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The Whipping Boy by thecheeseburgercat for not_whelmed_yet
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Feb 2026
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Eight year old Wyll Ravengard has everything he could ever want—save a friend. And then he meets a saddened but sweet elven boy in the park, and gains far, far more than he bargained for.
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Wyll now sees a scratchy tangle of rope, ebony black with nine tails of knotted smaller ropes descending from a central coil. A cat o' nine tails, his mind helpfully supplies as his stomach drops.
"Father," he whispers, feeling all of a sudden lightheaded with fright. "Please..."
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16 Feb 2026
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Kept in an Open Cage by jellyfishline for yellowstonewolves
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
09 Aug 2025
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At long last, after a grueling year in Avernus, Karlach, Wyll, and Astarion have found a way to remove Karlach's engine for good. Returning to Baldur's Gate (and a small cheap flat in the Lower City) Karlach recovers under the careful attentions of her lover, Wyll. There's only one problem: they've let Astarion stay with them. And though Astarion knows that this living arrangement must be temporary and the happy couple will get tired of his company soon enough, he finds himself growing attached to the little life they've made.
It doesn't help that he's madly in love with both of them. Or that they're all sharing a bed.
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20 Dec 2025
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a social forced choice question and answer game by unsungillumination
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Oct 2023
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shadowheart says, “kill l–”
“not lae’zel, darling, it’s too obvious. in fact, both of you are banned from killing each other.” astarion thinks for a moment. “in the game, at least.”--
the gang plays fuck, marry, kill.
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22 Nov 2025
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Disciple Z'rell doesn't look at him. She doesn't have to.
These people are heroes, her tadpole hisses, though her face stays blank and apathetic. They do not serve. But you? I could believe it.
Astarion swallows. The shrieking animal in his chest flinches back. You could?
I could. Z'rell drags her gaze over the assembled party, over five perfect, star-wrought heroes. If you prove it.
Astarion kills Karlach.
Things do not get better from there.
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17 Nov 2025
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Beneath the Surface by thecheeseburgercat for PopcornCrimes (Emi1y_Rose)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
21 Dec 2024
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Written for both the Wyllstarion Secret Solstice and the bg3 kinkmeme, exploring a rockier beginning to Astarion's relationship with the Tadfools, and especially the handsome Blade of Frontiers. When the shadows close in and Astarion finds he cannot trust any of his companions, what is a vampire to do?
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In retrospect it was a very stupid idea to try a little taste of the dead woman, the one who'd perished by the overturned caravan. For one, the single swallow Astarion had managed hadn't even tasted good. Her blood had spoiled after the long hours spent baking in the hot sun.
And of course he'd been caught. Like the fool he is, fangs out and dripping with the putrid blood in plain sight of the handsome Blade of Frontiers.
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11 Nov 2025
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When he wakes, he is on a beach, gold, looking up at the sun.
Ah, he thinks, distant. I'm dreaming.
Astarion is never quite sure, until the moment Cazador lies dead before him, whether this entire adventure is anything more than an extremely vivid hallucination.
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“Deep down, you like being leashed, don’t you?” The hag’s voice was almost in his ear. Astarion whirled around. An Auntie Ethel – the real one? – stood on the ledge just behind him, yellow fangs bared in a vicious grin. “Listen to your betters, boy!”
And just like that, Astarion's newfound freedom disappeared.
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05 Jul 2025
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It goes something like this: Astarion wakes up flat in the dirt, hands tied behind his back, bleeding. His head aches.
Wyll stands over him, uncharacteristically scared. "Astarion," he says, fast and frantic. "Are you back to yourself?"
There are two puncture wounds on his neck.
(It goes something like this: Astarion wakes up. The party says he attacked them. He does not remember this.)
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- Part 1 of opposite of a haunting
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05 Jul 2025
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snare by parsnipit
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
03 Jan 2024
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The darkness in the kennel is thick, suffocating. It reeks of rat piss and molding hay. Every instinct screams danger, though Halsin cannot yet make out what hunts him. His darkvision does not pierce the deepest corners, but he knows—oh, he knows—
There’s something hungry here.
After saving the world, Tav turns their attention to dismantling Cazador Szarr. But what they discover in the bowels of the Szarr palace is far more than a single corrupt noble.
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15 Jun 2025
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i dreamt of being wanted by FlowerCitti for secretgardens (blanknight)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
13 May 2025
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In many ways, Wyll Ravengard grows up in plush comfort.
His whims are catered to by attentive servants who make sure he is fed, clothed, and content. He never grows hungry, never wants for much. His education is seen to by the best teachers his father can find, attending lessons for music and dance and even sword fighting.
Many of his peers call Wyll kind, strong-willed, sometimes even arrogant as all young boys of his station are. He’s smart and generous for his age, running into most challenges head first and intent on succeeding. A stubborn boy with a good heart—his mother’s heart, his father will say quietly when there is no one else to hear his voice grow soft.
But from the moment that Wyll Ravengard was born he has been wracked by pain so severe that the medics had thought he would die before he ever reached his first year.
(Or, soulmates share each other’s pain.)
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- Part 26 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
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The long and heavy quiet of the Underdark inspires an unexpected observation.
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When Astarion awakens on that bright sunny beach, he meets Tav. Tav is a druid, fiercely devoted to protecting nature. But in Tav's mind, "protecting nature" is a bit more intense than what other druids tend to believe.
It means that if Astarion wishes to stay with the group, his vampiric hunger must be sated on the barest of blood.
But that should be no problem. After all, Astarion is used to the hunger.
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"And what have you fed on?" Tav demands. His eyes are sharp as flint. It is as if this is the question that matters most to him.
"What have I fed on—well, no one you care about, I assure you," Astarion promises with a giggle just this side of manic. "Merely some woodland creatures, you see. Just enough to keep me standing and able to fight!"
It's the wrong answer.
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21 May 2025
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A Werebear, a Vampire Spawn and a Zhentarim Walk Into a Cave... by FridayPlease, WincestielFTTFWin
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
11 Dec 2024
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Zarys grunted disdainfully at Rugan and spat into Astarion’s cage as she strode by. She seemed entirely uninterested in him, far more interested in the bear’s accommodations. “Pen’s ready for the bear?”
“Yes,” Rugan answered dryly. Astarion’s practiced ear could catch the faintest hint of disgusted hatred in his tone. The man hid it well, under nuanced layers of carefully crafted respect, as false as it was perfect.
Zarys scowled at him fiercely, her lip curling in a disdain she did not bother to hide. “Then fucking open it!”
Cautiously, Astarion cracked an eye open and watched as the bear was inched past him, the massive creature fouled with blood and unconscious, head lolling limply on a boneless neck, pink tongue hanging out past sharp, useless teeth.
Useless, for they were trapped behind an iron muzzle, the goblin-crafted contraption locked cruelly around the beast’s face, locked by jagged metal straps to an equally savage iron collar fastened around the thick, furry neck.
Gods… Astarion found himself staring, realizing the blood coating the beast was goblin blood. You gave as good as you got, didn’t you?
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15 Dec 2024
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like real people do by FlowerCitti for secretgardens (blanknight)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
09 Oct 2023
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“A bit like a pack rat, really. Can’t leave a single thing behind, can she?” He tells Halsin, but Lily hears him, her head twitching in acknowledgment.
“Well, I kept you, didn’t I?” She teases without even turning to look back at him, shoving a handful of bloodied rings into her pouch.
Halsin claps Astarion on the back with a warm laugh, “That she did, my friend.”
(Or, Astarion learning the intricacies of intimacy through Halsin and Lily.)
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- Part 18 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
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17 Nov 2024
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Karlach smiles at him as the sun begins to set, her eyes softening around the corners, a nervous look flickering over her features. And Astarion is already expecting what comes next, but it still feels like shards of ice blooming behind his ribs.
“Do you think I can sleep in your tent tonight? Now that I can’t hurt you or set the damn thing on fire.” She asks with a breathy chuckle, an uncharacteristic anxiety making her shift on her feet, her bottom lip caught under her teeth. He has no disillusions on what her words could mean. She’s not likely looking to do much sleeping when she is free to touch him now.
(Or, Karlach can freely touch the people she loves now. Astarion makes a few wrong assumptions.)
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- Part 8 of Flower’s Whumptober 2023 Collection
- Part 20 of “I feel safe with you.” (Astarion Fics)
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27 Oct 2024
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The Last Will and Testament of Cazador Szarr by AbigailMoment
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
16 Feb 2026
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"First," said Gale. "Do not kill any thinking creatures in Waterdeep unless you must to protect yourself or you have my express permission."
As Gale spoke, he could feel the weight of his words sinking into the person sitting across from him. It was like casting a spell, but took no effort. Astarion had been staring hollowly into his goblet of blood, but at this he made a faintly interested noise. As if the rule were novel and he was considering the shape of it.
"Second, you will obey me in all things," said Gale. There didn't feel like there was any honest way of softening that. Astarion didn't make any sound at all.
"Third, do not leave the tower without permission." Astarion made another speculative noise, considering this one too. But then his shoulders hunched and his eyes skittered down, as if he didn't want to look at what was about to happen.
"Fourth," Gale said, and paused. He started with some context: "There is a tressym upstairs."
Astarion's head twitched. He looked up at Gale, blinking, startled. He had the air of someone who had been bracing for a blow and instead had just been handed a balloon animal.
"A what?" he asked.
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- Part 1 of Will & Testament
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30 Sep 2024
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“Tighnari, your hands were never meant to create a god.”
“If creating a god is what it takes to protect you, Cyno, then so be it.”Tighnari joins the sages on their major project at the Akademiya, and everything else falls apart.
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- Part 1 of Akademiya's Secret Files
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14 May 2024
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It's Like Ocean's Eight, But Sumeru Version by Sumisei
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
03 Jan 2023
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In Snezhnaya, seeing a Harbinger be escorted back to the palace like a scolded child was a more-than-common sight.
When the Wanderer was summoned back to the Sanctuary of Surasthana in the middle of a discussion with some new friends, he thought nothing of it.
Said friends, of course, then decided to break him out of non-existent jail.
(Alternatively, one Wanderer relearns what it means to belong, and eight idiots try to rescue a war criminal from the evil clutches of the Dendro Archon)
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Your hands make beauty, not war.
Your heart cries for love, not violence.
Your mind calls for mediation of the chaos.
But yet again
Your claymore crashes through the air, makes waves of blood and sand and
Excitement.
You can lie to yourself and say this isn’t what you really are,
But they know.
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He would dream of that life, that simple life he craved— he dreamed of an Al-Haitham with a cushy job with a salary that gave him enough to survive and live leisurely. He dreamed of a house in Sumeru City, with a space of his own not too close to the heart where it was too loud, but not too far where he was isolated from the action. Would he have studied at the Akademiya, if they were just more humane and just, like his parents and grandmother had wanted him to? Would he have a Vision, and what kind? Would he be good at combat and self-defense, someone who would never fall victim to his current circumstance?
And what of Kaveh? Would Kaveh be the architect he told Al-Haitham he had hoped to become, a childhood wish that became more of a what if— from a yesterday only found in his dreams?
Al-Haitham, the one of the here and now, would never get to know.
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Where Kaveh and Al-Haitham are young boys with wings, but most people like their birds in cages.
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23 Dec 2023