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Wyll struggles to live up to his own heroic standards after the tadpole. Gale's help along the way is both welcome, and humiliating. As the Wizard continues to come to his aid, Wyll starts to feel less like a knight in shining armor, and more like a damsel in distress.
But Gale is fraught with problems of his own. And the aid may be far more mutual than Wyll realizes.
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01 May 2024
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Anders reaches his 50th Name Day. He never expected to make it past 30, let alone have his happy ending.
Written for the 2024 Handers Gift Exchange.
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- Part 4 of The Tower & The Wheel
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22 Apr 2024
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My Dearest Love, I'm Not Done Yet by SleepyBonesInc
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 Apr 2024
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Lae'zel is captured by Orin. Upon her rescue, Shadowheart finds her in terrible shape.
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17 Apr 2024
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Blurg looked up into his friend’s eyes, for what seemed like the first time in ages. A tentacle touched his cheek. “Hello,” he said.
Omeluum smiled, even though it couldn’t. But Blurg knew. “Hello.”
or: in the underdark, two souls from two different places work to make one place better for all. along the way, they trip into some feelings.
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16 Apr 2024
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**BIG SPOILERS (if, like me, you got to this game over a decade late)**
A final scene for Dragon Age II, picking up from the moment the party walk out of the Gallows, because when the credits rolled it was like a spear going into my heart and I had to just... they had to SAY THINGS to each other.
In the aftermath of Meredith's defeat, Hawke's party make their way out of the city calling them its enemy. They are exhausted and fractured, unsure what there is for them and what they can still mean to each other and Thedas. They stop at the remains of The Hanged Man and finally break the silence.
[CW: Grief, displacement, personal conflict, loss of temper, emotional pain, negative self-talk, Fenris' fantasy version of chronic pain, fantasy oppression that isn't that fantasy, gallows humour, some descriptions of animal remains in the first part.
Please read the start notes before you yell at me about Anders discourse. Also please don't yell at me about Anders discourse. And yes I know I've made them walk a totally illogical route through Kirkwall, they needed to for art.]
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14 Apr 2024
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Blurg sighed. “I am old, Omeluum. And I worry. It cannot be helped.”
“I know this.” It leaned in and brought its forehead to Blurg’s. Blurg closed his eyes. “I also know I will be safe, so long as I am with you.”
“I don’t know how true that is,” Blurg said with a laugh, “but you won’t be alone. That I can promise you.”
or: omeluum's curiosity brings it and blurg to baldur's gate where, despite all the best intentions, everything still manages to go terribly wrong.
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07 Apr 2024
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“I can hear your mind working,” Halsin said. “Do you ever shut it off?”
“Of course not.”
Halsin drew him closer. “Why don’t you try? Just for a while.”
or: gale's always been clever, built a life and staked his future on it. halsin makes him want to be just a bit more.
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06 Apr 2024
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Health Potions (or: If Only Someone Here Knew Cure Light Wounds) by backflips
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Mar 2024
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"Minsc," Astarion growled, his voice dripping with disdain, "Do you seriously mean to tell me that you came down to the Underdark with not a single health potion on you?"
Minsc smiled. "Why would Minsc need to bring a health potion when he is so strong, my friend?"
“Oh, I don’t know,” Astarion clenched his jaw and hissed a long, seething breath from between his teeth. "Perhaps," he glowered, "to help an ally with a broken leg!"
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06 Apr 2024
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“You know that I am Minsc, and that is Boo, but who are you?”
Astarion barely managed to contain his sigh of annoyance before he said, “Astarion.”
“Ass-tarion? An unusual name!”
He gritted his teeth. “Not ASS-tarion. Ah-starion.”
“Yes, Minsc hears the difference now, Astarion. It is good to have such a beautiful roommate!” he declared, crashing his giant frame down on his empty bed. Astarion held his breath, waiting for it to collapse, but it managed to hold together.
How in the absolute HELLS did this happen? Gods, I should have taken Gale up on his offer to room together this year. Even his constant prattle would be an improvement over whatever…THIS is.
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Or, this is what happens when I have a very simple thought whilst in the shower : who would a modern AU college student Astarion consider to be the ONE roommate worse than Gale?
I have been told this work is just 'delightful', so give this silly little one-shot a go!
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06 Apr 2024
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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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05 Apr 2024
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but as the days grow shorter, they may have their say by SaltCore
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
31 Mar 2024
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Caleb is now an old man, and Essek is still just Essek. Caleb tries to let him go, to spare him the trials and travails of loving an old man.
Unfortunately for Caleb, Essek is still Essek and will have none of it.
This results in a stalemate, that, currently, Beau (and every other observer) is winning.
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01 Apr 2024
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29 Mar 2024
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Wyll has met vampire spawn before, all of them monstrous, but he's always liked to think there were good spawn out there somewhere not engaging in mass murder, that maybe monster hunters didn't see good monsters because good monsters weren't the ones out killing people.
Wyll hopes Astarion will be one of the different ones.
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19 Mar 2024
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All their enemies had been vanquished, but their time had run out. With the Absolute defeated, Karlach chose to return to Avernus with her lovers beside her.
But maybe being together is enough. Maybe each of them will find peace, once everything is said and done.
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18 Mar 2024
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Faded memories, foggy faces, blank mirrors, and pick pocketing a strange mushroom that merchant said could cure anything.
“Karlach, what’s going on here?”
“He’s tripping balls, mate.”
Astarion consumes a Noblestalk.
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18 Mar 2024
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Satisfaction Brought It Back by slippin_into_darkness, SpiritsFlame
Fandoms: DCU (Comics)
12 Nov 2018
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Bruce always thought that Superman's cute shtick of rescuing cats from trees was a bid for publicity—until a confrontation with a magic user leaves him stuck as a cat. He learns how mistaken he was when Superman not only rescues him, but takes him back to a small Metropolis apartment. The opportunity to learn more about the alien can't be ignored, but is Bruce ready for everything he will learn about someone he has only ever regarded with distrust and dislike?
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17 Mar 2024
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Astarion is a former magistrate and he’s poking at the edge of Wyll’s non-disclosure agreement with Mizora. What’s the harm in lightly auditing the technicalities of a devil’s contract? It’s possible Wyll undersells the harm.
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06 Mar 2024
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Ambrosius wrinkles his nose. “You can tell me you’ve got plans with the stray cat you picked up while we were—apart.”
“Nimona’s not a stray cat, either.”
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27 Feb 2024
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tellin' me to punish you for things you never did by midnightdragons
Fandoms: Nimona (2023)
24 Jul 2023
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All was fine. All was well.
And then Ambrosius made a sudden movement, and Ballister flinched back, his good hand instinctively going up to cover the place where Ambrosius's sword had once cut through his flesh.Series
- Part 8 of Nimona Fics
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21 Feb 2024
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He never quite stopped sleeping with a weapon however, nor with his hand far from it. So when he feels the slightest touch in the night, Wyll doesn’t think. There is no time for thinking in a matter of life or death.
He reacts.
Wyll immediately curls his hand around his blade and throws his body against his mystery opponent. There’s a cry of surprise and Wyll takes advantage of that surprise, immediately pinning them under him with his body weight and pointing his blade inches from their neck.
It’s only then, with his opponent deathly still from under him, does Wyll’s mind catch up to him. He’s straddled a humanoid figure, one that trembles under him with their hands up in surrender. And with his Devil’s Sight— a regrettably useful gift from Mizora— Wyll realizes that he recognizes this figure.
(Or Wyll has been ambushed in his sleep before. When Astarion attempts to get a quick bite in, he is met with the instincts of a monster hunter.)
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17 Feb 2024