Rescue Dogs

Before reading Rescue Dogs, start with:

A King’s Man

Rated M. MB. 13k. The fae king of Crystal City takes his most recent assassin hostage, and works to change his loyalties. Dark fantasy, manipulation, and interrogative techniques — note content warnings for blood and violence, sexual assault and manipulation, and complex power dynamics and layered interactions. Featuring Valorous King, Capulet, and Ondeimon.

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King’s Service

Dark Fantasy short. Cecil Hobbes, a man disgraced, has a new stalker. At his age, it’s almost a compliment.

Rated E, 11k, cis M/M. Valorous King, recently discharged from his time serving as a king’s man at the pleasure of Myrddin Wyllt, has returned home to Lashton, and also to his relentless pursuit of his old PE teacher, Cecil Hobbes.

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Rescue Dogs

Contemporary fantasy fiction exploring the relationship between once-child hero, Valorous King, and his ex-PE teacher, now lover, Cecil Hobbes.

Cecil Hobbes finally gets Valorous King to try a new adventure: therapy.

Cecil Hobbes, an ex-PE teacher disgraced and looked down on in his hometown, has a new partner: Sir Valorous King, a knight of the realm, once a child of prophecy, and Cecil’s stalker.

A few months into their relationship, Cecil finally convinces Valorous to see a therapist, on the condition that Cecil attend one himself.

This one isn’t a romance, and doesn’t follow Valorous King and Cecil getting together – it’s more the two of them working alongside and with each other on their respective mental health issues. A delicious mix of the toxic and “wholesome” throughout.

Rescue Dogs is a story following two survivors of significant childhood trauma, and it explores themes of child abuse, neglect, and exploitation; sexual trauma and rape, including child sexual abuse and exploitation; violence and injury; animal abuse; trauma recovery; counselling and psychotherapy; mental illness, especially obsessive compulsive behaviour, post-traumatic stress, self-esteem issues, self-loathing, depression, and suicidality; loss of identity; policing, criminality, and the impact of the prison system; paedophilia and paraphilias; unhealthy BDSM dynamics and age gaps; alcoholism and addiction; and stalking and sexual harassment.