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Works which have used it as a tag:

• The Wound Is Where the Light Enters You by HowLovelyYellowIs

  Fandoms: Original Work, No Fandom  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • Other
  • Complete Work

  23 Dec 2024

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • The One That Is Dying & The One That Is Living
  • The One That Is Dying
  • The One That Is Living
  • And Everything In Between - Character
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Depends on your definition of 'happy'
  • Platonic Relationships
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Kind Of
  • Graphic Description of Corpses
  • Graphic Description
  • Nature
  • Sad with a Happy Ending
  • Trans Male Character
  • I Wrote This While Listening to Adrianne Lenker's Music
  • Song: Womb (Adrianne Lenker)
  • Song: my angel (Adrianne Lenker)
  • Song: come (Adrianne Lenker)
  • Not Beta Read
  • We Die Like Men
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • References to Anne Boonchuy's Death (Amphibia)
  • Child Death
  • Character Rot
  • Character Decay
  • Redemption
  • Dubious Morality
  • Morally Ambiguous Character
  • Awaiting death
  • Growth
  • No literally like there are plants growing on the character
  • Though it can be metaphorical too
  • I'll let you interpret which name belongs to which character
  • Sibling Bonding
  • two sides of the same coin
  • Fluff and Humor
  • Slow Death
  • Hurt/Comfort

  Summary

  "See, he hopes he suggests. He should’ve learned sign language before this moment, but he feels his lungs slowing and his eyes are heavy. This is for the greater good. Because while he festers and swells, rots and decays, and the putrid smell comes from this body, it leaves the mark of something new and beautiful, and he does believe he has a good heart, a non-decaying and beating one that’s blood red - still incapable of love, however..."

  Or,

  A child waits for his death, itches for it– not that he can really itch. Too much energy, and speaking of energy, when will this star rise so he can die? Living isn't free, you know.

  OR,

  What would normally be the reason for life and everything shining is a fourteen-year old's death. And what a death it was, shining and all.
  No, literally, He was shining.

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Lighthouse in the Storm

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,270

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Hits:

  8