#shadowhalsin

[femmeberlin]

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The night before they leave the shadow-cursed lands, Halsin helps Shadowheart take her hair down.

[shadowstarion]

hello tumblr user shadowstarion you have given me the shadowhalsin brainrot and I would love to hear any thoughts you have on them

shadowhalsin is genuinely an infection im addicted to them!!!! I have so many thoughts I could tap about them forever so here’s a little selection

- poly legends. halsin is perfect for shaddy’s whole “short-term flings” thing.

- as much as shadowheart wants to see the shadow curse lifted, she’s still a sharran and spouts the most ridiculous dogmatic shit or makes snarky comments any time halsin has something to say about her goddess. maybe she likes watching halsin lose his cool a bit

- part of the reason halsin likes her is the fact that despite being a sharran, she does want to help lift the curse and genuinely cares about the land, animals, and children being effected by it

- halsin notices the little threads of rebellion and doubt and is actively seeking to tug on them and pull her into the light

- shadowheart ultimately rejecting shar is the turning point in their relationship — the shift from “bratty playful teasing and occasional stress-relief sex” to shadowheart being truly lost and halsin opening his arms to her

- he kisses her stigmata and promises they’ll find an end to it together just as they did the shadow curse

- post-game, halsin has a little bit of internal conflict when it comes to her; she’s far younger than him, orphaned, having just escaped the oppression of a goddess, relying on him for care and stability— what makes her any different than the children that he’s taken responsibility for? is it okay to be intimate with her when he also has strange protective/parental feelings toward her?

- the answer is yes because shadowheart desperately craves that sort of dynamic in a partner and has brutal daddy issues. she eats up his praise and care and will jokingly call him daddy until it becomes abundantly clear that it isn’t a joke anymore

- size difference. holy shit the size difference. it makes halsin go feral. she’s so small and soft and he wants to wrap himself around her and claim her over and over again until she’s ruined for anyone else

- all the petnames. his little dove, his sweet lamb, his precious lily, his angel, his moonbeam, etc. and of course Halsin’s favorite— my heart. ouuugh. so possessive when he calls her that

- watching one another care for the children makes them mutually insane. shadowheart is kneeling by a little tiefling boy and promising his scuffed elbow will get better right away, soothing a healing spell over it and even giving it a kiss for good measure. halsin is standing across their camp watching like “oak father restrain me i need to get her pregnant”

[shadowstarion]

tumblr user shadowstarion crying shaking and screaming over shadowhalsin [caught in 4k]

[shadowstarion]

selunite shadowheart after ending her parents’ suffering not quite realizing how immense her daddy issues are. the concept of having a father isn’t something she’s ever craved until now, now that she knows she could have had that experience, felt that type of care and love. as much compassion as she has for the orphaned children halsin has rounded up, there’s a pang of sick jealousy each time she sees them crowded around him, holding his hands or pleading to be picked up.

in all that time she believed herself an orphan, and now that she truly is one, when had she ever received such kindness? such tender love that only a father figure could provide? there’s a guilt that underlies it too— shar should have been enough. now, selune’s embrace should be more than enough to sate her parental longing.

she finds herself falling into step at halsin’s side, wrapping three of her fingers around one of his. she doesn’t protest when her feet ache and he offers to carry her, letting her facade of self-sufficiency slip away. she can’t refuse when he wakes her so gently from a horrid dream, insisting that he’d hold her through the night until peaceful sleep found her.

shadowheart feels weak and small next to him, but not in a bad way that makes her feel degraded or insignificant. when they’re scouting or traveling together, her mind goes quiet and everything fades away that isn’t his guidance or gentle instruction, his hand tugging her back by the waist just before she stumbles over a protruding root, his voice calling her to come admire at a particularly pretty flower or a cute animal sleeping in the meadow.

halsin, so used to interacting with the displaced children that he barely notices his slip up when shadowheart asks him for help and he replies “in just a moment, little one”

[smoreofbabylon]

27. Lap kisses!

Would you be down to write a ship you haven't published before? If that's daunting then maybe a galeheart for the people 🥰

27: Kisses exchanged while one person sits on the other’s lap. (Shadowheart/Halsin, because I wanted to try something different, and that man has an an enormous lap.)

“I could get used to this,” says Shadowheart.

“You are welcome to stay as long as you like,” Halsin says, his lips against her shirt, on her stomach. “More than welcome.”

His heart arrived in the afternoon, without sending word ahead. That is her way now—she follows the guidance of her goddess, which takes her from one end of the Sword Coast to the other, wherever she is needed. It seems a difficult life, but she is as happy as he’s ever seen her.

(Halsin asked her once if Selûne was truly so considerate as to lead her back to him so often.

“To see her old sanctuary restored? To see new life where her sister wrought such death?” she replied. “Of course.” And then she had smiled, one of her private smiles, and added, “But she does know that I like you.”)

Now, after visiting the new temple, greeting the children, dinner, and a dozen other necessary distractions—at last they are alone again, in his own rooms, in his chair. She is on his lap, in his arms, radiant as ever, and he is thinking of how much he’s missed the smell of her. And the taste…

“Certainly for the night,” she says. “We’ll see about tomorrow, but in the interest of our limited time…” And with a firm hand, she draws him up, past her magnificent breasts and her elegant throat, to capture his lips.

The taste is very fine indeed.

[baldursgaybf]

this has to be the cutest banter between halsin and shadowheart

Shadowheart: Halsin, if I were a druid, what animal do you think I'd be? Halsin: Given your memory issues, perhaps a goldfish? Shadowheart: I'd hoped for something a bit more exotic, but... would you carry around my fishbowl? Feed me flicks of food? Halsin: Only the finest, of course.

[baldursgaybf]

does nobody see how intertwined shadowheart and halsin are? the whole shadow curse thing? shadowheart giving up on her "dream" of becoming a dark justiciar so she can fix the shadow curse for halsin? HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THAT

[baldursgaybf]

shadowhalsin nation is finally growing...