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Sanguimancer
is a Yogscast Dark Fic by [1].Parvis found a little book with a little name and a lot of notes, and a fascinating little orb that bites him sometimes. Bored of spending his time with Martyn, he goes to find the owner of the book—but finds him a lot less willing to accept an apprentice than he'd hoped.
This fanfic provides examples of:
- Adaptational Villainy: Rythian.
- Addictive Magic: The blood magic.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Parvis really did want to be Rythian's apprentice and learn blood magic.
- Bittersweet Ending While Rythian is killed, several other Yogs were killed in the resulting damage, and basically everyone is severely traumatized.
- Blood Magic: The main catalyst of the story.
- Bloody Murder: The usual way Rythian's victims go.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Rythian does this when he has a victim in his grasp.
- Create Your Own Villain: Rythian didn't want to get back into blood magic, but Parvis pushed him into it by refusing to stop trying to do it.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Basically any time Rythian gets into a fight.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Strife got Kirin to save Parvis, so Rythian tortured and mentally broke Strife into a sex slave for Parvis.
- Evil Feels Good: A primary reason Rythian does what he does.
- Fiery Redhead: Zoeya.
- Sadistic Choice: Rythian is found of doing this to Parvis.
- Sadist Teacher: Rythian.
- Scary Teeth: Rythian and later Parvis.
- Sex Slave: Strife.
- Friendly Enemy: When Parvis obeys Rythian, Rythian is this.
- Fallen Hero: Rythian.
- Hearing Voices: Parvis starts to hear a voice that often belittles him for how he lets Rythian treat him and other things.
- Hero Killer: To any would be heroes of Parvis.
- Immune to Mind Control Kirin.
- Kick the Morality Pet: Happens to Parvis a lot.
- Locked in the Dungeon: Everyone Rythian abducts and mind controls to do his bidding, but especially Strife.
- Manipulative Bastard: Rythian.
- Mind Rape: This tends to happen to Parvis.
- Murderers Are Rapists: Rythian will often before killing his victim attempt to use his control over them to force them to perform sexual acts, though Parvis will usually make him stop pretty quickly.
- Loves the Sound of Screaming: Rythian when he rips out Parvis' teeth.
- Mercy Kill: Martyn.
- Misery Builds Character: Parvis and Strife.
- No Sympathy: Rythian rarely shows any sympathy for what he does to people, only occasionally showing it with Parvis but that is far in between.
- Police Are Useless: Magic Police.
- Self-Harm: A side effect of blood magic withdrawal and Rythian chopped off the tips of his fingers to give himself obsidian claws.
- Stuffed Animal: Benny.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Martyn.
- The Cavalry Arrives Late Kirin at the end of the fic, showing up to late to save anyone.
- Trapped in Villainy: Parvis, he wants to escape Rythian, but Rythian's mind fuckery, his fear, and the fact anyone who comes to save him dies if there lucky, there is just no seeming way for him to escape the evil Rythian has him do.
