bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
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Did it Hurt? When You Fell From the Heavens? by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Oct 2024
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Following a smidge of time-line fuckery, Gale meets a handsome stranger in the Yawning Portal - a stranger who seems to know far too much about him, to be far too invested in his life and his happiness, and to be far too attractive to let slip through his fingers.
The stranger also happens to be an incredibly welcome distraction from the otherwise miserable and confusing hellscape that is Gale Dekarios's personal life. His mother worries about him constantly, his familiar won't talk to him about anything that matters, his mentor won't tell him anything useful, and his goddess is making cryptic and increasing demands.
OR: Gale meets a handsome vampire in 1487 who seems deadset on making all his problems go away, with some strings attached.
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- Part 2 of One Wish, For The Road
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What's An Elf Like You Doing In A Place Like This? by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
23 Sep 2024
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Astarion had spent ten years perfecting his craft and he was good at it. A little wine here, a little lean there, a bat of the eye-lashes, and maybe getting on his knees in an alley, and they were his - love-struck, dumb, and compliant. They were ready to follow him 'home' - back to the palace. So what if he was wracked by guilt every waking second that he wasn't being tortured or abused? It got the job done and kept his master happy.
So why exactly was this stranger in a terribly ugly purple tunic sticking his oar in?
OR: Astarion meets a mysterious wizard in Elfsong Tavern in 1278 who promises to make all his problems go away, with no strings attached.
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- Part 1 of One Wish, For The Road
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Astarion is fine - he really is just fine, thank you very much. He wants to do his job, do his best to bully his brain into submission each night so he can get a good night's sleep, and stay firmly under everyone's radar. He does not want to work with his irritatingly cheery and dull colleague - Gale Dekarios - on a stupid and meaningless project.
Alas, the universe - or at least Blackstaff Academy - has different ideas.
OR: Gale and Astarion are both tired, traumatised, and undervalued teachers at Blackstaff Academy and, eventually, Gale worms his way under every single one of Astarion's defences.
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You and Me (We’re Not The Same) by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
29 Aug 2024
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Fourth Snapshot of Gale & Astarion's developing relationship (can be read in own right but will make more sense if you've read the rest of the series)
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It had been Gale’s fault, really. He’d just wanted to pop back to the library and peruse a few volumes before they left the Gauntlet for good - maybe find some interesting scrolls to copy into his spell book or something that might give them an edge on any of the unknowable mysteries in which they frequently found themselves embroiled. Things with Astarion had been good - the last couple of days had seen the two of them closer than ever. He’d woken up each morning, not to Astarion sat beside him, but curled around him. He was still usually reading, since he needed far less sleep than Gale, but he did so with his head pillowed on Gale’s chest or shoulder.
He was musing about these things and more, trying to keep his mind out of the gutter and not entirely succeeding, when he pulled a particularly interesting-looking book from the shelf and heard a distinct click from somewhere behind the wall. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Astarion whirl around to him and all he had time to do was mutter fuck to himself before lots of things started to happen.
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- Part 4 of Just You And Me (On The Rock)
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Hold Me, Lover (Like You Used To, So Tight I’d Bruise You) by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Aug 2024
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After the events of the previous night, Gale seeks out Astarion to further understand their increasingly intimate relationship.
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“Can we talk? In my tent - or yours, I don’t care. Just, not here,” he looked like a kicked puppy, and in another life Astarion might have wanted to kick it some more, potentially until it didn’t have eyes left with which to plead at him. But the longer he spent with this particular puppy and their little band of puppy-like associates, the softer Astarion had felt himself become.
“Of course,” He replied, and then turned towards Gale’s tent. If anyone was going to be storming off this evening it would be him.
Series
- Part 3 of Just You And Me (On The Rock)
Recent series
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One Wish, For The Road by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
22 Oct 2024
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Just You And Me (On The Rock) by bloodweaver (Quint_Essentially)
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
29 Aug 2024
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Snapshots from Astarion & Gale's burgeoning relationship starting when Elminster stabilises the Netherese Orb and picking out some moments from Act Two to contextualise it.
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