#I support nonbinary karlach hcs

[lilhumanoid]

New Fic: Red Foods

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66324568

Astarion and Jamie Cross (Tav) are unexpectedly babysitting Gale's neurodivergent daughter, Ella. It's Friday, which means they're meant to go to the farmer's market and the blood co-op. Star decides to skip the blood co-op—it is not a place for mortal children, darling—but Ella has other ideas. -- The first of a series of nonconsecutive one-shots in the modern era ✨with flavor✨. Events occur post-Netherbrain, post-Cazador, post-everything, with all my headcanons (see notes for the lore).

Check it out! It's chapter one of my first BG3 fic ->

My hcs/lore for the modern AU are below the cut <3

(I live in the US unfortunately so that's where this modern AU takes place)

• The Absolute ruse was a technofascist plot by the then-government. The party stopped it about 15 years ago and have since settled down in Washington State.

• Spawn!Astarion is a model and influencer. He's secretly also a vigilante, part of a small group of free vampires that hunt vampire lords and liberate enslaved spawn.

• Star is partnered with Jamie Shayne Cross, a nonbinary half-elf who gained blood magic abilities from Mephistopheles as a kid. Jamie was appointed head of a nonprofit that resists technofascism after taking down the Absolute. Star & Jamie live together in a frankly ridiculous penthouse paid for by brand deals and money stolen/inherited from the late Cazador Szarr.

• Vampires are very sensitive to sunlight, but it won't kill them unless they're in a direct beam for several hours. They don't have reflections in mirrors, but they *do* appear in cameras/photographs. Their fangs are retractable unless they're very hungry, in which case they descend and can't be pulled back until the vampire feeds. Their eyes only go red when they're hungry. Some progressive cities, like Seattle, accept vampires living openly, and there are blood co-ops selling ethically sourced blood.

• Gale is a professor in the University of Washington's College of the Arcane. He lives ten minutes from Star & Jamie. He said this was in no way intentional (he was lying). He's a single dad of two half-elf kids, Evan (he/him, 9) and Ella (she/her, 4). Evan is an budding wizard who's obsessed with frogs and bugs, and Ella is a brilliant neurodivergent girl who loves foxes and constellations. Ella has a special bond with her Uncle Astarion.

• Wyll and Karlach are married and live in Tacoma, Washington, where Wyll's a journalist and Karlach's an engineer. They have three kids: Mara (she/her, 12), Jules (they/them, 8), and Gale (aka Lil G, he/him, 6). Mara's the top of her class and wants to be an engineer like her mom, and Jules plays old flash games on emulators and enjoys baking. Lil G is in his dinosaur phase and badly wants a sword.

• Shadowheart is a non-practicing Selǔnite. She lives near Olympia, Washington, on a small farm, where she provides animal-assisted grief therapy. She adopted a daughter, Sabrina (she/her, 13), whose parents were murdered by Sharrans. Sabrina loves skiing, drawing comics, and trying weird science experiments.

• Lae'zel is in the Astral Plane and Minthara's in the Underdark—they visit sometimes. Jaheira's retired and lives in Florida, where she supports Everglades restoration. Minsc and Boo live nearby and run a web show for kids about conservation. Halsin's returned to his druid commune in Colorado.