Isaac. 30s. he/him. Whump writer. Buy me a ko-fi here! May be NSFW. Torture, self-sacrifice, field medicine, recovery, angst. Honor Bound, Lux in Tenebris, Beneath Gunmetal Skies, Pale Horse Planet, David & Nia, AO3. Prompts & asks welcome. Icon by @who-needs-a-life-anyways
The war against the syndicates is over. Anyone who remains knows to keep their heads down and stay out of the way. Those who don't risk torture and death.
Isaac grew up training to fight. He has spent the past six years of his life doing everything he can to strike back at the cruel syndicate families that destroyed his life. He and his friends have all been broken by the syndicates, one way or another. The group travels the country sabotaging the vicious Stormbecks, the syndicate that controls the region with an iron fist.
When Sam, the group's youngest member, is kidnapped and tortured by the Stormbecks' son, Isaac would do anything to get them back. The ragtag family launches a mission to rescue Sam, and Isaac makes a choice that will shatter all their lives forever.
Explanation for why my name now matches one of my OCs
Honor Bound, Book 1: edited and published with 3 new chapters on Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and Amazon
Editor: @kys-chai-and-books
Honor Bound chapters here
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Honor Bound, Book 2: edited and published with 5 new chapters on Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and Amazon
Editor: @kys-chai-and-books
Honor Bound 2 chapters here
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Honor Bound, Book 3: edited and published with 2 new chapters on Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and Amazon
Editor: @kys-chai-and-books
Honor Bound 3 chapters here
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Honor Bound, Book 4: edited and published with 2 new chapters on Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, and Amazon
Editor: @kys-chai-and-books
Honor Bound 4 chapters here
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Honor Bound, Book 5: edited and published with 4 new chapters on Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, and Amazon
Editor: @kys-chai-and-books
Honor Bound 5 chapters here
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Honor Bound, Book 6: edited and published with 9 new chapters on Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, and Amazon
Editor: @kys-chai-and-books
Honor Bound 6 chapters here
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Vera, an Honor Bound prequel and companion to books 2 and 3: edited and published with 3 new chapters on Barnes and Noble, Bookshop, and Amazon
Editor: @kys-chai-and-books
Vera series chapters here
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AUs:
Vampire AU: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Gavin is raised by Gray
James rescues young Gavin
Magic AU to this chapter where Gavin is hanged
Sacrificial Ram
AU where Isaac and Gavin have a psychic link from childhood
AU where Gavin’s father possesses Isaac to punish Gavin
Isaac/Gavin/Vera/Tori foursome
Bad day part 1, part 2
Google link to AUs
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Other assorted pieces:
Honor Bound partially translated into Russian, by @milesstannum
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Ash/Isaac Crossover AU(s)
Crossover AUs with @ashintheairlikesnow
Links to AUs here
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The Collection Box/Honor Bound Crossover AU
Crossover with @whump-it and her BBU AU The Collection Box
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
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Isaac/Raye Crossover AU
Crossover with @newbornwhumperfly and their Morja and Company story
AU chapters here
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Isaac’s AO3
Isaac’s Ko-fi
Review my books on Goodreads here
Isaac’s bookshop.org link (I am an affiliate and do get commission if you use this link)
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When the story begins in 2029...
Isaac Moore, 27: the protector of the team. He’s been tasked with keeping them all safe, but he tasks himself with so much more. He’s been trained to fight the crime syndicates since he was a teen. He’s brave, protective, and would do anything for the team’s youngest member, Sam.
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Sam Vasterling, 19: the youngest and newest member of the team. They are Isaac’s little sibling in every way but blood. They’re sweet, devoted, and loved. They didn’t want this life, but that choice was taken away when they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they’re part of the ragtag team, learning how to survive.
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Gavin Stormbeck, 24: the son of the Stormbeck crime syndicate. He grew up learning to hurt people at the command of his parents, and has never known any life but the world he was born into. When he meets Isaac, he realizes there is something outside his own blood-soaked world, and would do anything to find out more.
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Vera Novak, 36: a fighter in every way, and Isaac’s best friend. She became a cop to fight the syndicates, and learned the cruelty of the syndicates better than most. She fights by Isaac’s side to keep the team safe. She’s fiercely loyal to her family and would do anything to protect them... including hiding her dark past.
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Gray Uriah, 52: Gray is the heart and leader of the team. Empathetic, caring, and sensitive, they see the places their team needs support the most. They are always ready and willing to put someone else first. They are the only one that still remembers how the world was before the syndicates, and they’ve spent their whole life trying to fix things one way or another.
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Finn Dunham, 27: they have the unfortunate gift of having training as a combat medic. It’s unfortunate, they say, because that guarantees they’ll always be farthest from danger, waiting to patch up the team whenever they get hurt. They want nothing more but to be in the thick of the action.
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Ellis Price, 34: Finn’s partner. They have no family left but the team. When Ellis’s family was gunned down by the Stormbecks, they vowed to do whatever they had to in order to bring the syndicates to justice. They hide their pain under a mask of sarcasm and snark but will fight you if you threaten their team.
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Tori Nasser, 33: Tori was involved in the resistance movements with Gray years ago. Now she runs a safehouse, helping out victims of the syndicates and trying to keep innocent people safe. She enjoys her quiet life under the radar. When she answers Gray’s call and lets the team into her protection, she has no idea what they bring to her doorstep… good, and bad.
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Joseph Stormbeck, 51 (at the time of Honor Bound): Fourteen years before the start of Honor Bound, Vera was assigned to infiltrate Joseph’s syndicate. As the head of his family, he didn’t take kindly to the police snooping around his business. Rather than kill Vera outright, he decided to capture her and torment her for months. Suave, patient, and wildly sadistic, he became the subject of her nightmares when she’s asleep, and awake.
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Ryan Pearson, 24 (at the time of the Vera series): Fourteen years before the start of Honor Bound, Ryan joined Joseph’s syndicate for safety, purpose, and most importantly, a job. When he was assigned night shift guard duty for Vera, he figured it was going to be an easy paycheck, babysitting an easy captive. He had no way of knowing the consequences of that assignment.
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Colleen Stormbeck, 49 (at the time of Honor Bound 2): Colleen lives as one of the top syndicate members, in control of one of the biggest regions in the shattered country. She loves her husband and her son more than anything else in the world. When her husband is taken from her and her son nearly dies (again) at Vera’s hand, she decides to exercise her power as a Stormbeck to set the world right again: by hunting down and destroying Isaac and his team. She would do anything to maintain her family’s status and power, and there’s no one she wouldn’t cut down who got in her way.
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Edrissa Clarke, 18: Edrissa has lived for the past 2 years as a syndicate plaything. Only her own spirit and the hope of seeing her brother again kept her alive. When the team rescues her during her own sale to another syndicate, she has no choice but to stay with the team for her safety, and theirs. She has no idea what she’s found in the family when they take her in.
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Daniel Schiester, 42 (at the time of Honor Bound 2): he is the mysterious mayor of Crayton, the town that holds the line for the north. He has a grudge against the syndicates and takes particular interest in Gavin. He oversees the protection and safety of the refugees that come into his care both to make up for his dark past, and to carry out his own version of justice in the present.
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Zachariah Medina, 18 (at the time of Honor Bound 3): Zachariah grew up in Fort Meyers, and he learned young that it was either work for the syndicates, or starve. When he gets a job at the Stormbeck household as a security guard, it is a relief. That relief is quickly replaced with horror as he realizes the implications of having to protect the Stormbecks - and who he’s forced to hurt in the process.
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Cast faceclaims/fancasts here, here, here
Honor Bound playlist here
Isaac moodboard, Finn/Ellis moodboard, Vera moodboard, Gavin moodboard, Isaac/Gavin moodboard, Isaac/Gavin in captivity moodboard
Art from others:
Moodboards:
Moodboards by @orchidscript: Sam/Isaac/Gavin and Tori/Vera
Moodboards by @newbornwhumperfly: Gavin Stormbeck Uriah, Isaac and Sam, Gavin/Isaac book 3 & 4, Gavin/Isaac book 5 & 6, Tori/Vera, Gray Uriah, Daniel Schiester, Vera
Moodboards by @newandfiguringitout: Gavin and Isaac captivity, Isaac, Sam, Gavin, Ellis, Vera, Isaac and Sam, Isaac/Gavin
Art:
Commissions by @albino-whumpee: Isaac/Gavin, Isaac and Sam, HMS ToriVera, Isaac/Gavin book 6
Commissions by @boxboysandotherwhump: Isaac/Gavin book 6, Gavin’s nightmare, Isaac, Gavin, and Sam book 6
Commission by @erissa002: Vera
Commission by @luckydanart: Sam in book 3, Isaac/Gavin in book 4
Gavin Uriah then/now by @who-needs-a-life-anyways
Nata the cat (?) and Zelda the dog (!), Gavin takes the trash out, the team meets Tom Bombadil by @burtlederp
The end of the Stormbecks by @mostlyjustwhump
The family by @my-whumpy-little-heart
Isaac/Gavin by @luckydanart
Music and more:
Gavin Stormbeck Uriah playlist, Isaac Moore playlist by @newbornwhumperfly
The Honor Bound Season 1 Episode 1 TV pilot of my dreams by @butwhatifyouwrite
One of those how-many-life-experiences-have-you-had things, except all the points are ridiculously hyperspecific, pointlessly general, or just plain weird.
How many can you get?
Accidentally fallen in a natural body of water
Visited the second-largest city on your country
Taken ibuprofen on an empty stomach
Gotten a tattoo in only purple ink
Tried to dye your hair only to find the dye wouldn't take
Drank a spider
Broken your left femur in exactly two places simultaneously
Nearly ran out of petrol on the highway but not quite
Had an allergic reaction during an exam, because of the exam materials
Been prescribed antihistamines
Blocked someone on tumblr
Submitted a CV with a typo in the first line
Drank coffee without sugar
Been in an airplane only for the flight to be cancelled before takeoff
Abandoned a hobby exactly three days after you picked it up
Gotten the wrong prescription glasses because you were too shy to tell the student optometrist they were blocking your view of the eye chart so you just made up some answers at random
Been told "jokes about [trauma you had] are never funny" right after you made a joke about said trauma
Gotten lost at a new school
Been to a birthday party
Told someone you don't speak a certain language, in that language (give yourself a bonus point if you were lying to avoid a having a conversation (give yourself another bonus point if it was your native language (give yourself another bonus point if you clearly doing something - eg reading a book or watching a movie - that indicated that you did in fact speak said language)))
Left kudos on AO3
Read a book longer than 300 pages
Accidentally declined a call you wanted to take
Found a coin on the footpath that was the largest denomination minted in the country you were in at the time
Watched a TV series in an order determined by a random number generator
Gone out of your way to spit on someone's grave
Rolled a 12 on a pair of D6s
Received a scholarship that did not pay nearly enough to cover the course fees
Visited Geraldine, Aotearoa
Been mistaken for a sibling of a different gender
Accidentally shoplifted
Coloured your nails with a highlighter
Thanked your aunt for the lovely handkerchiefs
Been adopted by a calico cat with six toes on each paw
Looked someone up in an actual old-fashioned phonebook
Been given a nickname you initially hated but grew to like
Cut your own hair without looking in a mirror
Lived somewhere everyone says is haunted but you've never noticed anything abnormal
Driven a car older than yourself
Stowed away on a ship that turned out to be heading in completely the opposite direction from where you wanted to go
Not gonna lie this makes me a bit irritated. Here's the real version of this photo:
Instead of a cutesie reference to film censorship it was an explicit statement of defiance of Maryland's criminalization gay sex, which was not repealed until 2002. This wasn't a guy saying "Oh they can't put what I do in the movies according to a completely voluntary industry code" he was saying "The State of Maryland wants to put me in jail for being gay and having gay sex."
It wasn't a guy being cheeky about sex in an ambiguous, cute way. It was a man stating, in no uncertain terms, that a whole state of the United States considered him a criminal for being homosexual.
Conservatives might say that I'm struggling with my sexuality, and I guess that's true. It's also pinning me down and choking me a little bit but that's ok we have a safeword established
A series of misleading claims have gone viral this month, sowing fear and confusion about ICE targeting trans people, a transgender public r
Just this month I’ve seen viral posts, citing online articles, saying that ICE is going to round up and “disappear trans people,” that the FDA is making a national “registry of trans women,” and that an adult trans healthcare ban is rapidly on the way. These panic inducing claims and the articles they’re sourced from are referring to real things or movements happening in anti-trans activism, regulations, and legislation, but are framed in a way to maximize catastrophe rather than understanding what’s actually happening at the moment and what we can do about it.
I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room
Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone
“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’
I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive
“Hayt / Idaho / Hayt / Idaho… He became a motionless chain of relative existence, singular, alone. Old memories flooded his mind. He marked them, adjusted them to new understandings, made a beginning at the integration of a new awareness.”
Such a rich store of myths enfolds Paul Muad'dib, the Mentat Emperor, and his sister, Alia, it is difficult to see the real persons behind these veils. But there were, after all, a man born Paul Atreides and a woman born Alia. Their flesh was subject to space and time.
