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One Step Back, Two Steps Forward by brightburningsun (shinymailbox)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Jan 2024
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Astarion has a very bright idea - something he wants very much - and Karlach is eager to indulge him. It doesn't exactly go the way either of them wanted it to, but that's alright.
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Candlelight Intermission by brightburningsun (shinymailbox)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
25 Jan 2024
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After Avernus, Karlach and Astarion settle down for a bit of much-needed reprieve before inevitably setting off on their next wild adventure. In the meantime, they find new ways to have fun.
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As time ticks ever forward, Karlach and Astarion go for a swim.
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For now, Karlach and Astarion fall into a routine.
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When Aigis tells Minako that she doesn't think she could find clothes that would look good on her specifically, Minako invites Aigis to go through her own wardrobe in an attempt to change her mind.
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something new by shinymailbox
Fandom: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
20 Sep 2019
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Pre-canon Blue Lions.
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Small oneshots about Byleth’s strange childhood, and the father that raised her despite her differences.
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After managing to flee Baldur's Gate two years ago, Astarion has struggled and fought and crawled for miles through the wilderness to maintain his freedom, establishing himself as a traveling merchant and a sword for hire. Now, as the land freezes in the grip of winter, bodies start turning up outside the villages of the Sword Coast. Bodies drained of blood.
Enter two monster hunters in search of a vampire.
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So here he is: a monster in the wilderness, a shadow crawling in the sun, trying desperately to be more than his nature. Than the terrified creature two centuries of torment shaped him into.
(Or Astarion reclaims his personhood, one fraught, determined step at a time. And with a little help along the way.)
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02 Feb 2024
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In the noble houses, Midwinter is a time of alliances, and Astarion knows better than anyone what that means.
It means that Cazador will dress him in silks that do nothing to keep out the cold – red and black, the Szarr family colors – and off they’ll go in a carriage pulled by horses that shy away from their undead passengers.
Over the next tenday, they’ll pay visits to the Hullhollyn estate, and the Bormul manor, and that frigid wreck of a tower Lord Petric Amber insists on using to host his galas. Astarion will smile and flirt and bat his lashes; he’ll stand in the corner and play the harp as Cazador has bid him, eyes demurely downcast and fingers going numb from the cold, knowing that every missed note will mean a broken bone later the same evening.
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09 Jan 2024
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"Tomorrow is broken. Tomorrow is nowhere."
A year has passed since the Phantom Thieves struck down a god and saved Tokyo from a terrible fate. But when people all over the globe begin to suffer from "Paranoia Syndrome," mysterious seizures which leave them contorted and unconscious, Akira Kurusu finds himself in the Velvet Room once more, demanding answers for the affliction. His investigation leads him to the Dead Sea, the rotted remnants of the cognitive world, where all things go to be forgotten - including someone the Thieves had thought to be long gone.
Meanwhile, Akira's comatose body is found in the waking world, and his terrified friends suspect the worst. Akira's confidants struggle to learn the truth behind Paranoia Syndrome, while he and Goro Akechi approach a fated confrontation in the decaying shell of the cognitive Tokyo. As the sickness continues to spread, the Phantom Thieves must reunite and destroy the evil festering beneath the Dead Sea's waters, before its malignant influence unravels civilization forever.
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12 Jul 2022
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the characterization the character DYNAMICS the imagery just everything about it UGH i am honestly baffled by how fantastic this was.
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A week before Luke fon Fabre was kidnapped, he pointed at the Jewel of Gardios-- that sword which hung in the Duke’s hall like a hunted head-- and said to Guy, “This one’s my favorite.”
A story about children raising children. Pre- and post-game, and a little in between.
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22 Oct 2021