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The rune chews them up and spits them out.
Jayce takes Viktor and runs.
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"So, what, he's poisoned himself to...chase people?"
Shadowheart shoots a glance his way. "To kiss them."
"What?" Astarion exclaims, taken aback. "Disgusting! Who'd want a kiss from Gale, of all people? Probably feels like having an animal rub against your face."
Another glance from Shadowheart. "Thought about it, have you?"
The noise that leaves him is not kind. "Absolutely not, don't be ridiculous."
He hasn't. Of course he hasn't. Why ever would he? Preposterous to imagine kissing Gale, when-
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A simple error with some alchemy makes Gale's tadpole act very strange indeed, but everything goes better than expected.
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Astarion waves one arm, and a swarm of shining, writhing tentacles follow his lead. He moves the other, and a second swarm hurries to obey. He can feel his connection to their movement through the spell. When he guides one swarm closer to Gale, the tendrils start to reach out towards his skin, like a grasping many-fingered hand.
“Gale Dekarios, you disgusting little pervert,” Astarion says with wonder, swimming his hands back and forth, revelling in the way the spell follows his every movement. “How long have you been working on this?”
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So stay on my arm, you little charmer by houseofthestars
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
29 Jan 2024
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So maybe Astarion has noticed Gale acting strangely the last couple of days. He’s been quiet, slow to rise in the morning, dragging his feet on the trail, less quick to respond to Astarion’s conversation. But what’s it to Astarion? Talking about these sorts of things isn’t what he and Gale do.
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Only: rebuilding a shattered Karsite relic — with nothing but the ciphered notes of an ancient Ur-Mage, a bomb with renewed hunger in his chest and a thoroughly disappointed tressym who refused to have anything to do with any of it — hasn’t proved exactly fruitful. Which is why Gale mostly spends his time in his darkened study, trying to spin together the frayed remains of forgotten magic into something that might resemble a fraction of the power he once had.
“It’s complicated,” Gale says to Astarion, at length.
“Oh, I’m sure,” Astarion says. “Must be terribly tricky, dealing with all those arcane powers beyond my comprehension. In your three-week-old pyjamas that smell of vinegar.”
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This one is different because it’s ours by houseofthestars
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Jan 2024
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Gale shifts in a way that looks like an attempt at a shrug, but then makes another alarmed noise when the vines shift around him in response.
“Fuck,” says Astarion, and then “Fuck,” and then, “Well. Let’s just try, and then. Ah. If it doesn’t work… we’ll try something else.”
He pulls out his dagger, and Gale makes another little abortive noise. Oh, he supposes it is rather large, isn’t it. All the better to stab people. Less useful for precision Gale extraction.
“Look, it’s this or an even bigger knife,” Astarion says, with only the faintest sliver of contrition. He sighs. “You know I know my way around a blade, Gale. You’re just going to have to trust me.”
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The Other Ryn by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
29 Feb 2020
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Every choice matters - every choice has consequences. An accident with Alexius's amulet brought Dorian to another world, where a different Inquisitor made all the difference in the Inquisition as he knew it. Now back in his original reality, Dorian sets off in search of clan Lavellan - and the Inquisitor who could have been.
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- Part 3 of Redcliffe Amulet
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The Other Inquisitor by KaerWrites
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Inquisition
25 Jun 2015
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A messy disagreement with the Inquisitor results in Dorian waking up in an alternate timeline, where differences in leadership have certainly had a surprising impact on his own personal story.
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- Part 1 of Redcliffe Amulet
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Cullen and Dorian's friendship deepens. Cullen is a romantic. Dorian is literally cold. Cullen is no longer certain what he would consider surprising. Mages and Templars working in perfect cooperation, perhaps. Evil and corruption disappearing into the ground along with the blight, blood magic falling so far out of favor it ceased to be. A united Thedas: that would be a surprise.
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'It hadn’t started with the withdrawal, of course. If conscious desire was something Cullen had lost at Kinloch Hold, and for all the years between, his physical capability had been a slower casualty, unnoticed and unmourned at first, to the lyrium. And even after the fear was done, after he could look at a woman or man - even a mage - and find his mind lingering on their skin (its dips and hollows, and the ways he might make them gasp) it seemed his cock was still disinclined to participate.
It was bearable, though: lonely and cold, but no more than he deserved. Sometimes he thought of the rows of Tranquil Meredith had branded in Kirkwall, and that in this small way, he was one of many, partaking in the consequences of his own sins.
It was bearable, until Dorian.'
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Were Dorian back home, they would fuck a few times to get whatever it is building between them out of their systems then go back to their regularly scheduled lives. They would most likely never speak again unless required to by a formal setting, and both parties would be expected to keep their deviant activities a secret.
But they aren’t in Tevinter, and what’s building between them isn’t sexual desire, not really.
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More Tea, Probably. by dorkpatroller for Ancuninbrainrot
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Oct 2024
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On a crisp autumn evening, Gale takes Astarion to a quaint little farmer's market, where he failed to wear warm enough clothes. Astarion had no idea humans could feel this cold and not drop dead on the spot, and hells help him, he won't be letting that happen even IF Gale insists he's fine.
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I don't belong, and my beloved neither do you. by dorkpatroller
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Jul 2024
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Astarion’s lips curl into a smirk. He dips his head to one side and taps one fingertip against his lips—they’ve got glittery gloss on them. Gale can almost taste it. “Hmm. How interesting. And does Mrs. Dekarios know you’re here?”
No. He came here to cheat on his wife. The integrity of such an establishment is up in the air, but it’s doubtful the staff want to cause trouble. It’s just Gale’s luck that this particular member of staff lives in the house next door.
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A decade of baking rivalry comes to a head when an overwrought reality television cooking show forces Gale and Astarion to cooperate. Astarion decides to make things hard for everyone, and only burns himself in the end.
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"So here he is, he thinks with dark, nauseating humor. One of the glorious heroes of Baldur’s Gate—hungover and lightly crisped, sprawled on his back in the one place he had wanted more than anything in the world to leave behind forever—
The great Szarr palace. Home sweet home."
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The villains are defeated. The heroes claim their victory. Astarion sinks down to exactly where he started. Gale plots his apotheosis. Somehow, they meet in the middle.
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Astarion meets the de-facto blow job queen of Blackstaff, an unassuming but popular grad student with the most luminous brown eyes.
Maybe one day he'll even unstop that pretty mouth long enough to get the guy's name.
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- Part 1 of Blowmance
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All in all, Gale is happy and trying to be a decent man. His divorce has left a fair few invisible scars but they're mostly healed over and he's moving on. Which is why he tries to help where he can, giving the benefit of the doubt even to those who have been rude to him for no reason. After all, nobody sets out to be a deliberate prick, usually there has to be some underlying cause.
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Hopelessly lost in a rainstorm, Gale happens upon a beautiful country mansion. Hoping to find help making his way back to his car he finds himself enraptured by the hospitable homeowner.
Memento Vivere - Remember to live
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“AGH!”
“Darling, I’m well aware this hurts, but I do need you to hold still.”
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After a quick fight where Gale gets the brunt of the damage, Astarion patches him up, and they grow a bit closer.
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In a Faerûn of the distant future, Gale is drawn to all things mystical and magical. Ancient stories. Ancient gods. Races that once were, and magic he still believes in.
In a Faerûn of the distant future, Asarion remembers two centuries of torment that never happened to him.
A story told in 31 vignettes, inspired by the 31 Gays of Summer prompts on the Bloodweave Brainrot Discord server.