#shadowstar bg3

[vagoonabeach]

oh we IN it boys we in the shadowstar trenches

[shadowstarion]

shadowheart and astarion dry humping in the gauntlet of shar, him pinning her down and rutting between her legs with his fangs in her neck, her wound repeatedly sparking with pain every time she whines and grinds herself up against him. it feels so good to let go, to surrender to him, to lose her blood and her dignity and herself deep in shar’s most holy temple. he’s making an offering of her, greedily taking his communion from her, not stopping until she’s weak from blood loss and he’s coming, wrecked and straining and desperate, ruining the insides of his trousers for her, shar’s praise on both their lips

[lakefu]

I just think that all the bg3 elves should kiss each other actually 😙

[ancelle-art]

Happy mean gurlz ❤️💜🍷

Here's the first part

[casualya]

And again, kisses from Astarion and the little priestess Shar. And I used Minthara's kisses in this video for Shadowheart.

full scene with Photomode Mod - on my YT

[marimosalad]

I’ve started a mini comic loosely based on @pursuitseternal’s Shadowstar knife play fic (explicit)

Follow along for sketch updates (18+) on my Patreon

[mosaiclobster]

Can I interest you in an OT3 of secretive, traumatized bisexuals? Check out Mark of the Hunter :*)

Ty SO MUCH to @snacobie for capturing a tender moment amidst the chaos of Act 3! They deserve it.

[jupitermayyy]

I’ve been thinking about underrated bg3 origin character ships like bladeweave and can somebody tell me why literally no one ships Astarion and Shadowheart?

I started wondering about this bc one day I was bored and listened to those banter compilations on YouTube and found out that he flirts with her the most, literally calling her beautiful/ delicious and invites her for a drink. And people keep saying they have sibling energy whaaat who tf flirts with their sibling 😭

They’re both kinda mean but have a soft side as well, both approve of many questionable things where others disapprove. In their banter she asks him such random and cute questions about vampires and he isn’t even annoyed lol

Don’t know if Shart (or any companion) could handle Astarions sass in the long run tho but I think they’re a good match 😊

[lassieposting]

Astarion getting to a point where he's relaxed and comfortable and trusting enough to start smiling into kisses send tweet

[fuadaka]

something unique, i think, about shadowheart and her religious trauma is that she seeks out a different religion to heal from it

gale remains with mystra, whether or not the orb remains in his chest, but he’s certainly not as passionate about her. even if he ascends to be like her, he’s arrogant—and a little sad, i wager. in becoming his own deity he can’t really replace the hunger in his heart for the divine.

lae’zel can either die as a result of her devotion or live as part of the revolution. if she remains in faerûn, she still feels like she lacks a sort of purpose in not being able to free the others who were manipulated like her. but still—she has an unspoken hunger in her heart for the divine.

shadowheart, meanwhile, nourishes that hunger. she’s always struggled with who she is, but in finding a new faith, she finds herself. wyll can break his pact and become a ranger, but shadowheart wants to remain a cleric. she wants a community like before, warm and loving and guiding. she wants to remain a healer. she wants to travel and do what she feels is right by what she believes in.

she speaks with the dead throne in yurgir’s lair, and her mentor viconia, and reads that book about another brainwashed sharran, and realizes that shar’s promise is false—the lady of loss was just a human who wanted control over others. it was a cult, not a creed.

as a muslim convert specifically, shadowheart’s journey really resonated with me. the sharran dark justiciars reminded me of crusaders, trying to take what wasn’t theirs through bloody battles. they vilified selûnite worship and executed anyone who practiced it. they indoctrinated shadowheart with fale propaganda. selûnite clerics’ appearances are markedly different—the style of your hair changes, and some even wear a long, white, modest robe. and sometimes you end up being the only one who chooses this new life. your dearest friends may not join you immediately, or ever.

and one could say, what about ketheric thorm? the answer lies in dame aylin, whom shadowheart can save. despite all of dame aylin’s years of suffering, she never lost hope in her mother. whereas ketheric chose different religions based on who could offer him a better present life (in power and prestige), shadowheart chose what would be the best for her residence in the city of judgement.

that can be the power of faith.

[hightief]

I love you. I love this. And I want it all.

[vagoonabeach]

cascadia every time we touch plays in the bg (shadowheart/astarion modern au ✌️)

[shadowstarion]

strangers • pregame shadowstarion

i am a sucker for the “we met once and had an impact on one another but neither of us remembered it” trope and i need them crossing paths at least once. this is just some thoughts/concepts for a fic featuring baby sharran shadowheart and rookie vamp spawn astarion

++ warning for mentions of trauma & abuse

Novice Shadowheart being the honeypot piece for an investigation on disappearances near her House. She’s sheltered and awkward, not yet confident in herself, and the idea of going to seedier hangouts in town makes her very uncomfortable, which is 75% of the reason this task gets assigned to her. Her sitting nervously in a tavern bar, feeling overexposed in that leather getup and nursing a drink.

Astarion approaches her and she’s smitten in an instant— there’s no way that this is the creep her superiors are after, right? He’d walked right up to her in plain view, his flirtation is polite and respectful even. All of his words and touches are sweet ones, compliments and chaste caresses. She realizes it feels nice to be just a girl in a bar, batting her eyelashes and enjoying the attention of a stranger. No obligations, no pressure to be perfect, no standards for her to meet other than simply existing as she is.

There’s no moment of “she’s the love of my life i must spare her from certain death” where Astarion consciously refuses to lure her home, he just… doesn’t. They end their night together with an almost-kiss after she’d insisted on bidding him farewell, sounding almost pained. He’d leaned in for it, to give her that mesmerizing kiss that would linger in her mind and draw her back here some other night, but she’d winced and flinched away at the last second before hastily leaving. And Astarion would let it happen. With his skill set and the clientele of the tavern, he’ll have plenty more options to bring home for his master’s dinner. Maybe some part of him just wanted to be an interested suitor chatting up a shy but beautiful maiden, not a hunter in pursuit of prey.

The whole time they’re talking, Shadowheart is growing more convinced that this stranger was not the one she was meant to seduce and interrogate, but she just can’t tear herself away from him. Shar is punishing her for it, her brand flaring up once or twice throughout. Of course her patron would protest at this, her wasting her time flirting around instead of pursuing the objective, the way her smiles and laughs are growing much too genuine. So she rushes back to the cloister, repents for her failures, and has the mission wiped entirely from her memories.

Astarion forgets because he hadn’t been able to bring home supper that night. Entertaining that pretty girl at the bar bleeds into a tick in the endless tally of tortures, no different from any other evening he’d come home to a punishment. Faces and names are hard to recall, everything stained by Cazador’s cruelty.

When they meet again, neither of them have any idea they’d ever met before. That entire day’s worth of time was erased from her mind, she couldn’t possibly remember him. Even if Astarion might have remembered Girl At The Tavern #147 for some reason, he wouldn’t recognize her immediately— her hair is much longer now, she’s slimmed down a bit, and her personality is forcibly cold and prickly.

Regardless of how their story ends, I don’t think they’d ever even know. If Shadowheart did recognize him via Selune returning her memories, she wouldn’t tell him. Knowing she’d been one of his failed targets in that time would only make him feel terrible, and what’s the use in dredging up old wounds now when they’re finally free from abuse? She’ll just keep how he made her feel close to her chest as a cherished memory.

[lakefu]

For @pursuitseternal 🌹 Inspired by Ch 5 of her fic, "In the Monster’s Shadow" ❤️ Ao3 Link Here ❤️ TWT Link Here

[ancuninae]

Astarion x Shadowheart

[casualya]