For @marlowethebard The story is based on the post I once encountered on Tumblr - that we would tolerate Astarion less if he wasn't handsome. So, what if Astarion becomes more a monster on the outside? TW: body transformation
Thanks @themadlu for beta-reading
Could please do some Halloween/All Souls' Day oneshot? It can take place during the time when Astarion and Aletha are adventuring together. It's a beautiful golden Autumn and they end up in a little town where there is late fall festival... They decide to indulge local kids and play a witch with the pointy hat and a vampire with long black cape. Fun stuff. If you want the do the "remembering the dead" thing, they can even get a trinket or a picture that reminds them of Tiriel as a reward. But this should probably be more sweet than sad. Thank you!
Finally did it! Hope you will like this story!
Summary: Decades after Tiriel's death Astarion and Alethaine travel together through the continent
Tags: dadstarion, dhampirs, grief, father\daughter relationship, elven culture
In my HC "Silmarillion" and Tolkien's works exists as parts of elven culture in a form of ancient epic poetry (think about "Beowulf" or "Poetic Eddae"). Something everyone knows but isn't related to real history. So, elves sing a famous Elvish hymn but dedicate it to Sehanine Moonbow, not Varda
Alethaine's age - 176 years-old
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In the Forgotten Realms, the closest holiday to Halloween is the Feast of the Moon, or Moonfest, an annual festival held between the last night of Uktar and the first day of Nightal. This event, similar in its themes of honoring the dead and reflecting on the supernatural, marks the end of the calendar year. During Moonfest, worshippers of Sehanine Moonbow participate in the Mystic Rites of the Luminous Cloud. In this sacred night, they are often transformed into scintillating streaks of light, flying across the starry heavens. The festival is a time to celebrate ancestors, remember the deceased, and embrace the turning of the seasons, embodying a mystical, otherworldly atmosphere.
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“I am sure I am worth more than 30 gold!” Astarion remarks, trapped in a net. If it wasn’t for the silver he would easily set himself free, but since the threads are intertwined with thin metal strands the vampire needs some help. “Hey, where are you going?!”
The worst thing with Astarion (wether Spawn or Ascended) that he hasn't fully realized the horrors of what happened to him. Right now he is happy and hopeful... but the weight of 200 years of abuse and misery is only yet to fall on him. Once he sees the world outside the walls of Baldur’s Gate he will realize how terrible it was for him.
And it will be yet another round of hell for him. Maybe even worse because now he is free and he has nothing to complain about. I am sure he will trey to make Tav make decisions for him because he lacks the ability to do so and his past will torture him forr decades and decades.
Astarion thinks the worst has already happened.
But he will have to go through a psychological purge soon
Summary: Astarion and Alethaine finally faces Tiriel's death. The end of the world is coming. Alethaine's future husband Elren Goldenroot finally gets a grip on his life and makes a step toward becoming a hero of the elven kind.
Tags: angst, hurt, grief, father\daughter relationship, widower Astarion, adult child of Astarion, fantasy lore, elves speak Quenya and Neo-Sindarin, the end of the world is coming.
Thanks @themadlu for beta-reading!
This is the sixth part of the Mortal Bounds series. Tiriel dies and Astarion deals with grief and loneliness along with their daughter. It will be the last short fic in the series and the following adventures of Alethaine will be set in a longfic.
Alethaine's age: 200
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Hello everyone! My name is Space Barbarian, I am a DnD nerd and curently obsessed with BG3. My inbox is open for requests.
Astarion's daughter adventures. Dhampirs, vampires and consequences of releasing 7000 spawns into the Underdark. Alethaine Ancunin is a young dhampir necromancer who tries to find a place in the world to call her own. She's mostly her father's replica and extremely adventurous. List of Chapters (dadstarion, dhampirs, post-game, gen)
I Want to See the Sea of Fallen Stars (the events of the game through Astarion and Tiriel's eyes)
Hello Darling (hurt/comfort, patch 6 update)
Burn, Butcher, Burn! (hurt/comfort, burning the Cazador's mansion)
The Rogue and The Barbarian (fluff, a conversation about relationship)
Our Firsts (smut, virgin Tav)
Shadows (smut, traumatized Astarion, handjob)
Touch (smut, oral sex, trauma talk)
Pleasure (smut, oral sex, trauma talk)
Birthday Gift (fluff, hurt/comfort)
When Old Scars Hurt (fluff, a conversation about relationship)
See Yourself Like I See You (smut, body image issues, sex in front of the mirror)
Silent Scream (fluff, a conversation about traumas)
Insomnia (hurt/comfort)
Damage Received (hurt/comfort, visions of the future)
Instinct (smut, unaplanned pregnancy, breeding, hurt/comfort)
Heartbeat (fluff, pregnancy)
Waiting (fluff, pregnancy)
Temperance (smut, post-partum body worship)
Punishment (smut, slapping, dom!Astarion)
Sleepy (pure fluff)
Little Bundle of Darkness (dadstarion, a birth of a child)
Memories of Innocence (dadstarion, fluff)
Baby Fangs (hurt/comfort, a sick child, Alethaine is 5 month old)
Generations (fluff, Alethaine is 7 month old)
Deep Reverie (hurt/comfort, flluff, Alethaine is 2 year old)
Tiny Dhampir (fluff, Alethaine is 3.5 years old)
Lost and Found (hurt/comfort, Alethaine is 6 years old)
Hide-and-Seek (fluff, Alethaine is 6)
Beloved Monsters (fluff, Alethaine is 7)
The Dead, the Half-Dead and the Undead (hurt/comfort, Alethaine is 10)
Monster Hunter in Training (slice of life, Alethaine is 11) Guide on How to Skin Monsters (fluff, Alethaine is 12)
The Tainted Past (hurt/comfort, Alethaine is 14)
Monster (hurt/comfort, Alethaine is 14)
The Last Things (fluff, Alethaine is 17)
Past Grief (hurt/comfort, Astarion's mother, Alethaine is 24)
Tiriel dies and Astarion deals with grief and loneliness along with their daughter
Shall We Meet Again? (growing old together)
Death, Worthy of a Barbarian (Tiriel's death, Astarion becomes a widower)
Pointy Ears (Elven ears being very sensitive, fluff)
Things We Deserve (angst with a good end)
The Skin I Hate (hurt/comfort, Astarion dealing with his traumas)
If I Had a Voice, I Would Scream (disabled Tav, hurt/comfort)
The Marks on Our Skin (hurt/comfort, Astarion dealing with his traumas)
How Dare you?! (angst, mortal Astarion)
Fear (hurt/comfort, nurturing Astarion)
Over the Seas (fluff, mortal Astarion)
Snowstorm (hurt/comfort, Astarion dealing with his traumas)
Fever (sick Tav, nurturing Astarion)
Tainted (triggered Astarion, hurt/comfort)
Doubts (jealous Astarion, hurt/comfort)
Puppet Master (mind control. hurt/comfort, traumatized Tav)
Murderous Tendencies (nightmares and PTSD, hurt/comfort)
Reverie (nightmares and PTSD, hurt/comfort)
The Things You Never Had (aftercare, post graveyard scene, fluff)
Break (angst, break-up)
The Dragon Made of Threads (fluff)
We Shall Meet Again (hurt/comfort, a conversation about death and immortality)
Winter Solstice (f!Tav, marriage, fluff)
The Sea of Moving Ice (gn!Tav, fluff)
It's Over (hurt/comfort, Astarion is kidnapped by his siblings)
You don't love me (angst, break-up)
An idea that came to my head while I am trying to fall asleep.
We all know Astarion was often given as a reward to different people Cazador tried to please (or to retrieve information from).
And let's say Astarion was given to someone rich and perverted not long before the mindflayers. This was the outfit he was forced to wear. It caused a lot of discomfort but he didn't have a say in this situation.
So, a few years later Astarion and Tav meet the same person and Astarion has one of the strongest setbacks in his life because this person recognizes him and tries to put their hands on him.
hey you want a fucked up idea? astarion and tiriel having another kid but they die in childhood
Oh my fucking god This is too angsty even for me! But now it can't go out of my head...
Hi! Can I request either a fic or headcanon of romanced Astarion and a good aligned, Human tav having a fight about him doing the Ascension ritual (Tav being against it, and trying to gently make him see reason), then Astarion gets incredibly angry and shouts something awful (maybe the 'I hope you die screaming' or the ' the problem with what cazador did is that he did it to me' when she says ascending will make him a new cazador). She's hurt and shocked and retreats from the fight. She starts leaving Astarion in camp etc. given she thinks he hates her and she also is angry at him for still thinking lives are expandable. Then one night he gets kidnapped by his siblings and when he wakes up in the kennels he is sure he lost her forever now, and never see her again cause why would she save him? Only for her to come and save him from Cazador. Sorry for the long request! Could it be from Astarion's pov as well? Thank you!
Hi! It has been a long time sice I wrote reader instead of OC Tiriel! And sorry for making you wait for so long!
Tags: hurt/comfort, angst
Thanks @themadlu for beta-reading!
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Synopsis: Astarion is making a gift for you.
Tags: fluff
Going to do Aasimar Tav HC with Tav having her wings cut off by bad people.
AU
Astarion escapes Cazador, meets Tav, they fall in love. Tav promises him to kill Cazador but Astarion is captured and returned to his master. Tav dissapears. A century later Astarion is kidnapped by mindflayers and the Emperor takes Tav's form to talk to him, because it's the image Astarion finds trustful. It completely breaks Astarion since he can't say no to his beloved Tav but he knows it's an imposter.
But what if Tav wasn't killed?
Hello Dear! I usually just read and fangirl on your HCs and series hihi but I was just gonna try if you can do a one shot of this prompt "One night, he tells you that these last six months of happy memories are the counterweight to two hundred years of misery" I CRIEEED TT^TT when I got it on the epilogue and I just wanna get some fluff and angst around 👉👈 G/N Tav would be nice 🙏
I already did this with my OC Tav Tiriel in the fic The Rogue and the Barbarian but I will gladly write something else based on this prompt!
Synopsis: One night, he tells you that these last six months of happy memories are the counterweight to two hundred years of misery.
Tags: fluff
OK OK you just gotta hear me on this one,, Astarion and gn reader where reader is little spoon and Astarion can *sense* just how relaxed reader gets. Instead of their pulse racing from his touches they slow down. Muscles relaxed. Happy little sighs.
^^ he can’t handle this btw he’s absolutely fucking bewildered
Synopsis: Fluffy post-game epilogue
Tags: fluff
Based on the comics by @lirotation
Thanks @rachelle-on-the-run for beta-reading!
Synopsis: The first peaceful night after the end of the game.
Tags: fluff
Prompt 9 please and thank you! 😊
"I sacrificed everything for you!" from Angsty Romance Prompt List
I will make it short and won't tag my list - since it will be more like drabble than a full-body fic.
Your throat still hurts from yelling, and your eyelids feel heavy because of the tears. It's getting colder, and you wish to return to the camp, but Astarion is still there, and you absolutely don't feel like talking or being near him.
Besides, you share the tent.
You press your knees against your chest and sniff.
Astarion knows his ways with words. He knows how to please. He knows how to hurt.
And in the last few weeks, you haven't heard a single good word from him as if all of a sudden you started to annoy him.
So did he.
You are annoyed with his nightmares, with his clinginess, with his rudeness. Everything you never paid attention to before feels bitter.
Of course, it was supposed to happen.
Astarion never lived before you met. His new life started with you by his side.
He barely had any personality. He had no idea who he was, what he liked, what he hated. Even though you always give him a choice, you encourage him to decide for himself.
He is shaped by you.
Things which are right for you are right for him.
Things that are wrong for you are wrong for him.
He doesn't know who he is without you.
And he is angry. He is angry like a rebellious child who has been controlled by his parents. He is rebellious like a cult member who realizes the world is different from what he was told.
And you?
You love him but he is a burden. He requires so much attention and care from you that you are exhausted. From his nightmares, dissociation, snapping. That he blows up at you and you have to forgive him because he barely understands his emotions.
Will it even work? You don’t know.
You wipe your tears and realize there is only one decision to make. It's cruel, it's heartbreaking but there is no other option.
Slowly you return to the camp. Astarion is outside with his book. He didn't even look at you tough before he always used to welcome you with a smile.
"Astarion, we need to take a break."
"What?"
"It doesn't work. It doesn't work the way we wanted. We need to take a break. We need to sort out things for ourselves."
Astarion bursts out. He yells at you. He screams at the top of his lungs.
"HOW DARE YOU?! I SACRIFICED EVERYTHING FOR YOU! AND THAT'S WHAT YOU DO?!"
It would be easy to yell back. Him? What exactly did he sacrifice? The ascension? He admitted himself he never wanted it. But you? You sacrificed a lot. Life in the sun. Friends. Comfort. Everything.
But you don't say anything about that.
"I am not saying it's over."
"Then what is it?"
"You need to figure out what you are without me. What your values are, what your beliefs are, and who you are overall. You need to be on your own for a while, without me approving or disapproving your actions. And I need to decide if I can handle being with you till my mortal days end."
Astarion turns away. He is angry. He is hurt.
But he nods.
"Very well. Let's figure out things for ourselves."
"In three years," you say. "Three years later, we will meet at Baldur's gate. If any of us wishes to continue this relationship, we spend time there from Mirthul to Eleasis. Four months. If the other one doesn't show up, it's over. "
He chuckles bitterly.
"And again I do things you want. But I don't mind. Three years."
You leave at sunset with a few things belonging to you and head to the nearest city. It's weird to travel alone in the sunlight but suddenly you feel free.
There are certainly perks of being alone.
Happy holidays! It's your Secret Santa recipient! Can I get Astarion/Tav gentle vampire paladin who broke her vows, a good dose of angst and comfort please. Thank you! ^^
So, I finally got to your request! It's not a Secret Santa, coz we've discussed everything with you in DM. Buuut - I like what we've made up! And it's my first fic about someone else's Tav who is neither generic nor Tiriel.
Synopsis: You used to be many things. You used to be a Paladin of Lathander. You used to be Astarion's only love. You used to be mortal. You used to be free. Now, you are just a vampire spawn in the hands of an evil and cruel vampire lady - and no one hears your prayers anymore.
TW: Tav is put through the same things Astarion was put by Cazador (including tortures and SA). They aren't written in details, but those things are mentioned.
