it's the starkness of the dawn
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let me wrap my teeth around the world by mafalda_157
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Sep 2023
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In the light of the campfire her face was half-cast in shadow, enigmatic and obscured; it made her look unfamiliar somehow, like a stranger he didn’t know and wouldn’t ever truly understand. Astarion couldn’t even begin to guess at her thoughts. They hid behind her star-reflecting eyes, her controlled mask. The silence stretched.
“You can feed on me,” she finally said.
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(Act 1. The canon sex scene, unabridged. Astarion’s pov.)
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- Part 1 of it's the starkness of the dawn
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tear it through my heart (again, again, again) by mafalda_157
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Jan 2024
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It was only after Astarion had finished the kill—after the gut-deep slash, the satisfying spurt of blood—that he realized he was being watched.
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- Part 2 of it's the starkness of the dawn
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The silence stretched. “Are we going to talk about it?” Cassiopeia asked.
Were they? Should they? Astarion watched her bare, golden-skinned arm, the way it rose and fell in time with his own breathing. When he finally spoke his voice came out hoarser than he’d expected. “Would you have made me do it? If we weren’t…” Here he made a vague gesture with his free hand, somehow encompassing the both of them, the bedroll, the air they shared. “Involved?”
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Act 2 romance. The confrontation with Araj Oblodra, and its aftermath.
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- Part 3 of it's the starkness of the dawn
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Astarion came back to himself in increments, reality returning sensation by sensation—his breathing unsteady in his lungs, the hair on his arms pebbling from the cold. He looked up, and there past the corpse in front of him and the detritus of battle stood Cassiopeia, a still, unwavering figure. Her face was a smooth mask; her cool eyes colorless, unreadable. Astarion had no idea if she disapproved or not.
He realized he didn’t care. He’d made his choice, and the only approval that mattered was his own.
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Act 3. The confrontation with Cazador and its aftermath. Astarion makes a decision.
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- Part 4 of it's the starkness of the dawn
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Cassiopeia huffed, her patience clearly fraying. She took her hand back and crossed her arms. “Do you just want to fuck on top of your own grave?” she demanded. “Is that what this is about?”
“Well, maybe I do want to fuck on top of my grave!” Astarion shouted, gesticulating wildly. “Maybe I need to take all those years of shit and suffering and give them the send-off they deserve, and maybe the only way to start my new life is to literally fuck my old one into the ground!” He stopped to catch his breath—when had he started panting? “So, are you going to help me?” he goaded. “Or are you going to leave me to do it all by myself?”
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Astarion’s ambitions for the night don’t go as planned. Cassiopeia improvises.
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- Part 5 of it's the starkness of the dawn