AshSlays
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The Monsters We Choose by AshSlays
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
18 Dec 2025
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They say that vampirism is a curse, but to know the flavor of another is a blessing most profound.
There is nothing for Astarion to hunt in the Shadow Cursed Lands, which means both he and Luka (Tav)—a Barovian dhampir—are starving. When Luka collapses at the House of Healing, Astarion must decide whether he trusts Luka enough to feed him, even if that means granting Luka power over him.
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More Than a Thing to Be Used by AshSlays
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Ravenloft (Roleplaying Game)
26 Oct 2025
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Astarion discovers the healing power of back rubs.
He's his own person... When four simple words spoken to a vile blood merchant send Astarion into a panic spiral, Luka Morrigan (Tav) is there to comfort him. At the Last Light Inn, Astarion explores what it means to want for himself and how touch can be used for something other than coercion.
Astarion can feel Luka’s sweet round eyes searching him. He takes the barest half-step forward, brushes a stray lock of hair behind his ear, then opens his arms wide. Astarion turns to face him.
The dhampir gives a close-lipped, encouraging smile.
“Do you mind?” he asks.
Astarion thinks, swallows, then nods.
Luka closes the distance between them. He moves slowly, as if approaching a startled animal, and gently wraps his arms around Astarion’s back. He slots his chin onto Astarion’s shoulder. They’re nearly the same height—Luka is just barely shorter—and he fits… perfectly. His cheek brushes Astarion’s cheek, and his breath mists Astarion’s ear.
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Pain Without Purpose is a Terrible Thing by AshSlays
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Ravenloft (Roleplaying Game)
01 Oct 2025
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The Loviatar’s Blessing Scene. Only it’s Astarion who delivers Tav’s penance.
While camping in a former temple of Selûne that's been overrun by goblins, Astarion catches Luka Morrigan (Tav) sneaking away to commune with Abdirak, a disciple of the Goddess of Pain. Perhaps this dhampir from Barovia is not such a saint after all?
“Our Mistress teaches us that pain is an intimate thing,” Abdirak explains, “and in embracing her love, a deeper connection forms between minister and supplicant. Bonds tempered in the fires of pain are impossible to break.”
That is precisely what Astarion must avoid. He doesn’t want to bond with Luka, he just wants to seduce the boy. And yet, Astarion can’t deny the power he feels while clutching the whip. Is this really any different than Luka offering over his sweet, nectarine blood for Astarion’s nourishment? If this precious castle-born dhampir is so insistent on debasing himself, then is there anyone better than Astarion to show him exactly what that feels like?
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Life Among the Undead by AshSlays
Fandoms: Ravenloft (Roleplaying Game), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Curse of Strahd - Fandom
16 Sep 2025
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A tie-in story for Into Unmapped Darkness, a Found Family fic set in a post-Strahd Barovia, where Doru and Ismark work together with a sunshiny cleric to turn Castle Ravenloft into a rehab center for the undead.
In which Doru copes with parental anxiety by becoming a bat.
Everyone turns at once to look upward. High-pitched squeaking draws Ismark’s attention to a black mass zooming around the dome.
Is that a—a bat?
Ismark’s stomach sinks. “Please tell me that’s not…”
The little projectile comes hurtling toward him. Ismark drops his books and throws his hands up. A gust of wind ruffles his hair as an oddly excitable chirp pierces his ear.
“Hells,” he grunts, righting himself. “What’s going on?”
Escher gives a dry chuckle before explaining, “Your dearly beloved said he wanted to be a bat.”
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- Part 2 of A Fortress Called Home
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Let's Make Ourselves Comfortable by AshSlays
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Ravenloft (Roleplaying Game)
01 Sep 2025
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It's Bite Night. Only Luka Morrigan (Tav) is a dhampir from Barovia, and he can bite back.
Also known as "In Which Astarion Tastes What a Well-Adjusted Family Looks Like and Has a Breakdown About It."
All goes quiet in the camp, the night is still.
Astarion waits for another hour, tracing his favorite patterns in the stars to be sure Luka is fully asleep. Then he makes his approach.
He finds Luka curled over on his side, head resting on hands that are folded as if in prayer. Overly moral indeed—a right proper stick-in-the-mud. In four days of traveling together, despite running into bandits and goblins and an entire caravan of refugee tieflings, the boy has never raised his voice. He shows kindness to everyone and always chooses to help others before he helps himself. It’s sickening. Helping yourself is a luxury Astarion hasn’t been allowed in centuries.
Who could’ve possibly sired such a soft creature?
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Lukastarion Collection: A Barovian Dhampir in Baldur's Gate by AshSlays
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Ravenloft (Roleplaying Game)
18 Dec 2025
- Words:
- 14,710
- Works:
- 4
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A Fortress Called Home by AshSlays
Fandom Curse of Strahd - Fandom, Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Ravenloft (Roleplaying Game)
16 Sep 2025
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A collection of tie-in stories for Into Unmapped Darkness, a Found Family fic set in a post-Strahd Barovia, where Doru and Ismark work together with a sunshiny cleric to turn Castle Ravenloft into a rehab center for the undead.
- Words:
- 70,626
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
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Winter Moon by OldGodsFavoritePrincess
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, House of the Dragon (TV)
19 Dec 2025
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Under a bright winter moon, Helaena fulfills the wishes of the gods and finds her husband in the Godswood, only he's not how she remembers him.
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- English
- Words:
- 1,761
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 6
- Kudos:
- 20
- Bookmarks:
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Bookmarked by AshSlays
28 Mar 2026
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Sweet Lies Upon Your Lips by Ladymandragora33 for thedeadlynightshade
Fandoms: The Folk of the Air - Holly Black
01 Jan 2026
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Jude has taken her duties as Queen of Elfhame very seriously since was crowned. So seriously that she in fact forgot her birthday is tomorrow. Cardan however, has quite the little gift for her, from the mortal lands.
Or lots of fluff, smut, Cardan bought a vibrator and wants to try it out and lots of tail play! A birthday gift to my lovely best friend Thedeadlynightshade!
Bookmarked by AshSlays
28 Mar 2026
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Still unmarried and unbetrothed, Prince Rhaegar Targaryen is urged to find a bride at the tourney at Harrenhal. With King Aerys growing more unhinged as each day passes, the Dragon Prince must secure his line in order to overthrow the Mad King.
Lyanna Stark is chosen to wed the prince, much to her displeasure, and must leave the North to play princess with the dragons. But she quickly learns that the fire burns deadly in the royal family, and winter has no place in King's Landing.
Hell, she finds, is empty and all the devils are at Court.
COMPLETED
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- Part 1 of Hell Is Empty...and the Devils Are Here
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Teeth Across Your Chest by OldGodsFavoritePrincess
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
26 Mar 2026
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Rather than allow her daughter to be wed to her son’s greatest threat for power, Alicent Hightower makes a different decision. It only takes three messages via raven to secure a new option for her only daughter.
Within a month, she is sending Helaena to Winterfell to become a ward of House Stark. Learning all she can about the North and her betrothed. Even as tensions grow in the Red Keep, and war eventually comes knocking on the North’s door.
Title inspired by Florence and The Machine’s “Howl” Part I complete (1/15/26) and Part II in progress, starting at chapter 24!
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- Part 1 of Teeth & Other Bones
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A Wayward Heart of Emberlight by AdaThePinkBard (helyanwe4608)
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Forgotten Realms (Roleplaying Game)
11 Mar 2026
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After a night out with friends, Ada is ripped from her comfortable yet melancholy life in Frankfurt and wakes up on a mindflayer ship. She finds herself transformed into a Tiefling, and equipped with magical abilities she neither understands nor controls. Overwhelmed, confused and tadpoled, she teams up with other survivors to find a cure and, hopefully, make her way home.
Ada finds that reluctant allies can, in fact, become friends over time, that she can learn to lean on them, and that there is more than one way to be strong.
Then, there is this wizard with a mysterious condition who is eager to hear all her tales of this other world. As she starts to fall for Gale, Ada begins to confront the hurtful lies she has internalised about herself and finds a way to let herself be loved.This is an isekai Galemance long-fic that covers one day of the journey in each chapter. For the most part, it follows the events of the game, with some changes made for either convenience or to heighten the yearning. This story covers themes such as religious trauma, fatphobia, queerphobia, bigotry and mental illness. There will be a somewhat happy ending, even if it is bittersweet. I currently publish about a chapter a month.