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A Haughty Spirit (Goeth Before a Fall) by backflips
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
31 Jul 2024
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Astarion saw a pale elf standing before him. He was tall, gaunt, fingers straining into claws. His body was contorted, hunched and shivering. His eyes — red, blood red — looked haggard and desperate, ringed with dark purple shadow. His pupils shook with an untamed frenzy.
Astarion recognized that expression with an innate clarity, had seen it worn by his siblings countless times before.
I have a mole on my cheek, he thought, dazed, before razor-sharp fangs tore into the flesh of his neck and ripped — warm. Bursting with blood.
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Wyll and Astarion switch bodies. Wyll immediately loses control and bites Astarion. Astarion takes advantage of the aftermath to guilt trip him for far too long.
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23 Dec 2024
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"She did not deserve punishment. Even dead, she was still a person, she was suffering."
A person. The word clings to Astarion like slime. A person. The thought is sickeing. He is a person, as much as he has not felt like one in so long. He has been something to be used, a beautiful object. His mind along for the ride. But these - souls, this dead woman, these enslaved gnomes, a goblin in a cage - Ban smiles and calls them people, these disgusting pathetic creatures.
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Astarion learns to enjoy the terror and safety of establishing boundaries.
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23 Dec 2024
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Excerpt from the journal of Gale of Waterdeep, age 13 1/4.
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23 Dec 2024
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Beneath the Surface by thecheeseburgercat for PopcornCrimes (Emi1y_Rose)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Dec 2024
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Written for both the Wyllstarion Secret Solstice and the bg3 kinkmeme, exploring a rockier beginning to Astarion's relationship with the Tadfools, and especially the handsome Blade of Frontiers. When the shadows close in and Astarion finds he cannot trust any of his companions, what is a vampire to do?
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In retrospect it was a very stupid idea to try a little taste of the dead woman, the one who'd perished by the overturned caravan. For one, the single swallow Astarion had managed hadn't even tasted good. Her blood had spoiled after the long hours spent baking in the hot sun.
And of course he'd been caught. Like the fool he is, fangs out and dripping with the putrid blood in plain sight of the handsome Blade of Frontiers.
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Astarion returns to Baldur's Gate sixty years after the events of the game. He meets Tav, who is now an old woman.
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21 Dec 2024
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Astarion fists the hem of his shirt, fingers snagging in the loose thread.
He still smells like dirt.
The other spawn ignore him, don't talk to him until days later when he remembers how to use his mouth. And how can he blame them, once he does he doesn't even know what to say.
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18 Dec 2024
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The shrieking, squealing cacophony of the party drums against her ears as she looks solely at the bottom of her bottle. Twice emptied.
A goblin gave it to her some hours ago, smiling politely with blood on its teeth and rattling a pilfered key-ring, newly christened with knuckle bones and braids of ginger hair.
Maybe if she drinks enough she'll stop hearing it. Stop seeing it.
The smell of the roast reaches her nose, tieflings go good with rum they said.
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18 Dec 2024
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Astarion and the terrible, horrible, no good, very b-
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18 Dec 2024
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Illithid brainrot, angst edition (っ °Д °;)っ
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The Fire And The Ashes Of His Grace by NoCryptoGrapher
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Dec 2024
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Astarion has been the Ascendant for ninety years, and his relationship with Dawn, once his consort and most beloved spawn, has grown bitter and abusive. But Dawn is not ready to give up on their love.
For years, Astarion has been haunted by one thing. His former master, Cazador Szarr, managed to escape, and Astarion never got the closure of killing him. Dawn decides to take on a desperate mission to find Cazador and deliver him to Astarion, as a last measure to make him love her again.
But what she finds is not what she went looking for.
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“Are you his only spawn?” Shadowheart asks, folding her arms, and the vampire siblings all exchange glances. “Will he send others after you?”
“There’s one more of us,” Violet speaks up finally, even paler than usual. She gives a sickly grin. “The favorite. The runt. For two hundred years,” she sing-songs.
In which the tadfools are outnumbered, and it is Cazador's unlucky day. Or, in this universe, all of Astarion's siblings are tadpoled in the nautiloid without him. Meanwhile, back in Baldur's Gate, Astarion gets involved with the local murder-cult conspiracy.
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"In the end, it’s a nightmare that makes you decide to leave."
After Gortash tells the party who the Dark Urge truly is, the Dark Urge leaves the party in the middle of the night.
That doesn't mean they abandon the promises they made their friends.
Or the Dark Urge goes on a one sorcerer mission to right their wrongs and save their friends from the shadows. Its goes both better and worse than expected.
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10 Dec 2024
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If anyone would understand his half-illithid transformation, Torin thought, it would be Astarion.
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- Part 4 of Torin
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10 Dec 2024
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god left the ground to circle the world by partingxshot
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Nov 2024
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You can't throw a rock in the Shadow-Cursed Lands without hitting a ghost with a tragic backstory. Fertile ground for a cleric of compassion. How tedious, then, that Lash keeps fucking it up.
(Or: Tav is a cleric. Astarion once prayed to every god and received no reply. The Shadowlands are something of a trial.)
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- Part 3 of still the river
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09 Dec 2024
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non linear tav/astarion one shots
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05 Dec 2024
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After an unsavory reaction to tainted drow blood in the Underdark, Astarion experiences some less-than-desirable symptoms. With Tav away from camp and the symptoms only getting worse, Wyll finds himself on watch duty—and he doesn’t feel qualified for -this- type of monster hunting.
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Shadowheart wasn’t afraid of a little pleasure of the flesh, despite the displeasure of her Lady of Loss. Sometimes she just wants someone to fill the hollow space in her chest, and she finds it in Vel, even if just for a night.
But when she discovers Vel is loyal to Selûne, the sister and rival of Shar, a tide is set in motion that she is helpless to stop. Her hatred breeds an obsession, and that obsession causes them to make a careless mistake.
She finds herself more entangled than she ever wanted to be with the Selûnite, and she insists nothing will come of it. Nothing can come of it.
Love has no place between light and dark.
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The Lightning Likewise Loves Thee by loquaciousquark
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Oct 2024
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Astarion took a quick, irritated step forward. “My love, would you kindly shut up? I don’t have marriage proposed to me every day. I’d like to seriously consider it.”
He’d like to—oh.
Oh.
Tav took a stunned, shaky breath. “Well, think out loud then. I don’t propose it very often myself.”
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Set about three months post-game.
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- Part 13 of Something Real
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03 Dec 2024
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Orin kidnaps and replaces Wyll Ravengard. The Tadfools don't immediately notice.
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After a surprise attack by vampires, Insolence killed his best friend to save her from becoming a monster. With his heart and oath shattered, an illithid tadpole in his brain, a charming vampire bringing out all his best and worst impulses, and a devil pulling the strings of a good man, nothing is quite that simple anymore.
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- Part 1 of blessed be the boys time can't capture