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As Wyll undergoes a brutal transformation at Mizora's hands, Astarion contemplates the nature of mercy.
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the kindest of kisses (break the hardest of hearts) by jellyfishline
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
10 Feb 2024
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Astarion has kissed people before, of course. He’s kissed quite a lot of people, thank you very much. Some of them even survived the process.
Some of them he even enjoyed. Not that that’s here nor there.
Astarion successfully seduces Wyll, but Wyll is less interested in taking Astarion to bed a second time than he is in kissing him senseless. Astarion has no idea what to do with that.
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07 Apr 2025
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Hallucinations come a little more naturally to elves than other races. The vapor-thin veil between the reverie of trance and stark reality takes so little effort to pierce. An elf dreams through their memories without ever truly sleeping; thus, dreams do not always wait for consciousness to exit before stepping onto the stage. At least, that's how Astarion sees it. He's never had his assumptions checked by a second opinion.
Astarion, at Tav's request, eats something that doesn't agree with him. This has unexpected consequences.
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07 Apr 2025
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The long and heavy quiet of the Underdark inspires an unexpected observation.
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07 Apr 2025
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you miss 100% of the hot statues you don't kiss by not_whelmed_yet for Winifred0817
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Apr 2025
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In the early hours of the morning, with the greys of night swelling into blues and pink and golden dawn, a vampire climbed through one of the broken windows to hide at Wyll’s feet.
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Wyll is a statue. Astarion is a vampire seeking a place to hide from the sun...and maybe something more.
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06 Apr 2025
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Mermaid!AU. Halsin is a lone marine biologist on Faerûn Island, trying his best to fight the aftermath of a toxic oil spill from Shar Limited's capsized tanker. Astarion is a mermaid, recently escaped from the Szarr marine laboratory and hungry for revenge against the man who held him captive. With a shared love of the sea and shared desire to see two corporations fall, perhaps they can help each other out.
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04 Apr 2025
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Before The First Light (Some Bright Morning Comes) by tinybabydeer
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Dec 2023
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If he was the Oak Father’s scion, Wyll could understand worship. His knees ached for dirt. His tongue begged for salt.
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02 Apr 2025
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"I think I might have given you the wrong impression," Wyll said, smile sheepish, "I don't, ah, expect you to do anything in return. For me."
There was silence again for a long, awkward moment. For once Astarion was glad to be dead, at least there would be no visible sign of humiliation on his face. All his life he'd been told he was good for one thing only, but the past few tendays had made it abundantly clear that maybe he wasn't good for even that much. He should be relieved that Wyll didn't want to fuck him, but instead he felt only a vertiginous uncertainty.
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Astarion doesn't know what Wyll could possibly see in him besides the obvious. Wyll shows him.Bookmarked by draftingtides
02 Apr 2025
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Astarion gave him another over-the-shoulder look, his eyes narrowed and assessing. “And you’re into him?”
Wyll nodded. “He’s incredibly hot.”
“Oh thank god, we’re the only people I know who’ve been this long in an open relationship without managing to fuck anyone else. I was beginning to think there was something wrong with us.”
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Wyll meets a handsome man at the gym, but just when it looks like sparks might fly ideological differences bring the whole thing crashing down... or do they?Bookmarked by draftingtides
02 Apr 2025
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you look so handsome when i'm all over your mouth by judypoovey for mr_charles
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Dec 2023
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"You've always been too hard on yourself, Master Halsin," she said. "100 years I've known you and the whole time you've been dragging the weight of all those burdens behind you. When was the last time you felt free, dear? Maybe chase that for a while, rather than some mind-flayer cult."
Halsin couldn't recall, he noted bitterly.
(Halsin abandons all of his responsibilities. It only has a little tiny bit to do with a handsome vampire spawn.)
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01 Apr 2025
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“Your master must be fond of sending others to do his dirty work,” Halsin said.
Astarion’s eyes flicked up to meet his gaze. He was shrewd; he knew then that Halsin understood the situation. Halsin belatedly realized that the vampire spawn’s flushed face could be from hunger. Halsin’s chest dripped with freshly spilt blood.
“You have no idea,” Astarion said in a tight voice. “How much of his dirty work I have done.”
Halsin spread his hands in a gesture of surrender, of passivity. “I know it wasn’t your choice.”
“I did what I had to do to survive.”
Halsin recognized the words; he had said them before himself.Astarion adapts to his new life in the sun, seemingly free of Cazador, but with no shortage of enemies who would see him captive again. Halsin, burdened with responsibility for so many that he often forgets himself, encounters some of the same enemies in his quest to restore the balance of nature.
After rescuing each other in a goblin camp, the pair finds they may have more in common than shared enemies...
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01 Apr 2025
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“I think I’ve accepted a long time ago that I’m broken," Astarion continues. “I don’t know if I’ll ever want to be touched again, to be honest.” He rolls his eyes at the obvious concern in Halsin’s face. “Oh, shut up. I don’t need or want pity. I’m just saying– I don’t mind hearing about other people having sex. You don’t need to shelter it from me like I’m a child or prude or something.”
“You’re not broken,” Halsin says, almost sounding angry.
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29 Mar 2025
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i want to see you in your dreams. by mr_charles for judypoovey
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 Feb 2024
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after loaning a distressed teenage girl his jacket, Astarion hopes her foster dad has more than just returning it on his mind.
too bad Astarion forgot about the "foster dad" thing. and Halsin has 5 teenage girls. and an ex-girlfriend who still lives there. and her new boyfriend.
and don't even ask what Gale has going on with Mystra.
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29 Mar 2025
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Halsin was a relatively new addition to their camp, and Astarion wasn’t quite sure what to make of him. Of course, the druid certainly pretended to be kind, and helpful, and considerate, but surely that was just a little too good to be true. Astarion needed to keep his guard up, because it seemed that there were fresh things trying to kill them on a daily basis, even on top of the ever-present threat of ceremorphosis, and he still had Cazador to worry about. It was certainly no time to go soft.
Astarion negotiates the plot of Baldur's Gate 3 (and a little bit beyond), facing the standard trauma and tribulations, all while stubbornly trying to avoid falling in love with their resident druid.
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29 Mar 2025
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When his advances are rejected one drunken night, Astarion makes it his personal mission to get the druid into his bed. His game of seduction quickly backfires when he realizes Halsin is in it for the long run.
[Light sprinkling of smut in chapter 3. There will be much more afterwards. A LOT of incoming angst if you're into that. Probably the most angst heavy fic I've written]
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28 Mar 2025
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the kindness of a liar (to fool the burning fear) by not_whelmed_yet for Duck_Lake
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Dec 2024
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Wyll Ravengard is a journalist, investigating a medical corporation promising a solution to the organ donor waiting list. Wyll schedules an interview with one of the vampire spawn acting as a living donor for Cania Innovations, trying to puzzle out if this is exploitation or altruism.
Astarion Ancunín has been traded to a new master, one determined to wring all potential profit out of the 7,000 spawn he has acquired.
That was then? Now? Now they’re roommates.
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28 Mar 2025
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Astarion's long journey toward acceptance, self-love and adulthood.
Halsin holds his hand through it all.
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27 Mar 2025
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After being abandoned by both Tav and the sunlight, Astarion makes a poorly thought out wish to Djinni and finds himself in the body of a toddler. Even though he’s (mostly) mentally sound, his new situation forces him to rely on his former traveling companions until he can find a way back to his old self. That is, assuming it’s even possible.
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25 Mar 2025
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When Astarion awakens in the aftermath of the Nautiloid crash, it is not to a friendly face but the press of goblin steel against his cheek.
Now a captive of the Absolute, he is left starving and huddled in the corner, waiting for the beast that shares his cell to finally strike.
Bears, after all, are not known to be the most gracious killers.
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24 Mar 2025
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Halsin looked at him. “This could be…incredibly painful.” He reached out and took Astarion’s hands in his own. “Are you sure you wish to do this?”
Astarion nodded. “Yes. I’m very sure.”
or: after enduring two hundred years of torture at cazador's hands, astarion finds a life renewed alongside halsin in reithwin. but he is still infinitely curious, and when he discovers the fate of his parents, he can't help but pull that thread. to them, he is dead and buried - but maybe some good can come from it after all.
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24 Mar 2025