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Assassin's Creed Odyssey Fanfiction

Three long fics and a bunch of shorts, drabble, and incomplete fics. Multiple ships, mostly mlm, some het.

All works are rated M unless otherwise noted, because there is canon-typical violence at times and there are multiple mild sex scenes. Some of these works are explicit - please be sure to check before reading if you aren't into that.

All on AO3 unless otherwise noted.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey Fanfiction

The Good Spartan

aka. the Alexidas The Good Spartan Summary: It's 431 BCE. Brasidas prepares to take up his first major posting, unaware of all that lays before him in the coming years of the Peloponnesian War. The story is told almost entirely from Brasidas' perspective and follows him from before his first major historical action at Methone to his last, at Amphipolis. This is a crossover between AC Odyssey and Thucydides' history, The Peloponnesian War, favouring Thucydides. I am being as historically accurate as I can, game canon is paid lip service at best. Historical notes are included at the end of each chapter.

Another Life: [Alternative Ending of The Good Spartan]. Summary: Brasidas survives the Battle of Amphipolis, thanks to Alexios' visit to the Underworld; but even before the battle, he knew he'd never go back to Sparta. He's no longer a good Spartan, nor willing to make the sacrifices required to go on pretending to be one. He just needs to persuade Alexios, and recover from his wounds… and together, find somewhere they might have a little peace.

Hunger, Desire, Anger, Roads [WIP] A collection of short pieces of writing and some art associated with characters (including OCs) and events around The Good Spartan, as it's currently published and alternative versions. These include threads taken from the original version of the fic and reworked; alternative points of view which develop characters who necessarily have no voice in the published fic; and a variety of other exploratory pieces set within this AU. They're all part of the framework around which The Good Spartan grew - and continues to grow.

Another Kind of Odyssey

aka. the Thalexios The Warmth of Home Summary: After the events of Odyssey, Alexios has been hiding from the world, loitering in the northern regions of Greece. When he decides to return to Athens for the winter, Demosthenes seeks him out for a job only he can do - whether he wants to or not. This leads him to cross paths with Thaletas again, discovering that this old flame burns the brightest of all.

Love Me in Storms [WIP] Summary: Following on from the Warmth of Home, Alexios and Thaletas face the challenge of making their relationship clear to their families back in Sparta, with mixed results. This fic fills in some relatively large gaps left between the original Warmth of Home (now completely rewritten) and Unfinished Business (rewrite currently underway), as well as taking some of the plot points out of Unfinished Business entirely and putting them here, in this new context. This is necessary to smooth over some serious timeline problems

Unfinished Business Summary: Stentor arrives at Stymphalos, where Thaletas and Alexios settled four years previously. He comes with a message: Alcibiades is in Sparta, and wants to see Alexios - urgently. Answering this request will sweep them into events they could not foresee. I’ve used many historical details to make this story and glossed over some others. I’ve added footnotes to expand on all of that, including references where applicable.

The Turning Tide Summary: Spring, 413BCE. The Peace of Nikias has ended. Sparta and Athens are at one another's throats again. Before the Peace, Sparta was having few successes; but they have a plan they hope will turn the tide against Athens... Against this backdrop of renewed hostilities, Alexios and Thaletas are called upon to complete a mission for King Agis, which will test them and their relationship in ways they haven’t been tested before...

In the Heart of Things Summary: 412BCE. Reunited after a difficult year, Alexios and Thaletas have been sent to Chios by King Agis to keep an eye on the situation there as the theatre of the Peloponnesian War shifts eastwards, into the islands. There, they will discover more than they could have bargained for about themselves and their people, and what it is that lies at the heart of things...

A Few Olives Summary: Alexios decided to buy a farm. Thaletas went along with it. But the plan was not what he had expected, but then nothing ever had been with Alexios. This is the story of a relationship that has grown up in difficult times, and peace is now the hardest thing to deal with. Thaletas struggles to know himself, and Alexios doesn’t understand. Sometimes things must break before they can be reformed.

The Fire and the Flood

aka. The Alexithenes This series is rated E. An Athenian Summer Summary: Early in the War, Alexios allows Socrates to lure him to Athens for the summer. During his stay in the city, his relationship with Demosthenes, not yet a general of Athens, will change significantly... But as the war rages on, will the pressures of the messy world beyond Athens' walls bring the pair together or drive them apart? This story takes liberties with canon; as much as possible, I try to keep characters true to their game-selves; original characters are mostly secondary characters, though of necessity I have provided Demosthenes with more character than he had in the game.

The Blue Cloak Alexios and Timotheos are flirting with the idea of being an item when, in order to help the brothers move past the events in canon, Alexios comes up with a plan to further Lykinos' dream of being a poet in Athens. Things take an unexpected turn when Alexios finds himself waking up aboard the Adrestia wearing a cloak he has never seen before.... aka. drunk Alexios gets himself into a situation. This is the edited version of a story previously published as So it is With Us. This version has an additional chapter added at the end and has been rewritten in parts, particularly the first half.

Short and Experimental Pieces

aka. The Deimos fic Shadow-Twin He felt like neither Deimos nor Alexios. They were two skins he’d shed - and what remained now? What new skin might he grow? Who might he become? They’d all demanded answers of him at one time or another. They’d all asked where he’d been when he went out, what he’d been doing. With concern or with curiosity or what they perhaps thought of as friendship. What they meant was: Let me in. Tell me who are you. He gave always the same reply: a grunt. How could he answer that when he didn’t know?

From the Darkness, Light: Brasidas & Deimos!Kassandra Having failed to keep his involvement in the assassination of the Monger in Korinth under wraps, Brasidas is sent by the Kings to Paros on a 'special mission' which he suspects is a punishment. His task is to find a missing lokhagos, but what he uncovers is far bigger and darker than the abduction of one man.

aka the Herodietas (Thaletas x Herodianos) Rising to the Surface: Rated E for the first two parts. After the events during the Mykonos arc of the story, Thaletas is left behind to face the consequences of Alexios' actions. Herodianos, who has been his loyal friend for a long time, does everything he can to comfort him - and so the hands of the Fates are set to work. This was an exercise in writing - Smut, Fluff and Angst, a chapter for each, in that order. Features the power of puppies to dispel the pain of existence.

It Was Just Red (Gen). "Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red." Kait Rakowski This story was prompted by a post I saw recently on Tumblr. It showed Kass sitting at the empty table back in Sparta during the final dinner scene, against which the poster had written something along the lines of: this is the best possible ending – the least amount of Spartans left alive. The following work is an exercise in exploring what that outcome might look like, and seeks to detail some sense of the possible shifting feelings Alexios might have around losing his whole family, mostly at his own hands (a version of the game I’ve never played and frankly never will) and to explore the main question this post prompted in me: Is there a way in which I might believe this could be the best outcome? Fair warning: This work doesn’t honour the game timeline, and as always, I'm disinterested in strict compliance with canon. It’s canon divergent from the get-go simply because it’s Alexios, anyway.

Odyssey Shorts Summary: This is a collection of odds and ends I wrote alongside longer pieces, mainly in response to prompt lists. So far, these consist of: Four based on the tarot: Alexios as a teenager throwing himself into the sea to Anais' horror (an early version of a piece included in It Was Only Red); Brasidas finding himself in the Underworld (a tiny fix-it fic); a tentative beginning to a Daphnae fic I've always contemplated writing; a scene with Demosthenes and Alexios which fits nowhere else; two snippets of modern day AU with an Alexidas focus; and a random Brasidas x reader which I have never written before and quite likely won't again. I will be adding to this collection in time, as I continue working through existing beginning and maybe a few little new things.

[thepreciouspurrsian]

I really liked your headcanons and especially how they fit well into the family's untold story in the game. However, if I may add my own hcs to this post and explain a few things:

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1_ As for the first hc, I doubt if the cult never told Deimos anything about his father. In fact, I think they had informed him that the wolf of Sparta was his father from the very beginning. Because remember what he told kassandra?

"if I could find you, the other long lost child of Nikolaos, then I can find him and when I do, he'll wish he was thrown off that mountain."

Or

"I've heard the story and not from a liar like you and never call me alexios" / "Stop calling me that. I already know what happened that night."

So, I think Deimos actually knew it but here's the point: the cult told him lies. Lies like "your father let you be threwn off mountain Taygetos with his consent. He didn't want you or you to live. Didn't want to see your glorious fate that has yet to come. Nobody wanted you to be alive. Your family rejected you and..." totally making a HORRIBLE image of his father (and family) in young Deimos' mind. That's why he's so hostile when he meets his sister, Kassandra, and then Myrrnie and finally the whole family. I see this as major part of his brainwashing process by the cult.

I imagine them telling baby Deimos "Myrrnie and Nikolaos agreed on throwing you off the mountain and your sister did them the final big part. She threw you to the chasms of Taygetos, into the mud and the cold ground full of broken bones and skulls. She too fell and didn't survive but you did, deimos. You survived to prove them you're the chosen one and they can never keep you away from your glorious fate. Because you have the blood of Gods, you're a demigod."

All of this is accurate if we don't include Pythagoras. Honestly, I'm not sure which one is Deimos' REAL biological father. I've got reasons to both deny and accept that Pythagoras is his father but we're not talking about it here. (but tell me if you're willing to hear more!)

Again, I'm saying that the cult sending young deimos to be close to Nikolaos is a GREAT hc and totally fitting in and perhaps the cult told him the truth only when he was much older, like 16? (poor deimos! His sweet 16 had been a hellish year for him then, lol) they knew that he couldn't be trusted with personal information. Especially at a very young age. In that case, both hcs could be correct! ^~^

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2_ About Pausanias, I think one of the reasons the cult had this puppet king as one of their own, was to get news of Myrrnie's whereabouts. Since they are related, it could lead them directly to her.

Another reason is that, you know, Deimos is the long lost prince of Sparta. Maybe, the cult wanted to have the whole Lakonia under its control in the future. How? They could murder the peaceful king and have deimos and pausanias as the two kings. What do you think? Probably explains why Myrrnie said "he will lead us! He will be good!" and Deimos speaking highly of himself as 'to be feared by the entire Greek world'. Someone like Agammemnon. (I think Deimos!Alexios was meant to be a king.) But this hc would only happen IF deimos proved himself to the cult as a worthy/loyal king and not just an uncontrollable lunatic soldier.

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3_ About Stentor, ohh here's an interesting thing. I once kicked him out of the Adrestia and kept the rest of the family on the board. Look what happened.

Mercenary Found!

Stentor the Fallen.

You see. 'after he tried to kill his sibling (which one?!) and failed, he left the spartan army in disgrace...'

Okay, that and the rest of the text just sent shivers down my spine. Perhaps Stentor isn't as good as we think he is?!

For me, there was always a questionable and shady thing about him; even when I hadn't finished the game. (Stentor, you seem kinda sus~) hmm something I couldn't figure out... We know that he's SO loyal to his pater and his military forces. I think if an occasion rises, he'll be someone who would put his duties first and step on his family. No matter how much he liked being in their presence. You know? He can't be trusted wholeheartedly! Perhaps that's what being a general is like, so I can't really blame him but.. Yeah, he would easily put his family aside. Including Nikolaos himself. So what is killing a sibling for him? The easiest thing.

And about the last part, the whole family packing their stuff and moving to Adrestia is the best hc I've ever read in ac odyssey! (+ Nikolaos secretly caring for his wife from far away.) You're right, that's literally what happened and what they did. Because life left them no other choice. 🙂

I have two different headcanons for Odyssey that are a bit long.

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