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Now, Astarion was a different story. He’d had nothing, then, without anyone noticing how, he’d suddenly had a gaudy tent that was clearly sized for a family, most likely pilfered from one of the many crates belonging to the tieflings piled near the entrance to the grove. And then, joining that, there were rugs, and blankets, and a growing collection of pillows, enough to build a fort. When they were finally ready to travel to the Underdark, Astarion had tried his best to pack and wrap it all into a manageable bundle.
Tried.
Gale remembered the pouted look of frustration. Had wanted to laugh about it, especially considering he was still a bit bitter about Tav choosing the vampire, of all people, honestly, but then Astarion’s frustrated frown had changed ever so slightly to pained resignation. The sight of it had made something twist uncomfortably in Gale’s stomach.
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- Part 1 of Stumble and Fall
Bookmarked by UnpredicatbleWitch (UnpredictableWitch)
19 May 2026
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Astarion is near the docks when he feels Cazador's compulsion on him snap. He doesn't think twice. He just takes the next available ship out of Baldur's Gate. Its destination: The City of Splendors. Waterdeep.
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Gale takes back the glass, now empty, and then seems to fidget a little. “There is something I wanted to get your opinion on- but it can wait until you’ve recovered. You don’t look well at all- no offense meant, of course.”
“None taken,” Astarion says sweetly. “Please go on. Tell me exactly what it is about my appearance that you find lacking.”
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Bookmarked by UnpredicatbleWitch (UnpredictableWitch)
19 May 2026
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They all die. Or they don't, but they wake back up in the wreckage of the Nautiloid anyway. The only constant they have is each other...but not Tav. Tav is different every time.
(Or, the cosmic horror of being trapped in a loop of saving the world at the whims of an ever-changing player character)
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18 May 2026
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“ Dying was a distant memory by now. He recalled the pain, tearing into every fiber of his being, and with it the cold, numbing loss of feeling that came after. But it was muted; by two hundred years of pain that were arguably much, much worse.”
—basically—
As Astarion begins to turn from undead to living—the result of a Wish spell—he reflects on life itself.
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18 May 2026
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Gale's head snapped up to look at the white, bat-winged tressym who stood tensely on the rug before them. "Astarion?" he asked, amazed. "Is that you? What in the world happened?"
"How in the Hells should I know?!" Astarion cried. "One moment I'm my gorgeous self, the next, I'm a bloody cat!"
"Tressym," Gale and Tara both corrected as one.
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18 May 2026
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After escaping from monster hunters raiding the Szarr Palace, Astarion flees from Baldur's Gate to Waterdeep. Following another close call, he is inexplicitly turned into a bat, despite being a vampire spawn.
Meanwhile a lonely and depressed Gale is walking home from the tavern when he’s smacked in the face by a small, wet bat that got caught in the storm.
Cue a montage of two idiot's going from vindictive pet/oblivious owner to friends to lovers.
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Bookmarked by UnpredicatbleWitch (UnpredictableWitch)
18 May 2026
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Astarion wasn’t sulking, nor was he hiding from Gale. He was simply taking a relaxing moment to himself. A relaxing moment in the dark, pressed between boxes in what was presumably a storage room.
Sometimes it's easier to ignore an issue when you've got more imminent problems to deal with. Now that he's finally safe, Astarion finds it might be harder to ignore said issues.
This is a direct continuation of 'Bat'tered by the Storm.
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- Part 2 of 'Bat'tered
Bookmarked by UnpredicatbleWitch (UnpredictableWitch)
18 May 2026
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After seven years of being unable to communicate at all, Wyll has a voice again. He's ecstatic and overwhelmed in equal measures, and he delights in being able to finally talk to people.
But his friends seem to think the person who saved him, Astarion, might make a devil's deal of his own, by sacrificing his siblings to the Hells for power.
Of course Astarion isn't going to do that. There's no way he would.
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- Part 2 of price of devotion
Bookmarked by UnpredicatbleWitch (UnpredictableWitch)
17 May 2026
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The Whipping Boy by thecheeseburgercat for not_whelmed_yet
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Apr 2026
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Eight year old Wyll Ravengard has everything he could ever want—save a friend. And then he meets a saddened but sweet elven boy in the park, and gains far, far more than he bargained for.
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Wyll now sees a scratchy tangle of rope, ebony black with nine tails of knotted smaller ropes descending from a central coil. A cat o' nine tails, his mind helpfully supplies as his stomach drops.
"Father," he whispers, feeling all of a sudden lightheaded with fright. "Please..."
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17 May 2026
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All you gotta do is wait for me to get home by Chamomile_pea
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 May 2026
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'I've missed you Astarion,' he says, and Astarion can feel Wyll's deep voice rumbling against his chest.
Astarion pulls back slightly to eye him, tries to look haughty and affronted. 'And yet you seem not to have been in much of a rush to see me; all I receive is one tiny scrap of a note, probably days if not weeks after you've returned. You know my address, you could have made the effort to come to me rather than forcing me to come begging to your door.'
Wyll is back in Baldur's Gate after finding a fix for Karlach's heart, and Astarion is curious to see where he now stands with his old friend.
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17 May 2026
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The Orb starts bringing things back to life when it gets too hungry, and Gale goes to Baldur's Gate to attempt to figure out how to stop it. Astarion marks him as prey, and things get very complicated, indeed.
(A pre-canon AU where Gale accidentally brings Astarion fully back to life and binds them together)
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17 May 2026
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Pissing off a djinn is a stupid idea. Lying to one to try and wriggle out of the incurred wrath is even worse. Astarion, and by extension the rest of the camp, learn this the hard way. In short, Astarion speed runs 239 birthdays.
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17 May 2026
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"Oh Gods, he's been turned to ashes!" Karlach cried out.
"No, not ashes," Halsin said, frowning in confusion. Looking closer, the wildflowers next to the clothing were trampled slightly, as if something small had crawled through them.
"Jelly, then! Gods, poor Fangs, what are we-?"
"Um, guys, you might want to, ah, well..."
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Astarion gets turned into a young child. The party takes care of him.
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16 May 2026
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Halsin had never taken himself for a fatherly man. That was, until he found an elfling in Szarr’s basement. Will he be able to care for this terribly abused child?
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In which elves grow and mature until they reach their majority at a hundred years old. Thus, Astarion being bitten at only 39 has left him in the body and psyche of a child for 200 years.
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“He’s as real as you and me. He was just— there. Silent and motionless, watching me. I would have missed him, had he not clashed with the wall. It’s— it’s uncanny, Gale. He has the clear evidence of a beating, but I feel there is more to it. We haven’t met each other, yet he is utterly terrified of me. A abused child’s wariness toward an unknown adult would be natural, but this is— animalistic fear. And his wounds, Sylvanus—”
***This is a rewrite of Investigation Turned Rescue Mission
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16 May 2026
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The woman tilted her head. "Do you know what we just did to you?"
Astarion's eyes darted between them, perplexed by the question. What they did to him…?
That's when he noticed the Selûnite pendant around her neck. She was a cleric… had she healed him? He tried to piece together a scenario that made any sort of sense, but the details barely added up. Had these people found him? If so, why did they drag him across the city? How did they do such a thing? Why wasn't he in Harborside getting treatment? He wasn't sure exactly how severe his injuries had been, but he knew for a fact that a simple healing potion would not have done a thing to mend him back together.
"Are you… healers?" he asked.
The bearded man's mouth dropped open. "Healers—? What? No," he began to reach for him, but thought better of it and awkwardly closed his fist instead. "Astarion, it's me. Gale."
Astarion didn't recognize his name or his face in the slightest, but the way he was looking at him gave him pause.
"I… I don't…" Astarion shook his head slightly, racking his brain. "I'm sorry… Have we met before?"
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Bookmarked by UnpredicatbleWitch (UnpredictableWitch)
16 May 2026
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Gale visits the realm’s worst peep show and ends up having the best night of his life.
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16 May 2026
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"What's a clever man like you doing in a place like this, darling?" Astarion asks with a smile. This isn't the first time he's run into one of his old companions all shiny and new —it's as if the world only contains a certain number of people and after a long enough time it has to reuse some of the old ones— but this is the first new Gale.
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16 May 2026
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A Mutually Beneficial Arrangement by SilverSeptember
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
29 Apr 2026
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“Well, you just became far more interesting, Gale of Waterdeep,” Astarion purred, an almost unsettling grin spreading across his face. “And, thanks to my certain set of skills, I might be able to help you for the foreseeable future. But…”
“...But?”
“You’ll have to help me in return.”
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16 May 2026
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It wasn’t a stirge or a deathfang, Gale choking down a gasp at the humanoid figure madly lapping and guzzling the bowl of blood. It was a vampire.
When Gale becomes aware of a creature targeting the infestation of necrotic rats plaguing his store, his eager brain fixates on the question of what being would willingly consume such pests.
His answer of a feral vampire spawn would only leaves him with an overabundance of academic questions and emotional complications.
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- Part 2 of Into The Catverse
Bookmarked by UnpredicatbleWitch (UnpredictableWitch)
16 May 2026
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Well,” Astarion laughed, falling to his haunches so that his face was level with Gale’s, “no wonder she asked you to explode yourself. You must be absolutely pent up with sexual frustration that you’re fit to burst at any second.”
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The orb had forced him into a life of restraint. For so long he had forsaken the pleasures of the flesh in order to protect the world from th blight within him.
But now it’s gone. And he finds himself on a ship to Waterdeep with Astarion with nowhere to hide his feelings. And when it comes to the vampire, those feelings have been pent up for a while.
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Bookmarked by UnpredicatbleWitch (UnpredictableWitch)
16 May 2026