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Caspier is a people-pleasing do-gooder who would let himself drown just so someone else could swim. Astarion is a smooth-talking charlatan who's been forced to tread water against all the weights dragging him down.
But when Astarion sets his sights on manipulating Caspier for protection now that he's finally out of Cazador's reach, he's not prepared to face an unstoppable force of care hurtling his way to dredge up a heart he didn't know he still had. And Caspier, willingly giving into manipulation just to feel needed, is even less ready to learn he's more than what he can give to someone from a man who knows the feeling all too well.
Or—a oneshot collection showcasing the evolution of the relationship between Astarion and my Tav, Caspier, as they go from begrudging allies to head-over-heels fools.
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Baldur's Gate 3: Adventures of a Servant of Bahamut by Vernetic_Energy
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Mar 2025
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Caspier is a do-gooder cleric who only wants to enact his god's will and help everyone he comes across--partially so he never has to help himself. But that's not a relevant issue... right?
Being kidnapped by mind flayers and suddenly thrust into a team of strangers with their own myriad of issues will say otherwise as Caspier takes on the role of team caretaker, while embarking on an adventure of much higher stakes than he's ever known before.
(AKA: A writing exercise project where I explore my Tav as a fully fleshed out character, retelling the story of Baldur's Gate 3 from his perspective, including all the choices made in game and many original scenes and interactions sprinkled without! Join me as I self indulgently explore what a fully fleshed out Tav would be as he grows, lives, learns, and struggles to admit he has any kind of issues when there's so many other people to help! Complete with backstory, angst, trauma, you name it, this fic will feature a Tav every bit as fleshed out as an Origin character!)
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“I love Dutch like a father, but in many ways, I love Hosea even more. He’s kind and fair and like a human being. Dutch is something else.”
Five times Arthur needed Hosea, and the one time he wasn’t there.
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Before there was the Outsiders, there was one eccentric, young, and relatively new father and an assignment to tutor some relatively “challenging” children.
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One Variable by flashlight_tag (Vernetic_Energy)
Fandoms: Little Nightmares (Video Games)
21 Apr 2023
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One nightmare too many scares a child into attempting the most ill-prepared escape the Maw has ever seen. But that’s fine… he understands how things work. He knows how to survive. He’s a smart boy, and he’ll get by.
But the world outside his prison cell is vastly different than what he knew, and surviving in it is a different beast entirely. As his escape continues, it becomes clear he doesn’t understand the world—or himself—as well as he thought he had.At least he doesn’t have to go it alone. Along the way, he rescues a child in the Depths—injured and afraid—and a new friendship he never knew he needed forms. Things will be lost, people will be found, and two children are left to crumble, shatter, and help each other put the broken pieces back in place.
It turns out saving someone is much more than helping them up when they fall.
A boy named Seven turns on a TV, and he changes a story far bigger than his own.
Story has split its chapters for ease of posting and reading! Here are the new chapters:
Chapter 3: now 3 + 4
Chapter 4: now 5 + 6
Chapter 5: now 7 + 8
Chapter 6: now 9 + 10
Chapter 7: now 11Anything not listed here has not been changed!
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- Part 1 of One Variable Breaks It All
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One Variable Breaks It All by flashlight_tag (Vernetic_Energy)
Fandom Little Nightmares (Video Games)
21 Apr 2023
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Invisible strings from an invisible force guide this cold, hollow world. This force controls it, but this force needs hosts.
That’s fine. It has a perfect cycle. Hosts come and go without flaw, darkness persists, its power swells. Everything repeats again and again, and this lurking shadow has all the control it needs.
But when one tiny, insignificant little child, but a blip on the timeline that never should have mattered, opens a doorway into the middle of this perfect cycle, it falls apart at the seams just like that. One of its hosts escapes. And while a furious eldritch evil is preparing to take back what is rightfully its, the runaway boy who unknowingly caused it all finds newfound company that he, for some reason, has to remind of the most valuable lesson in the world:
Kids stick together.
(But does he even really understand what that means?)
It’s going to be okay.
(He thinks.)
In the midst of something much bigger than them, there’s a lot children need to learn from each other before they can move on.
And when one variable throws a perfect loop out of whack, three children are at the center of it all, and each will have their time to heal.
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