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Interior (Model Reading) by Edward Hopper, 1925



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    Love doesn’t erase darkness, but maybe it provides enough light to survive it.

    Malis wakes up on a crashing Nautiloid ship with no memory of how she got there—just a tadpole in her skull and a splitting headache. Add a murderous dark urge that whispers sweet nothings about bloodshed in her ear causing her to want to murder everything in sight, and things only get worse.

    Enter Astarion: the eternally dramatic vampire spawn with a knack for trouble and a smile as sharp as his daggers. They meet by knife-point, naturally. And while she rather enjoys that he’s only slightly less murdery than she is, their spicy, messy entanglement becomes the least of their problems.

    Thrown together in a mess of illithid horrors, crazed cults, ancient gods, and highly questionable blood drinking, the two wrestle with love, power, and the darkness within.

    “We’re the same, you and I,” he once told her. “Monsters.”

    If you’re into epic battles, biting banter, shameless smut, and two broken people trying (and failing) to keep it together, this is one such story.

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    25 Jul 2025

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    Brynn Bladetongue was trouble. Her smile was more impish than you’d expect for a drow, and she was a little too perceptive for Astarion’s liking. She let herself get dragged into other people’s messes, and she had more magic at her fingertips than even a talented bard should have.

    Oh yes, Brynn Bladetongue was trouble: pretty and dangerous, as most pretty things are. Little did he know that Brynn’s particular brand of trouble would become more precious to him than he’d ever dreamed.

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    In sum: a slow-burn expansion on the Astarion/Tav romance, from Astarion’s POV. This will cover the span of BG3, with rated E smut.

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    18 Aug 2024

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    After weeks of pining over a certain vampire, boredom and a particularly talented wizard's illusion magic almost get the better of you.

    Astarion x You story!

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    21 Jul 2024

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    Astarion had a plan. A nice, simple plan: seduce Tav, sleep with her, manipulate her feelings so she'd never turn on him.

    All she had to do was fall for it.
    And all he had to do was not fall for her.

    Which is where his nice, simple plan fell apart.

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    Exploring Astarion's POV throughout the game while romancing Dark Urge/Tav. Canon is followed in most cases, including with lines of dialogue from the game, but Act 2 and 3 break off from canon a few times in fun ways.

    Content warnings are listed ahead of the more intense chapters. Overall this fic (like the game) explores what healing from abuse looks like and has a lot of references to those themes.

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    16 Jul 2024

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    The secret to surviving is simple. It’s the execution that poses problems.

    Don’t die.

    It’s that easy.


    auri knows people, and that's how she can tell; astarion is deeply, deeply fucked up.

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    10 Jul 2024