Pallanwen
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You were a good man once.
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21 May 2025
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additional tags: #character objectifying himself for fun and profit (sarcasm)
It's not about the killing.
It's about the satisfaction on Attano's face, when he's done sponging off the filth. The gleam in his eye and the curve to his mouth like he knows something Daud doesn't.
What does he think he's looking at, in that moment? A sword isn't less a sword when it's not hilt-deep in guts. A mountain of corpses isn't less a mountain of corpses when it's dumped where the living won't see.
The rot in him would take more carving than he could survive to clear out. All Attano's doing is papering it over.Bookmarked by Pallanwen
04 Feb 2024
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“You have to kiss Gale,” Shadowheart tells Halsin, glittering with mischief. “It’s the rules.”
Shadowheart and Astarion start a game. It escalates quickly.
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01 Jan 2024
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/tolerance to a poison acquired by taking gradually increased doses of it/
The wizard's blood is toxic. Remarkable how repetition turns horrors mundane.
Or, to expound: The wizard of Waterdeep reeks of poison and weed, and Astarion can’t help himself on either count. Luckily, Gale considers any and all forms of experimentation, no matter how virulent, to be fruitful. Things escalate in every possible direction over a series of well-wasted camp nights.
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- Part 1 of Deprecation
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Bookmarked by Pallanwen
04 Dec 2023
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“I am not eager to throw myself upon another altar for naught but scraps in return.” Gale steels himself with a deep breath. He speaks his peace to the wilds and the cosmos rather than his lover's face. “And yet. Marble skin, silver tongue... eyes like Moonsea rubies. Oh, you cast a fine altar, Astarion.”
With two discerning appetites, a deal to keep each other fed is the one thing that ties Astarion and Gale together. But the proverbial collar slips all too easily around Gale's throat, the lead feels right in Astarion's unchained hands, and both men think they've bested the other in a game neither should be playing.
In any case. As the greats say in lanceboard: there is no shame in losing to a stronger foe.
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Bookmarked by Pallanwen
15 Nov 2023