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a crooked touch (Astarion x m!Tav) by eyes_of_the_lamb
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Nov 2024
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“Make it hurt, then. Kiss me like you want to kill me.”
“I can do that.”
Two broken stars in a decaying orbit, passing closer and closer together until the inevitable, devastating collision.
Or, Tav is fucked up and down bad for Astarion, who doesn't quite see the appeal (but he's getting there). Sexual frustration, sloppy handjobs, a heavy dose of masochism, and way too many failed Insight checks ahead. Tav falls first, Astarion falls harder (eventually).
Or, a tragic-but-hopeful romance told through a series of incredibly ill-advised sexual encounters.
If you want to read a story where Astarion is sweet from the start and Tav is here to fix him, this isn't the one. If you want to read about two terribly broken men spending a good long while making each other worse before they make each other better, this might be for you. If you thought the in-game romance was a little too easy and it should have been ten times more painful and difficult to convince Astarion he's worthy of love, this is definitely for you.
Set during the canonical events of Baldur's Gate 3.
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Wyll Ravengard has spent the past seven years alone, building his reputation as the Blade of Frontiers - a hero too ashamed of the source of his power to let anyone get truly close. Now, with an illithid parasite wriggling in his head, he finds himself with friends and allies, and more, for the first time since his exile.
Series
- Part 1 of The Folk Hero's Fable
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Hellbound and Heaven-Sent by TheBusyBaker
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
16 Nov 2024
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Juniper Ancunín and Calathor Dekarios are inseparable. They have navigated their days together since the evening their parents introduced them, sealing them together as best friends.
They would fight to the end of the world for one another if it meant the other remained safe.
But as fate would have it, time moves on and paths sometimes do not align the way we always hope they should.
Until one day, when those paths cross once again, twisting the threads of life and entwining the two lost friends on a road to discover their souls and each other’s.
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- Part 2 of A Rogue’s Guide to Raising a Family
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Nyrra wakes up in a pod with a tadpole in her head.
She seeks a cure, finds companions, saves some lives, falls in love.
She fights.
She fails.
She dies.
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Nyrra wakes up in a pod with a tadpole in her head.
This time, she vows, she will not fail.(A storm sorceress wakes at the start of her journey with all her memories and powers intact. The only problem— she’s the only one who remembers.
Or— so she thinks.)
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The Path to Netheril by Bronze_and_navy_is_creating, ShadowViking
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
25 Jan 2026
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The Brain has fallen. Cazador was defeated. Mystra (barely) pacified. Yet, Astarion desired more than a life in the shadows of his new home in Waterdeep. He wanted sunlight, and knew just the wizard who could help him achieve that- Gale. Unfortunately for Gale, it would cost him everything that made him the wizard he was, leading the pair on a complicated adventure to regain what he lost. One filled with danger, the dead and undead alike, and romance neither of them anticipated, all on that Path to Netheril.
(Inspired and loosely based on The Road to El Dorado- and it is entirely the song's 'It's tough to be a God' fault that this exists.)