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Moonlit Tease by TaintedArtist
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
21 Sep 2025
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Astarion uses Disguise Self to turn himself into a woman to give Karlach a little surprise while she's bathing in the lake.
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While down in Avernus, Karlach and Astarion come across an interesting piece of infernal armor that turns Astarion into an incubus, and decide to have some fun with the new form along with all the powers that come with it.
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What if Astarion and Karlach did cross paths? Perhaps in a dingy tavern in the lower city were as the night wears on, the tavern becomes a blur of drunken revelry and half-forgotten dreams, but Astarion and Karlach remain fixed points in the chaos, their gazes locked, their unspoken understanding growing. They are two souls, bound by their secrets and their desire for something more. And in the shadows of Baldur's Gate, they just might find it. Maybe that’s why he keeps coming back…
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They go about their usual back and forth with an occasional glance lasting a bit too long and a careful hand reaching out into the others space only to regrettably retreat. There’s honeyed words and clumsy little smiles that follow suit. As that familiar growing since of longing that often creeps into their late-night conversation steadily approaches.
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They've suffered. They've suffered more than words can ever speak. So their tadpoles link while they dream, exposing more than they're ready for.
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18 May 2025
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"Right," Karlach says. "Love that."
Then she hauls back and socks Lann Tarv in his miserable fucking mouth.
Things dissolve pretty quickly afterward.
Karlach receives three soul coins. Astarion is there to help.
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10 Jan 2025
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wash the windows just to say, "hey" by perhapsitiswitchcraft
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Oct 2024
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It starts with the cracked pavement, littered with oil stains from the litany of beat-up cars that had parked there. Up on the gas station awning, there's a buzzing LED sign that’s gone half dark. When he inhales, sharp , the air is dry, dusty with the song of a coming monsoon.
Beyond the clear swinging glass doors, florescence lighting beckons him into the store. Inside, where the smell of cold coffee and clean tile is overwhelming, where soda slush spills out into the floor, where cigarettes lay locked behind a rounding counter in the center of the store.
Behind the counter, as always, is the cashier, with bright eyes and a dingy uniform and dark hair shorn short on the side. And always, she smiles when she sees him.
"Hey, soldier," she says. "Long day?"
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Whumptober Day 11: Convenience StoreSeries
- Part 3 of Bg3 Whumptober 2024
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12 Oct 2024
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Astarion has only ever known bitterness at the feet of his master. Thrown into sudden freedom, he starts to find a taste for the sweet.
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14 Sep 2024
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Astarion fast-talks an abnormal number of enemies into killing themselves in the shadow-cursed lands and the team makes idle (then less idle) conversation about it. It’s completely fine and doesn’t bother him at all and it absolutely doesn’t draw additional questions about why he does what he does for the team... and what they in turn would do for him.
IE: Origin-run Astarion fic because its interesting to me how the party reacts to their vampire buddy if he doesn’t have Tav to be a social buffer for him. Act 2 content and spoilers.
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- Part 8 of Astarion Origin Party Nonsense
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28 Aug 2024