#this dynamic with Astarion though.....

[halsinsnaturepocket]

Getting-to-know-you sex with Halsin

Let's be so real, Halsin is SO kinky but he is SO worried about coming on too strong the first time he sleeps with you, but is genuinely so happy when you become progressively kinkier.

He's already worried he might have pushed the limits by turning into a bear, he feels like anything more really will have you running and he's so scared of scaring you off. "I'm almost too scared to touch you"

that's not going to keep him from touching you, he just has to hold himself back, show a little restraint.

But he knows he wants to be with you more than once, he's down bad, but because his heart doesn't stir lightly he's worried about being *too much*

testing the waters by doing things like kissing and caressing every inch of you to see what makes you react

lightly biting, not enough to leave a mark unless you encourage him to

and when you do encourage him, he does it flawlessly - choking with the perfect, practiced amount of pressure that leaves you breathless

biting you just hard enough until you tell him it's actually really okay if he leaves a mark - you want that, and he wants to do that

putting his hand lightly across your collarbone, his thumb brushing against your neck, silently begging you to ask him to choke you

if you trust him to choke you, he does it just right, not enough to actually hurt but enough to make you just a touch lightheaded.

Giving you small praises (in elvish if you're elvish) to see if you react well to praise, and when you do... gods. He's telling you you're beautiful, he's telling you how good you're being for him.

Encouraging you to express yourself as well - “If you need to pull my hair, bite me, or scratch me… I won't stop you.” He rumbles against your ear as you get closer to orgasm - he is delighted to learn which one you are, or whatever it is you do as you start to come undone at his touch

He makes sure you cum first, and asks where you want him to cum once he can finally get there(He has insane stamina, he won't be done until you've cum more than a few times)

"Where would you like me to finish? Your neck? Your chest...inside of you?"

Is pleasantly surprised if you say "in my mouth" and can take his cock in your mouth with little issue

[forcedhesitation]

astarion origin playthrough worth it just for all the extra moments where he does the "sad wet cat" face

[basketobread]

you said Lunara would not like Gale would it be the same for Wyll and Astarion 😭

oh she kicked out astarion as soon as she could DSFIUHFDUID it was worth it tho cuz she got shart approval during the scene the following morning HAHA

BUT NOOOO SHE COULD NEVER HATE WYLL!! WYLL IS HER BEST FRIEND AND ONE OF THE GIRLS I LITERALLY MADE A WHOLE COMIC ABOUT IT

wyll is her bestie for LIFE her CONFIDANT her PARTNER IN GOOD DEEDS!!!!

[palespawn]

immersion-breakers when playing as origin astarion for the first time:

he's the camp leader

all the companions wanna fuck him

[y-rhywbeth2]

I still don't know exactly how it would work but Shadowheart/Durge/Astarion still calls to me, and one of their dynamics is going to be Astarion fighting the urge to bash their heads together until sense gets through.

The other spawn are on a 'Cazador needs us,' 'He hurts us to make us better,' kind of cope. Astarion is Not, and if you play as Lae'zel and remain loyal to Vlaakith he calls it 'falling in love with your chains' (and it's 'painful to watch.')

And then there's Shadowheart desperately insisting Shar loves her and hurts her to make her stronger. We - potentially -seem have finally gotten over that! Just yesterday! And then Act 3 rolls around and now the Dark Urge is potentially on the 'Daddy loves me!' kick.

That or you have a Bhaalist and Sharran zealot knocking heads and a vampire spawn with a migraine whose secondary concern to gaining power and keeping himself safe is using that power to keep his lover/s safe and willing to stay with him ('this world made Cazador so is clearly inherently dangerous and evil', and he does think he has nothing to offer after all.) Which later potentially translates (or is admitted as) to 'I'd like to lock you in a room somewhere, but alas.' Shame they're so brainwashed. And that's assuming we haven't got Ascended Astarion and his blind belief that he's untouchable. Yeah, sell your soul to your evil deities. More power for us/me! This totally won't affect him negatively.

Both the potential for healing and the potential for dysfunction is so delightful.

[leavingautumn13]

she's basically on a 24 hour personal call. [the inevitable followup to this post]

[dialogue is altered slightly from the office s5 e7, customer survey]

[i have commissions open now]

[oflights]

wip snip 6.2

it's wednesday my dudes!! so i have a preview of chapter 2 of my bloodweave fic Glory ready to roll as with last week, the full chapter will post on friday; i'm already super excited about it. here's a bit from that chapter! enjoy!

Gale clears his throat slightly and starts, “Further to making amends—”

“Further? Darling, you’ll spoil me.”

“That’s all right,” Gale says easily, with what he probably thinks is a very charming wink. It’s just awkward instead, and highlights the wispy black veins running down from the corner of that eye. Astarion suddenly desperately wants to ask about them, but Gale speaks again before he can. “I would like to invite you to stay the night here.”

Alarm flares through Astarion immediately, and he curses himself inwardly for growing complacent. “I’m not sure your knees could take that.”

“That’s not—not for that,” Gale says, sounding a bit frustrated. Then he spits out, “And you’ve no idea what my knees could take—but that’s not the point.”

“What is, then?”

“The point is you are welcome to stay the night in this room and do—whatever pleases you. I’ve a lanceboard set, if you’re up for a match, and innumerable books for you to read, if that’s your sort of thing. If you’d like to—to just sit and exist in this room, not drawing Cazador’s ire, that’s all right too. Whatever you’d like, the choice is yours.” Gale spreads his arms wide to demonstrate the breadth of choice Astarion has, giving him an encouraging smile.

Astarion stares at him, baffled once again. “You’re inviting me to just—stay here, with you, for the entire night.”

“Yes? And for other nights, if you’d like—I’m planning to ask for your siblings’ assistance with my work around the palace during the day and stress that they be well-rested for it, hopefully forestalling the, erm, other nightly activities you all partake in. And no judgments here on that, I know it’s a ghastly service that you’ve been pressed into, but—anyway. You can forego that if I continue to request your presence in my room at night, right? You can just stay here and—”

“Play lanceboard,” Astarion says flatly.

Gale brightens for a moment, then deflates slightly as he picks up Astarion’s tone. “Yes. Or—read. Or watch me read; whatever you want, really.”

This man is an idiot, Astarion decides abruptly. His titles must be fake, or Mystra has truly terrible taste in Chosen—there is no way Gale of Waterdeep is any more intelligent than even Petras.

“Really,” Astarion says. “And what if I want to drink all your brandy and pass out in your bed?”

To his annoyance, Gale simply shrugs. “Sure. I’ll push these settees together and kip here when I’m done with my research. Do you sleep, though? Forgive my presumption—I thought you were an elf.”

“What gave me away?” Astarion asks, gesturing up at his ears. He grabs up the bottle of brandy, too, and gets to his feet, watching this idiot of a wizard the entire time. “Passing out is a figure of speech. I just want your bed.”

“It’s yours.”

“Without you in it.” Astarion eyes him warily as he heads over to the bed in question, making a big deal of turning down the covers, kicking off his house shoes, and climbing right into the center of it, spreading each of his limbs out as far as possible. He tries not to think about the dozens of times he’s been in this bed otherwise, intent instead on pushing Gale as far as he’ll go with this.

Gale just shrugs, the absolute idiot. “Make yourself comfortable. I have some notes to finish compiling; you won’t even know I’m here.”

“Fine,” Astarion snaps, taking a deep swig of brandy straight from the bottle, staring Gale down. Gale smiles back at him, then gets up and moves as if to actually go to his desk and write.

Astarion lets him for a moment, taking another angry gulp of brandy, before spitting out, “Are you some kind of simpleton?” suddenly enough to make Gale jump.

[invinciblerodent]

if bloodsoaked killer, avatar of wretched villainy, fetid and rotten, a vile creature to the very core.... why kicked puppy??? why cute round eyes??? why sweet scared girl who just wants to be nice and help everyone????

(in other words it's durge time; monk styles)

(my plan is a Karlach romance, but man, if you deliberately RP as someone who is both very confused and deeply scared, there is something extra reassuring about Gale's confidence. Like I'm trying to lean into Karlach's warmth -both literal and metaphorical- being a source of comfort, and the reason for this character to be drawn to her, but the dynamic of a strong woman who knows nothing and the physically frail man with chronic pain who knows everything IS intriguing...)

(then again, that could just be me being not even just thirsty, but parched for the wizard.)

[apricote]

the punk ass bisexuality of my dark urge he/they blorbo........

[pokemonruby]

bg3 has done irreparable damage to my brain, i've never finished a game and immediately started a new playthrough. and now that i more or less know how to play it now it's been a lot more enjoyable. also the durge storyline has been so very fascinating and i'm excited to see where it goes.

[urarart]

A impromptu short rest

Characters: Shadowheart, Lae'zel, Astarion, Eira, Halsin, Karlach, Gale, Wyll

Returning to camp, the four who went out to fight sit down at the center, exhausted. Shadowheart is the first one to speak up. "Someone ready to tell the rest of us what happened out there?" The ones who didn't go with, who stayed behind, go and take a seat next to the depleted travelers. Lae'zel is quick to respond. "I don't know, Shadowheart. Are you ready to tell us why you didn't heal me?" The two are fast to argue, leaving no room for the rest of camp to interrupt. Astarion just lays on the ground, groaning into the grass, both out of exhaustion and of annoyance. Eira stands up at that. Two sets of eyes follow her, Halsin's and Karlach's. She takes a few steps back, her hands clenching and unclenching, a frown on her face. She unsheathes her staff, mindlessly turning it and tapping it on the ground. Then she turns around and hits the large rock behind her. There's a twhack to be heard. A few more hits follow, the staff showing no sign of breaking, and no dent following in the rock. Still, it has Halsin concerned. He stands up and moves fast, standing beside Eira and holding her right arm, stopping her from taking out her frustration on the mass of earth. "Enough, Eira. Tell us what went wrong." She tugs a little at the hold, but isn't strong enough to break free. She stops resisting at that. "It's just- it was supposed to be easy. I don't get why we couldn't control the situation! Lae'zel almost died, Astarion was in a tight spot, and Shadowheart and I barely got by with the two of us. It's not... It was meant to work out." She pouts, her frown not disappearing at that. Halsin doesn't let go of her arm. Instead, he refocuses his grip to be near her wrist, lowering her arm in the process. "I get that. Life does not always follow your plan, and you'd be remiss to think you could control the rules of nature. The important thing is to learn of your mistakes, and prevent them from happening again." He chuckles, trying to lighten the mood. "But the poor staff didn't do anything wrong. There's no need to take your anger out in that way. You wouldn't like it if I slammed you against the rock, would you?" The staff falls out of her hand at that, and all conversation seemed to stop at camp. Eira's mouth opens, closes, and opens again, no sound coming out. A few chuckles and groans could be heard from the group. Karlach and Astarion seem especially intrigued in what is happening now. "I... don't know how to answer that." Astarion decides to help. "Sounds like it would hurt, darling." She turns her head towards him, fury in her eyes, and he only waves his fingers in return, clearly amused. Nobody mentions the furious blush that makes her skin turn yellow. "You're right, Halsin, I should not have done that." She pulls her wrist free with one sharp tug, and folds her hands together. "Apologies for that behaviour." And she makes her fast retreat to her tent. Gale is the only one who speaks up, after the group watches her disappear behind the tent folds. "...she does know you guys will travel on soon, right?" Wyll pats his shoulder. "I believe it's best to give her some time alone, Gale."

[swordmaid]

i have this one post bg3 epilogue/canon au for hag romance where they ! get the Gang (except lae’zel) together again bc shri’iia is in a quest for a cure for astarion’s vampirism and i like the idea that gale introduces thalia to them bc she’s also a travelling scholar hoping to find a cure of her own affliction and she’s been every where so surely she has a lead somewhere (maybe she does). actually 5050 on everyone being together but what’s important is that Hag Romance is a thing AND The Soulmates are meeting and in the same vicinity…..!! not to mention thalia was shri’iia’s dream guardian so to meet a woman who looked so similar to the person that you’ve seen before is so ‼️❓ not to mention how drows are not able to dream nor see anything in their trance, so the dream guardian visiting is something so memorable to shri’iia bc that’s the first time she has seen anything in her trance other than the Black Void, and the fact that that woman is very real and alive and in front of her …. Interesting scenario to me hehe

[catinfroghat]

I am curious how an origin karlach run would be able to romance wyll because I don't think they would be able to do the dancing scene or wyll would get burned... mama let's research (watch scenes on youtube)

[anarkhebringer]

I had a dream that Astarion and Halsin autonomously started seeing each other when in a poly with Null, and I had dialogue options to tell Astarion how happy Null was that he and Halsin were finally getting together like this.

He did what he does when shy about what genuine nice thing he's saying, and just huffed and cleared his throat about it after he said it was gonna happen eventually anyways, and that he may as well when they get on well at that point.

[lelianaslefthand]

possible durge...

[ectoplasmer]

finished (or at least got through part of the epilogue party in) bg3 today and ough. i’m going to be tormented by thoughts of post canon inula and astarion aren’t i