#astarion x raphael

[alwachart]

Larian, let me live my Raphstarion dreams already

Please :'(

I made a Twitter account y'all

[astarionformayor]

This scene just autoplays if you only walk up with Astarion 😯 (OP)

[northernolddragon]

Under the poet's gaze a masterpiece is born, under his hand a soul breaks. And a broken soul is much more interesting than a whole one.

The Devil admires the pale 'sculpture' of a vampire spawn.

[immovablerodney]

Palmarosa chapter 3 by @not-poignant "raphael looked at him pityingly" yeah I bet he did. I would too

[not-poignant]

Baldur’s Gate 3 - 21/? - Palmarosa - Astarion/Raphael

Title: Palmarosa Rating: Explicit Pairing: Astarion/Raphael Tags: (Check AO3 for the full list) Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Deals with a devil, Contracted sexual slavery, Bad BDSM etiquette, PTSD, Communication issues, Flashbacks, Trauma recovery and Retraumatisation, Dark and disturbing themes, Blood consumption, Minor character death, Canon typical violence, Dominance/submission, Top Raphael, Bottom Astarion etc.

Summary: (Set post-game / end-game) The love of Astarion’s life has disappeared to go live in the daylight with the druids, and Astarion is stuck in the darkness once more, yearning for sunlight with every fibre of his being, while bitterly reflecting on all the things that were denied to him in the end - love, sunlight, the option to kill thousands of people and become a near-god…

Raphael knows Astarion’s desperate, and comes to him with not one, but two horrid contract offers that Astarion loathes and dreads in equal measure - but the prize at the end of both are too good to turn down, and he’s become too cynical to care about how much of a good idea it is to give his body to a devil for a month or two, because really, comparatively, how bad could it be?

Palmarosa (Baldur’s Gate 3) - Raphael/Astarion - 21 - White Peaches and Resin

In which Astarion wakes the next morning not feeling calm or reassured at all, and has many questions about the second contract that he demands answers to.

[sloshi]

The Devil You Know | Raphael x Astarion [commission]

** potential spoilers **

This was a fun request to make, enjoy! ❤️

[kazuza-art]

Astarion making a deal with Raphael

I hope you will really write it @metalomagnetic 🥹❤️

[theswedishpajas]

This is how you show someone you love them, right?

[moxley]

i am so normal about raphael/astarion i'm being so normal i promise i'm being super normal. astarion is going to be alive again in exchange for a deal with raphael and at no point will they start making out i promise i swear honestly it's normal it's soo normal 🤡🤞

[rottenbrainstuff]

Actually you know what

You know what

I’m not done talking about Palmarosa, it’s been slowly bouncing around the corners of my head like a screensaver logo nonstop and I am telling you again to go check it out.

This is one of those fics where it’s like, it’s not even about the fandom or the pairing or anything like that, it’s amazing literature to read just on its own, it’s making me think thoughts and feel feelings. I had to go take a little cry break halfway through reading and that’s how you just know you found something good. Here is what you’re getting:

The wonderful paradox of an older character who feels fucking tired and spent cause they’ve seen it all yet somehow they feel inexperienced and afraid at the same time

Such sharply-observed descriptions of the little stupid things one does when one is used to violence and abuse, like trying to goad someone into getting angry at you because dealing with the anger is less awful than dealing with that feeling of anticipation of what’s coming

D/s that’s interesting and good (and even gentle, for now!) and makes me wanna cry and doesn’t sound like it was written by a 20-something who has never actually done this / is desperately appealing to the purity police she says, without a trace of bitter frustrated spite in her voice no not at all

Possibly a praise kink in the works? Do you know how hard it is to find an actual praise kink and not just someone saying good boy/girl a couple times and then we move on? Why is that such a hard thing for people to write / tag properly? she says, and no it is not bitter frustration oh no not at all

An unusual pairing that I honestly never thought of before, which is good for you, you need variety in your diet, try the unusual vegetables my friends, you never know, you might find something you like

The most interesting play within a play (well, within a book?) that I’ve ever read

Baths, food, howl’s green slime

And coming up in the next chapter apparently: Mephi-fucking-stopheles

It’s 15 chapters so far and honestly feels like it’s just got started, there’s still so many wonderful things that can happen or go wrong, my goodness. It’s smart and amazing and I am telling you again to read it.

[kingthunder]

astarion prompt time!

Hello, my beauties. I'm ready to get back into the writing game, and what better way to do it than to write some tumblr shorts about my new favorite characters? Send your Astarion prompts, wants, and dreams to my inbox and I'll see what I can do. Any pairing (or poly group) or none at all. Let's put that vampire in Situations.

[leomonae]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Astarion/Raphael (Baldur's Gate), Astarion/Haarlep (Baldur's Gate), Astarion/Haarlep/Raphael (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Raphael (Baldur's Gate), Haarlep (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Blood Drinking, Sadism, Angst, Mild Blood, Rape, Rape/Non-con Elements, Extremely Dubious Consent, Cazador Szarr Being an Asshole, Astarion Backstory (Baldur's Gate), Astarion Needs a Hug (Baldur's Gate), Astarion's Past Abuse (Baldur's Gate), POV Raphael (Baldur's Gate), Raphael Being a Bastard (Baldur's Gate), Scheming, Nine Hells politics Summary:

Raphael assists Cazador in arranging a meeting with Mephistopheles to discuss a deal involving a certain ritual. As thanks for his assistance, Raphael is granted a) an unwelcome brat of an incubus, and b) the significantly more welcome loan of Cazador's lovely little spawn.

My thanks to @brabblesblog and @kringle-c for betaing!

[alwachart]

I'm playing a new Durge and recently got to the first encounter with Raphael.

Let me tell you, Astarion's reaction in camp hits different after falling into Raphstarion hell. He's so eager to choose him omg.

[1000punks]

i need to give a shoutout to one of my favorite fics i'm reading rn, Palmarosa by thespectaclesofthor on AO3 (i know they have a tumblr too but i can't remember it; anyway the fic in its entirety is posted there, not here!)

raphael x astarion is a rare pairing iirc but i really love the dynamic in this series so far

it's .... hwuf~

also for gods' sake read the warnings, it does cross into the noncon/dubcon territory quite frequently and that may not be everyone's style (though it is treated rather masterfully in the writing, imo)

[not-poignant]

OMG, I literally found your Astarion/Raphael fic yesterday, desperately looking for something like it. So happy someone else had the same brain worms as me XD

I was wondering if I could pick your brain a bit about what kind of direction you think you will take the fic? I was wondering if you had any plans in your head or if you are just following the vibes so to speak.

Especially with Raphael being in the pairing, I wondered if this is more of a "It turns out they are actually good for each other" kind of thing or more of a "Astarion has to find out what his life is going to be now/get over some things and Raphael will enjoy every second of making him squirm" kind of thing.

In any case, I am looking forward to reading more, thank you :)

Hi hi,

So I guess answering this would kind of be talking about really end-game spoilers, but I also don't have a plan for this story beyond Astarion/Raphael, and 'hopeful ending.'

(I mean I do have more than that, I just don't know how much of that I want to reveal at this stage, when it's only chapter 5, and this story could easily be over 40 chapters long - there's a lot of potential for change and growth that could alter the trajectory of the relationship in a lot of different directions.'

What I will say is that:

I do not consider Astarion giving into a regular non-consensual situation and just accepting it and making painful peace with it, a hopeful ending type situation. Agency is important to me in my characters. Even if he one day decides to voluntarily submit to scenes he doesn't love - that would at least be a choice. Anything done while under contract with difficult consequences will not be where the hopeful ending happens.

It's an Astarion/Raphael story, therefore the hopeful ending will be an Astarion/Raphael ending. That's just how my brain works. It will not be a 'they break up and THAT'S why it's hopeful.' However, the end may not have a conventional looking relationship. And I've written unconventional endings in relationships before (like Stuck on the Puzzle)

For me, a hopeful ending (as opposed to a happy ending) means that we have to have confidence in the idea that Astarion's life will continue to improve and get better even after the story has ended. There's now enough evidence that he has enough enrichment and potentially for happiness in his life, that he won't downward spiral like he has in the same way again. This means he needs - more support, more healing, healthier avenues for communication even if the relationship isn't healthy overall all the time/every second, and some pretty big personal realisations about what he wants in life. Hopeful ending is both 'better than where we found him, but also genuinely, when most people think on the last chapter, they think 'he's got some ways to go in healing, but I really think he's/they're going to be okay'' not just physically, but also emotionally, spiritually, mentally.

Those are the things I'm happy to reveal because that's how I feel about almost all of my hopeful endings. That's what that means to me.

I do think Raphael and Astarion can actually be good for each other, but I think we're missing huge pieces of the puzzle as to why that's true. Because we're missing so much of Raphael's post-death story, because he's deliberately hiding it.

But we'll find out more soon. At some point, High Inquisitor Verillius Receptor will visit, and then we'll find out a lot more, lol.

(Also yeah this story will be long, easily I suspect around 150k in length as a baseline - we're on an emotional journey folks! Sometimes the growth will be healthy, sometimes it'll be negative, we're going in all the directions lmao).

[kazuza-art]

Another quick Raphy Starion. I had that sketch since forever but i just could not figure how to connect them to good body shape so i gave up and here it is XD