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1. Build An Altar (Fix Your Heart) by Fractalspaces (LotusRox)

   Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   31 Jan 2023

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling
   • Dream of the Endless | Morpheus
   • Hob Gadling
   • Roderick Burgess
   • Death of the Endless
   • Alex Burgess
   • Paul McGuire (The Sandman)
   • Ethel Cripps
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Alternate Universe - Historical
   • Hob Gadling Saves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus from Roderick Burgess
   • Whump
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • occultism
   • Story within a Story
   • Mutual Pining
   • Slow Burn
   • Implied/Referenced Drug Use
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Experimental Style
   • POV Alternating
   • Literary References & Allusions
   • Historical Accuracy
   • Dream of the Endless | Morpheus is Bad at Feelings
   • Secret Societies
   • BAMF Hob Gadling
   • (Story ABOUT Stories)
   • Morpheus Can't Stop Writing His Own AUs
   • Hob Is An ADHD Icon (I'll die on this hill)
   • Love As (Literally) Undying Devotion
   • Hope
   • Surreal
   • Ascension
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • Character Death Fix

   Summary

   Hob had first stumbled upon, and then been dragged into this whole esoteric business. The chance of sating both his wanderlust and his loneliness had been to good to pass, and there he'd gone - Faking it until he'd made it. Conning this secret society at leisure, posing as the immortal Count of St. Germain. For once, he didn't have to lie about his age...

   ... And their books let him search for an echo of his Stranger in their lines. He'd keep his distance, he swore. But the loss of the one place he could return to always, the distress of this place being a person-- It had hit him hard.

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   (Or, Hob Gadling learns first hand why you don't impersonate another immortal, the perils of cult mentality, and why calling your Stranger your North Star isn't platonic. Not at all.)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   81,830

   Chapters:

   13/13

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