As this weekend ends with June 7th and it's been nearly a year since the end of the series and as I miss our centennial husbands, I put together three fanfiction rec lists with some tropes that are old favorites, hope you enjoy
For the first: Hob saves Dream from Burgess
A Canvas For Revenge by Sam_Salami (3.6k):
Hob Gadling is a man of devotion and of loyalty. While saving his oldest friend from Roderick Burgess, he takes his time to turn the Nightmare King's torturer into a a blood-offering with methods he learned in his youth.
thinking 'bout you by Kyra_Maximoff (3.9k):
Hob takes a job at the old Burgess house, and comes across the one thing he wasn't expecting to find.
A Dark Familiar Stranger by PH03N1X_360 (4.2k):
Itās a wonder how strangled a man can feel if he cannot breathe, but he cannot die.
In which the lack of air in the cage causes Dream to hallucinate and Hob breaks his Stranger out of the Burgess Mansion.
A Smart Man by meblogname (4.5k):
Hob hears of one Roderick Burgess and suspects that the old man might have some skeletons hidden in his closet... or his basement.
his heart, beneath the floorboards by imnotcryingipromise (5.2k):
Lieutenant Robin Stone attends an end of war celebration at the Burgess mansion in hopes of forgetting his ghosts for an evening, unaware of the familiar face entrapped beneath the floorboards.
Provenance by MeridianGrimm (6k):
Hob likes to keep an eye on the occult community, and when he spots a familiar ruby at a party in 1926, he decides to investigate.
Poker face by fellshish (6k):
Hob gets invited to a super secret exclusive poker game. At the Burgess manor.
The Love in Waiting by imnotcryingipromise (6.8k):
In which Hob Gadling attends a summoning at the behest of a lady friend and ends up with more than he bargained for.
a lucky break(out) by cuubism (9.8k):
Hob acquires a familiar ruby at an antiquities sale. Said ruby summons something else into his home as well.
Dreams are Reality in Waiting by Lalaith_Quetzalli (10.3k):
Hob is a simple man, a man of principles, of convictions, with a simple lifeā¦ except for where said life has lasted for several centuries now, heās met beings that are both older and more powerful than any god, and is married to one of them! So maybe his life isnāt simple at all. Still, heās the kind of man whose word means something; even when the person he gave his word to clearly never expected him to remember itā¦
That Old Witch Sleep by im_not-Corrupted (11.6k):
In 1916, Roderick Burgess, intending to summon and imprison the Angel of Death, accidentally summoned Dream of the Endless to his basement. Though this was not what he intended, he constructs a cage of glass and iron with the intention of gaining something for his efforts, if not his son.
There is one problem, though: Dream of the Endless does not wake up.
Broken Glass by Aria_Lerendeair (12.5k):
Ever since their missed meeting four months prior, Hob has been seeing his Stranger in his dreams - trapped behind endless walls of glass.
Hob has steadily been breaking the walls down, but he doesn't know what any of it means, or what it is doing.
Until he finds his Stranger able to see him, standing on the other side of a single pane of glass, where he is trapped.
This leaves him with only one possible option and way forward - rescue!
A Different Kind of Burn by Ruby_Casablanca (14.1k):
Wherein Hob dreams of war, Morpheus dreams of an escape from his prison, and over the span of many years, they fall into dreams that blur the lines between friendship and something more.
Bloodhound by Moorishflower (15.7k):
In 1989, drunk and heartsore and stumbling home from the soon-to-be-destroyed White Horse, Hob Gadling -- world's most loyal hound -- comes across a familiar-looking ruby in a pawn shop window.
For Want of Caution by mayanpaw (20.6k):
Hob Gadling was not by nature a cautious man but even he knew the value of keeping track of those who would be tooā¦ intrigued by his condition. In 1926, a chance conversation in a bar alerts Hob to the fact that Roderick Burgess has captured another immortal, one that sounds eerily similar to his friend.
This Rough Magic by Avelera (36.6k, unfinished):
After the disastrous 1889 meeting, Hob Gadling turned to the occult to find a way to contact his stranger and apologize. Yet despite becoming a fairly adept occultist in the process, Hob ultimately lost his nerve and never cast a single spell to contact Dream.
Unfortunately, that was not the end of the matter, when Hob's dabbling brought him to the attention of Roderick Burgess, who is now convinced that Hob is a fellow Magus, capable of convincing Dream to give Burgess the gift he gave to Hob all those centuries ago: immortality.
Now, Hob must use wits, magic, and a great deal of charm to convince Roderick Burgess he is indeed an ancient, powerful Magus who wants nothing more than to help Burgess become immortal too, if he is to get himself and Dream out of Fawney Rig.
In Waking Dreams by cuubism (49.3k, unfinished):
In 1389, Hob married a man in his dreams, a lover conjured only by his imagination -- or so he thought. Five hundred years later, a mysterious ransom letter has Hob questioning everything he knew about his dream husband, who coincidentally disappeared from his dreams seventy years ago.
Several miles away, trapped in a glass bowl, said husband is really regretting letting his marriage be only a story in dreams.
The Uses of Adversity by MonstrousRegiment (65.8k):
What led Hob Gadling ā at the time known as Robert Stranger, because heād been in a permanent state of pettiness from 1889 to about 1904 and now he was stuck with it ā to the dank, cold, and dark basement of the Burgess house on March of 1957 was not so much coincidence or fate as it was curiosity.
