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“Admitting doubts in the mission to crew is not conducive to good leadership. You all need me to be the rock.”
“Oh, come on. You don’t really consider me on the same level as the crewmen, do you? Save the brave face for them.” Garrus hooks one ankle over the other and cocks his head. “We’re friends, Shep.”
She can’t resist flirting with him, not when he sets her up so beautifully. “Is that what we are?”
His neck flushes. “As a baseline.”
(or: shepard can't sleep. garrus won't even try. they meet each other where they're at.)
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“Ignore the wizard. He was speaking in hypotheticals. What does he know about performing? It’s…”
Av’ril tilts her head. “It’s what?”
“It’s survival, what you did. What you do. Your instinct to… charm your problems away. There was no ‘good’ answer. So - quit loathing yourself for not finding it.” Astarion’s throat is tight. Luckily, he doesn’t need to breathe, so he simply doesn’t until he sucks in enough air to add, “Start loathing Gale instead.”
(or: astarion learns he has more in common with av'ril than he'd hoped)
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- Part 4 of we can be anything (av'ril/astarion)
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hold your light to the darkness in my head by alltears
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
14 Jul 2025
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Tav has started a pattern of fleeing from Astarion's tent at night for no apparent reason. Now that they're - whatever they are - Astarion's determined to figure out why.
(or: astarion tries his hand at comforting his partner for the first time)
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- Part 2 of we can be anything (av'ril/astarion)
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underneath the same moon by alltears
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
27 Apr 2025
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"I’m going to become a Grey Warden."
Carver is silent for a moment, then says, "You really couldn’t let me have one thing to myself?"
(or: varric is dead, so hawke finds her brother.)
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- Part 17 of savior complex
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a rook by any other name by alltears
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
12 Dec 2024
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"Maybe in an alternative universe out there, Lucanis was able to enjoy this party that he himself was hosting, and merrily celebrate the continuation of the world with his dear friends.
Maybe, in this strange, alternate universe, he had thought to ask the love of his life her damn name."
(or: turns out, everyone knows rook's name but lucanis. everyone has a very fun time bullying him about it.)
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savior complex by alltears
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Absolution, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
27 Apr 2025
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the tales of inquisitor natasha trevelyn, her best friend dorian, and her girlfriend josephine...
...and also varric, and hawke, and the iron bull, and everyone else that's somehow wormed their way into these stories.
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arms unfolding by alltears
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
10 Oct 2023
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The Case of the Man Who Two-Thirds Wasn't There by glisteningceruleaneyes
Fandoms: Disco Elysium (Video Game)
29 May 2022
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Three-and-one-third bodies have been found in an abandoned vehicle on the riverbank.
It would be a challenging case even without the bad weather, weapons smuggling, white nationalists, industrial accidents, and the concept of pedigree dog breeds—but over it all hangs one troubling question: What is it that fascinates you about Kim Kitsuragi? Is it working class camaraderie? A sinister hex of mysterious origin? Did you imprint on him in Martinaise, like an amnesiac duckling? If you don’t figure out what’s going on soon, people are going to start to notice. Especially him.
And sooner or later? Everything is related to the case.
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Bookmarked by alltears
28 Jan 2026
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“No Qunari would accept a Tevinter mage so easily... unless it was a ruse. When should I expect a knife in the back?”
It was a ruse, at least in the beginning.
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03 Nov 2024
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Shane has very real problems. Sophia has an unhealthy desire to save people. The two former city dwellers wind up in the same small town, one by choice and the other by necessity. Both introverts, both outsiders, they’re swept into one another’s orbit until they can’t even touch the ground – but falling in love can't fix everything.
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31 Mar 2024
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The realm is safe and the story is over.
Wren and Astarion descend into the Underdark in search of a new purpose, and learn a few things along the way. Namely, that healing isn't linear and sometimes love takes the long way round.
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- Part 1 of hold me like a knife
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After Family Night, Carmy starts using some old coping strategies. Sydney finds out.
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- Part 1 of sydcarmy s3 au
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Bookmarked by alltears
11 Dec 2023