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a crooked touch (Astarion x m!Tav) by eyes_of_the_lamb
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Nov 2024
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“Make it hurt, then. Kiss me like you want to kill me.”
“I can do that.”
Two broken stars in a decaying orbit, passing closer and closer together until the inevitable, devastating collision.
Or, Tav is fucked up and down bad for Astarion, who doesn't quite see the appeal (but he's getting there). Sexual frustration, sloppy handjobs, a heavy dose of masochism, and way too many failed Insight checks ahead. Tav falls first, Astarion falls harder (eventually).
Or, a tragic-but-hopeful romance told through a series of incredibly ill-advised sexual encounters.
If you want to read a story where Astarion is sweet from the start and Tav is here to fix him, this isn't the one. If you want to read about two terribly broken men spending a good long while making each other worse before they make each other better, this might be for you. If you thought the in-game romance was a little too easy and it should have been ten times more painful and difficult to convince Astarion he's worthy of love, this is definitely for you.
Set during the canonical events of Baldur's Gate 3.
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18 Dec 2025
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“An entire back is quite the undertaking for a first tattoo.”
“I’m aware.”
“I’m sure you are. And I’m also sure several of the artists whose council you sought have explained to you that a piece as large as that...well. It’s just that I’d hate for you to discover you can’t sit through something so large, and waltz out of here with half, or heaven forbid a third of a tattoo.”
He gets right up in Gale’s face. “Believe me,” he purrs, low and dark, “I can handle pain, darling.”
It might be the way he says it. The way he looks. Hell, the way he’s looking at him. Whatever it is, it’s like lightning and it shoots straight to Gale’s gut.
Something about this stranger screams trouble. Unstable, capricious. Certainly short tempered. But he’s the first bit of colour Gale has seen at Crown of Kings since he started and if he’s being honest, it’s a high he’s willing to chase.
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03 Dec 2025
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"So here he is, he thinks with dark, nauseating humor. One of the glorious heroes of Baldur’s Gate—hungover and lightly crisped, sprawled on his back in the one place he had wanted more than anything in the world to leave behind forever—
The great Szarr palace. Home sweet home."
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The villains are defeated. The heroes claim their victory. Astarion sinks down to exactly where he started. Gale plots his apotheosis. Somehow, they meet in the middle.
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- English
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- 53,385
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- 11/11
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30 Nov 2025
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The language of their intimacy is all inverted. Astarion shies away from the lightest touches and evades the subject any time Wyll tries to talk about this budding thing between them. Wyll bares himself over and over and over and still, sometimes, it feels as if Astarion is only ever seeing him in glimpses.
The closer Wyll gets to Astarion, the further away he seems to be.
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- Part 3 of a little self-indulgence
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23 Nov 2025
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In which Astarion conceals a number of serious injuries until well into the Shadowcursed lands, at which point he chooses to make all of them Wyll's problem.
Or: Astarion is shroomed thrice (but the third time is a lie.)
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- English
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- 14,460
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- 1/1
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22 Nov 2025
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Astarion was never tadpoled, the Elder Brain was defeated, and Gale ascended to godhood.
A hundred years later, a tired and hungry Astarion accidentally makes a promise in the temple of a young god.
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Astarion becomes a Paladin of Vengeance under Gale. Focused on the drama that arises from this, as well as Astarion's relationship with his "siblings."
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20 Nov 2025
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The car whines when Astarion accelerates, a thumping under his feet and center console. The dashboard rattles, teeth in a skeleton, even the steering wheel keening like a death knell. Every time he brakes, something screams. He can't smell smoke, but he can feel heat pouring from the vents, sweating through his nightclothes. There's a dial from hot to cold—he spins it and feels nothing change.
When he presses its gas, the car goes forward. When he brakes, it stops.
He keeps driving.
Astarion escapes Cazador with the clothes on his back, a wad of stolen cash, and a car that's sat abandoned in a garage for thirty years.
There's a metaphor in that, perhaps.
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19 Nov 2025
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When he wakes, he is on a beach, gold, looking up at the sun.
Ah, he thinks, distant. I'm dreaming.
Astarion is never quite sure, until the moment Cazador lies dead before him, whether this entire adventure is anything more than an extremely vivid hallucination.
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- English
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17 Nov 2025
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Three commands has Astarion broken, and now the fourth with a rapier through his gut and crossbow to his skull. Centuries he's wanted to be free—well, here it is. Dirt under his nails and blood behind his fangs. He's free. Isn't he fucking satisfied?
Astarion has not been a person in two hundred years. His journey to become one does not start off well.
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- 18/18
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16 Nov 2025
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He’s in danger. Evil wizards are after him for sure. What had he done? What had he forgotten? Who had he become when he wasn’t looking? Thoughts and questions swirled around like a terrifying vortex, and Gale’s mind flailed for any thread to hang on to.
“So, we can’t go to the magic shop?”
or: gale gets cursed by a vengeful hag, the world is still ending, and a fraying polycule is being lectured by a cat
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- English
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- 39,400
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- 7/7
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11 Nov 2025
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Baronet Dekarios is a man of science, but the supernatural is as much a science as anything else, isn't it? He's also a man in need of a new patron. So, when an old university friend offers entrance to a party held by one of England's most secretive societies — a club of the country's richest men, rumored to dabble in the occult and the satanic — he sees the opportunity to kill two metaphysical birds with one stone. And all he needs to do to gain entry is secure the approval of the club's mysterious leader, the enigmatic Lord Ancunin.
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- English
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- 56,160
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- 14/20
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08 Nov 2025
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fence (when i'm gone) by churb for Caitric
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
30 Sep 2025
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The moment she didn't come back - when he realised he'd waited days and days for her, and time ran smoothly, downhill, like a stream, and there were no more concerts - the first thing he did was run to the mountains and not look back.
(Verso kicks Alicia out of the canvas, panics, and goes home.)
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- English
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01 Oct 2025
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Feb 2026
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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- Part 1 of Will & Testament
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 61/61
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18 Sep 2025
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In which Astarion is an ex-olympic figure skater and Gale is a famous musician. They get paired together as Dancing on Ice's first ever same sex couple. Shenanigans ensue.
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“How did you even get in? I very definitely remember locking up.”
“Ah,” Gale looks ever-so-slightly abashed. Only slightly, though. Mostly he looks a little proud of himself. “You know how the receptionist is always asleep?”
Astarion's eyebrows shoot up.
“Gale Dekarios, you shady thing.”
“I only borrowed it! He's never been awake enough to ask about spares, so. It was easier to just sort it out myself.”
“It would have been easier to ask me,” Astarion points out.
“Mmmm,” Gale hums, doubtfully. “I don't know if I'd ever consider you the ‘easier’ option, Astarion, I feel that would be doing your commitment to cantankerousness a great disservice.”
I'd be extremely easy if you weren't so fucking annoying, Astarion thinks.
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- 37/40
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01 Sep 2025
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Even the best laid plans oft go awry, but Verso just won't give on giving up, not even when the last barrier between him and a peaceful oblivion are the very friends he swore his loyalty to.
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An alternate ending that strays from the two canon options.Bookmarked by Caitric
17 Jul 2025
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“While we’re asking each other deep, personal, existential questions…”
“Oh, this should be good,” Verso interjects, deflecting like he always does.
Stubborn, unwilling to be baited, Monoco continues. “Have you ever thought about taking a new name?”
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17 Jul 2025
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Celui qui aurait dû rester [mort] by Qakk281
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
01 Aug 2025
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Verso was playing the piano—like always. Always, always. The same trembling fingers, the same hollow chords. It was the only thing that made him feel remotely alive, even if only for a few fleeting moments in the long deadness of his days
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After Maelle decides to bring everyone back, Verso is a shell of his former self and realizes that maybe he shouldn't have let Gustave die that day.Bookmarked by Caitric
16 Jul 2025
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Trompe L’œil by VoidTendril (galacticAnomaly)
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Jul 2025
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A good bond requires upkeep. They aren't always good, and they aren't always good about talking it out. Extenuating factors can help with that.
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02 Jul 2025
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3am at the Sunless Cliffs by mjangarelli
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
23 May 2025
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This is my first work, so please forgive any mistakes. English isn't my first language, things may be a little simplistic at times, but bear with me. I'm completely awestruck by this game, all the characters, creatures, world, all of it, so much it reignited my long forgotten love for creative writing. The result is a what if scenario about an awaited return, grief and love born in the midst of the worst existential crisis.
The story takes place after the ending of Act 1, mid Act 2, but it contains spoilers for most of the game, so beware. I hope you enjoy it as much as I'm loving to write it.
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02 Jul 2025
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Liminal (Smudged in the Margins) by walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Aug 2025
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As a lonely teenager, Verso paints himself a friend on a small, hidden canvas: Gustave, a confidant who quietly grows into something more. After the fracture, the other Verso finds Gustave again in Lumière. It should be impossible - and keeping his distance might be.
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- English
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- 8/8
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- 550
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30 Jun 2025