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A few months after the events of season two, Vox is still at the end of his career, with no prospect of improvement. While the other Vees are enjoying themselves, as Christmas draws closer Vox is virtually alone. This is precisely the weakness a predator like Alastor is looking for. As Alastor makes him a tempting offer, Vox finds himself drawn back to old feelings. Yet Alastor slowly begins to question himself and what he stands for...
This is still just business, right?
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16 Mar 2026
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After Gale accused Astarion of cheating at cards, the rogue picked up an interest in learning lanceboard to challenge the wizard at his game of preference. To sweeten the deal and make things more interesting, the two have agreed that the victor wins a favor from the loser.
The quiet, slow deliberateness made in each move by Gale was gone now. Astarion had fallen into the wizard's trap and he was starting to see there would be no way out of it. All of the vampire's moves would be made out of a desperate clumsy attempt to protect his king and prolong its downfall. "Razor's Edge to queen's bishop two."
He continued his oration as he reached over, an index finger resting on a pawn. "Because sometimes, that small victory is enough to give them the momentum to keep going forward. The resolve of man to survive against all odds – fascinating, wouldn't you agree?" He moved the pawn diagonal, replacing Astarion's pawn with his own, inching ever so closer to the black side of the board. Once more, his bishop had a clear shot to his Cyric. "Pawn to queen's knight seven. Check."
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"So here he is, he thinks with dark, nauseating humor. One of the glorious heroes of Baldur’s Gate—hungover and lightly crisped, sprawled on his back in the one place he had wanted more than anything in the world to leave behind forever—
The great Szarr palace. Home sweet home."
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The villains are defeated. The heroes claim their victory. Astarion sinks down to exactly where he started. Gale plots his apotheosis. Somehow, they meet in the middle.
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“Ah, so these contraptions do stay still. Very interesting to observe when it’s not actively trying to kill me,” Gale commented, circling Astarion’s car as if sizing it up. “These are carriages of some sort I presume? Electrical? No horses or magic needed?”
Astarion rummaged in his jacket pocket, producing keys. He slid his hand across the trunk, up the back, and slapped the roof. “Actually, this has about 120 horsepower, and this baby can fit so much existential dread.” Astarion smiled smugly at the meme reference Gale would neither understand nor appreciate.
“The power of 120 horses… That sounds absolutely terrifying.” Gale’s face turned pale, his cheeks beginning to match his shirt.
Astarion gets more than he bargained for when he wishes his life weren't so mundane. It seems the universe decided to grant his wish when it dropped off 'Gale of Waterdeep' from a literal portal in the side of a wall.
Will he be able to help the estranged wizard back to Faerun? With the enlisted help of someone an ocean away, he may.
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15 May 2025
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Feb 2026
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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- Part 1 of Will & Testament
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14 May 2025
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The Mess We (I've) Made by StickyDonut for kuro_wanwan
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Apr 2024
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Professor Gale Dekarios can't stand his colleague, Professor Astarion Ancunín. He seems arrogant, immature, and irresponsible, and keeps making fun of Gale.
However, a couple of drinks at a faculty party loosen his tongue and make him accidentally admit some things to Astarion, which has some interesting consequences.- Language:
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25 Apr 2025
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Hubris, Vampirism, and Other Immortal Ailments by MOSTLYVOlD
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Dec 2024
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From the moment he found himself at the Nautiloid crash site, the chains of his compulsion broken, Astarion had one objective: to kill Cazador or die trying. To take back his life. He never gave much thought to what he would do after, or if he even knew what it meant to live.
It was some small comfort that Gale of Waterdeep seemed similarly unmoored.
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20 Apr 2025
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Beauty, tradition, and perfection: these are the pillars of the House of Szarr, a centuries-old perfumery owned by creative director and artist Cazador Szarr and shouldered by its next-to-nobody nose, Astarion Ancunín.
Overworked, underpaid, and determined to claw his way out, Astarion finds the perfect blend of unusual charm and genius—and the key to toppling the house for good—when he meets chemistry professor Gale Dekarios.
Or: one perfumer, one professor, one treatise on art, addiction, and the price of ambition.
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19 Apr 2025
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Astarion’s voice is pitched low and vicious, chilling Gale to the bone. “You’ll find there’s very little not in my power anymore, wretch.” He spits the insult with vitriol. But the tone is familiar, the same cadence and texture as when Gale is on his knees with Astarion’s cock down his throat. It is alarming.
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Months after the fall of the Netherbrain, a Gale who chose to remain mortal starts to understand the consequences of encouraging Astarion to Ascend.
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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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08 Apr 2025
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He could say later that he stepped forward because of the silence spell. His arsenal smothered. He had no choice.
But Gale knows that even if he had the entire Weave at his fingertips, for once in his miserable life, he’d go without.
He’ll use his hands.
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The weak arms, the terrible posturing, the frailty. The waist-high size, the enormous eyes, only made bigger with their continuously apprehensive look. Was it that their eyes were big, or that Tav, generally, was small?
The way forward wasn’t the place for the weak. That could just as easily mean it was neither for children.Or: Tav is a child. That changes everything – and not much at all.
Watch as a team of full-grown adults are incompetent at parenting! It'll work out – probably.- Language:
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- 13/?
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07 Apr 2025
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a gem upon the brow of heaven by arenathesia for maharlika
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
06 May 2024
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To be clear, Astarion was in no real danger. He wouldn’t have left his home planet if he thought so. In between the spirited stories that had influenced his escape, the whirlwind romances and daring heroics, the elders told the same horror stories that all starborn heard from the time their hearts began to burn: if you didn’t behave, stareaters would come in the dark and drink the light right from your veins. If you didn’t stay home, you’d be captured, sold, and killed as soon as someone found out what you were.
But what he should have wondered, as he hopped from planet to planet, was how much the elders were keeping from him. How true their tales were to the nature of stareaters. And, most importantly, how many things were much worse than dying.
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07 Apr 2025
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Baldur's Gate, 2077.
Gale is an ex-corpo who fell from grace. After a betrayal leaves him with a rogue virus in his neck, and a message from his former mentor saying that it is the key to stopping a nefarious plot, Gale finds himself in a spiraling conspiracy filled with kidnapping, murder, and cybernetic implants seizing control. And the keys to stopping it? A shard in his neck containing the virus, orb.exe, and a certain doll named Astarion.
A Cyberpunk 2077 AU with a slowburn romance between Gale and Astarion.
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25 Mar 2025
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When Astarion regrets his ascension, Gale thinks it's because he's a good person who can still redeem himself. Astarion has his own theory: that Gale really is an asshole.
They struggle to prove each other wrong.
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- 42/42
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16 Mar 2025
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After years of dodging social interactions, Astarion decides to go out of his comfort zone and play a game of Dungeons & Dragons at the insistence of his cruel and controlling fiancé, Cazador. When he meets Gale Dekarios—the game’s charismatic, mysterious Dungeon Master—something inside him stirs. Something he didn't expect.
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- Part 1 of Seen
- Language:
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- 51/?
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06 Mar 2025
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Gale enchants his underwear to change genitals at will. Astarion takes an interest.
It’s porn, people!Bookmarked by quantumkitten
25 Feb 2025
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Astarion thought this stupid hot sauce show would last a season or two before it was cancelled. Ten years later, he’s still Cazador’s sidekick, taking potshots for laughs and enduring worse abuse when the cameras stop rolling.
An upcoming guest—famed magician Gale Dekarios—has never seen an episode of Hot Mess, and he’s about to shake things up.
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- Part 1 of Sauce
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- 24/24
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17 Feb 2025
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“I am not eager to throw myself upon another altar for naught but scraps in return.” Gale steels himself with a deep breath. He speaks his peace to the wilds and the cosmos rather than his lover's face. “And yet. Marble skin, silver tongue... eyes like Moonsea rubies. Oh, you cast a fine altar, Astarion.”
With two discerning appetites, a deal to keep each other fed is the one thing that ties Astarion and Gale together. But the proverbial collar slips all too easily around Gale's throat, the lead feels right in Astarion's unchained hands, and both men think they've bested the other in a game neither should be playing.
In any case. As the greats say in lanceboard: there is no shame in losing to a stronger foe.
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- 14/?
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14 Feb 2025
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“Oh,” Astarion breathes, eyes drooping into glassy little crescents. Well, if this is how he dies, Astarion thinks, this is how he dies. A shame that he’ll never get to plunge a stake through Cazador’s chest. “Death is so beautiful.”
“...Precisely how much of this spider’s blood did you consume?” Gale asks, his hands brushing Astarion’s hair off his soaked forehead. The touch makes the unbearable, painful heat in his body squeeze around him like a heavy chain. “You’re scorching. You could give Karlach a run for all her gold.”
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14 Feb 2025