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Far Kinder, Far Gentler by Syrina
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
17 Oct 2024
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His gaze returned again to the drawer at his desk, to the quick snap of the lock that would take but a moment, at the relief that was guaranteed, an end to his self-inflicted torment. He could feel sweat upon his brow, beading on his upper lip, forming, somehow both balmy and cold, under his armor.
“Are you listening to me, Cullen—?”
He was pinned between two forces. The lyrium and her. Stretched taught between them to the point where he could feel his sinews straining. One force had to give, the lyrium or her—.
He surged from his chair, taking the choice from one victor, giving it to the other.
One addiction after all was far kinder, far gentler.
“Can I touch you?” was out of him before he could preface it, arrange it to be better-worded.
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Or Cullen goes through lyrium withdrawal and uses "servicing" Inquisitor Lavellan as a way to cope.
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15 Dec 2024
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Echo has lived her life tucked away in the forests of Tethir, learning magic through the pulse of nature and the songs of creation. She's good with magic, but not people, which isn't really a problem until she's scooped up by mind flayers and has to get along with six strangers lest they all share a tentacle-y doom. And she manages to get along with most of them -- but then there's Gale of Waterdeep. Despite a terrible first impression, she finds he is actually much kinder than all the mansplaining would suggest.
This is a series of relationship scenes about my weird little mushroom hermit, a wizard who shows compassion and arrogance really can coexist, and how academic rivalry is like first base for wizards.
Spoilers up to Act 2 for main plot and Gale's romance.
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06 May 2024
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Some part of him could picture it then, could imagine telling her everything - speaking til dawn on his whole history. Spending the next day in this same spot, diving into what he knew of hers. Asking how it felt to gore that bard. Instead, he mirrored her smile - his own wicked grin for seducing and scheming.
“I’ve wanted to taste you since I first felt that pretty neck under my blade.”
And as her head fell back in a laugh, the white expanse of her neck on full display at his easy, overused line, he watched the golden girl fall into the palm of his hand.
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COMPLETED.Astarion had known the woman's face immediately - Halia Dhune, the golden daughter of Baldur's Gate. The princess of the upper city. How many times had Cazador sent him after her - wanting to claim the socialite as a trophy to add to his awful collection? At least now he wouldn't have to go back to his master empty handed, should the tadpole situation not work out in his favor.
(or: what if the Dark Urge was a noble woman, perfect and popular, and her father's favorite fox in the henhouse. and of course, what if our dear vampire knew of her before the crash?)
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01 Apr 2024
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He stills for a moment, and then he murmurs against her skin, “Like that, do you? You utter deviant.” He licks a broad path over the bite, then whispers in her ear, “Tell me, darling, did you lure me here hoping for something more?”
---Astarion decides to manipulate Emerie into caring about him the only way he knows how- with sex. He miscalculates badly.
*an exploration of trauma responses and healing in a relationship. Angst with periodic relief and a happy ending.
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- Part 1 of Mirrors
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19 Feb 2024
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And it's then, with his fingers buried inside her and her back scraping against the bark of the tree, that she looks into his eyes and sees –
Nothing. Like he isn't even there.
"Stop," she says, breath ragged with pleasure that feels like poison.
He might be the most beautiful creature that she's ever seen, bathed in this moonlight, and the wicked smirk he puts on only strengthens his case. "What, darling? That close already?"
“You don't want this,” she says simply, still out of breath, and for the first time since she’s met him, Astarion seems speechless.
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auri knows people, and that's how she can tell; astarion is deeply, deeply fucked up.
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18 Feb 2024