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an offering for safe return (Podfic)

Summary:

“You don’t respect me,” Richard growled. “You need to.”
Primal fear swirled in his gut. In another time, another place, Richard’s people would be chasing him down in his childhood, snapping up his body with rows of too-sharp teeth, tearing him open wide and bloody across the ice.

 

Connor, a selkie, works as a diver monitoring the Arctic Circle. He hopes that compliance with the military will one day result in his freedom, but under pressure from his Captain, his crewmates, and a new selkie diver, he begins to crack.

Notes:

MAJOR WARNINGS!!

-Rape: There's two rapes, neither of which are explicit during, but one which involves more clearly described interactions afterwards. Additionally, Connor dreams of a more violent version of the rape, which is somewhat more explicit. Non-consensual touching later on also occurs.
-(Unsuccessful) Suicide Attempt via drowning/suffocation.
-Homophobic Language/Sexual Harassment - directed at said rape victim. Also a bit of internalized homophobia/Connor processing the comments and insults he faces.
This fic is not RK17; RK900 (Richard) is a rapist.

Connor gets a happy ending.

ETC.
Visit the author, saltwater_oracle, to give them kudos and check out Connor and Richard's seal vocalisations.

Work Text:

Hello, 

I haven't posted in a while…I've been sitting on the unedited audio for years and finally sat down and finished it up.

Thank you Saltwater_oracle for giving me permission to podfic their amazing story! I'm really sorry it took so long to finally upload it. I really enjoyed recording it and I'm honored share it with others in a different format :D

 

Without further ado,

Please click here to download.

Thank you for listening! :) 

 

I've included thorough tagging at the beginning of this podfic due to the sensitive nature of some of the content. 

Please  be mindful of the tags. 

I hope it goes without saying, but this is a work of fiction and any violent or harmful actions depicted are not condoned and should never cross into the real world.