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After the end of the world, Adahla and Solas face what's left between them—and what might now have room to grow.
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Lucanis and Rook catch their breath in the aftermath of the final battle.
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Five times Adahla Lavellan met Solas beneath the stars, and one time she didn't.
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Dorian and Adahla exchange letters and write an academic paper. Set post-game, pre-Trespasser.
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After foiling the djinni's plan to cheat them at the circus, Tav is whisked away to parts unknown. Astarion, as always, manages the worry with perfect grace and aplomb—right up until he starts bleeding. An exploration of the Warding Bond rings when worn by two people with completely unhealthy relationships to pain.
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- Part 3 of Something Real
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All Gale wants is to enjoy his perfectly prepared Midwinter dinner with the woman he loves. Unfortunately, the portal to Avernus abruptly ripping open in the middle of his library has a different idea.
Set a little over two months post-game.
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- Part 14 of Something Real
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A Nest Upon the Leafless Bough by loquaciousquark for Bettydice
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Oct 2024
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After a horrendous day in the shadow-cursed lands, experienced ranger Shiv struggles to find her way without the sun, the stars, or her beloved bear Rosie.
Thankfully, her friends refuse to leave her lost. Astarion grapples with these displays of affection—including his own.
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The Lightning Likewise Loves Thee by loquaciousquark
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Oct 2024
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Astarion took a quick, irritated step forward. “My love, would you kindly shut up? I don’t have marriage proposed to me every day. I’d like to seriously consider it.”
He’d like to—oh.
Oh.
Tav took a stunned, shaky breath. “Well, think out loud then. I don’t propose it very often myself.”
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Set about three months post-game.
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- Part 15 of Something Real
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After committing the perfectly innocent, inoffensive, victimless crime of petty theft, Astarion is thrown in Heapside Prison. Tav enjoys the entire experience.
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- Part 7 of Something Real
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Tav wakes injured, in pain, and surrounded by strangers. Lucky for her, she knows the city's escape routes and hideaways like the back of her hand—if only her hand would move at all, and if only her pursuer wasn't so damned persistent.
Set early in Act 3.
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- Part 4 of Something Real
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Tav returns from a day of rebuilding the city to find Astarion with company. Like any self-respecting world-saving hero, she completely and utterly panics.
Set about a week post-game.
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- Part 12 of Something Real
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Distant Skies, Timber Joists by loquaciousquark for silksieve
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
17 Jul 2024
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Some days, she wakes with a dragon in her eyes.
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Faced with an uncertain battle, an exhausted party, and the endless fires of Avernus, Tav considers Haarlep's offer. When Astarion disapproves, Haarlep makes a new, much more violent suggestion—and this one Tav can't refuse.
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- Part 11 of Something Real
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Astarion is fatally wounded during the battle with Sarevok. With no healer in the party, there's only one way Tav can save him, even if that means ripping open all their vulnerable places in the process.
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- Part 8 of Something Real
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Immediately after the midnight attack by Cazador's spawn, Astarion struggles to navigate the inconvenient complexities of his emotions. Tav kindly complicates everything.
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- Part 5 of Something Real
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After finally arriving at Last Light Inn, Tav discovers that the great Good Deed of her adult life has in fact backfired spectacularly, imperiling the very people she was trying to protect. Astarion, thoughtful and considerate fellow that he is, proposes a distraction.
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- Part 2 of Something Real
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Astarion is mildly injured in an Underdark fight, and a guilty Tav makes it up to him. Lines begin, ever so slightly, to blur.
Set in late Act 1.
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- Part 1 of Something Real
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A Midwinter's Carol; in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Baldur's Gate by loquaciousquark
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Dec 2023
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Cazador was dead: to begin with. There was no doubt whatever about that. Astarion had plunged a very beautiful knife a dozen times or more into his gut and left him in tattered shreds upon his ritually carven floor. The compulsion which had haunted the farthest reaches of his memory had vanished like mist with his master’s death.
Mind! It cannot be implied that there is a particular similarity between a vampire lord, who is un-dead, and a dead vampire, despite the mimicking shape of those descriptors. Neither bears real facility of life, true, with a beating heart and a cheek which might yet blush, but the one may wield an un-life never again to be possessed by the other, who will do little more than lie still and rot away into new earth. Cazador was a corpse, mouldering beneath the ground. In all ways he had been flung across that lofty river into the mundanity of real and final death. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing that follows will seem wondrous.
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Cazador doesn't give up after one attempt to kidnap Astarion for the ritual, and this time, he manages to snare Tav too. Astarion faces the grim reality of having endangered the one thing he can't bear to lose.
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- Part 9 of Something Real
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Fenris, captain of Starkhaven’s White Guard and the dearest friend of that country’s prince, has arrived in the kingdom of Kirkwall with a retinue of noble-born guards and a carriage brimming with lavish gifts. How else to win over the hearts of a suspicious mountain people who would rather break teeth on stone than accept the prince of Starkhaven stealing away their heir princess?
But stone is all they have in their kitchens lately, and gravel in their quarries and ice in their bitter rivers, and Starkhaven sits abreast the richest lea and moorland south of the Minanter.
And Sebastian Vael, the young prince of that country, needs a wife.