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Tav’s and Dammon’s relationship is going wonderfully, but the two of them are still medical trainees. When their respective schedules run them ragged and keep them from seeing each other, circumstances prompt them to move their relationship forward in a major way.
Think of this as the fluffy, smutty epilogue to Heart Rhythms. Chapter 1 is rated M, chapters 2 and 3 are rated E.Series
- Part 2 of Faerun Frontier (a BG3 medical AU)
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Tav is a busy resident physician with no time for romance, until a chance encounter involving her best friend Karlach throws Dammon, a cardiology fellow with a heart of gold (heh), into her life.
The medicine AU that no one asked for and but you're getting anyway, simply because I had to make Dammon into a cardiologist.
See end notes of each chapter for a glossary of medical terms! I tried to balance writing the characters authentically with minimizing medical jargon–so there’s still some, but less so in the later chapters.
Enjoy!While this is a workplace relationship, there is no exploitation of power or coercion in this work.
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- Part 1 of Faerun Frontier (a BG3 medical AU)
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“Seriously, I, uh, appreciate the offer? But you really don’t need to do that.” She patted him on the arm twice like someone had told her to touch a hot stove.
When he finally regained his composure, he replied, hesitantly, “And what if I would like to? Help you? As a gesture of my appreciation?”
“Uh…I mean, that’s really considerate, Astarion. I just…I don’t think I’m at a place where I feel ready to do that with you. Or anyone, really.” She added that last part hastily, hoping she hadn’t insulted him. “But if you really want to help me with something, maybe you could…help me cut my hair?”Lita, an elven druid, finds herself plucked out of her comfortable life as a healer in Baldur's Gate and her eye socket absolutely violated. The worst part is she was due for a haircut, and she's nowhere near her usual barber. Astarion steps up to help her with that issue, leading to deeper bonding than either of them expected.
This is a slightly off-canon fem OC/Astarion romance, set in Act 1 but veers from the in-game progression a bit.Smut starts in chapter 3.
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Faerun Frontier (a BG3 medical AU) by Shrimp_Dumpling
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
05 Sep 2025
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Tav, her companions, and many of the game's NPCs live and love in a modern-day AU surrounding Faerun Frontier University's medical center, the premier academic hospital in our fair nation.
Current work(s) in progress:
-Heart Rhythms, a sweet and eventually smutty Tav/Dammon love story, featuring hilarious Karlach and Wyll cameosUpcoming work(s):
-Sweet/smutty Tav/Dammon one shot set a year after the events of Heart Rhythms
-Welcoming ideas and requests for others!- Words:
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Nearly two years have passed without a word from Astarion ever since the defeat of the Absolute. Since then, her companions have all moved on swiftly, while Xuan has tried to build some attempt of a quiet, peaceful life—she gardens, she reads, she doesn't have a tadpole stuck in her head—though it seems that Shadowheart and the others are inclined to call her a depressed recluse. Her attempts of peace begin to fracture when a letter arrives from her ex-lover.
(Alternatively, Astarion disappears for two years and tries to come back.)
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20 Oct 2025
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08 Sep 2025
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Post-game short fics set between Tav (Cat, a violinist from the Gate) and Astarion. Very sweet with lots of emotional complexity and healing
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Already Gone by SoloGrayson for The Astral Plane - BG3 server
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
17 Nov 2023
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I want you to know
That it doesn't matter
Where we take this road
But someone's gotta go
And I want you to know
You couldn't have loved me better
But I want you to move on
So I'm already gone
Looking at you makes it harder
But I know that you'll find another
That doesn't always make you wanna cry
It started with a perfect kiss
Then we could feel the poison set in
Perfect couldn't keep this love alive
You know that I love you so
I love you enough to let you goAstarion believes it's for the best if he leaves.
She does not agree.Bookmarked by Shrimp_Dumpling
07 Sep 2025
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Astarion tries to leave tiefling Mielikki druid Tav so that she isn't trapped in the dark with him, by leaving a note stating that he grew bored of her. She drowns her sorrows for a while until realizing that he must have lied, and tracks him down and makes him tell her the truth, and they reconcile.
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Phaedra Tiernan, a drow druid, savior of Baldur’s Gate, had not returned to the city in fifty years. When she returns, she meets up with old companions and renews a friendship… And perhaps, something more?
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05 Sep 2025
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sweet piece of work by PouroverPaloma for Best_Bisexual
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
03 Sep 2025
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On a side street in the Lower East Side, Infernal Iron Tattoo and Waterdeep Floristry face each other. There’s also a deli. It’s not very good.
Tav has scrapped her way through her twenties to finally have a life she can be proud of: she co-owns her own tattoo studio with her best friend, she wears what she wants and does what she wants, and she even has enough money to get good coffee most of the time.
Is she happy? Yes.
Does the very existence she’s worked so hard to earn make her completely incompatible with the beautiful, buttoned-up florist across the street? Also yes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t make her want him any less.
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03 Sep 2025