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• kill your darlings by saintcokeworth

  Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  21 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Mulciber Jr./Severus Snape
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Severus Snape
  • Mulciber Jr.
  • Minor or Background Character(s)
  • Alternate Universe - No Voldemort (Harry Potter)
  • Young Severus Snape
  • Hanahaki Disease
  • Hogwarts Seventh Year
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Toxic Relationship
  • Obsessive & Controlling Behavior
  • Trauma Bonding
  • Threats of Violence
  • Blood and Injury
  • Blood and Violence
  • Child Abuse
  • Bullying
  • Codependency
  • Manhandling
  • Choking
  • Extremely Dubious Consent
  • Love is Not Fixing Either of Them
  • But They Like Each Other A Little Crazy

  Summary

  kill your darlings
  (phrase)
  To remove or refrain from using something in spite of one's affection for it.

  Or: sometimes, you must destroy the thing you like to get the thing you love.

  Language:

  English

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