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Astarion and Tav have a mutually beneficial arrangement: Tav feeds his need to feel in control and, in return, Astarion makes the nasty voices in her head go away. This night is no different.
He is definitely, surely not falling in love with her...
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15 Feb 2025
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Astarion turned to leave when Raphael spoke. “Yes, my dear Vampire Ascendant, you did vex me greatly throughout this deal, and I’d have slaughtered you for it were it not for the possibility of this exact outcome. You delivered to me my reign, and I will not forget it. Besides, you should be proud—you went against a devil and negotiated the most balanced contract I believe has ever been created in the history of the hells. Really, you thought of ALMOST everything.”
Astarion froze.
Raphael laughed. “Don’t worry, little vampire, you’ll get your beloved back, and you’ll have the opportunity to make her fall in love with you again. I will deliver everything that was promised. But my dear Astarion, you forgot one thing…you didn’t say when….”
Astarion turned with a snarl, but before he could take a single step, he had been transported out of the House of Hope in a haze of brimstone, and the last he heard of Raphael was the devil’s devious laughter.
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Five hundred years later…
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15 Feb 2025
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“I don’t know,” Astarion said, speaking as deliberately as possible, “what I have done to deserve such deception. But nobody has ever tried to fake an orgasm with me. Not ever.”
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06 Dec 2024
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After helping Astarion become the Vampire Ascendant, you went your separate ways. Misfortune brings you back to his door and he is eager to repay you for your faith in him.
“You won’t survive this world, not intact anyway. It is a terrible place, my darling. A vicious place you don’t have the teeth for.”
An explicit narrative exploring the Ascendant's all consuming affections with a bit of angsty plot to tie it together.
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01 Nov 2024
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When Raphael suggests using your body whenever he wants in exchange for the Orphic Hammer, you agree.
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The One Where Raphael is Bad in Bed
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23 Aug 2024
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Ascending Astarion was a mistake; a terrible, costly mistake with very few ways left to make it right. Tav has to try, though. It was her fault, after all. The consequences of his actions are her burden to bear.
There's only one man she knows with the power to help her, and his help will come at a great cost, but she's willing to move heaven and earth to stop the monster she created before he can hurt anyone else. If only she had more to bargain with than her very body and soul...
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- Part 1 of Put Me Back In It (I Would Do It Again)
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19 Aug 2024
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Careful which mods you install for BG3. Did you read the terms and conditions carefully?
You hesitated for a moment before downloading this “Devil Wears Nada” mod. It felt slightly inappropriate, absurd as it may sound. There was something disrespectful about making Raphael deliver his final monologue in the nude.
Well, you would have to live with offending a bunch of pixels because you do want these screenshots.“You are quite eager to see me naked, aren’t you? Naughty little mouse”.
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16 Aug 2024
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In a fit of jealously, Astarion decides to prove that you are his.
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13 Jul 2024
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"How long I've waited for this," he purrs. "You are my reward for bearing those two hundred years of torment. The gods themselves made you for me. We will be together forever."
Following the defeat of the Netherbrain, you and the newly-minted Ascendant went your separate ways after your refusal to become his spawn. But Vampire Lords are creatures who do not easily forget, and how could he ever let go of the one who gifted him with such power in the first place?
A collection of dark vignettes loosely tied together by a plot, following the Vampire Ascendant's acquisition of his wayward and unwilling consort.
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02 Jul 2024
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You’ve turned down Astarion’s gift of forever. He brings you to heel using the only methods he knows.
(oneshot request ft. occasional additions)
Note: I know there’s one more chapter of this in me, so I’m un-checking the complete status for now.
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06 Apr 2024
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Exile (Or: How you learned to stay) by astarionfreak
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Jan 2025
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You turned away from everyone after defeating the Netherbrain. You spiraled out of control. Then, at your very lowest, Astarion, the Vampire Ascendant, found you. You gave him everything. But your heart still belongs to Shadowheart -- and Astarion will never let you go.
You kiss him like you need him. You grab him like you’re holding on for your life. He returns the favor.
Your lips are moving against his, but you’re thinking about her.
Her hands on your hips, not his. Her mouth on your lips. The way she whispered your name as you held each other in the dark.
But she’s not here. He is.
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03 Apr 2024
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With Gale's encouragement, Reader!Tav decides to remain by Astarion's side as a mortal.
The Vampire Ascendant has other ideas.
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03 Apr 2024
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After the defeat of the Netherbrain, the Crimson Palace becomes your prison, and Astarion your warden. After months of watching his personality unravel into a dark abyss, you flee from the only man you’ve ever loved.
But your hardships only persist as the harsh reality of existence as a vampire spawn unveils over the course of a lonely year.
You’ve lost your life, Astarion, and all hope until a twist of fate reunites you with the pale Elf. He appears to be more himself, but there is darkness lurking behind his crimson eyes.
One unsettling truth is certain: The Rite of Profane Ascension held devilish secrets and hidden consequences.
As you navigate the complexities of your relationship, you must embark on a quest to save Astarion. With each choice, the stakes grow higher, testing the limits of your love, courage, and determination.
Will you be able to save Astarion before time runs out, or will you fail and watch him succumb and be lost to you forever?
Softish AA: He is not barbarically abusive, but there are some very dark moments and content.
Please note: Tav is named late into the story (Chapter 15).
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17 Feb 2024
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but all your lovers stay my age by thcscus (blujamas) for Ciraie
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
12 Feb 2024
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“I don’t know what you’re asking me to do,” you say, a bit helplessly, and you’re not sure if you’re still imploring the boy, or the gods themselves for this sick new game they’ve devised for you.
Please, not me, not again.
Not to him.
“I’m asking you to kill him,” the boy says, flatly, like he’s asking you for more butter for his bread, not to face the man you gave up everything for.
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Or, what to do when your evil ex-boyfriend forces you out of retirement.
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13 Feb 2024
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When you let Astarion go forward with the ritual, you knew instantly that it would ruin what you two had. You decided that someone incapable of love was better left alone. Your heart won't forget as easily, and neither will Astarion.
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- 38/?
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29 Jan 2024
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Body, mind, and soul.
The day Raphael began plotting his revenge was the same day he discovered Tav naked in his bed.
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- Part 1 of The Devil’s Stage
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- 14/14
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21 Jan 2024
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You don't remember the terrifyingly handsome and cruel Vampire Lord of Baldur's Gate, but he remembers you, and he insists on holding you to a vow you insist you never made. If only your lost memories were your biggest concern.
As the fragments of forgotten memories and new discoveries begin to fall into place, you begin to piece together a painting of lost love, betrayals, motivations, and a major political scandal far more personal than you realize.
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A power-hungry newly Ascended Astarion and you, the confused protagonist who cannot remember your relationship together, are caught in a complicated web of political and personal affairs and impossible choices that threaten your love, your friends, and the entire Sword Coast.
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16 Jan 2024
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Astarion: HAHA! I manipulated and tricked you all into liking me and never abandoning me!
The Party: By making well-balanced decisions that met the needs of the group while helping us accomplish our short-term goals and listening to us talk when we were upset and stuff? Despite the fact you didn't always want to do that?
Astarion: Wait....
The Party: That's just friendship, stupid.
AKA: A collection of things that ostensibly happen in the same little mental universe. Loosely based on the events of an Origin Astarion run and the various questions it inspired. Not published in sequential order, but ordered somewhat by the narrative timeline.
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06 Jan 2024
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A deal with an incubus has resulted in some unforeseen consequences. He shapeshifts into your body for sinful misdeeds nightly, and you feel everything he does from planes away. You have little choice but to break back into the House of Hope to confront him.
This time, Raphael will be there to greet you.
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Preview:“Oh, but what’s his is mine.” Raphael took the copy of you standing before him and ran a clawed finger up its spine. You shivered, feeling his touch ghost over your own nerves. “And I have been thoroughly enjoying this little piece of property.”
It’d been him. His hands were the ones that’d been running over your skin, groping at your curves, entering you. Raphael had been fucking a false version of your body, and you’d felt every second of it.
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30 Dec 2023
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The buddy system is especially important when navigating the Underdark, and yet, Gale's buddy has managed to wander off.
He manages to find them, and as it turns out, their fearless leader is safe and sound. And naked. With Astarion in their lap.
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- Part 3 of Leviathan Eltav
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27 Dec 2023