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Unwound by TangledMermaid
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
07 Sep 2025
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Failure. Unbearable failure.
The heartbreak is worse than your wounds, worse than the angry teeth in your flesh, worse than knowing you are moments from death.
You will die having failed. Your vow broken.
The vision is already fading, but you haven’t seen enough yet. You force your Sight to remain open, to at least capture more of the eyes that seem to be the source of your torment.
They belong to a man, a beautiful one, with silver hair and pointed ears. An elf. A spawn.
The vision snaps closed.
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Sequel to Unraveling! Astarion has finally reached Tav, but things only get more complicated from there.Series
- Part 2 of Wheel Of Fates
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An exploration of the second time Tav and Astarion have sex from Astarion's POV. Complete with the dawning realization that his little plan may not be going as perfectly as he thought it was, but before he's ready to reveal it to her in Act 2.
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Unraveling by TangledMermaid
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
16 Jun 2025
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Astarion was supposed to meet someone important today after crash landing on the beach, but he didn’t. Now he’s stuck playing the leader’s role for her while an unhelpful skeleton insists he track her down and drag her back to where she belongs. His thoughts are no longer his own, forced to remember a love he never asked for and doesn't want anything to do with. If he can survive the journey though, he'll free them both once and for all from this prison of fate he didn't know he was in.
Alternatively: "Wouldn't it be interesting if Astarion could see just how many times I've played this exact story line because I can't ever seem to choose anyone else?" I asked myself one night, not realizing I would become possessed with the need to answer my own question.
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- Part 1 of Wheel Of Fates
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Wheel Of Fates by TangledMermaid
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
07 Sep 2025
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Astarion is given his memories from every life he's ever lived all at once because some random woman failed to be captured by an alien ship flying through Baldur's Gate. Only it turns out that this random woman is the love of not just one of his lives, but all of them. As much as he tries to resist Fate's puppet strings, Astarion can't quite avoid falling in love with her all over again.
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Tav's visit to Avernus was supposed to last a few hours, no more. A full week later, she's finally made her way home, and not even the extraordinary, magical gift she brings with her is enough to make Astarion less blazingly furious.
Set about a month post-game.
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- Part 13 of Something Real
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Willow would have been his consort, but what she really wanted to be was his wife. Either way, she would have been his doting partner, picking out paint colors and party favors behind the scenes. She would have been anything for him, done anything for him.
As long as it was her choice to do it in the end.
The only thing Willow didn’t want to be was his spawn. And months ago, that was the dealbreaker.TLDR: After the fall of the Netherbrain and the end of her relationship with the Vampire Ascendant, Willow still wants a family. Astarion still wants her back.
Currently rewriting early chapters! See summaries for updates.
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“Maybe what you really need is a friend, not a lover.”
Astarion’s eyes flutter with surprise. “I-I would like that. I’ve held more people than I can count. An infinite parade of lovers. But a friend?” He pauses on the question and his face becomes crestfallen. “I can’t think of a single one.”
He puts his hand out to Effy, to which she happily accepts.
“Until you,” he says with a smile—that only she’s ever seen.
Ever since that moment the two remained friends and even got an apartment together in the Lower City shortly after defeating the Netherbrain.
It’s been several months since; and Effy is still happily living with her vampire bestie, but Astarion’s been acting different lately…
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- Part 1 of Something Else Entirely
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Luna, a high-elf with magic at her fingertips just as fiery as her hair, has so far lived a sheltered life controlled by her father, who has recently sold away her hand in marriage to a wealthy but horribly abusive man. Just as she is beginning to feel as if her time is running out to ever escape the hellish reality her life has become, a nautiloid flies over Baldur’s Gate.
Unsure if she wants to return home to save her father from a lifetime of debt or use this tadpoled opportunity to run away forever, Luna finds herself falling into yet another predicament along the way: in love with a manipulative vampire.
- An in-depth retelling of the “in-between,” with more focus on interpersonal relationships than rehashing events that already play out in the game.- Written in first-person, diary-style POV to more realistically explore Luna’s feelings about Astarion’s deception.
Currently rewriting early chapters! See summaries for updates.
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- Part 1 of the stars aligned
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Tav has always kept her fantasies separate from her real life. But ever since she stumbled across his videos—the faceless man with the rune-like tattoo on his forearm, dulcet whispering voice, and the way he makes his lovers unravel with nothing but the cadence of his praise—she hasn't been able to look away. Yet the introduction of her new trainee swings her desires into something far more dangerous, because opening the door for another very real heartbreak is the last thing she wants to do.
Astarion's been leading a double-life for years, nine-to-five on paper, mysterious pleasure dom after hours. It's always been just a superficial side-gig meant to bolster his earning. But when he finds himself enthralled with his trainer, the ensuing flirtation feels harmless until it isn’t, and something in him struggles to keep it together.
His usual detachment doesn’t hold. He's thinking about her when he shouldn't be and hearing her voice instead of the script. And it's fine. It's under control—not that it means anything. Naturally.
She was never supposed to know.
He was never supposed to feel.
And now neither of them can stop.
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- Part 1 of Wanna Be Yours
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15 Jun 2025
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I didn't expect to love an AU like this so fucking much but it freaking sneak-attacked me fr😭