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10 Oct 2024
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Damen’s dimple deepened as his smile grew. More than a thousand nights serving the Kingsmeet, one of the greatest honours a man of Nikandros’ station could ever achieve, did not compare to this.
“I have a surprise for you," Damen said.
Nikandros looked at his Prince. Damen laughed and jostled his shoulders. “A gift for us to share.”
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03 Sep 2024
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Astarion raised one hand to throw his dagger at the man, only for his fingers to spasm. The blade fell from his fingers, clattering to the floor. Both his arms convulsed, and his dirk joined the dagger on the floor. His chest seized, robbing him of breath, and he could only look at the intruder in shock before he collapsed, paralysis taking hold of him.
Slow, heavy footsteps stomped toward him, no longer trying to be quiet. A thick boot nudged him in the ribs. Astarion’s mind whirled, screaming at himself to get up, get away, stab him, bite him, flee, fight, fucking anything! All he managed was a twitch of a finger and nothing more.
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07 Aug 2024
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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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17 Jul 2024
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There's a subtle shift in his voice, a deeper meaning that wasn't there before dragging along the edges of his words- one that V finally catches onto. The way he's looking at him is less like a comrade and more like a piece of meat. "But we have an ongoing arrangement. Nothing about it changes, except for the manner in which I gain access to your blood. Do you understand what I'm asking? I can go into more specifics, if you want."
V nearly drops the rag in the river. He faces Astarion again, meeting his gaze, searching it. "Oh gods, you're serious."
Astarion casts his hands up helplessly. "I'm just saying! It's a precious commodity; no sense letting it go to waste!"
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- Part 1 of Astarion & Durge fics
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30 Jun 2024
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Astarion visits a gynecologist after putting off his checkups. Doctor Szarr is exceedingly thorough.
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09 Jun 2024
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At the Szarr's palace, which not many have had the privilege of coming in, the life of official Lucian Despar will turn upside down when what seemed to be a simple inspection turns into a maelstrom of dark encounters with certain pale elf.
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04 Jun 2024
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“I don’t really think there’s a true name for what I am,” Gale admits, looking sheepish, “But I have named it, myself. If that’s interesting to you.”
“Of course I’m interested, Gale, I’m here.” He’s asking.
“I… call it Portentus Castificare. An omen of punishment,” Gale says, eyes on his hands where they rest in his lap.
“Is it that bad?” Astarion cajoles, hoping to earn another smile somehow or other.
“It’s certainly… monstrous. And the hunger, when its yawning void opens within me, is… almost insatiable. And quite painful. This… this body, what you’ve come to recognize as me… it’s a facsimile of the man I was before, as best as I could recreate it. But I died that day, I think. It absorbed me just as I absorbed it,” Gale does smile, but it’s a sad one.
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- Part 1 of portentus domesticus
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27 May 2024
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People don't want to be broken into pieces for Gale, and so he pretends that he doesn't hunger for it.
For knowledge.
For the power that comes with true understanding.
For the intimacy of it.
He tries not to force his companions open like a book and devour them page by page; it would break their spine in the process.Astarion needs blood and protection.
Gale just ... needs.
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18 May 2024
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“We’re not going to be friends,” Tav says through gritted teeth. “But sure. Let’s tour the room. Why not?”
He’s never felt such malice radiating from Astarion’s direction before. If a stare could melt flesh and bone, Gortash would be a puddle of gore on the throne room floor. But Astarion doesn’t move, and neither does anyone else as Tav lets Gortash lead him away.
It’s all a game. Tav can tell that much. He’ll play it as long as he needs to, stomach whatever he has to, if it means everyone in this room will get out alive.
Tav has an unexpected run-in with a figure from his past. Early Act 3. Astarion x m!Tav.
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- Part 30 of a crooked touch (Astarion x m!Tav)
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08 May 2024
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Something is sniffing him: cold, loud, ragged breaths dragging through his hair, his neck, his clothes.
“Please, whatever you are. Help me, I beg you.”
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What could end a millenia of solitude but a half-frozen wizard?
What could fix a broken, betrayed heart but a huge, bizzare creature?
It's possible that the direst of circumstances may lead Gale exactly where he needs to be.- Language:
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08 May 2024
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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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29 Apr 2024
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When Astarion is assaulted on their way to Baldur's Gate, he is not even surprised. Yet another day in his miserable life. He could have done without his party hearing about it, but it isn't as if they don't already know how depraved he is.
That they care enough to rescue him is... unexpected.
That they insist on not brushing it off and on giving him time to heal is downright ridiculous.What is he supposed to heal from exactly?
His entire existence?***
Or, Astarion is raped and his traumas are catching up with him. But now he has a whole party behind him and, for the very first time, he has the luxury to break down.
Complete list of Trigger Warnings in the Author's Note
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- Part 1 of What Is Left Of Him
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20 Mar 2024
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In his previous life, before he’d lost his memories, he may have loved the man. No, love was not quite the right word. Obsessed, perhaps, not with the person himself, but with the countless ideas on how to make a mess of the man, both as a sexual partner and a corpse. To have him scream and cry, in pain and pleasure, to have his arms and legs twist how he wanted, to break his bones and hear the cracks, to taste the blood and tears as he bit him and clawed at him.
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19 Mar 2024
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Cazador ends his child's year-long punishment.
Astarion learns his lesson.Bookmarked by ghostdva
18 Mar 2024
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Cazador was known for extreme punishments, but this? This was truly excessive. Hollowing out his bones, really? Still, Astarion was obligated to continue on, crippling chronic pain be damned. He had a life to live and a master to serve, whether or not his knees had cartilige was irrelevant. He'd been through enough to tough out the occasional broken bone.
AKA the long-term effects of my headcanon in the format of interaction additions to the main game
(I stg its so much sweeter than the tags and description make it sound. It has all the elements, but it's a lot more about how this would affect his interactions w/ The Squid Squad™. And its mostly set up like a series of interconnected oneshots, so if you just want a specific part, you can probably find it by reading the chapter titles and finding the one you want.)
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13 Mar 2024
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a crooked touch (Astarion x m!Tav) by eyes_of_the_lamb
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Nov 2024
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“Make it hurt, then. Kiss me like you want to kill me.”
“I can do that.”
Two broken stars in a decaying orbit, passing closer and closer together until the inevitable, devastating collision.
Or, Tav is fucked up and down bad for Astarion, who doesn't quite see the appeal (but he's getting there). Sexual frustration, sloppy handjobs, a heavy dose of masochism, and way too many failed Insight checks ahead. Tav falls first, Astarion falls harder (eventually).
Or, a tragic-but-hopeful romance told through a series of incredibly ill-advised sexual encounters.
If you want to read a story where Astarion is sweet from the start and Tav is here to fix him, this isn't the one. If you want to read about two terribly broken men spending a good long while making each other worse before they make each other better, this might be for you. If you thought the in-game romance was a little too easy and it should have been ten times more painful and difficult to convince Astarion he's worthy of love, this is definitely for you.
Set during the canonical events of Baldur's Gate 3.
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13 Mar 2024
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12 Mar 2024
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Astarion has not had a heat since he was turned and thinks he lost the ability. It was so long ago he didn't recognize the signs thankfully they have a capable crew to see him through these trying times. Halsin takes the lead as healer and head alpha but that doesn't mean he takes control. This is about the omega and his pleasures. No alpha can tell him what those may be.
(I just wanted soft nonpenetrative sex where Astarion relearns consent and bodily autonomy)
“What are you doing?”
Wyll’s question seems to break the haze Astarion has found himself in. Halting the noise in his blood. Pausing, cloak in hand. He is standing just outside of his tent, and which flaps are held wide. An organized pile of pillows, blankets, and cloth spills out. “I,” the question catches him off guard, “I don’t know.” Astarion uncharacteristically falters, focus drawn back to the cloak in hand. What is he doing?
It was obvious what the pale elf was doing to anyone who had observed the act in the past. It wasn’t that Wyll didn’t know so much as the great surprise at seeing their prickly companion doing so. Even he knows that nesting is a delicate topic. And that is a nest. At least, Wyll thinks so.
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- Part 1 of Be Good To Me I Beg of Him
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12 Mar 2024
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Gortash oversteps his privileges, and is swiftly reminded that Durge is an equal, not a pawn.
OR: in which durge tops for once, yeah that’s really about it. it's finally happening.
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09 Mar 2024