btw. i keep getting told my begging is rlly hot, so. this is the basic formula i learned as a teenager:
1. request--the thing you're begging for. let me cum, don't spank me, get me pregnant, etc. be descriptive--usually, the more explicit, the better. make it sound appealing to your partner. refer to them by title (if applicable) in this step or the third step. not both.
2. promise--why they should do it. this can include descriptions of how whatever you're asking for will feel for them, how you'll react, or a promise for good behavior or quid pro quos. (in noncon scenes, this is also where you'd put a promise not to tell anyone/get the aggressor in trouble). this should be your longest section, and you CAN give more than one reason.
3. request--rephrase what you asked for in step 1. if step 1 was short, make this longer. if step 1 was long, make it shorter. this is the step where eye contact is most important.
in general, use a deferential, beseeching tone--you can choose how composed to keep it, but keep an undercurrent of "i'll die if you say no." (alternatively, you can lean into the humiliation of verbalizing your desires and speak soft and stuttery. but be warned, you'll run the risk of your dom making you repeat yourself louder.)
Explicit, 1.1k
Pairing: Astarion & Cazador
Tags: Torture (and no sex no plot)
Summary:
Astarion’s thin frame shakes with every breath. Tears spill from his eyes, and an urgent, pleading whine escapes his mouth. He’s been undone, dissected over the course of a night. His wrists are shackled above his head in circles of glowing red internal script, leaving him vertically stretched and accessible. His bare body slumps limply, held by its restraints. Pain and cold has long sapped any resistance in him.
Have a reclist for Cazador-sans-Astarion / mostly Vellioth/Cazador dead doves. Heavy on psychological torment, noncon, incest, underage, and whump!
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>30k Vellicaz
Discipline by @vxxxia (54k words, Complete) - !! canon-compliant origins story with extensive psychological (and physical) torture of Cazador by Vellioth, exploring how Cazador might've become who he is. Author writes some fantastic and real indulgent dark kink !
Il Appartient Aux Ténèbres by sword_and_lance (51k, WIP, AO3-locked) - long & plot-heavy Caz backstory with 'a huge amount of headcanon'!
Depths of Depravity by @houseszarr (46k, WIP) - another Cazstar server rec (along with vxxia's Discipline), absolute dead dove laundry list, as promised! Get all your grooming here ahaha.
Terrible Things by Orphios (30k, WIP) - actively updating & I imagine will land close to 50k when done! Modern AU grooming, prequel to author's completed business AU cazstar, always fun to dig into—without apology but with understanding—how a monster might have gotten that way, and needless to say the AU interpretation adds a fun layer.
Continued under the read-more!
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Shorter Vellicaz
Too Beautiful by Woehuxbub (23k, AO3-locked) - child!Vellioth is a very fun headcanon the origins of which I haven't the foggiest idea. but terrifying child vamp is an ~aesthetic~ I'm always down for!
Ratz by Sh_Rk (17k) - inspired by Stephen King's Misery! Very prolific author who also writes a lot of dark Vellicaz in Mandarin if you're down for reading via translator
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Caz Rarepairs
Daddy's Girl by Tristania (13k) - Orin the Red/Cazador - interesting exploration of this pairing spinning out from author's longfic (but very readable without that context), was definitely fun to imagine Orin as Lady Szarr lmao
The Sovereigns’ Game by Auvronestra (13k) - Raphael/Cazador - postcanon story with tension so thick you could cut it with a knife! Lovely dialogue here.
Wildfire by ph_craftlove (10k) - Mephistopheles/Cazador - more grooming with a huge helping of religion and some absolutely stunning art!
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Oneshots/author recs
@lightsallout has some incredibly fun worldbuilding - particularly Together (16k), a Cazador-arrives-from-Kozakura backstory fic, and My Most Beautiful (8k), a slavecaz/master vellioth noncon pwp oneshot. With spiders! Author is also writing a vellicaz longfic Love Me To My Bones (currently 3/14 chapters and 12k)
@elysiicns writes some gorgeous kink: Martinet (2.5k) is a Vellicaz ship-defining classic, I Spit On Your Grave (9k) (Vellioth misses Donnela, and Cazador pays the price for it.) is forcefem/mommy kink with character study, and the principle of the thing (9k) is a modern student!Caz/prof!Vellioth university AU with a glimpse of raphcaz!