[FICATHON] Brittle Glory, for absinthe_shadow

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Title: Brittle Glory
Author: angevin2
Play: Richard II
Recipient: absinthe_shadow
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Richard II/Henry Bolingbroke, with subsidiary Richard/Anne of Bohemia and Richard/Robert de Vere
Warnings: There isn't really anything here that's any more disturbing than canon. Though there is a vague reference to ass-pokering (well, strictly speaking it only mentions the poker and not the ass, but we know where that poker is going).
Rating: PG
Summary: Kingship really, really messes people up.
Notes: Many thanks to lareinenoire for beta-reading, and to aris_tgd and commodorified for moral support.

( The first time Henry saw Richard after his father's death he was alone in the oratory, sitting on the floor rather than kneeling at a prie-dieu like you were supposed to do in a chapel, and before he could leave Richard turned and saw him and then he was trapped. )

[FICATHON] Still-Breeding Thoughts, for aris_tgd

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Title: Still-Breeding Thoughts
Author: assimbya
Play: Richard II
Recipient: aris_tgd
Character/Pairing: Richard, references to Richard/Bolingbroke and Richard/Aumerle
Warnings: References to sexuality, brief references to violence, Richard's thought processes.
Rating: PG
Summary: Alone in captivity, Richard muses and dreams.

( Within the small world of his prison, Richard dreams. )

[FICATHON] Cause and Most Accurs'd Effect, for casablancagirl

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Title: Cause and Most Accursed Effect
Author: elviaprose
Play: Richard III
Recipient: casablancagirl
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Richard/Anne
Rating: PG
Summary: He often woke in the night, though the memory of his dreams eluded him. Last night, though, he did not wake because he had not slept, listening instead to the muffled chiming of the hour until morning came. Last night was the last that he was Gloucester, tonight the first that he was King Richard.

( He often woke in the night, though the memory of his dreams eluded him. )

[FICATHON] I Shall Find Time, for elviaprose

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Title: I Shall Find Time
Author: gileonnen
Play: Richard II, Julius Caesar; would benefit from a knowledge of 1 Henry IV
Recipient: elviaprose
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Hotspur and Brutus; mentions of Hotspur/Kate and Brutus/Portia; much discussion of Cassius, Caesar, Bolingbroke (later Henry IV), and Richard II.
Warnings: Strong language, vague violence.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Two men consider the merits of civil war, political coups, and Manchester United. Spy AU.
Notes: Many thanks to lareinenoire, who was kind enough to beta-read this fic.

( They start taking lunch together sometime after the Woodstock Affair. )

[FICATHON] The Base-String of Humility, for fuunsaiki

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Title: The Base-String Of Humility
Author: speak_me_fair
Recipient: fuunsaiki
Play: Richard II/Henry IV, Part I.
Character(s): Hal, Poins, Henry IV, Hotspur, York.
Pairings: Hal/Poins
Rating/Warnings: Rated below an R, even with the slash. Set between Richard II and Henry IV part 1.
Summary: Hal's playing the game well, but he knows he's getting in over his head in more than one way…

( Hal sometimes thought that the one thing which could be said for having apartments of his own was that when, as occasionally and inevitably happened, he got a missive - a missile, a missive, it's the same thing, touches me where it hurts the most and leaves no mark because it makes no outward wound - from his father, he could have a fit of petulant, childish, uncontrollable temper involving every vaguely moveable object in the room, and there would be no-one who was brave or unwise enough to dare even to remark on it. )

[FICATHON] Teach Your (Parents and) Children Well, for <user site="livejournal.com" user="lareinenoi

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Title: Teach Your (Parents and) Children Well
Author: aris_tgd
Play: First tetralogy + Henry V
Recipient: lareinenoire
Characters: Richard Plantagenet (York), Richard Earl of Cambridge, Richard
III
Warnings: None beyond canon; if you, reader, feel as though some ought to
be added please let me know.
Rating: PG
Summary: Fatherhood and filial responsibility in a time of dynastic war.

( This was wrong. )

[FICATHON] Thou Cam'st On Earth To Make the Earth My Hell, for <user site="livejournal.com" user="th

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Title: Thou cam'st on earth to make the earth my hell.
Author: casablancagirl
Play: Richard III
Recipient: the_alchemist
Pairings: None. Well, there's a slight hint of Oedipus-complex!Richard, but no actual pairings. And there’s a mention of Richard/Anne, but that’s…only in passing, and it’s canon, anyway. Characters include Richard, his mother, his brothers, and sundry others.
Warnings: Odd mother-obsession.
Summary: Richard loves Richard. And possibly his mother.

( Mother – he never called her Mother )

[FICATHON] a note from your friendly neighborhood mod

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As of right now: all the fics we have have been posted! HOORAY. There are a couple of people who do not yet have one. The missing fics will be in shortly, I hope.

We've removed the author's notes lest info about beta-readers (and such) give away the game (this is what happens in a tiny tiny fandom where most of the writers know each other). They'll be restored after the reveal (which will be in a week).

Also, later this week I'm going to post the unclaimed prompts, in a sort of Histories Ficathon Madness gesture! So that will be fun.

[FICATHON] Mine Honour Lives, for angevin2

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Title: Mine Honour Lives
Author: gileonnen
Play: Richard II
Recipient: angevin2
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Richard/(Edward, the Duke of) Aumerle, Anne/Aumerle, implications of Anne/Richard/Aumerle, mentions of Richard/Robert de Vere and Richard/Anne; small Poins and Hal cameos
Warnings: Cousins in love, post-coital touching, death, rotting. Not all at once.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Aumerle is unwilling to accept the official story on Richard's death, and unwilling to move on. Present-day AU.

( Mine Honour Lives )

[FICATHON] Broken Music, for assimbya

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Title: Broken Music
Author: lareinenoire
Play: Henry VI and Richard III
Recipient: assimbya
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Margaret of Anjou and Lady Anne Neville
Rating: PG13
Warnings: None
Summary: Edward had requested--he had not begged; her son would never beg, not if she could help it--that she be kind to his bride. And so Margaret would. For his sake. And, perhaps, in memoriam, for a young French princess who had crossed the sea to marry a man she had never met for an alliance she did not understand.
Notes: The plays contradict themselves regarding the ages and birth order of Anne and Isabel Neville; Anne is described as the eldest in 3HVI, and in R3 as the younger. I will be following R3, which reflects the historically correct order. Title comes from Henry V, V.ii.240. Many thanks to rosamund and angevin2 for beta-reading!

( Broken Music )

[FICATHON] Into this Breathing World, for elviaprose

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Title: Into This Breathing World
Author: gileonnen
Play: Richard II, Richard III
Recipient: elviaprose
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Richard II/Richard III, mentions of Richard II/Anne of Bohemia, Richard III/Anne Neville, Richard II/Robert de Vere
Warnings: Dodgy history; dodgy geography; potentially dodgy architecture.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: There's none else by: Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Notes: The author would like to thank lareinenoire for all of the helpful beta-reading and feedback.

( Richard's first friend is a servant, he thinks--a quick-eyed, narrow-fingered boy who steals into the princess's gardens when the boughs are heavy with blossoms and the thickets leaf-roughened. )

[FICATHON] Burnt Offering, for faithhopetricks

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Title: Burnt Offering
Author: absinthe_shadow
Play: Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV
Recipient: faithhopetricks
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Richard/Henry, Richard/Aumerle (with references to Richard/Anne and Henry/Mary).
Warnings: Angst and some ickiness.
Rating: R
Summary: February 1413, July 1399: Henry and Aumerle. And, of course, Richard.

( His glittering arms he will commend to rust )

[FICATHON] The Booke of Oure Foundresses, for roz_mcclure

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Title: The Booke of Oure Foundresses

Author: the_alchemist

Play: Henry VI Part 2 

Recipient: roz_mcclure

Character(s)/Pairing(s): Margaret/Suffolk
Warnings: Quite a lot of exuberant sex, not very graphically described; egregious anachronism; a smidgeon of melancholy, and some heavy-handed dramatic irony.

Rating: 15

Historical Notes:
- Margaret calls Suffolk Jack or Jackanapes because Wikipedia says his nickname was Jack Napes, so it must be true.
- Queens' College Cambridge was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville and in 1484, Richard said the college existed by the "patronage of our aforesaid consort".
Note of ThanksThanks to my beta readers atreic and borusa.

Summary: Margaret tries to go off for a dirty weekend with Suffolk, but ends up accidentally founding a college instead.



( To whosoever discovers this volume, a warning. )

[FICATHON] Unexpected, for speak_me_fair

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Title: Unexpected
Author: shayheyred
Play: Richard II
Recipient: speak_me_fair
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Richard II/Henry Bolingbroke, Richard/others (implied)
Warnings: M/M sex, 2nd person POV
Rating: R
Summary: You remember when you were his favorite, and he yours.

( Richard is tall. )

[FICATHON] To Pluck Bright Honor From the Top of the World, Ma, for <user site="livejournal.com" use

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Title: To pluck bright honor from the top of the world, Ma
Author: roz_mcclure
Recipient: gileonnen
Rating: 15 (for swears)
Pairings: Hotspur/Kate, kind of Hotspur/Douglas
Warnings: Guns and liquor
Summary: IF Hotspur were a police commander in the 1930s, AND also everyone in the story were genderswapped, THEN he might look like Katharine Hepburn, and anachronisms and tacked-on happy endings would probably abound.
Author's note: Shakespeare condensed characters from the history, and I've condensed characters from the Shakespeare! Another few rounds of this and Hotspur will be the only character in the entire story.

( It wasn't raining during the medal ceremony, for once, although the promise of it was heavy enough in the air to make Harriet's hair frizz under her blue cap. )

[FICATHON] Sans peur et sans reproche, for shayheyred

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Title: Sans peur et sans reproche
Author: lareinenoire
Play: Henry V
Recipient: shayheyred
Characters/Pairings: Constable of France
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: A disease in the blood, some whispered. A curse on the house of Valois. Perhaps that was what had brought the English, for, surely, the son of a man who had murdered an anointed King should have been struck down long ere this.
Notes: Your proper fic will be up shortly. We just wanted to make sure everybody got something today.

( The rain, which had plagued them ever since their departure from Péronne, had finally spent itself, content to spit a few fitful drops every now and again across the camp. )