New fic! In a fandom nobody cares about!

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Title: Eldritch Things

Fandom: The Laundry Files

Characters: Bob's dad, Spooky the cat, Bob (in absentia), Mo, Bob's mom (mentioned)

Summary: The father of the guy we know as "Bob Howard", cat-sitting, reacting (allergically), worrying, wondering.

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[beccadg]

*Doesn't have a Laundry Files icon so uses something else related to tentacled horrors from beyond space-time.

I'm behind on the Laundry Files. I think the last book I read was The Rhesus Chart. Are there spoilers for later books in the fic?

Oh, yeah, spoilers for the last three books, I'm afraid.

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I.e., everything beyond The Rhesus Chart. Major spoilers.

Damn, you're probably the only person here who actually would kinda sorta dig this, yet you can't read it...

Anyway, I appreciate the thoughtful icon choice! What's it from?

Re: Oh, yeah, spoilers for the last three books, I'm afraid.

[beccadg]

She's a Marvel Comics character I first met in the pages of the New Mutants when I was 11. She's a mutant and a demon sorceress who rules over a demonic dimension that was referred to as Limbo in the books when I was reading them regularly. From a quick google, it seems that it has also been called Otherplace. On Earth, she's Illyana Rasputin little sister of Piotr Rasputin the X-Man known as Colossus, and when she's serving as a member of the New Mutants or X-Men she has the codename Magik. However, in Limbo, using her full sorceress might, she is The Darkchild. The first icon I used is her in full Darkchild mode. The icon I'm using for this post is one where she's mostly human but is wielding the Soulsword which is a manifestation of her sorceress power. The sword being a thing of raw magical power would be why the arm and shoulder she's wielding it from are armored. Doctor Strange, The Scarlet Witch, and Magik/Darkchild are my favorite magic users in Marvel Comics, and in the case of Doctor Strange and The Scarlet Witch,