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Astarion wasn’t sulking, nor was he hiding from Gale. He was simply taking a relaxing moment to himself. A relaxing moment in the dark, pressed between boxes in what was presumably a storage room.
Sometimes it's easier to ignore an issue when you've got more imminent problems to deal with. Now that he's finally safe, Astarion finds it might be harder to ignore said issues.
This is a direct continuation of 'Bat'tered by the Storm. Updates on Fridays.
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- Part 2 of 'Bat'tered
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08 Dec 2025
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Astarion is convinced he has no soulmate. Gale is convinced his soulmark binds him to Mystra. Luckily, they're both wrong. Primarily Bloodweave, but the entire party is here and they're all finding their soulmates on this crazy journey. (Written for the Baldur's Gate 3 Big Bang 2024. Includes art!)
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06 Dec 2025
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Some time in between Gale tripping over his own feet and then spell-checking an enemy mage mid-incantation Astarion’s stupid unbeating heart decided to flip flop around like a fish dying on the beach and attach itself to the wizard. Ugh.
Step one: woo the wizard.
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Five times Astarion tries to flirt his way into Gale's bed, and one time he doesn't have to.
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04 Dec 2025
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Mosquito, Puddle, Pain and Torment (and Honey) by lavvyan for shroomonabroom
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
19 Apr 2024
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Gale shouldn’t be entirely startled to find a vampire standing in the middle of his foyer, wet clothes dripping on the carpet and hands cupped around something small and equally soaked through.
He shouldn’t be, and yet…
“I found her in a crate,” Astarion says, shifting his grip to reveal a tiny slip of a kitten, sodden and shivering. His expression is bemused as he looks down at the little creature.
For all Astarion’s readiness to stab those deserving and undeserving alike, cruelty to animals bewilders him. Something Gale finds endlessly charming, not that he would ever say as much.
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Gale likes Astarion. Astarion likes cats. Gale might have made a slight miscalculation somewhere.
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04 Dec 2025
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Astarion is fine - he really is just fine, thank you very much. He wants to do his job, do his best to bully his brain into submission each night so he can get a good night's sleep, and stay firmly under everyone's radar. He does not want to work with his irritatingly cheery and dull colleague - Gale Dekarios - on a stupid and meaningless project.
Alas, the universe - or at least Blackstaff Academy - has different ideas.
OR: Gale and Astarion are both tired, traumatised, and undervalued teachers at Blackstaff Academy and, eventually, Gale worms his way under every single one of Astarion's defences.
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03 Dec 2025
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While the team regroups in the Moonrise Towers throne room after the fight in the Mindflayer Colony, Astarion notices Gale acting strangely across the room and goes to investigate. Shenanigans (and feelings) ensue.
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As he regains his composure, Astarion nods and places a gentle, open-mouthed kiss on Gale’s throat, grinning wildly when he feels it bob beneath his lips. “Yes, my love. I think I’m more sure about this than I’ve been about almost anything else.” He tilts his hips forward to meet Gale’s hovering hand and they both gasp at the contact. “Please, Gale,” Astarion whines, “Please touch me.”
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- Part 2 of lend me a hand
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29 Nov 2025
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Astarion ascends, Tav takes control of the brain and enslaves them all, and Gale sacrifices himself to save everyone from being under Tav's control. But things can't end like that, can they?
Gale blinks and finds himself back at square one with an overwhelming amount of knowledge, a hungry Netherese blight in his chest, and friends who no longer remember him.
Or... Gale is like basically a fortune-teller.I suppose this is a slow burn. I sort of modeled it off of the game's pacing, so that's why.
Guess who has a sequel!!
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- Part 1 of Lost Light
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28 Nov 2025
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Astarion, making a whole meal of his trust issues, volunteers to beta-read Gale's in-progress historical chronicle of their adventures, intending to control his image and gather intelligence on his companions. Instead, their written exchanges through margin notes and editorial comments evolve into genuine intellectual discourse and unexpected intimacy.
Reader beware: massive geeks perpetrating geekery until they finally manage to get it on. And then they are still geeks.
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- Part 1 of Mayhem in the Margins
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25 Nov 2025
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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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06 Nov 2025
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Humans can go weeks without food. As long as they have access to water, some can even last months without biting into a hamburger or tasting the sweetness of strawberry jam on a biscuit hot out of the oven. There are drawbacks, of course, to skipping meals. Dizziness, fainting, weight loss too quick for the body to adapt to.
It’s Astarion's first table of the day. The dull, slow thump of his heartbeat rushes past his ears. His knees buckle with every step. He’s falling apart, he knows this, but with ten cents in the bank and another few days to wait until his paycheck comes in, all Astarion can do is keep putting one foot in front of the other and hope he doesn’t collapse. There’s no time to think about the metaphorical hand tightening around his stomach and throat.
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05 Nov 2025
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Gale has been delving into artificery, and has created a device that lets him travel across the multiverse. He pulls Astarion along for the ride.
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A very silly meta-fic as a gift for the Bloodweave Brainrot discord server.
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04 Nov 2025
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Just You And Me (On The Rock) by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
08 Jan 2026
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Snapshots from Astarion & Gale's burgeoning relationship starting when Elminster stabilises the Netherese Orb and picking out some moments from Act Two to contextualise it.
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01 Nov 2025
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They weren't talking about it. Gale shouldn't have been surprised; Astarion wasn't known for sharing his feelings unless it was to complain. Where Gale wore his heart on his sleeve, his newfound vampiric lover kept his squirreled away, shoving it down as far from the surface as he could manage.
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Gale tries casual sex, and falls in love immediately.
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29 Oct 2025
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He’s almost looking forward to either falling from the top of the Netherbrain into the River Chionthar, or watching it fall from a safe distance. It’ll be over, then! It’ll be done. He can go hide in the dark, forget this ever happened twice. Astarion can forget Tav. He can move on. Learn to love the dark again, or something.
Astarion wakes up in a pod on the Nautiloid.
(COMPLETE! <3)
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20 Oct 2025
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20 Oct 2025
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There was silence. Neither of them said anything, they didn’t even move.
Gale regarded him with wide eyes, seemingly taking his features in anew. Then, he scoffed, straightening up to sit on his bedroll. “Of course. I can’t believe I didn’t see it.”
No fucking way. He was not being this arrogant, this insufferable, in this moment. Astarion must’ve misheard him, only he knew he hadn’t.
“You think yourself that smart, Gale?” he asked with narrow eyes, face twisting with distaste.
“Yes, in fact I do.” Gale replied, his tone returning all of Astarion’s hostility. “I am a studied wizard after all. I’ve read all about your kind, assuming you are merely a spawn.”
“Merely.” Astarion repeated. He kept quiet for a while, attempting to discern what Gale was going to do. He discreetly wrapped his hand around the dagger he hid in the hem of his pants, just in case.
The wizard seemed to be lost in thought for a while. Eventually he looked up at Astarion, his eyes twinkling in the moonlight. “Did you plan to kill me?”
“What?” Astarion choked on the word.
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19 Oct 2025
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cutting through the cracks of the concrete by tuffgreg
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
18 Nov 2023
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It's been so long since Astarion had to make a life for himself anywhere that he doesn't remember how. Unfortunately, when he disembarks in the City of Splendors, at midnight, in the rain, he finds his hospitable host Gale of Waterdeep doesn't know how to make a life with someone else.
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- Part 1 of by the sea, that's the life i covet
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18 Oct 2025
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Did it Hurt? When You Fell From the Heavens? by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Oct 2024
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Following a smidge of time-line fuckery, Gale meets a handsome stranger in the Yawning Portal - a stranger who seems to know far too much about him, to be far too invested in his life and his happiness, and to be far too attractive to let slip through his fingers.
The stranger also happens to be an incredibly welcome distraction from the otherwise miserable and confusing hellscape that is Gale Dekarios's personal life. His mother worries about him constantly, his familiar won't talk to him about anything that matters, his mentor won't tell him anything useful, and his goddess is making cryptic and increasing demands.
OR: Gale meets a handsome vampire in 1487 who seems deadset on making all his problems go away, with some strings attached.
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- Part 2 of One Wish, For The Road
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17 Oct 2025
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Looking down at himself he felt nauseated, his arms were no longer arms, but wings made from skin and elongated fingers. How absolutely disgusting. It took him a few seconds to register that despite being a spawn and not a full vampire, he’d apparently just changed into a bat. Which was great. Now he got to die as a flying rat instead.
After an incident with a monster hunter, Astarion finds himself considerably smaller, fluffier, and unwillingly dragged into being cared for by a lonely wizard, who has no idea he's just brought a vampire into his home.
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- Part 1 of 'Bat'tered
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17 Oct 2025
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A series of shorter, light hearted fics intended to glimpse at the downtime between the companions as they seem to gravitate to each other and couple up from Gale's view, feeling as though as Wyll and Karlach grow close, and Lae’zel and Shadowheart, he and Astarion are left together with no one but each other for company.
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16 Oct 2025