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Tav insists on leaving Gandrel alone, and Astarion gives him a piece of his mind.
The good news is that Tav listens. The bad news is that he reacts in the most baffling way possible.
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- Part 1 of more than any words
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There are a hundred salacious old wives’ tales and smutty stories about elven ears. Basquiat has heard more than their fair share. Turns out, when it comes to Tav, those rumors might actually be true.
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They have saved the city and possibly the world. All is great and everyone is happy... except Astarion has been banished back into the shadows, and Tav is stuck in an uneven battle with his own oath.
He's losing the fight. He knew he would from the moment he fell for Astarion. But he can't lose yet, not before they find a way for Astarion to walk in the sun again.
Or: I wanted to give unascended Astarion and his paladin a better ending than "well, shit".
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- Part 3 of more than any words
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Tav fights the temptation to surprise Astarion with a romantic gesture. The outcome is nothing if not predictable.
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Astarion knows, without a shadow of doubt, that Tav remains fully aware during his nightly visits. And yet they're still doing this.
To what end, Tav doesn't know. Sometimes he wonders if Astarion does.
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- Part 2 of more than any words
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They’d tried to use so many other words to describe how they’d felt, if only to themselves. Admiration. Devotion. Infatuation. Fascination. Pining came close, after months on the road together. But love—that was the one that fit best. A kind of love that was fierce and overwhelming and almost impossible to contain, even if it lay unrequited. The way the sea loves a rock in a storm. The crash of water on stone, the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object, again and again and again. And yet they hadn’t stopped falling on him, for him, not once.
And right now, as Tav sits cross-legged in the middle of the room’s most massive rug, in his sleep clothes and engrossed in the details of oiling his halberd, Basquiat feels that familiar pang of knowing, beyond any doubt, that they could never stop loving him. And still knowing he would never feel the same.
Or: In some other reality, Basquiat and Tavlen Araestar have been questing against the Absolute together for months--and Basquiat has been hopelessly pining after Tav nearly the whole time. In their attempt to assess the damage after Tav's oathbreak, the dam inevitably bursts. Set in Act 3, immediately post-Cazador.
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19 Feb 2024
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Luka looks at him then, really looks at him.
His shoulders are high and tight, all of his weight is shifted onto the balls of his feet, and his eyes are flickering between Luka’s face and the space around and behind him. He thinks of the memory the tadpole had shown him, so soaked in fear it had left him feeling off-kilter for long minutes.
Astarion isn’t a monster. He’s just a person in a silly ruffled shirt, and he’s terrified.
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- Part 1 of clear pebbles
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18 Dec 2023
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“Alright, my sweet, I’ll bite. Metaphorically this time,” Astarion said and threw himself down next to Tav with a dramatic huff. It was only partly because he liked the way Tav smirked when Astarion put on the theatrics. No more than half the reason. Two-thirds.
Anyway. "Spill. Where did you pick up the new music? I know all of your pieces, that isn’t one of them.”
Astarion is curious about the bard's latest song. Meanwhile, Tav can't draw Astarion, but a bard does have other artistic talents.
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13 Dec 2023
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the dying sun reflected in (your) eyes by eyes_of_the_lamb
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Nov 2023
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Tav and Astarion watch a sunset together. Late Act 1. Astarion x m!Tav.
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23 Nov 2023
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The sun falls on Astarion’s face and he lets it.
The moist blue morning is a poor time to be in a fight, but they’re here with their weapons out, confessing to whoever sees them that there is no other option but to fight.
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06 Oct 2023