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    A remix of Act 2 in which Gale gets more of a character arc resolution.

    “Gods damn it Gale!”
    Astarion leaps over him. The guard, poised to land an entirely excessive final blow to Gale’s skull, topples backwards with a knife in his gut. The second pierces his neck, sending him crashing to the ground. Astarion yanks his blades back, and drops to his knees beside Gale.
    “Oh no no no, you are not dying on me now.”
    Gale attempts to express something, but it comes out as a gurgle of bloody bubbles. The world swings to the side, black and spinning.
    “I swear, if it turns out I did just watch you spend the last of your magic sending your cat back to safety instead of saving your own damn skin-”
    The threat remains unfinished. A healing potion trickles between Gale’s lips.
    “Tressym,” Gale says, when he can finally trust his voice.
    Astarion is still crouched over him, cheeks flushed, sweat running down his brow and someone else’s blood smeared across his cheek. Gale has the sudden urge to kiss him.
    “What?”
    “She’s a tressym. Not a cat.”
    Astarion makes a noise of such furious, pained exasperation that Gale half expects the dagger to end up in his neck next.

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    04 Nov 2023

  2. Public Bookmark 14

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    ‘I would not hurt them,’ the Porcupine thought to himself. ‘They did not give me a chance to show them that my belly is soft and has no quills. They also did not care that my quills are not there to hurt them. They are there to protect me and I would not survive without them.’

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    12 Oct 2023

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    "Very flattering of you to offer, my fanged friend, but I’m afraid I must decline. Can’t say I’m in the habit of jumping into bed with acquaintances, and besides, my intuition tells me you’re after something other than a quick roll in the hay.” Gale flashed a contrite little grin, motioned to offer Astarion a sportsmanlike clap on the shoulder, then thought better of it. “No offense, of course, but a man of my intellect isn’t going to fall for a simple ploy like that.”

     

    Astarion’s expression settled into an alarming rictus of forced nonchalance. “Oh, please, darling, did you think I was serious?"

     

    Inspired by a post from tumblr user baldurspeen69420; I, too, believe the most hilarious possible Gale-Astarion dynamic is Astarion genuinely shooting his shot, fumbling catastrophically, and then fuming for the next one and a half acts while trying to pretend he doesn't care.

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    09 Oct 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 16

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    Wenzhou experiment: with domestic life, with pain, and with other ways to be intimate.

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    01 Oct 2023

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    Shadowheart and Astarion were among the first to receive Gale's blessing as a God. There would have been a third, as the story went. But that brave soul perished in the destruction of the Netherbrain. His body cast into the Chionthar, never to be recovered.

    In other words, Gale could not shake the feeling that he was forgetting something.

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    24 Sep 2023