derseDuchess
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After the death of Grand Duke Ulder Ravengard, his title is passed on to Wyll, who's spent seven years away from a court of patriars who remember him only as "that kid the Grand Duke threw out". Despite this, his bachelor status has the eyes of the Gate's political machinations centered directly on his ring finger. If only there were someone in Baldur's Gate with a shiny new title who could help him shake those eyes off his back.
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Heroes and Fairy Tales and Other Lies Like That by derseDuchess
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Dec 2023
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Wyll wants to write down his most recent adventures as the Blade of Frontiers, but it's a bit more complicated than in his favorite stories. Astarion is, to put it kindly, not like many "good guys" in the fairy tales Wyll grew up on. How does he reconcile his hopeless romanticism with the reality of the man he's fallen for? Poorly. He does not do it well.
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Tastes One to Know One by derseDuchess
Fandoms: N.Y. By Night (Web Series), Vampire: The Masquerade
29 Jun 2023
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In which the Camterie picks a fight they shouldn't have, and Coco and Khalida almost work something out (but unfortunately they're both fundamentally terrible people who can't be normal).
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Would You Forgive Me If I Never Said Sorry? by derseDuchess
Fandoms: Magic: The Gathering (Card Game)
06 Jun 2022
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A mostly canon-compliant fic following the events of the Gathering Storm, but asking the crucial question of "What if they were in lesbians together?". Drama ensues.
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It's no secret that Xoti feels insecure about her lack of experience, but maybe she can find solace in knowing she isn't alone in this?
In which Xoti realizes that Pallegina is very pretty, even if she is a meanie to her.
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"Some days Wyll Ravengard sees himself as a twenty-four-year-old man, roadworn but not too bitter, well-read or at least well listened, and helpful when he gets the chance to be. Sometimes he sees himself as a seventeen-year-old boy, begging for his father’s mercy as a stranger wrenches his wrists behind his back. More and more often, he sees himself as the red-cabbed 80,000-pound semi he inhabits for at least ten hours a day."
(The life of an over-the-road trucker isn’t easy, and neither is the life of a monster hunter. Wyll is both. When he comes across Astarion soliciting in a truck stop parking lot, Wyll is sorely tempted to pay for his company. He’ll end up paying for it in more ways than one.)
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14 Aug 2024
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shout love at the heart of the world by partingxshot
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Mar 2024
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There's a creature in Wyll's mirror. It calls itself the Heart of the Gate.
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30 Apr 2024
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Wyll never expected to find his way back to Baldur's Gate.
He doesn't intend to stay— his mother is dying, his father is still disapproving, and he has his own life now as the Blade of Frontiers.
But his return finds him almost immediately embroiled in the affairs of the influential and mysterious Szarr family.
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Astarion languishes in Baldur's Gate, trapped in the Upper City under the harrowing spectre of Cazador Szarr.
He's sick of vapid conversations with patriars who only see him as inroads to the Szarr family fortune.
And then Wyll Ravengard arrives in Baldur's Gate, and Astarion hatches a plan.
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17 Dec 2023
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You are born in the silence of a dance hall, running from something you no longer remember. Your badge tells you that you must be Lt. Detective Kim Kitsuragi, of the RVM. The voices in your head tell you that you can be anything.
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01 Nov 2022
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“Even humans are afraid of me," X6 says, toneless. "Why aren't you?" Curie’s first impulse is to say that X6 isn’t scary, but this is a total lie. It is simply that Curie has seen too much- human beings reduced to sacks of meat, men who wear skulls on their heads and string up their enemies as decorations, whole cities reduced to smoking ash, two hundred years of nothing, over and over- for a single man in a black coat to phase her.
“If I was afraid of people just because they were dangerous, I would never have left my vault,” Curie says at last. On a whim, she raises her hand and steals X6’s glasses off his face. He squints a little without them. The sight makes Curie grin. “Fear is not useful for gathering good data. I do not believe that you will hurt me, not when we are working towards the same goals.” Curie raises her chin, looks X6 directly in the eyes. “If your goal is to further science, collaboration is the only logical outcome.”
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- Part 1 of l'impératrice directeur
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23 Jun 2020