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i think you're so good (and i'm nothing like you) by TrashcanWithSprinkles
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Feb 2022
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Ajax had a soulmate mark, just like about half the population of Teyvat did.
If Ajax ever found his soulmate, he would pretend to be normal for them. He would observe from afar if possible, and make sure nothing happened to them. That no ailments ever came to them. That they never came to lack anything.
That was the plan. Or, at least, it had been, until the Tsaritsa requested an audience with him alone and asked to see his mark.“Tartaglia,” she began, serious. “That is Morax, the Geo Archon.”
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Or, Ajax is Morax' soulmate, the Tsaritsa ships him off to Liyue, and he has to pretend like he doesn't feel like he's not good enough for the Geo Archon.
[the word count up to chapter 14 was 69 420 and i think i won't achieve something as beautiful ever again]
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26 Nov 2024
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"So here he is, he thinks with dark, nauseating humor. One of the glorious heroes of Baldur’s Gate—hungover and lightly crisped, sprawled on his back in the one place he had wanted more than anything in the world to leave behind forever—
The great Szarr palace. Home sweet home."
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The villains are defeated. The heroes claim their victory. Astarion sinks down to exactly where he started. Gale plots his apotheosis. Somehow, they meet in the middle.
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18 Mar 2024
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It figures, he thinks sourly as he scrapes the muck from his tongue with fingernailed ferocity, that although it seems he can drink the blood of thinking creatures, the very first one he chooses makes him regret the whole godsdamned thing.
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15 Mar 2024
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In all the storybooks Gale Dekarios read as a child, none of the great heroic romances ever ended in divorce. When he confessed his love to Adriana, under an aurora of his own making, he meant it for good. Sadly, it turns out, she did not. That’s why he prefers magic to people, people are too unpredictable. And none more so than the bloody vampire who’s just been sent to check on him…
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13 Mar 2024
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And then there’s Gale.
He seems almost too easy to manipulate. So full of arrogance from his magical genius and yet somehow still brimming with self doubt - his is the type of ego Astarion knows exactly how to massage. Some impressed looks, a heartfelt compliment about his abilities, and then just as he is starting to believe he has Astarion’s admiration: a period of cold indifference. Gale will be seeking his approval before he even realises how much he has come to rely on his new companion. It’s a tactic so formulaic it would be boring, did his life not depend on it.
Astarion needs allies and Gale is a perfect combination of powerful and easy to manipulate.
He has no idea just how much Gale really has to offer him, nor how much he has to offer in return.
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28 Feb 2024