i love soft ascended astarion and i love dadstarion so your fic was like finding a treasure trove its SO good <3
anon!!!! I am going to scream and cry 🥹
I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed it and thank you for sharing that with me ❤️ I think he deserves to be soft sometimes! and to have a hot wife who wants to have little vampire babies 💝 rofl thank you I love you
I'm in a K2 mood, I'm just imagining the two of them doing long distance at college and making it everyone's problem for four years lol
Haha I can see it happening. Like I think Kenny would so be willing to move far to stay near Kyle, college or not, but Kyle totally convincing him to stay, pursue his own college/goal, and they could so do long-distance. And then it sorta backfires a lot because it's frustrating as hell and then Kenny's got Stan on the phone doing a lot of "Kenny says hi" and "Dude I'm not telling him that. YOU say that to him"
I'm reading this oldish K2/Kysterion fic that I never got around to finishing before and it reminds me of how much I love superhero/normal citizen pairings especially for K2 <3
Duddee yeess I love that shit. I don't care how cliché or whatever it is or how edgy Batman Mysterion seems I love that shit lol. It's just soo good and I feel like it just fits them well? Kyle is so justice driven already like how could it not pull his heartstrings or soothe his conscious in some way :')
Please feed me mccormick angst. Give me your headcanonssssssss
Okay so like my main usual ideas are not extremely grim but generally pretty dismal and depressing like.
Kevin to me is like the type to steal some money from Kenny for some random thing and maybe Carol will say "hey don't do that" but nothing comes of it and there's no getting it back. I also see him "borrowing" Kenny's stuff in general like his PSP and Kenny has to hide it from him. He's not really intentionally an asshole but he's kinda a pain in the ass stupid older brother that adds to Kenny's stress occasionally. Yanno what I mean.
Also just see Kevin as the one to move out and disappear as soon as he's old enough to. Probably has the most tension with their dad, because... he's white trash and fights back? I guess? Which is compounded by one of the few scenes of him there is in the show. There's really not much to go off of with him in the show either so there's that too, so I am generalizing to a degree.
Kenny's dad is almost always a major touchy spot and source of issues, not just for Kenny. Like it's kind of a given. Most of the physical fighting happens between his parents especially when alcohol is involved, but I really have a hard time not thinking there'd be a few incidents if shit gets really bad. Like booze and drugs??? Some shit's bound to really blow up.
I normally picture Kenny not having many, if any, physical altercations with his dad, but I think his dad would totally just start bitching at him a lot of times, being jaded and complaining about money and demanding shit ("you have so much time to go hang with your friends you could be making money to pay for all this food you kids fucking eat"). Kenny generally ignores him, but it's anxiety inducing and at worst extremely frustrating. There's a lot more negative memories than good and I always see Kenny having some really fucked up internalized anger because he would leave instead of lashing out. Even grown up he wouldn't confront unless it was to protect someone else from getting hurt.
Like Kenny doesn't hate him but he wishes both his dad and his mom could stop drinking and taking their anger out on each other at the very least.
But maybe sometimes he does hate him. We can have a little hate and violence as a treat.
Carol is just stuck and forced to pick up the slack working long evening shifts and stuff like that, so no one's around to make the kids dinner, and she's usually too tired or checked out drinking, or arguing with Stuart on other days, to do too much. So homecooked meals are very rare, cleaning is sparse, and most times she just looks so tired and defeated just barely getting by. She expresses love and affection more, and the worst she would intentionally do is smack Kenny's arm. Sometimes she gives Kenny some tough love type of scolding, which could be a little something he can relate to with Kyle. Sometimes she sounds so sad though when she says nice things like that Kenny's her "sweet little boy", like she knows he's forced to look after himself and help look after Karen.
Kenny will come home late at night from hanging with friends or anything and his mom will be passed out alone on the couch on her stomach, just the glow of the old TV flickering some late-night infomercial no one's watching and reflecting on empty bottles and crap on the coffee table and Kenny just sighs. (This scene has been on my drawing list for years but at this point fuck it lmao)
Given their parents being like that, Karen grows up very anxious and unsure, and Kenny really is her rock until she gets older. :(
And KenNY... The idea of him fucking taking on the parentified child role and having to keep his shit together because he's gotta look out for Karen. He's gotta do shit like get Karen medicine when she's sick. Goes to the laundromat to clean their clothes because they don't have functioning machines at home (been there, it sucks). And he doesn't say shit about any of it, not the bruises, not the severity of drinking, not the having to escape his house because of the yelling. Until suddenly one day out of the blue he'll laugh and say his dad would've beat his ass if he did xyz and then doesn't explain or mention it again.
Yeah. Like that :)
BUT DON'T GET ME WRONG. I think more wholesome, nice stuff with all them is good too lol. I promise. I don't want anyone to assume this means I think other ideas/interpretations are "wrong". Kevin could be a derpy well-meaning brother too. Yanno.
Like I wish I could look at them and not only think of domestic violence and not wanting to be home, but like I said in my other post, my old edgelord hcs of yesteryear remain most heavily in Kenny's family. I just really love me some Kenny angst like that lol.
I just wanted to say that I adore Dealbreaker and am so thrilled you’re continuing the story! I just started reading it a couple days ago and am already at chapter 80, if that tells you how much I love it. It’s genuinely one of the best pieces of fanfiction I’ve ever read. If you wrote a book, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. Astarion and Willow are so adorable, and their flaws only make them better “matches” for one another! (Spoilers if you reply publicly) I will say, I do hope they discuss the SA that Astarion didn’t stop right away despite his promise to protect her. I adore how he wants her to be his in every sense of the word but the fact that another vamp did something to her AND drank HER blood I’m surprised didn’t send him into a rage. And Willow doesn’t seem mad about it either. It’s not the girl’s fault obviously, being a spawn as she is, however I do hope the violation gets addressed somehow with their relationship! I love their devotion. Anyway, I love the series and you are such a gifted writer. Please please keep going! I’m so excited for the birthday party (and in the next few chapters maybe Astarion will get to use his full powers - my silent hope)! I can imagine Wills taking off her ring to help him and he panics, haha. Thank you for putting this story out into the world despite your busy schedule. ❤️🥰🥰
I’m screaming you are so sweet!!!! What a lovely message to wake up to on a Saturday 🥹 I’m gonna be honest I always get a little nervous when I see an ask lol
I am going to answer this, and I am always under the assumption that anyone who goes to my tumblr is at least mostly up to date on the fic (if they’re reading it), but I’ll put it under this clown pic just in case ❤️
+ obvious TW for SA ❤️🩹 be kind to yourselves.
First off, I’ll say that the situation with Melantisa is not over yet. There are still conversations to be had and this very subject may or may not come up again. Which sort of means it totally will and I’m just trying my best not to spoil anything for anyone. I know some of you care and some of you don’t 😅
Second, I’m soooo sorry for how long this answer is 💀 but you brought up a great question and you did it very nicely. Thank you ❤️
There are 2 reasons why I think the bite wasn’t addressed very well on the night that it actually happened.
1) the simplest reason: it was pretty immediately overshadowed. Mel’s sire very quickly tried to spin the situation into being completely Astarion’s fault because he had no compulsion over Willow, a topic he had been bringing up again and again, and Astarion slipped at the mention of Marceline. The man’s only got a 10 CHA stat, after all.
2) and then there’s a more complicated answer, that I haven’t been able to unpack in Dealbreaker despite how long it is: though it absolutely is SA, both Willow and Astarion have a history of being taken advantage of and for them it was just another Tuesday. (not really, but I hope that makes sense).
I slid a little bit of early Willow lore into Too Sweet, a short story about Willow & Astarion’s first time together, and I have plans (actually, obligations) to unpack her story a little bit more quite soon. But the general idea is that while Willow was a traveling bard, she often gave up her body just for a place to sleep at night. This is when she was 17 - 25.
When Willow is so used to using sex to get what she needs (as in, a bed), a kiss seems innocent in comparison. Though she would absolutely take issue with someone kissing/biting Astarion without consent, she doesn’t see it in the same way for herself.
Anyway, I could probably ramble forever & ever about her but I should just get it on the page instead! 🫣 I am absolutely going to finish Dealbreaker, and it’s going to go out with a big ole bang — in a good way or a bad way, I’m not telling!! But you can probably guess.
Thank you for reading, and for sharing your thoughts with me 🥹 please have a great day.
🍾 What inspired you to start writing BG3 fanfiction in the first place?
easy!! 😎 Astarion’s act 2 confession. I didn’t get it on my first playthrough with my partner because neither of us (successfully) romanced him, but I saw it on my first solo run (as, obviously, Luna thee wizard). I was so smitten with him & his character that I started writing like, immediately.
🫠 If you could ask one canon character for writing advice, who would it be and why?
I want to say Orin?? Her flowery (bloody) way of speaking is so different from my writing and I think the new perspective would be fun! I feel like I write so literally and getting advice some someone who says things like “bloodkin” would be interesting.
