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Astarion is near the docks when he feels Cazador's compulsion on him snap. He doesn't think twice. He just takes the next available ship out of Baldur's Gate. Its destination: The City of Splendors. Waterdeep.
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Gale takes back the glass, now empty, and then seems to fidget a little. “There is something I wanted to get your opinion on- but it can wait until you’ve recovered. You don’t look well at all- no offense meant, of course.”
“None taken,” Astarion says sweetly. “Please go on. Tell me exactly what it is about my appearance that you find lacking.”
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Ambrosia (or: How Gale Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) by mercurial_cool
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Apr 2024
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“Why does your blood smell so strange?”
The question startled Gale, who looked up from where he sat cross-legged in front of his tent, organizing his scrolls in preparation for their upcoming “visit” to the goblin camp. He’d given Astarion a wide berth since the revelation of his vampiric condition a few days earlier, so he was surprised to see the pale elf looming over him now, a peculiar expression on his face.
“You know,” Gale offered with a smile, “in my extensive journeys across manifold realms, I do believe that is not a question that I’ve ever been asked before. I honestly can’t decide whether or not I should be offended.”
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Of the many side effects Gale has faced as a result of his whole “being physical host to an imminently destructive magical orb” problem, he somehow never anticipated his blood now apparently smelling irresistible to vampires (or at least, one particular vampire) to be one of them.
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13 Jul 2024
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"Astarion!" She's white with horror, frozen. Siobhan makes no attempt to hide her near nakedness. He's already seen too much.
As he gets closer, he can see countless faint white lines crisscrossing beneath the fresh cuts, decades of self-mutilation. This is not the first time she's done this.
"You mustn't tell the others," she begs, tears flowing freely down her face. "Please, they wouldn't understand."
Astarion doesn't know how to respond, struck dumb by what he's caught her doing and her request. Siobhan's eyes search his face frantically, trying to divine what he's thinking and what he'll do next. With a start, he realizes they're playing out the inverse of the night he'd tried to drink from her. Now, he's the one being asked to protect a horrible secret.
But he can hardly focus on what to do next, all thoughts deafened by the sound of her throbbing heartbeat pounding in his ears and the pungent smell of her blood flooding his nostrils.
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Bloodletting is a remedy that is hardly possible to estimate too highly. Or that's what they say. Siobhan has enough darkness in her past that maybe a little bloodletting is called for. Unbeknownst to her, Astarion is more than happy to oblige.
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19 Jun 2024
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You wanted me unconquerable by lilith_morgana
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
29 Sep 2021
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They’re not the love of each other’s lives and maybe that’s sad but part of him thinks thank the fuck.
Post-ME3, Control ending, past fShep/Kaidan; Kaidan and Steve pick up the pieces.
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21 Oct 2023
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The galaxy grapples with the implications of the Synthesis ending.
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05 Sep 2023
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And the truth is he hates hospitals, and it’s nothing to do with fighting through them, and everything to do with missed goodbyes.
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01 Aug 2023
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Missed Messages by via_hiptop
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
20 Apr 2025
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Garrus Vakarian can’t seem to delete Shepard’s number out of his omni-tool.
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31 Jul 2023
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Years after the end of the Reaper War, Shepard's crew is interviewed about her relationship with Garrus.
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- Part 2 of Kaleidoscope
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21 Jul 2023
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After Menae, Primarch Adrien Victus gives Shepard some advice about Garrus. Shepard decides to take it.
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21 Jul 2023
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Something weird happens to my brain whenever I become obsessed with a new piece of media. As a result of playing the Mass Effect Trilogy for the first time, I've created a handful of comics.
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16 Jul 2023
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Garrus and Shepard in the imperfect aftermath of the war.
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15 Jul 2023
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First Contact by ReginaPrimata
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2 - Fandom
14 Dec 2018
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In the hours before the final assault on the Collector Base, Shepard and Garrus finally add benefits to their friendship. Or, as one reader phrased it, went from head bump to bed hump.
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14 Jul 2023
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Unidentified activity at the edge of the Sol system sends Commander Shepard and her ship through a supposedly dormant mass relay. Stranded on the other side, the lives of her crew rest in her hands; a single decision can bring salvation—or death.
When Lieutenant Garrus Vakarian is ordered to investigate the crash site of an unknown craft, he becomes part of Shepard’s fate, and she becomes part of his. They believe they've made first contact, but a truth their peoples have hidden threatens to rock everything they know—and what they mean to each other.
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13 Jul 2023
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Since coming back from the dead, Commander Shepard has obtained a whole heap of problems, but the most persistent one (and the one least likely to be solved with violence) is figuring out what to do about her feelings for Garrus.
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03 Jul 2023
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Turians can be very confusing, especially when you're kind of-sort of dating one.
Fortunately for Shepard, someone realizes that she needs advice.
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27 Jun 2023
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“You’ve seemed off since we saw that old friend of yours.” Shepard stiffened, making him vaguely regret bringing it up, but it was too late now. “Something you want to talk about?”
Shepard hesitated before letting out a soft sigh. “It’s stupid, honestly. She just… reminded me of something.” With a humorless smile in his direction, she delivered a line that sent a reverberating ache through Garrus’ body. “I used to be fun.”
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In the process of getting her groove back, Shepard gets something even better.
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24 Jun 2023
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He looked from the glowing eyes hidden behind a mask, following the decent of the lead hunter as her body fell alongside his own. He traced a trickle of blood from the corner of her mouth down into the moss laden ground beneath them and knew he was lost.
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20 Jun 2022
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[ ON HIATUS, LIKELY ABANDONED, BUT MAYBE SOMEDAY... ]
For years, Gabriel has managed Akande’s professional and private affairs and he’s never considered the rotating cast of arm candy as anything more than detailed spreadsheets. Until now. But so what if Jack is gorgeous and funny and smart? Gabriel would never be stupid enough to fall in love with his boss’s boytoy. And even if Jack was stupid enough to return his feelings, Gabriel would never betray someone as dangerous as Akande for something as silly as love... Right?
[Note: R76 is endgame]
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23 Oct 2020
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Angela has settled into her home with her ghostly love, Genji. His haunting confines him to the inner walls of the house, but he’s not the source of the unexplained strangeness that begins to disturb their peace.
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01 Sep 2020
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“I fell for you,” Gabriel growled. “The least you could do is offer me a drink before interrogating me.”
It sounded simple like that. I fell. As though it had been a matter of stepping off a dock. As though the repercussions hadn’t rocked Heaven, Hell and the realms in between.
The legendary Archangel Gabriel fell from grace thanks to a common incubus. Jack wasn’t even demon aristocracy.
And the dumb part was that Jack hadn’t been trying to seduce Gabriel. Not in the beginning anyway.
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17 May 2020