I will unfortunately never be normal about these two. The yearning in Ismark's eyes. The horrors in Doru's. I just want the best for this sweet golden retriever and his sad vampire boyfriend. 😭
Doru doesn’t want to admit that anything about his current predicament is something he should feel grateful for. But a fierce ache takes root inside him, and for the first time that he can remember, he’s at least somewhat glad he’s here, and that there are some idiots here with him who insist on loving him even when doing so has brought them nothing but trouble.
Read their story on Ao3!
𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: The devil Strahd has been slain and the mists cutting Barovia off from the world have lifted. For Ismark Kolyanovich, this is met with mixed emotions as his best friend Doru—a rebel who was turned into a vampire spawn—remains cursed. Ismark journeys to Castle Ravenloft to meet its new owner and hopefully find a cure, only to discover an eccentric cleric with big plans to rebuild Barovia and make it a home for all things living and undead.
Commissioned @niacart_ on Instagram to draw my sweet sad nightmare son Doru from Curse of Strahd (and the fanfic he bullied me into writing for him two years after my party left him stuck in the basement).
It’s almost impossible for Doru Lukavich to remember anything before the hunger set in. He knows there were days spent dreaming with Ismark, but he can’t recall those dreams anymore. Hunger is a millstone that’s ground him to nothing. It’s stolen any sense of past or future and trapped him within a dark present, where all that exists is a constant and unrelenting need for blood.
𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: FIRST DORU POV CHAPTER! Doru is brought to the castle and given a bath and a meal.
(Note: I've been clawing at the walls of my enclosure to finally get to this miserable wretch's POV. I hope you love my sad son.)
𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐘: The devil Strahd has been slain and the mists cutting Barovia off from the world have lifted. For Ismark Kolyanovich, this is met with mixed emotions as his best friend Doru—a rebel who was turned into a vampire spawn—remains cursed. Ismark journeys to Castle Ravenloft to meet its new owner and hopefully find a cure for Doru, only to discover an eccentric cleric with big plans to rebuild Barovia and make it a home for all things living and undead.
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: M | 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓: 3k chapter, 55k total
𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒: Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/ Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Friends to Lovers, Found Family, Idiots in Love, Polyamory.
𝑳𝑶𝑶𝑲 𝑰𝑻'𝑺 𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑴! 𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐔 𝒙 𝑰𝑺𝑴𝑨𝑹𝑲 𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐁𝐘 @𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒉!
𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰!
He clumsily wipes her blood from his lips. She tastes so good that for a moment, Doru wonders if this ecstasy is how Ismark felt when he stood in the light of dawn for the first time.
Then shame comes pouring in.
No, no, no… he shouldn’t be enjoying this.
His father said it was blasphemous to defile oneself with the blood of another. Life is in the blood. And only beasts take life. But now his father is dead… dead dead dead.
And whose fault is that?
He’s dead because the devil took what little good there was inside Doru and turned it all wrong. He strung Doru up, broke him down, and molded him into a puppet.
I will twist you into something unholy, something so wretched your god-fearing father will beg me for the mercy of your death.