◈ KNIGHTS OF CYDONIA ◈
"Come ride with me / Through the veins of history / I'll show you how God / Falls asleep on the job..."
⚠️ CONTENT NOTE:
This post links to an 18+ AO3 series containing dark psychological themes, violence, family trauma, and mature content. Please read individual story tags on AO3 before proceeding.
Hey everyone! I wanted to drop a masterpost for my Supernatural Canon Divergence series, Knights of Cydonia, which takes its name and entire thematic weight from the Muse song. If you like your fanfiction dark, psychological, and intense, this series is for you.
🪶 FIC 1: When Heaven Forgets Your Name
Ships: Lucifer / Mara Winchester (OFC)
Categories: F/M
Rating: Explicit 🛑
Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
The Premise: A spell in the bunker goes catastrophically wrong and drops a third Winchester sibling straight into the Cage. On Earth, she’s gone for three years. In the freezing, mechanical abyss of Hell, she is trapped for thirty years alone with an ancient, starving archangel. It’s a slow-burn look at absolute isolation, identity erosion, and what happens when your survival becomes entirely dependent on the Devil himself.
⚠️ SELECT TAGS: DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT // Cage AU // Dark Romance // Psychological Horror // Captivity // Forced Proximity // Emotional Dependency // Manipulation // Obsessive Lucifer // Possessive Lucifer // Trauma Bonding // Identity Erosion // Mostly Hurt // Claustrophobic Atmosphere // Cosmic Horror // Religious Horror // Emotional Horror // Distorted Sense of Time // Hallucinations // Touch Starvation // Descent Into Madness // The Cage Changes People
"And how can we win / When fools can be kings? / Don't waste your time / Or time will waste you..."
⛈️ FIC 2: The Shape of Creation
Ships: Lucifer / Mara Winchester (OFC) // Castiel / Dean Winchester (Destiel) // Dean & Sam & Mara Winchester (Gen)
Categories: F/M, M/M, Gen
Rating: Explicit 🛑
Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
The Premise: What happens after the ice of Hell finally fractures? Mara and Lucifer break out and return to Earth, but the transition is an absolute nightmare. To Sam and Dean, she’s been missing for three years. To Mara, she has lived an entire lifetime in the dark. She is no longer the hunter they remember; her nervous system is completely rewired, her codependency on the Devil is absolute, and she's carrying his Nephilim child into a fracturing world.
⚠️ SELECT TAGS: Post-Cage Trauma // Nephilim Child // Religious Horror // Psychological Horror // Cosmic Horror // Codependency // Emotional Dependency // Hurt/Comfort // Angst // Protective Lucifer // Lucifer has Feelings // Complicated Relationships // Family Trauma // Winchester Family Issues // Heaven Is Failing // Apocalypse Aftermath // Reality Distortion // Angel Politics // Divine Horror // Everyone is Emotionally Damaged // Domesticity After Hell // What is Humanity Anyway // Love and Horror Intertwined // Recovery is Not Linear // Altered Humanity // The Cage Never Really Ends
If you love intense, deeply emotional character studies that twist family dynamics and test the absolute limits of survival, come dive into the series!
👉 Link to the Series Masterpost on AO3