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“You look at me like I’m a spirit,” said Tav, sliding her palms over the wide curves of his shoulders, entwining her fingers behind his neck.
“I am unsure that I can be certain you are not.”
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An expansion of Act 3's romance scene with Halsin
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22 Jan 2025
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Tav joins Halsin at his settlement a year after the events at Baldur's Gate. Seeing him in charge does something to her that she cant quite shake.
Mostly smut with feelings.
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“Halsin, we’re in your library, we should go to your roo–” she hissed, but he cut her off.
“I will take you where I please this night. You wanted me in charge, well, listen to me, then, and do not disappoint me,” Halsin said, his voice low as he grabbed her hips on both sides, pulling her up to meet his hard length straining against his breeches.
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22 Jan 2025
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A remix of Act 2 in which Gale gets more of a character arc resolution.
“Gods damn it Gale!”
Astarion leaps over him. The guard, poised to land an entirely excessive final blow to Gale’s skull, topples backwards with a knife in his gut. The second pierces his neck, sending him crashing to the ground. Astarion yanks his blades back, and drops to his knees beside Gale.
“Oh no no no, you are not dying on me now.”
Gale attempts to express something, but it comes out as a gurgle of bloody bubbles. The world swings to the side, black and spinning.
“I swear, if it turns out I did just watch you spend the last of your magic sending your cat back to safety instead of saving your own damn skin-”
The threat remains unfinished. A healing potion trickles between Gale’s lips.
“Tressym,” Gale says, when he can finally trust his voice.
Astarion is still crouched over him, cheeks flushed, sweat running down his brow and someone else’s blood smeared across his cheek. Gale has the sudden urge to kiss him.
“What?”
“She’s a tressym. Not a cat.”
Astarion makes a noise of such furious, pained exasperation that Gale half expects the dagger to end up in his neck next.Series
- Part 1 of First Light
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21 Jan 2025
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What's a Banished Prince to a Sky Bison? by ForsoothDragon
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Aug 2020
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It doesn’t take much to incur the wrath of a ten-ton sky bison (don’t attack his friends) and by all means, Zuko should’ve been on Appa’s permanent hit list, but somewhere along the way this changed.
Follow Team Avatar’s encounters with Zuko but in Appa’s POV.
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30 Dec 2024
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“There is something wrong with her blood,” Astarion hisses. He doesn’t mean to make a scene, so he keeps it quiet. The only person he needs to convince is her. “I can smell it from here, I don’t know if it’s safe.”
If he appeals to their safety, maybe it will be enough. Lae'zel had been angry at him before for starving himself, for not being the sharpest blade possible. The woman works a whetstone for hours a day, surely she won’t want him dulled by poisoned blood even if it would be at the expense of her own strength.
It’s a long shot, and he knows it.
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22 Dec 2024
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He could say later that he stepped forward because of the silence spell. His arsenal smothered. He had no choice.
But Gale knows that even if he had the entire Weave at his fingertips, for once in his miserable life, he’d go without.
He’ll use his hands.
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04 Dec 2024
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After finally gaining his freedom, Astarion took Gale to visit his grave. Unfortunately, upon discovering that he did in fact have a surname, Gale decided that the occasion would be the perfect opportunity to hyperfixate over an accent mark.
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29 Nov 2024
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Astarion smirks. "No worries, I will gladly accept your praise.”
“Please do,” Gale says. “I fear an excess of praise has only ever led me to ruin.”
Astarion can’t help himself. “And what if I’d like to ruin you?”
He is close enough that he can sense Gale’s heart beat faster. Gale gives him another admonishing look, but there’s a smile pulling at his lips. “Then you’ll have to try harder than that,” he says.
Astarion fears that if he still had a functioning heart, it would beat faster, too.
Or, Astarion and Gale attend Lord Gortash's coronation masquerade together. Platonically. As allies. Yes, it's a decadent ball full of masked strangers malevolent and benign; yes, Astarion has spent tendays summoning all of his willpower to resist the urge to make out with Gale in the middle of the Elfsong. Never mind all that. Everything is going to be fine.
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29 Nov 2024
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Astarion heard Gale swallow thickly and then he could smell it. Lust. Sweet and fragrant. The wizard's gaze flicked down to his mouth.
All at once everything fell into place.
Of course he wouldn't take him to his bedroom and tell him to strip.
The wizard possessed something Cazador had never had: Manners.
He’d chosen a far more subtle approach that left Astarion the comforting illusion of free will. The trap hadn’t been as crude as food and shelter. No, Astarion had been accruing a far less obvious debt. The library card. The suddenly tuned piano. The bottles of bergamot and rosemary oil that had found a way into his bathroom. The glasses. The ring. A debt he had never agreed to, but still it had built.
Anyone could tell what the wizard wanted in payment.Waterdeep will be many things for Astarion. A place to rest. A place to heal. A place to figure out what the fuck he wants to do with his life now.
It will also be a place of endless frustration with a wizard who refuses to collect on his debts and a stranger he can not keep himself from returning to.
Really, who came up with that anonymity spell anyway?- Language:
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26 Nov 2024
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Astarion wants to spice up their sex life as outside Weave sex Gale seems only interested in vanilla. What he was not expecting was walking in on Gale intimately involved with a certain spell in bed...
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05 Nov 2024
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In the House of Hope, Gale takes the deal with Haarlep to give his body for information on the Orphic Hammer.
Unforseen complications arrise and Astarion offers to help Gale through it.
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31 Oct 2024
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I married an Archmage (what's an Archmage?) by Bloodweaver
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Feb 2024
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After the events of Baldur's Gate, Gale and Astarion now live in Gale's Tower in Waterdeep, a newly married couple. But no one has ever explained to the vampire exactly what an archmage -is-.
Aka: Astarion begins to learn that Gale is more powerful than he could have ever imagined.
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31 Oct 2024
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Mosquito, Puddle, Pain and Torment (and Honey) by lavvyan for shroomonabroom
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Apr 2024
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Gale shouldn’t be entirely startled to find a vampire standing in the middle of his foyer, wet clothes dripping on the carpet and hands cupped around something small and equally soaked through.
He shouldn’t be, and yet…
“I found her in a crate,” Astarion says, shifting his grip to reveal a tiny slip of a kitten, sodden and shivering. His expression is bemused as he looks down at the little creature.
For all Astarion’s readiness to stab those deserving and undeserving alike, cruelty to animals bewilders him. Something Gale finds endlessly charming, not that he would ever say as much.
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Gale likes Astarion. Astarion likes cats. Gale might have made a slight miscalculation somewhere.
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30 Oct 2024
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Evard's Black Tentacles by IndiWritings
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
12 Dec 2023
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Gale owes Astarion a debt; Astarion decides it's time to collect.
Please check the tags, this is fairly hardcore!
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26 Oct 2024
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The Underdark hides many strange, uncanny secrets. Most just want to kill Faeth and her new friends. At least one, however, lets Gale offer her a night like nothing she’s ever experienced.
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- Part 3 of if music be the food of love, play on
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26 Oct 2024
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Astarion had been entombed for years now.
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The desire to leave this place was always strongest in these moments. It was single minded, heavy, it choked his throat and squeezed his chest, he felt full to bursting with this desire. He felt empty. No amount of begging, pleading, or screaming had helped before but still he managed to choke out a single word between useless hiccupping breaths.
"Please."
For the first time someone answered.
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16 Oct 2024
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Astarion briefly wondered if this was what his body might feel like if he was still alive - it was like the submission of this sweet wizard could thaw his undead flesh and make him anew.
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13 Oct 2024
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Astarion's hand climbs the heft of Gale’s leg and they fall open so easily it is almost wicked. “What a state you’ve found yourself in, Gale.”
Something strange happens when the wizard consumes the Weave.
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12 Oct 2024
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Gale detonates the orb during the final fight. Astarion is left to pick up the pieces—and then to pick up Mystra's call for the Crown of Karsus in exchange for a Wish spell.
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07 Oct 2024
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He follows the rest of the party, not sure what he’s suspecting to see. Gale knocked out, maybe. He was ready to disarm a trap, or stab another undead soldier. He was not ready for a human child, sleeping in an oversized violet robe. Gale’s robe.
Oh, there is no fucking way.
( After a magical mishap with a potion, the party finds themselves looking after a 7 year old Gale. Needless to say, this puts a wrench in Astarion's plans. )
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07 Oct 2024