The Blade and The Bow

II.IV | NERD. Closet writer. DND. Poetry. Sometimes photography, if you can even call it that.

[thebladeandthebow]

Revenge in red.

[ria-neearts]

"..you are free"

[romantic-bloodless-nights]

Ascended Astarion comes home from a meeting with the town leaders one day and finds that Tav is nowhere to be found. He does not catch their scent outside, indicating that they did not leave, and tearing apart the palace yields nothing.

Furious, he grabs one of his fanatics, who tells him that Tav is in their shared bedroom. They've been there the entire time. They hadn't been feeling too good lately, citing the intake of bad blood which made them stay home. Astarion believes this to be impossible since he has already gone through their room. He drags the fanatic to the room and practically throws them in, demanding they point Tav out if they are so sure. The fanatic stares at him out of fear and points up to the high ceiling. The glare on Astarion's face melts upon seeing something small and silver in the corner of the room.

Surprised, he quickly begins climbing the walls, his eyes fixed on the spot. He slows when he realizes he's looking at a small fuzzy bat sound asleep, much smaller than his own bat form. Tav's scent is all over it and Astarion is now convinced that this is his beloved consort.

"Tav...?" he whispers in astonishment. "You... You figured out how to...?"

He wipes his hands on his chest before carefully reaching out and gently scooping the bat up. It chatters some as he jumps down and starts looking it over. Its small body feels hot in his cool hands, perhaps a fever. He moves to the bed and lays the sleepy creature down, tenderly rubbing its small back with his thumbs. When it opens its eyes, it gives something akin to a small hiccup and in a puff of black smoke, Tav lays before him in their humanoid form with wide eyes.

Before they could speak, a wide smile spreads across Astarion's face and he scoops them into a hug, excitingly talking about how they could now go for nightly flights and how cute they were as a bat. He prattles on about how they must be able to learn other abilities while Tav feels sick and heaves the contents of their stomach onto the floor beside the bed. Astarion pauses and clears his throat.

"Oh dear... First things first. We'll bring you fresh blood to replace that..."

[bludazey]

Why is this so cute 😭

[lovejoypilled]

“wah wah all girls care about is astarion wah” yeah you know what? i cant imagine why women gravitate toward a character who feels like they are only worthy of attention if they’re sexualized and are under constant pressure to be a sexual being due to a traumatic experience that made them think that they’re only good for sex and really cannot perceive himself outside of being objectified and serving others. cant possibly have any idea why girls like astarion you know

[astarionsbeloved]

*aggressive nodding*

[demigoddessqueens]

I need a BG3 FULLY ANIMATED series/spin-off movie atp

[fangswbenefits]

BYE

[athenaeumofavernus]

I think I just saw God 😭🥵🥰

[fangswbenefits]

"I remember this! I choked on my own spittle during the recording and left it in!"

[sarrows-show]

a small comic for a customer with her Tav as a gift from me.

[neckromantics]

When everyone starts to look too bummed out around camp, you suggest that the group pass around the Sentient Amulet as a sort of morale boost. A laughter inducing blunt-rotation, if you will. (I keep seeing compilation videos of everyone's laughter and they're always stood in a semi-circle, seemingly taking turns and I can't help but think about how fun that would be.)

Sometimes if someone is sulking too much about something small, you'll yell "heads up!" and hurl it toward that individual because you know whoever it is will instinctually catch it and (wisdom fail be upon ye) be sent into peals of laughter.

Some members of camp respond well to this, while others (not naming any names, but you could probably guess) do... not. Strange, that some people's thanks come in the form of a threat to your well being, or maybe even a scuffle in the dirt while the rest of camp plays audience.

Hey, they can chase you around the campfire with a dagger all they want to, but they can't say you didn't put them in a better mood, right?

[bg3astariononlydeok]

[wellthebardsdead]

Magistrate: Magistrate Ancunin? What about him?

Lower magistrate: well it’s just- he arrives before dawn and only leaves after sundown, and he’s never seen in the city during daylight, but he’s been seen at night plenty of times with his spouse-

Magistrate: and? He’s a busy man.

Lower magistrate: b-but don’t you think it’s strange? I heard talk around the court that he could be a- a vampire-

Magistrate: How dare you make such an accusation! Thanks to his efforts the corruption and crime allowed to run rampant by Gortash has almost been completely snuffed out. As high magister he arrives before us all to prepare for the day and he works himself late into the Eve, so what if he wishes to spend a few hours of his evening on a stroll with his beloved. Whom, I remind you, also saved baldurs gate and the sword coast at his side! You’d be wise to devote yourself to your work as hard as he has! Rather than lowering yourself to such shameful gossip and accusations.

Lower magistrate: I-I, y-yes sir, forgive me.

*meanwhile*

Astarion: *wipes his face clean as he steps from an alleyway after draining a known child abuser dry*

Tav: *walks over and fixes his robe* still hungry?

Astarion: yes dear, I’ve another rapist on my watchlist the jury declared ‘not guilty’ because they thought he was ‘charming’. Ugh, I want to rip his throat out for the pain in that poor girls eyes.

Tav: I’ll keep watch as usual~

[greelin]

gale: Hey can i talk to you about somethi

my tav & astarion in the middle of 2am snacktime which he must have had some inkling of given that he came to astarion’s tent specifically:

[greelin]

the way i know astarion would be like By all means. Come on in and say what you need to say to him. Not that you need the invitation. and gale would just be like :) Okay awesome ! then plop down and immediately start talking like it’s nothing. beautiful picture

[glassphinix]

#he pulls up a chair and sits and puts a throw pillow on his lap and puts his elbows on his knees #and just starts with ‘so i was thinking about our battle earlier-‘ #astarion cuts him off like ‘hey real quick do you mind if i-‘ #‘no no please don’t mind me. anyway when we were fighting i think-‘ #like are you kidding me. like it’s so normal to him. he’s just like Yeah Whatever. #Tav nods to Gale mid convo and astarion’s like ‘don’t do that i’m gonna spill’ #so tav keeps hittin gale with a 👌 so he knows he’s listening. #insanity. #there’s something so *clenches fist* #about gale being tav and astarion’s best friend. third wheeling but it’s their whole dynamic.

[toherrys]

Party mean girls shit talking everyone in elvish

[galesdevoteewife]

I'm pulling my wizard into a D/S kink-wizardry road, hehe. Nothing hardcore/painful, it's going to be so much fun/love/pink (〃°ω°〃)و And yeah the Act 2 misattribution of arousal conversation makes me think that someone has been cooking naughty ideas back there while the others are fighting all-in at the front line...

Found this in the datamining script (for anyone who's interested, it's v1.5 in Gale's additional greeting). I am not sure it's in game yet, since I failed to trigger the line despite killing Haarlep 10+ times for his undies through different savefiles lol I so want to see Gale flustered and pretend to be normal /// *AND yes it's there GODS HE IS ADORABLE*

[galesdevoteewife]

DO YOU WANT TO HEAR YOUR FAVORITE WIZARD TELLING YOU TO GET ON YOUR KNEES?????

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i cant i am gone has the world always been such a wonderful place

[thebladeandthebow]

Alystair, The Drake Warden.

[dailyastarionpics]