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Soojin is in her last year of college the first time she cuts her hair short.
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On a quiet night at the end of August, Jin leaves his father's house for good.
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Gale had desperately clasped Astarion's wrist, preventing him from fully wrenching away. From fleeing. And for a brief moment Astarion was ready to lash out with all of the feral fury a starving spawn had to offer.
The memory of that scorching touch was like a scar. The imprint of his lightly calloused, bare palm on Astarion's slender wrist was an invisible, white-hot brand upon his flesh. It was only Gale's wide, worried eyes and immediate surrender of Astarion's captured limb that saved him from being torn to ribbons by long-forgotten vampiric claws.
He loathed it. Touching and being touched.
People did not touch Astarion and survive.
Astarion did not touch people destined to live.
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Astarion has a complicated relationship with physical touch. It brings up a wellspring of memories best left forgotten, and he doesn't even know if he could enjoy it anymore should he ever let anyone close enough to try... or five times Astarion sees Gale being held and has a lot of difficult feelings about it + the one time he does it himself and knows exactly how he feels about it.
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05 Dec 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
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27 Nov 2025
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badger hair by ancientglowstick
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
24 Oct 2023
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a late-night campfire. gale confides. astarion discovers.
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16 Nov 2025
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“Gale,” Astarion says eventually, the words carefully measured. “What the actual fuck?!”
“Star. He didn’t know.”
“How?! Hells, Gale, you can’t just go around adding more gods to my kill-list! Three is already far too many for one lifetime.”
Gale gets relationship advice from monsters. It proves surprisingly helpful.
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- Part 2 of dare to dream a Better world
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14 Nov 2025
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After being left to raise her young son alone, Morena Dekarios’s parenting goals condensed from a spectrum of dreams into one searing solitary point: make sure Gale turns out better than his father. But when Gale comes home to Waterdeep bringing along a fiancé with debilitating special needs, Morena can’t help but worry that despite everything, he really is his father’s son.
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- Part 3 of Sunsets and Starlight
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29 Oct 2025