blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
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- Creator:
- gomensgay
- Series Begun:
- 2024-02-10
- Series Updated:
- 2025-08-19
- Description:
A collection of loosely-connected oneshots featuring my resisting drow bard Dark Urge named Tavian and his relationship with Astarion. No guarantees on plot, continuity, or upload frequency lol
- Notes:
tav and astarion, if anyone was wondering
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- 199,404
- Works:
- 20
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- No
- Bookmarks:
- 23
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Astarion tries to sneak up on Tav in the night, desperate to test his master’s continued hold on him. He gets rather more than he bargained for.
aka, Astarion drains the Dark Urge dry. They’re both into it.
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Astarion was resolved in his plan— seduce Tav, satisfy as many of his appetites as possible, to ensure Tav would protect him when Cazador inevitably came calling— and in his approach to it, when the arrival of the second bard threw everything off.
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“I didn’t even know I still could bleed,” Tav admitted.
Astarion’s eyes darkened. “Mm. It seems a pity to waste so much of it.”
Tav gets his period hiking down the mountain pass. He and Astarion both benefit.
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Tav heard someone shout out through the screeches and shrieks and the cries of pain that may have been his own.
Astarion.
“No, you can’t die! Get up, damn you!”
Tav dies, though not for long. Astarion learns something about himself in the aftermath.
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Astarion hits a breaking point, and comes to an awful, ruinous realisation:
He cares about Tav.
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“Absolutely no one will be dying tonight,” Astarion snapped. “You’ll just have to come up with another solution.”
“Astarion, please—” Tav gasped breathlessly.
And then his eyes rolled back in his head, and he collapsed.
Tav wakes Astarion up in the middle of the night with a dire warning— Astarion will die, if he doesn’t kill Tav first.
Astarion makes a different choice.
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Tav hadn’t wanted the astral tadpole to change him. But his mind had opened to the thing anyways. Call it the Urge or his own stupidity– either way, he was… different, now. And it was up to him to keep his friends from facing the same fate.
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Tav is glad he didn’t let Orin trick him into giving away Astarion’s secrets at the circus. But he can’t help but worry that Astarion doesn’t know that.
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Astarion may be able to beg understanding from Tav, for this sin of his. But forgiveness?
Well.
Tav and Astarion speak with the Gur about their missing children. Afterwards, Tav makes it clear where he stands on the matter of Astarion’s guilt.
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No one reacts well to learning that Tav was the one behind the Absolute plot. Tav can’t blame them. And he can’t shake the creeping, insidious knowledge that they’d all be so, so much better off without him around.
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“I don’t want to form an alliance with Tav,” Enver said. “He is stubborn as an ox and entirely intractable, and I doubt that whatever Orin did to him managed to change that. No, I want to form an alliance with you.”
Gortash finds Astarion hunting by the docks, and the two have an illuminating conversation. Afterwards, Astarion considers his options.
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- Part 11 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
- Part 7 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 2 of hound, brought to heel
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“We’ll be gods. The whole world will be ours.”
Tav’s lover is chasing ascension, and the safety it promises. Tav has doubts.
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- Part 12 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
- Part 8 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 3 of hound, brought to heel
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Astarion survived the ritual. As did 7006 more vampire spawn. Now Tav has to help him pick up the pieces left behind.
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Touch is… risky, with the Urges. Tav tries to hide how hard it can be. It doesn’t take long for the others to notice.
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In the House of Hope, Tav makes the only choice he can to protect his friends.
Astarion helps him through the aftermath.
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Below Baldur’s Gate, in the fetid halls of the Bhaal Temple, Tav confronts his past.
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- Part 10 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 16 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
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Tav has a tendency to throw himself into danger as though his own life couldn’t matter less to him.
Astarion is sick and tired of it.
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- Part 11 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 17 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)
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“Tav. Did you nearly get yourself killed by a centuries-old mummy lord and his army of ghouls because he reminded you of Cazador?”
Tav and Astarion’s reunion with Oskar Fevras in the city provides multiple opportunities, and Tav takes advantage of them all.
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every minute of every hour of every day by gomensgay
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Jan 2025
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After a stranger in a tavern takes a little too much interest in Astarion, Tav tries to show his vampire just how beloved he truly is.
Or, 7000 words of praise kink!Astarion with the barest threads of plot connecting it
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“We found a lead on Haarlep,” Wyll said. “They’ve fled to Mephistar.”
“Mephistar?” Gale asked. “Tav, who do you know that would retreat to Cania, of all places?”
Six months after the defeat of the Netherbrain, Tav and his friends decide to hunt down Haarlep, and free Tav from their control. They’ve faced more dangerous threats before, after all.
What could go wrong?
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- Part 12 of slaughtersome son (dark urge character studies)
- Part 20 of blood and gore, heart and soul (durgestarion)