20 Works in Hades (The Magicians)

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    Prompt: You’re standing on the edge of something new, unknown. The person walking ahead never looks back, it’s impossible to get ahead of them or see their face. You can only walk next to them and show them the direction.

    Orpheus and Eurydice with a little twist. Eliot goes to the Underworld to save Quentin, but what if he ends up being the one who needs to be saved?

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    Eliot finds among Jane Chatwin’s things perhaps a way to bring back Quentin—but it comes at an enormous personal cost: during the ritual, Eliot is stripped of his Shade completely. Violently ripping the reigning Dark King from the throne, Eliot assumes the mantle of Dark High King—a truly malevolent force who will do anything to get Quentin back. Even if it means he becomes somebody the man he loves won’t recognize when Eliot rescues Quentin from the Underworld. By any means necessary.

    —summary from you want it darker? || dark king eliot [graphic fanmix] by victoriaandalbert

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    He can see it, then, at the edge of what must be Elysium. A familiar estate. He walked there with Julia, once upon a time. The house that Hades and Persephone built, full of shades and full of souls.

     

    A curious part of his mind wonders if it’s possible to walk there.

     

    It’s pretty far off the garden path. 

    or: Penny 40 plays underworld babysitter. Quentin learns that being dead is kind of boring when you don’t have friends to keep you company.

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    In timeline 23, Quentin’s missing part of his soul.
    In timeline 40, Eliot’s missing his soulmate.

    Two people cross paths, and nothing changes (or everything does).

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    After Quentin's bonfire funeral Alice travels to another world to have a second chance, if she only knew..

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    “He had given up for one single moment. It figured that clawing his way out of the Underworld and fighting for his right to live would be harder than anything else he had done before.”

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    Quentin Coldwater decides he wants to live.

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    i’ve been told that writing a letter is supposed to be cathartic. something about saying the things i never said and, in some cases, still can’t say out loud. the unspoken and the unspeakable. that’s what everyone’s been saying. i know that what they really mean is that it’s supposed to help me move on, though.

    i don’t think i want to. not yet.

    after quentin dies, eliot writes him letters

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    Quentin feels like he’s in mourning, in his own widower’s blacks somewhere deep underground. It hurts with every fibre in his being, but he musters up whatever inadequate bravery he still has inside him that didn't get left with the people he loves, and looks up at the screen.

    And then Eliot adjusts his grip on the peach, staring into the fire with an identical flame in his eyes. “No,” he says instead, “fuck this.”

    Quentin drops the mug, Eliot takes a bite of the peach, and the earth shakes beneath their feet.

    or, Julia and Eliot refuse to let this be the end.

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    Eliot and Quentin have been secretly dating for a while, one by one their friends find out. Not that they realize that right away.

    ((8 times the group catches El and Q being domestic plus 1 time that Hades does them a favor.

    I can’t tell you exactly where it takes place like it’s the original timeline but also changed because I imagined them getting together A LOT sooner in this.))

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    They were going to get Quentin back. All they had to do was face his best and worst memories of them, as a group. Simple enough, right?

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    Eliot realized too late that he loved Quentin through all of it, so instead of backing down when the love of his life died, he chose to find a different solution.

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    “Listen to me Eliot, let me make this perfectly fucking clear,” Margo enunciated every word, looking between his eyes solemnly as she cradled his face in her hands, “We’re getting that boy back, do you hear me? I don’t give a shit which universal laws we break, I don’t care what gods we kill, I don’t care what price we pay. We are getting Quentin Coldwater the fuck back.”

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    post 4x13 canon divergent (literally throw the whole fifth season in the trash)

    would you trust in a light that you cannot see?

    It is said, when you move on, that you go to where you are needed most but sometimes where you are needed most is exactly where you left in the first place.

    While the Dark King has reduced the kingdom of Fillory to ashes, Eliot recovers from his wounds at the Mosaic Cottage, Margo is on the war path for her throne, Julia searches for her true purpose, Alice tries to fix everything she broke with a little help, Kady stands on the frontlines, and Quentin tries his very best to make it back home, but it proves to be more challenging than any warning could've predicted. Magic is unpredictable, causing disruptions and devastations across the universe and there is only one person who may be able to make it right.

    Spoiler: this story will have a happy ending.

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    Hades gestured for Julia to take a seat. “My wife wanted you to have a choice, a choice that was taken from you. I'm here to give it back.”

    Goddess Julia works out a deal to bring Quentin back to life, but there's a catch. He only has 3 days to find and kiss his true love, or he'll return to the Underworld. And he has to do it all without his voice. DISCONTINUED

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    Something in Eliot broke because he had wanted to remain strong. If he let himself cry over it, it would be real and that meant he was really dead and he wasn't going to be there for the rest of Eliot's life.

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    On the tablet Eliot saw a webpage from the New York Daily News, and at the top was a picture of an old woman, holding her own death certificate and smiling. The headline said, "DEAD RISE AGAIN IN QUEENS, BROOKLYN."

    Margo said, "You bitches better sober up, because this is a massive goddamn problem, and it just might get us our friend back."
     

    Even in the middle of tragedy, sometimes you can have a cosmically lucky accident.

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    In which Eliot is a great singer and Hades is a good guy, but that doesn't make everything easy.

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    Eliot will crawl to the Underworld and beg, if he has to.

    *

    Or, inspired by ancient myth, Eliot decides that he can't give up on Q. He promised he would be brave, didn't he?

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    When Quentin dies, he meets Hades and is given a choice by the god.

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    Margo steps up to the fire with his crown in her hands, she stands still for a minute, holding it tight to her chest as she reminisces, and then leans over to put it in the fire.

    Right as she leans over to drop it into the fire, she looks up and around at all of them, and her eyes fall on him and Penny.

     

    or, how it should've happened!

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