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"Fuck Cazador Szarr,” she spits, looming closer until their foreheads almost touch. Her eyes shine with obsession. “If he doesn't want to lose his toys, he should keep better track of them. You're mine now."
They stare at each other wordlessly. Astarion refuses to blink. His impotent fury has nowhere to go. He shakes with it.
That’s the long and short of it, isn’t it? He is a toy. A possession to be fought over. She understands this about him after only meeting him twice, and he hates her for it.
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Astarion is captured by Bhaal's Chosen long before the mind flayers can get their tentacles on him. Desperate for freedom — in whatever form it takes — he follows the path to become an Unholy Assassin.
Between bouts of bloodlust, a devilish heist, and a divine conspiracy, Astarion and the Bhaalspawn slowly realize how much they’re alike.
Together, they could change the fate of the Sword Coast.
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- Part 1 of Are You Like Me?
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Trapped in the rat race, Astarion Ancunín is a successful senior associate at Szarr Corporate Law Group. All he needs is a goddamn coffee to get through his day. Unfortunately, the same young woman seems to be the only person working the opening shift at the closest café. And somehow, she wriggles her way into his life.
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21 Sep 2024
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It seems like Astarion can make a plan when it comes to dragging his beloved into fun times.
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01 May 2024
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In every life, it can only ever be her.
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astarion's immortal. auri is decidedly not.
but she's always had a way of doing the impossible.
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- 14/?
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22 Apr 2024
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If the desperation in his eyes and the heartbreak on his face hadn’t already been enough to break you, the tremble in his voice would have done it. And even without all that, how could you ever say no to this man? He who stood beside you as you discovered your lost self. He who remained beside you when you learned your cursed history. He who bound the knots of your restraints and stroked your hair through the night, even as you writhed and fought to end his life. He helped you gain your freedom from the damnation of your birth. How could you possibly deny helping him with his own freedom?
But, says a voice in your head, seven thousand souls.
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A story in which we discover just how damned an ascended vampire can be, and just how far you will go to save the elf you loved.
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After years of dodging social interactions, Astarion decides to go out of his comfort zone and play a game of Dungeons & Dragons at the insistence of his cruel and controlling fiancé, Cazador. When he meets Gale Dekarios—the game’s charismatic, mysterious Dungeon Master—something inside him stirs. Something he didn't expect.
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- Part 1 of Seen
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- 51/?
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28 Feb 2024
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“I was hoping you’d come back,” Gale said without thinking. He winced internally, all too aware of how desperate he sounded.
“Were you, now?” Astarion tilted his head ever so slightly, amber eyes roaming every inch of his face.
Not trusting his voice, Gale just nodded, and Astarion ducked his head closer, so close he could smell the faint citrusy scent of his skin.
“And…what were you hoping for, darling?” His voice was nearly a whisper, lips close enough to his ear that he could feel the heat of his words.Gale swallowed hard before finally finding his voice. “I was wondering what you meant by next time,” he said, pulling back to look the other man in the eyes.
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(I lied it's no longer a one-shot I'm sorry!) Stand-alone piece of slow burn to filth to crash featuring Astarion and Gale in a modern AU. Enjoy.
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26 Feb 2024
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His Star - His Queen [Originally titled Across Stars and Time] by ARandomIntrovert
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Apr 2025
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When Ascendant Astarion intercepts you and Your Astarion on your way to murder Cazador, he steals you away to his world. Where your other self has perished, and it doesn’t take you long to see why. He makes it clear you will rule at his side, his obedient, loyal queen. And he will “train” you until you comply.
But not all is lost. Already in pursuit with the aid of a mysterious Elven man and woman, your vampire spawn is coming to the rescue. Without you, his newfound freedom from Cazador was hollow. You were more than a treasure. You were his star. And he was yours. You’ve done more for him than you would likely ever realize. You saved him from himself. Now it was his turn to save you.
His Star.
His Queen.
Whichever one will you be?
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21 Feb 2024
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It’s been 10 years since Astarion and his companions have saved themselves and Baldur’s Gate from many great perils. The pale elf has killed his master and has resisted the temptation to ascend, but now finds himself all alone in the ruins of a life that used to be his in Baldur’s Gate, long before Cazador and the mindflayers. He is now a very famous tailor, spending most of his nights sewing elegant corsets and petticoats for nobles from all over Faerûn, but feels like his life is a series dull and colorless moments. His love for Tav has withered and died, like everything he touches, and his old friends are busy living their own lives. Consumed by solitude and struggling to find a purpose to his immortal existence, Astarion crosses path with a young painter named Selene. She has lost her artistry, he has lost his reflection. Could they find in each other what they have been looking for all along?
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24 Jan 2024
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Penance by HalfBloodSnowy
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
11 Apr 2024
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Two years before the explosion at the Temple of Sacred Ashes, Cullen is Knight-Captain of Kirkwall, and after many long years still loves a mage that should be long dead. Tormented and disturbed, Cullen is an unwell man filled with regret. Growing disillusioned with the Templar Order, he finds himself confused but called to a higher purpose. The Inquisition is where he will find his atonement, and possibly more... but only if he can overcome the darkness lurking within his heart.
Amell finds herself lost, flitting through life, grasping onto drifting bits of freedom to keep herself afloat. She is emotionally stunted, romantic, and a fool. No matter how badly she wishes it were not true. She cannot escape the stupidity of her actions, with one decision bleeding into the next to increasingly terrible consequences that culminate into a loss so terrible it almost kills her. She is no hero or savior meant to change the world. She's just a mage searching for the freedom so many in Thedas take for granted, unless fate decides she may have a small part to play after all.
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READ AT YOUR OWN RISK
**Completed 4/11/2024
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Amell is not a Warden, sequel to Regret.Series
- Part 3 of The Trials of an Apostate
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02 Dec 2023
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The vampire's eyes are wide and round, full of amazement. They dart wildly around the sights below, as if trying to see everything at once. The lights of the city reflect upon his face, soft shadows dancing across his elegant features. The very tips of his fangs are visible from his parted lips.
The radiance of the city pales in comparison.
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧
Two months after the brain falls, Baldur's Gate has picked up most of the pieces. The heroes that saved Faerûn have been there through most of it, helping the city get back on its feet. But now it's time to move on. Old lives and families to return to. Gale is going back to his tower in Waterdeep, back to the quiet, back to being alone; or at least, that was the plan. But plans change.
This is a story about falling in love.
(Fanart included)
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- Part 2 of Stumble and Fall
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24 Oct 2023
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I Know You Need It, and I Need You Too by lyriumnug
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
05 Jun 2025
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Astarion pulls away in a huff, dirtily wiping the blood off his mouth with his forearm. "Are you…humming as I suck your blood?"
Mint, though slightly paled, looks unbothered and replies, "It's not as if there's anything else to do."
He's baffled by her. Fumbled.
------The writing out of every night Astarion feeds on her and the filled in gaps of their relationship that form from it.
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- Part 2 of Astarion and Mint
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- 145,609
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- 49/?
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20 Oct 2023
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Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko through the years.
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07 Dec 2022
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Garrus and Vega convince Kaidan to drink with them so that they can trick him into confessing his relationship with Shepard. Things get pretty interesting when Vega suggests they play "never have I ever" and even more later on, when Shepard joins the game.
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- Part 4 of Through Hell and Back
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13 Jan 2022
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Whatever Kaidan had been expecting from the Butcher of Torfan, this isn’t it.
There’s nothing krogan-like about the soldier sitting at the table. The lethal gaze from the vids is watery and unfocused. The empty bottle in his hand isn’t a gun, but he clutches it like one. When the bartender delivers a fresh one Shepard doesn’t look up, merely pops the top off and takes another quick pull.
This isn’t good.
~Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko, in the years before the Normandy. AKA, the slowest of slow burns.
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- Part 3 of Opus
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To Kaidan's surprise the dancers just danced, that was somehow a nice change of pace. So the show was a bunch of party-fluffers? He reached back over the bar to grab the bartender and get his second drink. "Hey I have a question." He yelled over the music as he received his drink, "I'm looking for someone called Shepard."
The Turian chuckled, "You're looking at him." He pointed at one of the dancers, "Word has it he was raised by Vorcha, so good luck with it, mister."
Kaidan looked over at the man who was apparently the Shepard that his intel had talked about. So this guy would know where Saren was? It just didn't really make sense to Kaidan. He sipped his drink and looked at Shepard; he wasn't all that bad really, even if he looked like someone who belonged more in an Alliance boot camp, if Alliance soldiers wore low cut shorts and glitter.
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25 Dec 2021
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After the war, Eric Shepard and Kaidan move to Rio. They take up surfing, get a dog, and are generally happy and adorable. These are their domestic, HEA adventures.
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- Part 7 of The Budapest Gambit
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23 Dec 2021
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James and Kaidan have been gaming together online for over a year now, and grown quite close, despite never having met each other in person. Then, one day Kaidan finds out that James has a bit of a crush on someone he sort of knows in real life and encourages him to go for it. Imagine Kaidan's surprise when that someone turns out to be himself--only James has no idea that his crush and Kaidan are the same person. Kaidan's world is turned topsy-turvy with the realization, and now he must figure out what to do with this new information.
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22 Dec 2021
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There's little things like these that keep Shepard interested. Sometimes, too interested.
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- Part 4 of A Dollar at a Time
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20 Dec 2021
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A breaking point should be met soon. But when feelings are sketchy and boundaries are met, what happens then..?
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- Part 3 of A Dollar at a Time
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20 Dec 2021