Do you think I should return to writing regular headcanons qbout Astarion like I did before?

Familiar Monster

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

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Silver and Gold

Summary: Vampire hunters have managed to ambush Astarion. A lot of gore, some angst and domestic fluff in the end. Set 20 years post-game

Tags: hurt/comfort, pregnant Tav, wounded Astarion

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The Dhampirs of the Sword Coast - Chapter 4. The Lost Cause

It's been a while but I've finally written the 4th chapter! Upon receiving a quest to find an ancient spellbook, the dhampirs form an unlikely party of adventurers. Also we learn some gruesome details about vampires and dhampirs in the Underdark and meet a mysterious stranger in the woods.

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Link for Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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Ulsha (Half-Orc/Paladin) - age 26. Lawful Good.

Alethaine (High Elf/Necromancer) - age 25. Astarion's daughter. Lawful Neutral.

Theris (Tiefling/Bard) - age 27. Chaotic Neutral.

Mierni (Human/Wizard)- age 14, Gale's foster son. Suffers with selective muteness. True neutral.

Astarion would enjoy carrying his dhampir child in a sling. First of all, it's about safety! The baby won't get hurt and won't be snantched out his hands! But it's also about listening to their heartbeat, so fast and loud, and so close to his skin. And listening to their breathing (if the child does breath, since dhampirs sometimes don't). And he can also watch his baby all the time - seeing their little face change as the baby watches the world around. Astarion can play with their hair and touch their ears. Just a tiny bundle so close to his chest

Why does my new Tav look like she is about to cry

Personal headcanons I have for Astarion

- He was born in Evereska to Caeldrim and Sylen Ancunin

- For both of his parents it was the second marriage (their first spouses/soulmates had died)

- Ancunin is Sylenn’s surname

- His parents had a huge age gap (300 years)

- Astarion’s father was a minor nobility and his mother was from a family of artisans

- Sylenn is High Elf/Fighter and a former mercenary

- She also was Balduran's bodyguard and mocked him and Ansur for their relationship drama

- Astarion had an older half-sister but she was killed at the age of 4

- Sylenn gave birth to Astarion after decades of infertility

- He was given an adult name right away though it was considered a bad luck

- His original eye colour is green

- Sylenn taught him to pick lockets and steal things

- Caeldrim would complain it felt like having two children around

- Since childhood Astarion was obsessed with human laws and traditions and left to the Swords Coast at the age of 23

- He was the oldest at his course as he was studying in Baldur’s Gate

- Astarion wasn't a magistrate but served as an assistant to the one, a human woman called Alette whose friend he was

- He could become a magistrate only through marriage and it was discussed that Alette could legally marry him and pass her position to him once she is old though Astarion wasn't sure he wanted that

- Before death, Astarion despised people who slept around or were into one-night-stands

- He had two prolonged relationships (a human woman and a half elven man)

- The Gurs commited a series of crimes in the city including murders and sexual assaults and the commonfolk demanded to get rid of them

- Astarion was chosen as the one who would announce the decision and he was naive enough not to understand why other city magistrates didn't want to do that

- Later he was stabbed to death in the streets. His attackers were found and hanged

- In the AU where he doesnt become a vampire he leaves the city soon after

- Cazador hadn't known about him before and found him by accident

- If Cazador hadn't found him, there was a big chance Astarion would have been saved by the locals and brought to the healers

- Astarion was sent to streets only 30 years later. Before that he fully belonged to Cazador who used the tortures and rape to break his newfound spawn

- Since Astarion was young by elven standards, his mind was flexible (like one of a child) and it helped him to preserve sanity (but he also forgot almost everything what had been before)

- At first, Tiriel annoyed him but with days to come he started liking her more and more

- She helped him to reconnect with his elven ancestry by asking him to teach her language and certain customs

- They spent 15 years traveling together searching for the cure until they reached for Daggerlake, a town enslaved by feys

- Astarion managed to end the pact and the locals asked him and Tiriel to stay

- Parenthood was a sheer accident and Astarion even tried to run away (and Tiriel talked to healer about termination)

- He enjoyed being a parent and wouldn't mind to have more children

- Alethaine definitely helped him with healing because having a child was something normal people do

- Later he and Tiriel moved to Luskan where Tiriel was the head of the adventuring guild

- After Tiriel’s death Astarion didn't want any relationship with anyone and stuck with celibacy for centuries to come (just because he didn't find anyone desirable enough)

- 220 years post game he started the Blood Guild, a union of dhampirs and vampires

- He had only one grandchild, an elven girl called Tiri born 322 years post game

- Tiri came to the guild at the age of 23 and persuaded Astarion to show her the world

- Meanwhile he was a rather chill and permitting father, as a grandfather he was more steict but he managed to become an authority figure for his granddaughter (and Alethaine was surprised to see that Tiri does indeed listen to him and does as he says)

- While adventuring Tiri and Astarion accidentally found the cure for him and he becomes mortal 400 years post game

- His soul was new and not connected to his previous lives, he'd lost them forever

- Astarion lived for another 150 years as mortal, has a couple of relationships and also enjoys life to its fullest scale

- He dies during a siege by refusing to leave the battlefield (he realized should he live longer he would overlive Alethaine)

- His oldest great grandchild is named after him but he prefers the shorter version, Rion. The half elf/ dhampir also has to dealt with the remnants of the Blood Guild

- Astarion goes to Arvandor and to his surprise meets Tiriel as an elf

- When she died her soul was given a choice what destiny she wanted and she chose the destiny of an elf becuase she hoped to see Astarion again

- They spend some time together and later decide to reincarnate even knowing that they will lose their memories

- Astarion and Tiriel reincarnate a few centuries later and find each other soon enough (70 and 80 years respectively)

Blankie

Summary: Astarion makes a blankie for Alethaine (and she, surprisingly, remembers it even centuries after).

Tags: dadstarion, dhampirs, fluff, visions of the future

Alethaine's age: 8 months old (and 305 in the second part)

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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

Mortal Bounds. Part 6. Tel'Quessira nalme

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.

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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

Mortal Bounds. Part 1. Shall We Meet Again?

Mortal Bounds. Part 2. Death, Worthy of a Barbarian

Mortal Bounds. Part 3. Paint it Black

Mortal Bounds. Part 4. Butterfly

Mortal Bounds. Part 5. The Vampire and the Witch

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