It's the Fear, and Not the Ghost (That Leaves Me Haunted)

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Reads 1,458
Votes 36
Parts 5
Time 36m

Hunter doesn't have a very healthy relationship with pain and punishment. He's spent nearly his whole life learning to grin and bear it - after all, it's his own fault for slipping up; for provoking Emperor Belos's wrath.
    
    Right?
    
    (It's not. It never has been. But unlearning trauma is not a simple thing.)
    
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    Written before "For the Future", with weekly updates leading up to the episode drop.
    
    Read it on AO3 here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43951104/chapters/110510667All Rights Reserved

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Hunter doesn't have a very healthy relationship with pain and punishment. He's spent nearly his whole life learning to grin and bear it - after all, it's his own fault for slipping up; for provoking Emperor Belos's wrath.
    
    Right?
    
    (It's not. It never has been. But unlearning trauma is not a simple thing.)
    
    ------
    
    Written before "For the Future", with weekly updates leading up to the episode drop.
    
    Read it on AO3 here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43951104/chapters/110510667

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