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    Astarion's Nice, Simple Plan That Fell Apart by

    Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

    12 Apr 2024

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    Astarion had a plan. A nice, simple plan: seduce Tav, sleep with her, manipulate her feelings so she'd never turn on him.

    All she had to do was fall for it.
    And all he had to do was not fall for her.

    Which is where his nice, simple plan fell apart.

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    Exploring Astarion's POV throughout the game while romancing Dark Urge/Tav. Canon is followed in most cases, including with lines of dialogue from the game, but Act 2 and 3 break off from canon a few times in fun ways.

    Content warnings are listed ahead of the more intense chapters. Overall this fic (like the game) explores what healing from abuse looks like and has a lot of references to those themes.

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    Elegy to Benevolent Hearts by

    Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)  

    23 Aug 2025

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    For one moment she was all blood, and in that moment he wanted to devour her.

    two monsters stumble into camaraderie and try not to get themselves too bloodied. they fail spectacularly.

    astarion/durge, solely astarion's pov. game reconstruction/divergence, no canon scenes or dialogue after the nautiloid. lots of art, updates fridays, semi pre-written. heavy on the trauma, heavy on the humour.

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    Touch My Skin to Keep Me Whole by

    Fandoms: Merlin (TV)  

    13 Sep 2015

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    The Kingdom of Essetir has once again fallen under new rule, and Arthur travels to visit its new king, determined to make peace. Unfortunately peace is the furthest thing from this new king’s mind. Arthur and Merlin are forced to navigate his every attempt to make Arthur a scapegoat in starting a war between Camelot and Essetir. The new king is treacherous though, and he may have just found the one weakness that will force Arthur’s hand. Note: AU Post Season 4

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    20 Nov 2021