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It goes something like this: Astarion wakes up flat in the dirt, hands tied behind his back, bleeding. His head aches.
Wyll stands over him, uncharacteristically scared. "Astarion," he says, fast and frantic. "Are you back to yourself?"
There are two puncture wounds on his neck.
(It goes something like this: Astarion wakes up. The party says he attacked them. He does not remember this.)
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- Part 1 of opposite of a haunting
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10 Nov 2024
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'The damage seemed to spread out from him like ripples on a pond, and it felt like a gift, like a blessed reprieve to find something that affected only him. The hunger was the one choice he could make that hurt no one, endangered no one, nudged no prophecies with clumsy elbows. Besides, having a secret was nothing new. The revelation was having one that didn’t matter.'
Merlin doesn’t eat properly, but he doesn't think it's a problem. Arthur disagrees.
(Scenes on a theme, before, during and after Arthur finds out.)
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07 Nov 2024
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“Get out of my sight, and don’t come back until you can prove to me why I should allow you to remain in my service.”
Merlin stares at Arthur, confused. His tone was ominous, and it certainly sounded like a threat, but Merlin can’t quite work out what part is supposed to have him shaking in his boots. He’s halfway back to Gauis’ chambers when it dawns on him: Arthur actually thinks this stupid, degrading job is something he would be willing to fight for - as though Merlin’s life wouldn’t be complete without the honor of scrubbing the sheets Arthur manages to soil on a disturbingly regular basis.
In which it takes Merlin a bit longer to warm up to Arthur than it does in canon, but he gets there in the end.
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07 Nov 2024
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every day you play with the light of the universe by Fleetling for bloodredpomegranate
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
20 Nov 2022
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"That was weird," Merlin says, chirpily, and the knights laugh, as if they don't know that Merlin just almost died, just would have died, if it hadn't been for his -
Arthur takes a deep breath.
He's not thinking about it.
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29 Oct 2024
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Merlin will never be entirely able to explain his thoughts and actions of that day, but he will remember standing there; Gwen in his arms, his lips still tingling with her kiss, and only the hungry beast of desire left in his mind—that he wants her, and he ought to want her, and she belongs to him—
And then Arthur stares him in the face, steel in his hand and betrayal in his eyes, and the fog clears.
And Merlin has no idea what he’s just done.
Or: Instead of Lancelot, Morgana enchants Merlin and Gwen to betray Arthur together on the eve of their wedding.
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- Part 6 of Liz's Merlin Bingo 2023
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13 Oct 2024
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“Why didn’t you ever tell me?” Arthur asks. For a few seconds, the silence feels like it heralds the rolling thunder—an incoming storm, so destructive it will tear down the castle. Then Merlin grins, and it’s a soft, forlorn little thing, and the thunder never comes.
“Sometimes,” he says, very, very quietly, in a way that Arthur didn’t know Merlin could sound like, “it turns out that fear is a little bit stronger than love.”
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12 Oct 2024
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if something comes on the way (we face it as one) by thisfairytalegonebad
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV
07 Aug 2024
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A hundred different ways to tell your friends you love them.
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19 Aug 2024
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Wyll glances him over – takes in the slowly growing puddle, dark blood spreading out across the stone of the cavern floor. "Can you stand?"
Astarion bares a fanged smile in response, something narrow and dangerous. "Darling, the day some fussy little spell in a fiddly little wizard tower lays me low is the day the gods close up shop and declare the world's ending."
"Hells," says Wyll, and reaches out to offer him a hand up. "Don't tempt them."
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10 Jun 2024
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Disciple Z'rell doesn't look at him. She doesn't have to.
These people are heroes, her tadpole hisses, though her face stays blank and apathetic. They do not serve. But you? I could believe it.
Astarion swallows. The shrieking animal in his chest flinches back. You could?
I could. Z'rell drags her gaze over the assembled party, over five perfect, star-wrought heroes. If you prove it.
Astarion kills Karlach.
Things do not get better from there.
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26 May 2024
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“Why does it matter?” Wyll snapped. “She made me into her devil already. Sometimes I wonder if it’s really any trouble to let her remake the rest of me, too. As long as I keep saving people, wouldn’t it be the right decision?”
Astarion opened his mouth, and closed it. “Well, I hardly think that anyone will feel good about having been saved by a shambling ball of ashes, darling."
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20 May 2024
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Astarion learns that he doesn't need to use his body to get what he wants. And, as it turned out, it might have been entirely unnecessary from the start.
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13 May 2024
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Justalittlemad :
Okay but now I need the fic where the party keeps walking in on Astarion and Gale having absolutely filthy sounding conversations and immediately walking back out before they realize that they're actually entirely innocentSeries
- Part 17 of Bloodweave Short Stories
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27 Apr 2024
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“Today is full of surprises,” The wizard says. “Who knows? I had to try my hand at the notion I was in the presence of the few. It seems I’ll have to find a healer the harder way. Are you all aware of the timer we are on? With the insertion of an illithid tadpole, a process known as ceremorphosis begins…”
Astarion tunes him out. He no longer doubts that Gale is just an oddly-equipped human; surely no divine entity could be this annoying.***
When an interesting mage joins their tadpole-ridden party, Astarion is bound to be curious. Vampire, angel. Snake, bird. Forsaken, divine. It would be so easy to slip.
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24 Apr 2024
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Gale detonates the orb during the final fight. Astarion is left to pick up the pieces—and then to pick up Mystra's call for the Crown of Karsus in exchange for a Wish spell.
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22 Apr 2024
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He’s almost looking forward to either falling from the top of the Netherbrain into the River Chionthar, or watching it fall from a safe distance. It’ll be over, then! It’ll be done. He can go hide in the dark, forget this ever happened twice. Astarion can forget Tav. He can move on. Learn to love the dark again, or something.
Astarion wakes up in a pod on the Nautiloid.
(COMPLETE! <3)
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21 Apr 2024
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There’s a discussion to be had about human language failing to create a more inclusive word than "humanity," but you aren’t thinking about that now. Now, as you’re lying on your bedroll and staring up into eyes that burn red in the dying embers of the campfire, all you can think is *Astarion isn’t human.*
There’s still a ghost of his touch along your throat, where his fingers had frozen in the process of- of what, exactly?
“This isn’t what it looks like,” he says, and the silver tongue that’s talked him out of a dozen arrests has apparently deserted him, because this is *exactly* what it looks like.OR: I wanted a fic about what it must be like to have such a genuinely terrifying guy skulking around being gorgeous all the time.
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15 Apr 2024
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Rolan's basement was full of delightfully expensive looking trinkets. Astarion was helping himself. Gale was having moral qualms about it. Astarion was finding them annoying. Overall, a pretty typical state of affairs.
And then the walls exploded.
(Or, Astarion sets off a trap that leaves him hallucinating vividly and Gale needs to talk him through it, and other adventures.)
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15 Apr 2024
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“What's he like?” she asks. “Your wizard?”
He seems to think about it for a moment.
“Arrogant,” he finally says. “Insufferably clever. He claimed he could have been Mystra's Chosen, but he turned her down.”
The group (sans Tav) meet Astarion by the beach. They don't meet Gale. If you ask Astarion, that just means they have to look harder.
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15 Apr 2024
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“You,” he says, and gods help him but Astarion has missed that smug little note of ah-hah! in his voice, “came here to rescue me!”
“I,” Astarion sniffs, “came here to save the illustrious and noble city of Waterdeep. Anticipating a generous reward, naturally.”
“You're here for me,” Gale insists, still grinning. His eyes are shining.
He looks so fucking radiant, it makes Astarion want to stab something.
In which Astarion saves the day, and Waterdeep, and Gale. That last one is completely incidental, you understand. And no, he is not lying to himself, darling. That you would even suggest such a thing.
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15 Apr 2024
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With Cazador dead, Astarion breaks down. His companions are there to pick up the pieces.
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- Part 2 of Fireside Chats
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14 Apr 2024