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Astarion slinked around Gale where he sat behind his desk doing his various little wizardly things. “I’ve been studying.”
Gale’s face lit up. “That’s excellent news! I’m of the opinion that one should take every opportunity to expand their knowledge. What, uh—” Astarion had leaned over his shoulder, just daring his heart to race. He continued with a much smaller voice, “What subject have you taken up?”
“I’ve found quite an interest in certain . . . human anatomy.”
There was a beat of silence between them before Gale broke it with an awkward, ungraceful chuckle, “One of the more salacious topics, I presume?”
“Hmm . . .” Astarion traced his fingertips along the tops of Gale’s shoulders, dragging his hand from one side to the other, eliciting a shiver from the man just below him. “I don’t believe to most people, no. But I have a hunch you may feel differently.”
Or: Astarion gives Gale an anatomy lesson.
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Gale wouldn't say his mornings were usually quiet. This one was no exception, but not for the usual reason. When Gale woke up this morning Astarion was still trancing. And he was humming.
aka: I wrote a short little something for a prompt challenge and only realized after completing it (late) that I had somehow misread my prompt! Not fully sure how that happened
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“I’m hungry.”
Gale shook his head, a look like disappointment – concern? Dread? A look like something on his face. “You still haven’t eaten? Have you managed to drain the forest dry, yet?”
Rats, rotted and crawling with flies. Hardly any sustenance to them all, but Astarion’s new diet could only do so much more. Boars, badgers, and morning birds had begun to lose their appeal – and their nutritional value.
Astarion shook his head.
“I need something bigger.”This is my contribution to Bloodweave Week 2024! They are very near and dear to me and this felt like a good way to show my appreciation for the ship that has stolen my heart for the past year or so (nearly). I am a very slow writer and a huge procrastinator so chapters will be short and I doubt there will be seven of them, but I'll see what I can do (jk I procrastinated too much )
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“I don’t want any of this, Astarion.” Gale’s voice was gravel, ravaged by disuse, but it rang out in the expected silence like a crystal bell.
“He speaks!” Astarion was pleased, of course. It’d been far too long since he’d heard his lover’s voice. He continued with a pout, “I can’t believe it. You speak my name only to slight me.” He held Gale’s face with both hands then, looking down at him as one would a young child. He was relieved, he was adoring. Hells, he was doting. It was Gale’s tantrum, after all. “Whatever you need pet, I will bring it to you. You need only ask.”
heavily based on a vignette written by LamentablePlum :)
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Gale had spent nearly two hundred years hidden from the sun, stuck close to the side of the one who made him. He knew he had a coveted position kneeling at Mystra's right hand, her favorite spawn, and he'd do anything to take his rightful place there again. But he betrayed her, and she was well within her rights to cast him out to the streets of their beloved Waterdeep with only the sewer rats and the rotting dead carcasses of fish to sustain him. It was what he deserved.
Once the Archmage of Baldur's Gate, Astarion Ancunín was at one time a highly revered wizard, one of his god's, albeit many, chosen. And of course he was the only one that Cazador could trust in retrieving what remained of the Weave that was not in his control. That was how he'd ended up with a Netherese orb in his chest, suffering the consequences of disappointing a god, stuck in the shadow of the ever-arrogant Lorroakan that'd taken his place.
But the tadpoles change everything.
(On unintentional (hopefully short-lived) hiatus)
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“That’s alright,” he keeps saying. “It’s alright.”
It very well might be, is the thing.
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23 Apr 2026
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. . . For after I finally finish self-same
Update: i am forever changed.
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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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This one this one this one this one this one. This dynamic is such a precious thing to me (I'll be upfront here: world-ending porn in chapter 16)
NOW COMPLETED (and reread) AND WOW OH MY GODS.
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Sequestered in a remote, snowbound cabin, Gale has everything he needs to draft his vampire novel – one based on facts instead of folklore.
Not included in those plans is a runaway vampire spawn at his door.
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20 Apr 2026
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This one is so much fun, kinda angsty, kinda kinky, yet we have yet to receive any real smut. Excited to see the grand finale
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He can’t ask Gale for help. Gale might have the best chance of finding any sort of cure to his current undesirable condition, but he doesn’t want to turn to him. Something about being vulnerable and in need in front of Gale grates at Astarion’s mind.
He isn’t accustomed to anyone standing up for him like this, not without wanting something in return. And the thought that he could, just for once, lean into that—lean on him—sits uncomfortably close to tempting.
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20 Apr 2026
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Lovey-dovey fuck or die, with the most unexpected (but well-utilized) domstarion
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Gale Dekarios is wasting away.
The only way to combat his mysterious disease is to study it, and the only way to study it is by examining fresh bodies.
One of them is fresher than expected.
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Religious, rotting Gale, with some internalized homophobia as a treat. This is gearing up to be an absolute delight
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This was fantastic. 5 stars !!