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It's 1980-something and the eclectic band Astarion and The Misfits has enjoyed moderate success so far. But as the band heads out on their first national tour, lead singer/songwriter Astarion is falling apart.
His traumatic past is catching up to him and it's getting harder to hide his worsening cocaine habit from his band. The only time he feels something approaching okay is when he's writing music, or around his keyboardist and best friend, Gale.
Will Astarion be able to pull himself together enough to deal with his painful past and out-of-control present before it's too late to save his future? Or is he doomed to repeat the cycle and end up as just another tragic rock and roll cautionary tale?
~~ Step right up! Come one, come all! We've got: excessive use of the f-word! Shameless (fair) use of songs recorded after the 1980s, from many genres, that have been shoehorned in to fit the story (or vice versa)! Belly-flopping face down into all kinds of trauma like it's Scrooge McDuck's money bin! More flashbacks than an acid trip! Angst and longing! Romance and smut! A side of Halstarion! A side of Karheart! A main course of Bloodweave! Frequent chapter updates, including Spotify playlist! ~~
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Raphael, arguably the most accomplished player on the Lanceboard of Life, failed to anticipate that he would be unable to fully master the Crown of Karsus without Elynn, who channels the Karsite Weave better than him.
Having escaped from Raphael's manipulative clutches, she wants nothing more than a life with Astarion, who is mortal like her.Raphael has given her an ultimatum if she doesn't agree to stand by his side and help him realise his plans for world domination: She is to become queen alongside Raphael; otherwise, a city in Faerûn will be destroyed every new tenday.
Elynn knows she must challenge and defeat Raphael, but until the Githyanki forces arrive to help with the upcoming war, all there is to do is hope.
She knows that until then at least one city will fall.
Elynn must not give up, because if Raphael succeeds, mortals and gods alike will be damned. Elynn is hope personified. If she succumbs to his plan to make her immortal, the world's hope will be lost.
She doesn't have much time to prepare mentally, psychologically and magically for the fight of her life.
Fortunately, however, she is not alone. She has her companions and, perhaps soon, the support of the gods.Series
- Part 2 of The Crown, the Cleric and the Cambion
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Regret and Redemption by MartletSable
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
20 Jul 2025
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”Mr. Dekarios… what happened?”
”I - I don’t know Tara. I opened the book, then everything went black. When I woke up I felt a tightness in my chest and,” He jestured to his left side “This had appeared.”
- Or -The Netherese Orb absorbs life energy and now Gale kills everything he touches. After a year of fruitless research in his tower, he goes to Baldur’s gate looking for answers. He takes a job as a cook in a seedy tavern so he can use the animals on the menu to feed the orb.
Astarion is out on the prowl and his latest hunting ground shows promise. It’s a shame the handsome guy in the kitchen is so shy. He would be excellent prey.
**This fic updates around 2x a week (sometimes more) chapters are on the shorter side, but you get them quick!**
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Gale Dekarios had an extremely carefully thought-out, meticulous 10-step-plan for winning his ex-girlfriend back.
…How it slowly turned into a considerably shorter plan for getting into the pants of the platinum blonde guy running the ice cream kiosk by the beach, he couldn’t quite explain.
2025 Gays of Summer day 16: Ice Cream
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Baldur's Gate, 2077.
Gale is an ex-corpo who fell from grace. After a betrayal leaves him with a rogue virus in his neck, and a message from his former mentor saying that it is the key to stopping a nefarious plot, Gale finds himself in a spiraling conspiracy filled with kidnapping, murder, and cybernetic implants seizing control. And the keys to stopping it? A shard in his neck containing the virus, orb.exe, and a certain doll named Astarion.
A Cyberpunk 2077 AU with a slowburn romance between Gale and Astarion.
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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 books become 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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He Smiled (When the Gentle Shadow Came) by ikarus97
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
18 Jul 2025
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He couldn't live without forgetting.
But life wasn't worth living without remembering.So without rage, without resistance,
he smiled into that good night.
When the gentle shadow came.But the red-eyed stranger... wasn't exactly ready for it.
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Note: This story deals with loss, grief, and trauma, but not through graphic depictions. Please read with care. -
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Gale and Tempest were both students at Blackstaff academy and by some irony of fate after so many years they were both back as professors there. Maybe life was giving them another chance at friendship.
Among essays and corridors they find themselves longing for the memories of simpler days. Giving into nostalgia they reach for one another once more. -
Graceless by hollowharp
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
17 Jul 2025
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Gale Dekarios, archmage and Mystra's chosen, arrives at the convent of the Quiet Veil to study the fall of Netheril and reclaim the favor of his goddess. He doesn’t expect to feel fondness for a silent cleric with frostbitten hands, forbidden magic, and faith that outshines his shame.
Sister Eirael serves the Lady of Spells in day-silence, penance, and prayer. Mystra's chosen reveals himself to be less than pious—and entirely capable of disrupting all three.
But as days pass and conversations deepen, Eirael finds herself tempted—not just by the man, but by the mirror he holds up to her faith. And when Gale begins his own descent into arcane obsession, they must navigate gods, guilt, and the dangerous magic that keeps drawing them together.
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“You weren’t at supper. Do you deprive yourself of all of life’s many joys, Eirael? Or is it just conversation and food?”
And romance, he perhaps intends to suggest. But wisely, he leaves it unspoken.
“My life is very enjoyable,” I reply, a touch too defensively. “Or it was. Then I ended up nannying Mystra’s chosen. Did you know he mocked the sisters’ ability to tend a fire?”
I pause, then tut. “Rather unbecoming.”
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For some reason unbeknownst to you, you keep having incredibly awkward encounters with your new neighbours in the shared laundry facility of your flat, and sometimes, shenanigans ensue.
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Astarion Ancunin is a danseur at the Palais Garnier in Paris, exploited by his cruel patron, Monsieur Cazador Szarr. When he is approached by a mysterious masked man offering to give him singing lessons and a way to escape his patron, how can he say no?
Phantom of the Opera was my very first fandom, and it's still a huge special interest of mine. This fic will weave (heh) a story borrowing elements from multiple adaptations, including but not limited to the original novel by Gaston Leroux, the 1986 stage musical, and the 1990 TV special. All characters will retain their original fantasy races, but magic does not exist besides talking cats.
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To Err Is Divine (to forgive is human) by Lame Wizard (Chocofake)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Jul 2025
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“Tara. What in the Nine Hells happened to my beard?”
Gale had gone on a great adventure with a band of tadpoles misfits to save the world from the Absolute. That much, he was certain of. So why and how did he find himself back in Waterdeep, a year before that whole venture and just days away from committing the mistake of a lifetime? Did the friends from his vision indeed exist? Or better yet, did they remember? What could it all mean?
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A bit of time traveling shenanigans and the threat of Absolutists to defeat anew... But just how much does everyone recall from that glimpse into the future exactly? Find friends and foes alike back in an adventure with much more to offer than you’d first wager :) -
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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 Fireproof
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Long My Love Awaited by dirty_whorchata, ShadowViking
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Jul 2025
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Geir Dagrsson knows three things: cattle die, kinsmen die, but the one thing that doesn’t is a man’s deeds. He just didn’t expect his greatest one to be marrying the brat prince of East Anglia, and worst of all, the son of one of his father’s killers: a Saxon.
Ӕlfstan, son of Cadwallon, loathes the heathens plaguing their lands. When he is sold off in marriage to one, he will do whatever it takes to free himself from the man, his father’s wishes be damned. The Viking he is promised to also proves to be just as irritating as he expected.
Little do they both know, sinister forces are looking to sow more discord between the denizens of East Anglia, with Geir and Ӕlfstan at the centre of it all.
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Roll For Connection by Calolily
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
14 Jul 2025
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After a tragic lab accident that claims the life of his partner, Gale becomes a recluse. His best friend Lae'zel, invites hims to a game of D&D at the local Game shop. When Gale works up the courage to attend, he meets a charming and fascinating Rogue that shuts off the noise in his head.
"The scars from the accident that had shrunk his world down to these four walls were mainly hidden under his clothes. His left hand bore the worst of his shame—the flesh was pitted and warped from the explosion that had taken his research, his partner, and his old life. The skin along his jaw remained paler than the rest, a reminder of the raging fire and his failure. He maintained a meticulously groomed beard to cover the bulk of the marks. But the very edges still peaked from its margins to reach for his left eye and spread down his neck. His chest was a ruin.
Yet, it wasn’t the scars that kept Gale indoors, chained to the narrow perimeter of his small apartment. It was the silence that settled after Mystra’s absence. A vast, echoing quiet that turned the world outside into something sharp and fanged." -
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Gale Dekarios of Waterdeep, Mystra's chosen; confident, well mannered, humble, arrogant, exceedingly intelligent and incredibly naive. He is a man of multitudes and contradictions. But was he always? Or is he a product of individuals in his life, molded by family, friends, mentors and a goddess turned lover who has been there since the beginning.
A long character study on Gale Dekarios from childhood to right before the events of Baldur's Gate 3, with a focus on his time as a student at Blackstaff Academy and the effects of grooming by a goddess on his psyche and interpersonal relationships. -
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Astarion has spent more than his fair share of time in and out of hospitals and emergency rooms, and one thing is always guaranteed : no one knows what to do with him. He's used to being misunderstood, questioned, and flat-out accused of lying or exaggerating.
But he's sick. He knows he is. He just doesn't know why.
Dr. Gale Dekarios has always loved a challenge. A chance encounter with a beautiful - and mysterious - patient leaves him thinking about the man for days, and when the man appears in his office a week later, Gale is determined to find the answers he deserves.
A story about being seen, being cared for, and falling in love.
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Can You Feel My Heart? by DecafDoubleshotDepresso (Weleftaslemons)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Jul 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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Some years have passed since the fall of the Netherbrain. Connie and Gale have been living a happily married life together in Waterdeep. But when a divine force seeks answers, Connie is whisked away to a different world and a very different Gale.
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- Part 3 of Swords, Spells, and Sweets
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Before the orb, before the fall, Gale was Mystra's perfect Chosen, until Lyanna Harken pulled him from the depths and breathed life back into his lungs. Unbidden. Unwanted. Unforgettable.
In the floating city of Sharn, his divine mission to recover a Netherese tome collides with her desperate search for the Whispering Blades. She offers chaos where he craves control. He promises order where she needs freedom. Neither expected to matter.
Pride goeth before a fall, but no one warns you how intoxicating the view from the edge can be.
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Lyanna Harken’s just a wanderer trying to find her late mentor’s legacy. She didn't sign up for drowning wizards, divine politics, or the way Mystra's Chosen looks at her like she's both salvation and damnation. Should've known better than to strike a deal with someone who thinks breathing is a debt to be repaid.Series
- Part 1 of Chosen yet Painfully Mortal