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He’s in danger. Evil wizards are after him for sure. What had he done? What had he forgotten? Who had he become when he wasn’t looking? Thoughts and questions swirled around like a terrifying vortex, and Gale’s mind flailed for any thread to hang on to.
“So, we can’t go to the magic shop?”
or: gale gets cursed by a vengeful hag, the world is still ending, and a fraying polycule is being lectured by a cat
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09 Jul 2025
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What if Astarion had more secrets than just being a vampire spawn?
Or: How a party of seven nearly breaks the Faerûn pantheon gods, and a rogue duo becomes the Red Hands of Ambition.
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- Part 1 of Children of Red Chains
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28 Jun 2025
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“I find that surprising considering how much you clearly abhor my dreadful clothes, as you described them.” Gale scoffs as he continues walking toward the breakroom. He pauses at the end of the bar when Astarion speaks.
“Abhor? Well…I wouldn’t say that. They’re dreadful, that much is true.” the bartender tosses the rag over his shoulder, grabs a cleaning spray and walks forward until he’s side by side with Gale like cars passing on the street, “It’s dreadful-ly cute.”-
Lonely divorcee Gale Dekarios gets a second job working at his friend Wyll's karaoke bar where he learns self love can be more than just jerking off in the shower.
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24 Jun 2025
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After dropping out of school years earlier, Astarion decides to get his GED. There’s one problem.
He’s ‘functionally illiterate’ and needs to take remedial language classes and get a tutor.
And who is that tutor? Why it’s Gale Dekarios, of course.
A night school AU
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23 Jun 2025
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It starts as many things do – because of erotica – wait no, scratch that. It starts because, as it turns out, mind flayers and Absolutists alike have no limits to whom they will infect. If only our heroic band of misfits knew that before finding the previously mentioned erotica…
Teen!Tav AU
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29 May 2025
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Astarion thought he'd escaped his past. Then he inherited it.
Summary: When Astarion learns that he has inherited both Cazador's title and his horror show of a palace, Astarion wants to ignore the whole mess in the worst way, but Gale insists they return to Baldur's Gate and do the paperwork to truly rid themselves of the last of Cazador's ugly legacy. However, the house is haunted and has its own agenda for Astarion. Between a bureaucracy more convoluted than the schemes of the Dead Three, corrupt Patriars who want Astarion to step into Cazador's old shoes, and a tax bill large enough to crush Waterdeep, Gale and Astarion learn that Cazador is almost as much trouble dead as he was alive.
Canon Caveats: Plausible as post-canon canon-compliant fic, with some magical realism and exceptions to strict 5e magic rules.
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23 May 2025
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“That Orb in your chest,” Elminster says finally, voice so thick with purpose that Gale snaps out of his self-deprecation. For the first time in months, his mind feels capable of focus. “Is made of Karsite Weave. Mystra will not help because it is a danger to her very existence.”
“I… didn’t know. I swear! I swear I had no idea, Elminster, you have to tell her! I thought – I was told – it was a part of her. I would never–”
Elminster raises a hand.
“Peace. Do not worry about that now, my boy, and listen to me. In Baldur’s Gate there is a wizard by the name of Lorroakan. Some years ago, he came into possession of a book called The Annals of Karsus. In it, Karsus writes about what he refers to as the Regalia of Karsus – a Crown, a Sceptre and an Orb.”or; Gale travels to Baldur's Gate early, runs into a Hag and gets turned into a cat
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20 May 2025
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The Enigma and The Bomb by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Jul 2024
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Astarion didn't know who he was, where he was, or how he'd ended up there, but something about the kind, floppy-haired man in front of him just felt right. It would take the elf and the wizard six months to uncover the dark truth behind Astarion's amnesia, but far fewer to realise just how much they mean to each other.
OR: Astarion is dropped onto Gale's doorstep with no memories, no fangs, and an even more messed up back than he does in the game. Romance, intrigue, and powerplays ensue (not between the boys).
Has a happily-ever-after ending, followed by kind of a sad one.
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15 May 2025
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any beat from your heart (gets me through the night) by cweepa
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
25 Dec 2024
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“I’ve made my choice,” he says, perhaps a bit snappishly. “My affliction is an outcome of my own thoughtlessness – for the second time in my life, I might add. I may have been given a second chance, but the Gods will argue that I am not deserving of a third.”
“If there is one thing I have learnt about faith,” Lae’zel says. “It is that we mustn’t allow fervent belief to cloud our judgement.”
“I do not possess fervent belief.”
Lae’zel lifts up her chin. “A dangerous combination. You don’t believe in the Gods, neither do you believe in yourself.”
With the clock ticking down on the last month of his life, one Gale Dekarios sets out to bring some holiday cheer to the rest of his friends for the last time.
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13 May 2025
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love me ’til my heart stops by MOSTLYVOlD (MOSTLYVO1D)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Dec 2024
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Like most of Gale’s problems since the Nautiloid, this whole mess is Tav’s fault. He doesn’t know exactly what Tav told Astarion when Gale was out of the room, but he trusts that they didn’t betray his confidence. Probably.
Whatever it is has made Astarion act even stranger than normal and it is threatening Gale’s very carefully curated compartmentalization of his feelings for the man.
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23 Apr 2025
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It had been ages but Astarion could still remember how Karsus looked, his warm brown hair and honeyed doe eyes. He was focused, he was arrogant, his ambition shone vibrant and blinding like the sun—and it was the curse of the vampire to be helplessly drawn to it.
But here he was again, shiny and new, smiling at him, folding the ages they had been apart neatly underneath him as if his death had been a pause rather than an end. He looked so beautiful under the sun.
That is, until-
"Hello! I'm Gale of Waterdeep."
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22 Apr 2025
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What's An Elf Like You Doing In A Place Like This? by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Sep 2024
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Astarion had spent ten years perfecting his craft and he was good at it. A little wine here, a little lean there, a bat of the eye-lashes, and maybe getting on his knees in an alley, and they were his - love-struck, dumb, and compliant. They were ready to follow him 'home' - back to the palace. So what if he was wracked by guilt every waking second that he wasn't being tortured or abused? It got the job done and kept his master happy.
So why exactly was this stranger in a terribly ugly purple tunic sticking his oar in?
OR: Astarion meets a mysterious wizard in Elfsong Tavern in 1278 who promises to make all his problems go away, with no strings attached.
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- Part 1 of One Wish, For The Road
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14 Apr 2025
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Astarion is fine - he really is just fine, thank you very much. He wants to do his job, do his best to bully his brain into submission each night so he can get a good night's sleep, and stay firmly under everyone's radar. He does not want to work with his irritatingly cheery and dull colleague - Gale Dekarios - on a stupid and meaningless project.
Alas, the universe - or at least Blackstaff Academy - has different ideas.
OR: Gale and Astarion are both tired, traumatised, and undervalued teachers at Blackstaff Academy and, eventually, Gale worms his way under every single one of Astarion's defences.
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14 Apr 2025
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Astarion smiled then. Genuinely smiled. Gale had never thought his features drawn until he saw them entirely relaxed. He was struck in particular by how young he looked.
Though Gale was immune to Astarion’s feigned charm, he was coming to realize he wasn’t nearly as safe from the authenticity the vampire hid behind it.
AKA
What starts as a tentative friendship between Gale and Astarion, bonding over a shared love of reading, turns into the alarming realization that they may just have caught feelings for each other.
Completed: 9/12/24
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- Part 1 of And I Still Hum Its Tune
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11 Apr 2025
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While sharing a moment of intimacy in the Shadowlands, Gale gives into the temptation to read Astarion's mind. He wants to feel their pleasure shared, to feel it amplified.
What he finds when he opens the link is nothing short of horrifying.
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06 Apr 2025
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Wicked Wizards and Profound Wounds by patheticfangirl
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Mar 2024
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Following the battle against the Netherbrain, Gale and Astarion retreat to Waterdeep for some well-earned rest and relaxation. As they settle in and begin overcoming their many issues, new ones arise. A certain vampire spawn is a tempting target for local necromancers, who want to sacrifice him as part of a dark ritual.
But Astarion wants to live, and Gale will do anything to ensure he does—even if it means making a tremendously stupid decision that sends his beloved and their friends on a perilous adventure.
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28 Mar 2025
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Perhaps he was looking a bit too comfortable, because as he pulled his laptop from his bag, the gray cat a few tables down rose into a languid stretch and began a leisurely stroll in his direction. It was a bit funny looking, its head crooked slightly to the side and its steps a bit unsure. Though Astarion was certain he was about to get a face full of tuna breath, the cat paused a short distance away, content to sit and stare.
Lovely.
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Astarion is the deeply under-appreciated social media manager for ProFang Ascension, an online media company, where he is constantly trying to put out the fires started by his terrible boss. Fortunately for him, his dear friend Shadowheart has just the thing to help him decompress- a voucher for the sleepy little cat café she works at.
Or, a slow-paced, laid-back, extremely fluffy first meeting between an Astarion who is trying really hard to have a bad time, and a very tired Gale who will ensure that does not happen.
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13 Mar 2025
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“Boo!”
Gale flung back in his seat, heart shooting up to his throat and he nearly flipped back out of his chair.
Astarion’s floating head cackled from the window, soon becoming his shoulders and arms, and then the rest of him as he climbed into the room. “You should have seen the look on your face—”
“You know I hate it when you do that.” Gale fought to keep his voice even, gulping down the sudden dryness in his mouth.
“And yet you always leave your window open.”
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11 Mar 2025
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The Chosen Aquatics: Splash Your Way To Better Health!
You don’t have to be a kua-toa to explore these waters, join today and improve your balance, build muscle, and increase your mobility. In Chosen Aquatics, each and every one of you can be “chosen”!
Today’s Instructor: Gale DekariosAstarion stares at the giant sign with distaste, already frustrated by the poor use of colors. It’s an awful mix of blues and teals no doubt used in the hopes of simulating the color of water or something equally boring, but the only effect it achieves is pain as Astarion looks at it.
He’s not looking forward to his very first water aerobics class.
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09 Mar 2025
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as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn by tuffgreg for kitten_combatant
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Apr 2024
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Astarion's interest in soft, wealthy, foolish Gale of Waterdeep is entirely practical: make Gale want to keep Astarion safe, no matter what Astarion has to trade away to do it. Gale of Waterdeep's needs are far less carnal than Astarion expects. Somehow that only makes it more complicated.
Or: Astarion underestimates Gale's willingness to let Astarion play pretend at being a vampire lord.
(Begins in Act 1 and speedruns through post-game. Mind the tags! There will be chapter-specific tags in the notes. The Cazador mentions are fairly frequent throughout.)
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17 Jul 2024