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Banished from Tav’s good graces for being insufferable, Gale and Astarion drown their sorrows, play dress-up, and discover that maybe they weren’t competing for Tav's heart so much as auditioning for each other’s. Left unsupervised, they discover that silence really is golden, lace really does flatter everyone, and love really can be this stupid.
Reasonably Canon-Compliant for Act 2 - as usual, I bend some spellcasting rules.
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- Part 1 of Shifting Perspectives
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05 May 2026
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Perhaps he was looking a bit too comfortable, because as he pulled his laptop from his bag, the gray cat a few tables down rose into a languid stretch and began a leisurely stroll in his direction. It was a bit funny looking, its head crooked slightly to the side and its steps a bit unsure. Though Astarion was certain he was about to get a face full of tuna breath, the cat paused a short distance away, content to sit and stare.
Lovely.
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Astarion is the deeply under-appreciated social media manager for ProFang Ascension, an online media company, where he is constantly trying to put out the fires started by his terrible boss. Fortunately for him, his dear friend Shadowheart has just the thing to help him decompress- a voucher for the sleepy little cat café she works at.
Or, a slow-paced, laid-back, extremely fluffy first meeting between an Astarion who is trying really hard to have a bad time, and a very tired Gale who will ensure that does not happen.
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“You bought us gnomish drugs?” Astarion gasped.
It was all slotting together. The wretched truth. His poor, sweet, innocent husband was swindled by a gang of fraudulent artificers. Earnestly seeking something to ease his pain and walking away with an experimental tincture that was—
Suddenly, the strange cat video from earlier seemed much less like a silly internet distraction and much more like an omen. Or perhaps a premonition, lighting the shared future of Astarion and his husband as they hurtled forward together into the terrifying unknown.
Gale makes a miscalculation with his homemade edibles, Astarion experiences the wonders of THC for the first time, and federal tax dollars are wasted.
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21 Apr 2026
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Gale's heard of it, of course: The Crimson Cellar. Entry is strictly limited to those with an invitation. It's infamous, fabled. Impossible to find. Or so he's been told.
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When Morena Dekarios offers Tabitha Cauldart a place to stay following the death of her mother, Tabitha is not expecting to be housed in the abandoned tower of Morena's dead son.
Nor does she expect to come face to face with a very alive Gale Dekarios through a seemingly enchanted mirror.
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Quick even on the wet stone shelf, Astarion skittered over and planted a hand on that fragile chest, shoving him into the wall. In lieu of speaking his disdain he hissed, baring twin rows of needle-sharp teeth.
Stay, stupid.
Oh.
His human's eyes went so wide when Astarion did that, so wet, and somehow they were even prettier. So too did that fluttering heart kick up under Astarion's palm as brittle ribs swelled with heavy, heaving breaths, even as the rest of that whiskered face remained stubbornly impassive.
A pleasant shiver coursed through Astarion's body and pooled low. Like swimming through a cold spot, the chill clinging in his wake. Something deep, hungry, essential within purred, so very pleased to see such a willful creature cowed, attentive, and in spite of his best efforts, afraid.
The rest of Astarion rather liked it too.
Astarion's existence is simple: eat fish, collect trinkets, and always listen when the master calls. After centuries of dragging sailors down into the dark, it only takes one fateful encounter to remind him of something long-forgotten: he was not always a monster. For day 4 of Bloodweave Week 2025 - AU Day!
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27 Mar 2026
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Read to chapter 3 - unfinished - favourite
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Gale had desperately clasped Astarion's wrist, preventing him from fully wrenching away. From fleeing. And for a brief moment Astarion was ready to lash out with all of the feral fury a starving spawn had to offer.
The memory of that scorching touch was like a scar. The imprint of his lightly calloused, bare palm on Astarion's slender wrist was an invisible, white-hot brand upon his flesh. It was only Gale's wide, worried eyes and immediate surrender of Astarion's captured limb that saved him from being torn to ribbons by long-forgotten vampiric claws.
He loathed it. Touching and being touched.
People did not touch Astarion and survive.
Astarion did not touch people destined to live.
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Astarion has a complicated relationship with physical touch. It brings up a wellspring of memories best left forgotten, and he doesn't even know if he could enjoy it anymore should he ever let anyone close enough to try... or five times Astarion sees Gale being held and has a lot of difficult feelings about it + the one time he does it himself and knows exactly how he feels about it.
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There was a time when Gale of Waterdeep could level a city with but a wave of his hand.
There was a time when Gale of Waterdeep could collapse mountains, alter the tides, tear open portals easy as blinking.
Now, it seemed, was the time for Gale of Waterdeep to cast the clumsiest Thunderwave this side of the Chionthar and be gutted for it.
AKA The Nine Lives of Gale Dekarios - written in celebration of Dead Gale Week with a little Spell Rot treato to suit Day 5
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Astarion and Gale have graduated and moved into the professional world of feature film. They can't find time in the day for their usual sexcapades, so they invent new ones.
This is likely better enjoyed after reading Backstage and Centerstage. There is, as before, a lot of pure porn, but this one is slightly more plotty than the others. Your welcome?
Canon Compliance: Canon happened. Like 1000 years ago or something. This Gale and Astarion are not the originals. Astarion has a snooty rich family with all the warmth of an iceberg. Gale's a distant relative of the Gale of Waterdeep. And they're pretty much what you'd imagine 24-year-old modern Faerun versions of themselves would be.
No betas - we live and die like a film industry career!Bonus content: a few people wanted to know more about how stage and film illusion worked in this AU from the previous stories, so, in the chapter 1 endnotes, you'll find all my worldbuilding notes about the Halarkhane Grid. Feel free to indulge or skip as per your personal inclinations.
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- Part 3 of Spotlight Shenanigans
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"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure." — Oscar Wilde
Hundreds of years after the Battle for Baldur's Gate, a lonely vampire is paid a visit by an ex in need.
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21 Mar 2026
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The first time Gale dies, it's a freak accident.
The second time Gale dies, it comes as a surprise to everyone.
The third time Gale dies, it's an embarrassment to everything he is.
The fourth time Gale dies, he at least enjoys it.
The fifth time Gale dies, it's absolute misery.
The sixth time Gale dies, he...
The last time Gale dies, he's not sure if he's died at all.
Welcome to the 7 ½ Deaths of Gale Dekarios, in which Gale dies in various curious ways.
Or does he?
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Gale returns to Waterdeep, to the woman he barely knows but has been betrothed to for two decades, leaving behind a heartbroken Tav in Baldur's Gate.
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The parchment is expensive. Tav runs her fingertips over the wax seal and hesitates; she knows what this is. She is not surprised that it is happening, she is, however, surprised at being included in some way. Perhaps, she allows herself, she had hoped it wouldn't be so soon. (She has already put to bed the part of herself that had hoped it would not happen at all.) Gale had, after all, been very clear - and devastatingly gentle - in his explanation.
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It's their last show at Blackstaff, and Astarion and Gale can't resist revisiting theater sexcapades that brought them together, but this time they take their shenanigans from backstage to centerstage.
By request, this is more sickeningly sweet smut in the same theater-geeks AU as Backstage (see series link). This is likely better enjoyed after reading that one. As before, a ridiculous proportion of the words in this are pure porn. Your welcome, again?
Canon Compliance: Canon happened. Like 1000 years ago or something. This Gale and Astarion are not the originals. Astarion has a snooty rich family with all the warmth of an iceberg. Gale's a distant relative of the Gale of Waterdeep. And they're pretty much what you'd imagine 22-year-old modern Faerun versions of themselves would be.
No betas - we live and die like an improv show in a college town!Series
- Part 2 of Spotlight Shenanigans
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A (Not So) Lost Cause by Mellie_Art
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
15 Mar 2026
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Jayce stares open mouthed from the doorway of the lab. A man who looks strikingly like Viktor is standing by Viktor’s desk, looking through Viktor’s notes, muttering softly to himself in Viktor’s voice. He’s even using Viktor’s cane. But it can’t be the real Viktor. He doesn’t wear clothes like that and he doesn’t style his hair in that way and he definitely doesn’t wear jewellery.
Except, today, apparently, he does.
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Jayce Talis is a champion of lost causes. His latest is getting Viktor to go to a fundraiser with him.
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a drunk first fuck, to the tune of
you crawled into my bed that night like some sort of giant insect
and i found myself spellbound at the sight of you, beautiful and grotesque and all the rest of that bug stuff
bluffing your way into my mouth, behind my teeth, reaching for my scars
that night we got kicked out of two bars and laughed our way home -
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After putting on weight and dealing with high blood pressure, Gale commits to working on himself after his divorce. Committing himself to going to the gym is helped somewhat by the hot yoga teacher who frequents the establishment.
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Hopelessly lost in a rainstorm, Gale happens upon a beautiful country mansion. Hoping to find help making his way back to his car he finds himself enraptured by the hospitable homeowner.
Memento Vivere - Remember to live
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Dietary Requirements by SpellSparkler for badmarilyn
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Dec 2024
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Gale, a disgraced former chef now working at a greasy spoon in Central London, decides to do something kind for the acerbic waiter on their staff. He’s surprised when it works out rather favourably for him.
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Gale gets off to the familiar fantasy of his one night stand with a woman who never gave him her name. It's just an old habit, the shameful coping of a man with nothing else to cling to except one very memorable fuck with a stranger two years ago, but lately the memory has been going a little fuzzy at the edges. Gale is growing increasingly worried that something’s missing from his favorite fever dream, but… what?
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22 Feb 2026
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Your Honour, please strike from the record the witness’ statement that I am “so hot it’s hurting his feelings” by HylianWorrier
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 Apr 2024
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Criminal barrister Astarion is in need of a computing forensics expert for his latest case. Professor Gale Dekarios seems to be the perfect fit
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- Part 1 of Expert Witness