculiar for a man so watchful. But as all things; Zizka already knew. He laid upon his back, with his hands folded lightly across his stomach. Against his arm, he felt the gentle heat of another body. She'd be curled in a ball, no doubt. And rubbing her feet slow together like a cricket. That was her method of self-soothing. That, along with his presence, apparently. Zizka did not forsake her that.
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Katherine always felt safe sleeping at Jan's side. He expects nothing of her, and the two of them have come to enjoy their nightly talks.