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'When someone has a crush on you, their thoughts about you appear on you as tattoos AU'
Viktor is almost bare, Jayce is nearly covered.
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After a gruesome war finally comes to treaty, it is decided that the King of Piltover will take a bride from Zaun.
Viktor isn't expecting to be a candidate.
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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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Six years after he and Viktor part ways on antagonistic terms, Jayce wakes up in the Machine Herald’s medical clinic.
Jayce desperately wants to rub at his forehead, but the binding at his wrist stops him. He settles for squeezing his eyes shut. “Why?” he asks.
Viktor is silent for barely a moment. He says, tonelessly, “I assumed this was preferable to dying.”
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- Part 3 of assorted arcane works
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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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Coming Home (But Not to You) by queercatfan
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
24 Dec 2024
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When Viktor makes the reluctant decision to move back to Piltover after six years to be a professor at The Academy, he's forced to share an office with none other than his former lab partner Jayce Talis, the very man who caused him to leave Piltover in the first place.
(modern professors AU)
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- Part 1 of Coming Home (But Not to You)
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Only True in Fairy Tales by Dragonflies_and_Katydids
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
13 Oct 2015
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In which Dorian is a special forces operative, Bull is his partner, and Cullen is the guy they're sent to rescue. Hijinks ensue.
Written because I wanted a story where Dorian rescues Cullen from physical danger. Because I like rescue-fic, and mainly what I've seen is the other way around (Cullen rescuing Dorian).
In the name of not leading people on...The E rating is for eventually (cf "slow burn" tag above): I'd say this is T rated until chapter 15, and it doesn't need the E rating until chapter 25. Just so's you know!
ETA: ART!!! Because there are few things I like better than badass Dorian.
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Love was the Law by ruinthatboy
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
09 Mar 2025
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“This is wrong,” Jayce rasped, his voice strained with torment, so unlike the Jayce that had left mere hours ago to dance and drink and make merry and maybe even make love to the beautiful Mel Medarda. “This is too far back, I shouldn’t be here—”
This Jayce was like a wild animal, bearded and shaggy, furious and heartbroken.
The huge weapon thudded to the floor once again, and Viktor finally dared to speak.
“Jayce, is that… you?”
Stewing in his loneliness, research assistant Viktor witnesses an Anomaly take place in the laboratory he shares with Jayce Talis, potentially altering life as they know it (or might never come to know).
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The Butterfly Effect by Vamillepudding
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Jan 2025
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“Who’s there?” Jayce asks loudly. “Show yourself!”
Slow footsteps. And then, from behind one of their prototypes, comes – a boy. Nine, maybe ten years old. Pale, brown hair, golden eyes. Ragged clothes. Limping.
Jayce frowns. The family resemblance is obvious, but Viktor never mentioned that he had a brother. “Did Viktor bring you here?”
“Viktor?” the boy asks, frowning right back at him. “I’m Viktor.”
Due to a failed experiment, Viktor is turned into a child. Suddenly on his own and feeling desperately out of his depth, Jayce does his best to take care of him while also figuring out a way to bring his partner back.
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“I’m going to meet Viktor’s parents," Jayce announces confidently.
“I see.” Caitlyn pauses. “Does Viktor know?”
His smile slips. “Not yet.”
Jayce talks his way into accompanying Viktor to the Undercity. After knowing him for three years, this is his first chance of learning more about Viktor's past - and he's about to find out why Viktor has been so reluctant to mention it.
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Kiss me like one of your Zaun Boys by setbet
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 Nov 2024
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“They’re making out in the lab.”
“Yeah, they do that a lot.”
“But they’re not boyfriends?”
“We don’t talk about it.”
The first time Viktor kissed Jayce, it was a quick peck on the cheek, followed by a casual conversation. The next time it's on the lips, but then it's back to talk about formulas. Jayce concludes it must be a cultural thing, and also starts to kiss Viktor back. Everybody else is confused.
A story of two friends kissing each other, who are definitely not boyfriends.
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- Part 1 of Kiss me like one of your Zaun Boys
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"The way the body reacts after birth is unavoidable. All his siblings experienced it: searching for a baby that was no longer there, raging and screaming at everyone and everything in the vicinity as if the child was hidden like a sick parlour game. They all knew what would happen after the first time, but every subsequent time might as well have been the first.
What would’ve happened if one of those children had survived?"
Or: what if the spawn having spawn was a requirement for the Black Mass? What if the mindflayers captured Astarion with one of those children in tow?
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holiday rainbow lights in the garden by pepgold for dorkpatroller
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Jan 2025
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“Oh, goodness, my manners,” Gale starts, “I’m Gale Dekarios. You may have met my mother, or one of my aunts, or perhaps even my uncle. Or none of them, and they just have heard of you…” The elf tilts his head just a little. Gale continues, “At any rate. They heard you didn’t have any family coming to visit for Simril, and thought you ought to at least have something to eat.” Nevermind that it was a flimsy excuse to have Gale come talk to the most ethereal twunk in the world!
Astarion gives the foil-covered dish a skeptical look, and then gives Gale a considering look. He shrugs. “Come inside, then. You look pathetic.”
That, Gale thinks, is probably true.
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Homemade by Linnetagain for hackemssky
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
23 Dec 2024
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Astarion wouldn't dare compare Gale’s very clearly lovingly maintained kitchen to a campfire and a chest of pilfered cheese and stale bread. But the feeling of it, the easy companionship, sharing the day’s burden of woes with someone who understands? That's familiar. And that, he didn't even realise he missed. Only now, watching Gale potter around his kitchen and chatter in much the same way he used to potter around the cookpot, Astarion feels… settled.
Maybe even comfortable.
Oh.
Oh dear.
Before he can stand and take his leave, go back to the contract in Calimshan and pretend this embarrassing little episode never happened, Gale sets a goblet down in front of him.
Just in passing. Drops it off on his way to the teapot. Like he thinks nothing of it.
But it's blood. Fresh, too. Pig, if Astarion's nose can be trusted, which obviously it can. He takes a tentative sip. Then downs the rest before Gale has finished pouring his tea.
“It's warm,” Astarion says, nonplussed, staring at the now-empty goblet. It would be beneath his dignity to lick it. He's no starving wretch now. But it is tempting all the same. -
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“A more suspicious man might think you’re dating me for my Uber rating.”
In which Astarion is a smug, asshole lawyer, and Gale is the rich jerk who falls for him.
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Peppermint-Scented Apologies by Lunarwench for TrashPandaSaga
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
05 Jan 2025
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“Watch out, Astarion, there’s mistletoe above your head.”
He glances up in the same moment that Gale stumbles gracelessly into him, Astarion’s arms coming up automatically to catch Gale without even thinking. There’s indeed mistletoe above them, held in Shadowheart’s wiggling fingers, her wretched face smirking down at them from the stairway with both her brows raised.
A challenge, it seems.
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Some time in between Gale tripping over his own feet and then spell-checking an enemy mage mid-incantation Astarion’s stupid unbeating heart decided to flip flop around like a fish dying on the beach and attach itself to the wizard. Ugh.
Step one: woo the wizard.
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Five times Astarion tries to flirt his way into Gale's bed, and one time he doesn't have to.
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The team at the Baldur’s Mouth Gazette are doing their annual Secret Santa, and Gale has drawn Astarion’s name. Which would be fine, if it wasn’t for what happened between them last Christmas.
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Gale finds comfort in an unexpected place.
And perhaps Astarion does, too.
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- Part 1 of A Colour That Has No Name
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A New Beginning by AcrylicAgony for cloudsmachinations
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Dec 2024
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After a year of travelling the Sword Coast as a sell sword, Astarion contends with experiencing their first holiday season as a free spawn, in the dead of winter, alone and miserable, in Waterdeep.