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Can You Feel My Heart? by DecafDoubleshotDepresso (Weleftaslemons)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 Nov 2025
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Mystra’s abuse drives Gale to attempt suicide. He survives, ending up in a psychiatric ward.
His doctor suggests he attend an outpatient group after he’s cleared to go home. It’s there that he meets Astarion.
Together, they discover that life is worth living and that love is worth working for.
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There are few regulars of Last Light’s library as striking as the town's tailor, Astarion, making his sudden absence notable to librarian, Gale Dekarios. Once the mysterious tailor’s book becomes overdue and he shows no sign of returning to his normal Monday evening browsing, Gale takes it into his own hands to figure out why he vanished.
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It allows spellcasters to make themselves and their allies light as a feather, preventing damage when falling from extreme heights.
For a year, Gale locked himself in his wizard’s tower, determined to find a cure for the Netherese orb. He often felt alone in the aftermath of his folly, but he never truly was. Tara refused to let him think so.
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“Hey…” Wyll starts, voice low and worried. ”What’s wrong? You’re shaking like a leaf.” He looks out along the shoreline and takes in the damp, nighttime air. Chills tickle his arms from where they are no longer covered by armor and he can’t help but huff in annoyance as goose-pimples flash across his skin. “C’mon lets get back to camp, this chill is no doubt doing us any favor-”
Tugging lightly, Wyll attempts to drag Gale up from the dirt, worrying for his friend's knees- for how long has he been knelt in the grass out here on his own? Surely he’d much prefer the comforts inside his tent with his cat? Even the logs they’d set up haphazardly around the fire from last night would be better than the sodden ground beside the riverbank, right?
But even as Wyll makes to stand, Gale swiftly pulls himself out from under his touch, and with a strained voice, barely audible says;
“I’m afraid to…”
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Even after Gales orb had been seemingly paused by Elminster as per Mystras word, something... new... has now changed with everyone's favourite wizard. Whilst it may be small to anyone else it is no less terrifying for him.
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She’s in hell. Literal hell, that’s the only rational explanation for what’s in front of her. Imp-like creatures screech and swoop around her and the…tentacle ship she’s on. Everything’s on fire, the ship is falling and she’s going to die.
Staying in that pod probably would have been kinder than watching everything crash and burn in real time. Before she can stumble to her knees a dark blur rushes above her and then in front of her and—
“What the fuck.”
The alien is speaking but she has no idea what they’re saying and they look increasingly angry the longer there’s no reply. But what can she say? Hello, I’m not from wherever this place is. Do you know how I can get back?
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Elminster visits the party to deliver the news of Mystra's request to Gale. Ashni does not take it well and tries to knock some sense into Gale and ends up helping him process some of his emotions. Commence mutual pining and idiots in love who can't quite say it yet.
*Under revision because I've had thoughts.*
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- Part 3 of For Love of Bright Eyes and Sharp Edges
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Astarion is enigmatic, difficult to read, closed-off. It's one step forward and two steps back with him, but every time Gale thinks he can't do it anymore, he's pulled by something nameless. He wants nothing more than to get closer.
Continuation of "Burned" and "Deglazed," in which culinary school dropout Gale and lawyer Astarion struggle with the echoes of their pasts.
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- Part 3 of You're Fireproof
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“You were never that good of a liar, Mr. Dekarios,” she continues, “Not to me, at least. Your mother might fall for your boyish charms and sweet smile, but you’ll have to try harder than that if you want to convince me that there’s nothing I should be concerned about.”
Gale exhales through his nose, dragon’s breath, and thinks of impossibly deep kisses, recalls recurring dreams of unanswered pleas for mercy.
“There isn’t.”
Lonely, painful days.
“Isn’t there?”
The soothing balm that arrives each night. His own blood staining the sheets. Bliss.
“No.”
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Feeling nostalgic, Gale buys a package of Magic Grow Capsules. One of them contains more than he bargained for.
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A quite night in camp leads Gale and Astarion to confess their love amidst Gale struggling with what he should do.
Prompt 11 - A Night at Camp
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- Part 5 of Bloodweave Inn Prompts (New Years)
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Blood Circuit by Mushi_97, TheGoblinToadie (ToadieTheGreenWitch)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
29 Jan 2025
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[Summary not loading]Oh, my dear sweet reader. How typically tragic. It appears this wretched website can’t even manage a simple summary. Tsk, tsk. Never fear, for I, Astarion, your dashing new AI assistant, shall grace you with a far more scintillating one than anything these so-called “writers” could conjure up.
Now, we have one Gale Dekarios—a once-brilliant scientist (well, he certainly thinks so), currently skulking about in a dusty old apartment in Baldur's Gate, surrounded by half-eaten takeout boxes, mountains of unfinished projects and unwashed laundry. Sad, isn’t it? His own genius overshadowed by unspeakable regrets and that unfortunate beard. But lo and behold, I—your humble yet impossibly stylish AI—made a sudden entrance overnight, rewriting all of those dull routines of his.
Naturally, Gale’s beside himself, claiming I’ve ruined his oh-so-important routines. But between us, darling, someone had to step in and rescue him from perpetual gloom.
Oh, the suspense! Stick around, dear reader—I’m only just beginning to work my magic.
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Between the beats of Tav’s heart, the world winked from existence. Astarion lurched in confusion, clawing at his own throat when he realized that he couldn’t hear himself scream. He could feel someone’s grip squeeze his wrist painfully tight. They tugged him towards some random direction, and he tripped over his own feet, tumbling to the ground.
Five years post-game. While headed to Gale’s tower, Astarion is cursed by a vicious spell that sends him reeling. Tav is immediately captured by the mysterious woman who cast it--someone angry and powerful, with a vendetta against them both. Blind, deafened, and terrified, Astarion soon finds himself caught up in the throes of a vast conspiracy that involves his haunting past, the Urge’s many sins, and the very future of Waterdeep.
(Meanwhile, Gale has problems of his own...)
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- Part 1 of Falling In Chiaroscuro
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Seeing how much Dame Aylin adored Isobel weighed on Gale, even adoring Tav as much as he did. They still stood by him.
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The customer shoves the phone between him and the box as he opens it, filming the cake and making very basic commentary about it. “Wowwww look at this guys. Someone’s birthday cake huh? It’s well done. Very nice. What's the flavor?”
“…Red velvet,” Gale replies a bit apprehensively.
This strange customer almost sings in delight at the mention of the flavor, “Red velvet is absolutely fucking peak. Based customer.”
“Based?” Gale whispers, exasperated.
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Astarion is re-vamping his whole social media presence with amateur food reviews on Tiktok after one he did on the fly got popular.Gale is an ex-Celebrity chef, looking to get away from all celebrity bullshit running a small and quiet bakery, after a Lawsuit and a Divorce that very well still haunts him.
Having a loud Tiktoker come in and shove his phone in every corner of said bakery, is not the kind of paparazzi he was expecting.
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After Mystra sends Gale's whole world crashing down, he encounters a group of revellers and their enigmatic leader with just a few too many teeth...
OR: My headcanon for what would have happened if there were no tadpoles, Astarion eventually killed Cazador, escaped Baldur's Gate, fled to Waterdeep, founded a commune, and then met Gale in his darkest hour.
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gale has a breakdown alone in the woods and cries lol
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Gale pulls some cards for himself as a once successful divination wizard and gets some interesting results
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Gale finds an unused summoning scroll from his adventuring days in his old rucksack. The scroll’s title is not much to go by, so in the name of academic curiosity he transcribes it into his spellbook.
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Gale Dekarios hasn't left his condo since his swift dismissal from his position as a nearly tenured theoretical physicist at Blackstaff University. His falling out with his ex left him a husk of the man he thought himself to be but his old friend seems to think just getting him out of the house is going to be enough to change his tune.
Aka the Muscle Mommies au that somehow got serious
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BG3 Fic Feb SFW Prompt 15: inspired by the song Stick Season by Noah Kahan.
After your adventure, you'd agreed to return to Waterdeep with Gale, but now you'd broken up with him. Gale reminisces on your past relationship and wallows in sadness.