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no one's gonna hurt you (no one's gonna dare) by passing_lives
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Mar 2025
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He was eight the first time someone explained Mystra to him properly. He was nine when Elminster told him about his own relationship with Mystra, enough that Gale had felt ill with envy. Ten when he scoured all of his history books on Mystra, trying to figure out what he could do to impress her in the event she returned.
Or: Gale and Astarion have nightmares. They decide to talk through them.
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"The way the body reacts after birth is unavoidable. All his siblings experienced it: searching for a baby that was no longer there, raging and screaming at everyone and everything in the vicinity as if the child was hidden like a sick parlour game. They all knew what would happen after the first time, but every subsequent time might as well have been the first.
What would’ve happened if one of those children had survived?"
Or: what if the spawn having spawn was a requirement for the Black Mass? What if the mindflayers captured Astarion with one of those children in tow?
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"I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary."
- Margaret Atwood, "Variation on the Word Sleep"The galaxy is forever changed after Commander Jane Shepard destroyed the Reapers. But it isn't just the galaxy that was changed: its inhabitants were too, some for better, others for worse. Most people don't know what happened to the commander, not even her boyfriend, Major Kaidan Alenko. What he does know is this: no matter how far away the two of them are, the two of them will rebuild their lives together.
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something lonesome and wild one-shots and side stories by passing_lives
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Mar 2025
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On Dhampirs, Mothers, And Storybook Endings by thecheeseburgercat
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Aug 2025
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Blade and Dagger, adventuring through the frontiers, writing the next chapter of their story together. But it has a couple of twists that even Volo couldn't pen if he tried...something to do with long-lost parents and dhampirs.
Or, the story in which Astarion both finds his mum and finds a surprise within.
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"Of course not," Adhara laughs. "For me it was mince pies. Used to love a good mince, and then all of a sudden I couldn't bear to be in the same house as one. No, but I had a lot of the common symptoms when I learned I was expecting you—and it's quite normal for us elves to sleep heavily while we're pregnant."
"What did you just say?" Astarion croaks, his face sheet-white.
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27 Jul 2025
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Be My Mirror by Acephalous, Aeona, anonyhex, GlassThreads, jellyfishline, karlachian, leyside, new_space, not_whelmed_yet, odessacastle, partingxshot, PopcornCrimes (Emi1y_Rose), shadowfell, SophiaMancer, stygius, thecheeseburgercat, ushauz
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
27 Sep 2024
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Wyll, that sanctimonious bastard, refuses to help Astarion ascend. Astarion leaves the party, hoping they all die screaming.
Ah, but Raphael has an offer: a mirror allowing travel between worlds. Surely there must be a universe where ascension is still on the table? There’s nothing left for Astarion in Baldur’s Gate, after all.
It doesn’t matter that Wyll’s come looking for him. And it certainly doesn’t matter that Wyll follows through the glass, through boundless universes, through their myriad other lives—searching, chasing, never giving up.
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01 Oct 2024
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The Royal Baldur Ballet's upcoming season is poised to be the most dramatic yet. With seven gorgeous ballets to stage, first soloist Astarion Ancunín is convinced this will be the season he finally shines bright enough, worthy of the rank of principal dancer. Enter Wyll Ravengard, stage left, and everything is about to change.
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Wyll Ravengard is most definitely not an apprentice. Astarion knows that name, Wyll Ravengard. He won the Prix de Lausanne five or so years ago, the most prestigious competition for ballet students. Even as a student, it was clear that Wyll was going to be the ballet world’s next big star.
And now he’s here, in Astarion’s barre spot. In his rank.
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- Part 1 of grand adage
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13 May 2024
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A first meeting gone wrong: Astarion tries to slake his thirst on one of the crash victims, Wyll tries to kill a monster.
The team finds themselves with a captive, seemingly immortal, vampire and no good options. Can Astarion find a way to escape the role the author has chosen for him? Can forgiveness and friendship be forged between these walking wounded, who all have reasons to trust no-one?
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- Part 1 of No Good End & Related Works
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11 May 2024
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Rosemary, Bergamot, and Babies by yellowstonewolves
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
24 May 2025
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“I’m going to do it, you know,” Astarion tells her, as she sips her dandelion tea, looking unimpressed, “I’m going to kill Wyll Ravengard’s baby.”
Astarion finds himself unexpectedly pregnant. He's sure he wants an abortion, but unsure about whether Wyll will hold it against him. And that, is turns out, is only the beginning of his problems.
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11 May 2024