I am so excited for chapter 2!!! I've been waiting all week for some time to continue and here I am!!! 🖤🖤🖤 Live reacting, as usual 🥰
He sitlled beneath her grip, pale and thin, red eyes heavily lidded with hunger. The same hunger she used to see in Astarion's eyes before she allowed him to feed from her. Of course, Astarion kept his spawn wanting. She recalled his words: the greatest threat to a vampire was another vampire. Even now, with all the power ascension had granted him, he was ensuring no one could rise to challenge him.Coward.
GAH, THIS MAKES ME SO MAD AT HIM. Like, look, I so know that he would, because how could he not, and it's totally in character for him to do so, but WHY PUT SOMEONE THROUGH WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH?? STUPID! He's so stupid it makes me want to bite sheet metal.
"I'm not supposed to-" His eyes were pleading now, voice turned to barely a whisper. "I'm not supposed to speak with you. Only watch."
This makes me so sad- I want to throttle Astarion into the ground.
The magic settled over him like a weight. She watched as the spark of self faded from his eyes, leaving only obedience behind. A hollowed-out thing.
Oh, this is such an incredible description. Fucking top TIER, I love how you write so much.
She knew he wanted her pretty and unscathed, a treasured pet for him to dote on. But Corin? She had seen him dispose of far too many spawn, 7000 to be exact, to feel assured of his safety.
I'm polishing my bat. But no fr, this just really nailed it home how much he really wouldn't gaf about getting rid of Corin and it makes me feel so sad for the others 💔
"Tell him that, despite his best efforts, I still see him exactly as he is - terrified. Clawing at power to convince himself otherwise. Tell him I have never seen him so weak, so pathetic, as has been since that wretched ritual."
GO THE FUCK OFF, TELL HIM NYARI 😤
She'd run from Baldur's Gate because of him, because of the sleepless nights spent remembering the softness he had torn from himself.
FUUUUCK. This is so god damn good and just encapsulates everything about AA that I envision in my brain- YOU WRITE HIM SO GOOD I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES
Nyari drew her cloak tighter and walked on, each step heavy with memory and resolve.
No notes, just fucking insane line and delivery. Gorgeous.
His voice was fragile, as if the only thing holding tears from his eyes was the tension that lingered in his clenched fist.
Just god damn. Again, I'm on my ass this is fucking amazing 🖤
"I just want to feel... safe. I don't want to go back to hiding in the shadows."
FUCK. THIS IS SO GOOD. HOW DO YOU DO THIS TO ME???
VOLO MENTIONED!! I love that you included his dorkish little fucking fanfic of the tadfools, this is so god damn good 🖤🖤 Also Elias seems like such a sweetheart 🥺
"Only a few. Though perhaps I wouldn't mind if more were as eager as Elias. Surely it would mean I'd receive more punctual assignments,"
I love this so much lol, poor Gale 😂
"I know, perhaps better than most, what it feels like to fight with every fiber of your being to be free of someone. And to never be given that chance."
Can we all collectively hug Gale? I just want to hold him in my palms 🥺
"Ari, listen to yourself. The man is stalking you, and you are searching for a reason that you might be in the wrong."
He is literally such a god damn treasure. What an incredible friend, and I adore how you write him like nothing else 🖤🖤 I am so happy she's hanging with him and getting surrounded by a friend who cares so much about her 🥺
Gale was right. Astarion was no god. He was still a man, with the same fears as before, the same smile. The same man she longed to comfort. The same man she abandoned. The same man she loved.
I need to just lie down and think about this for a few minutes- genuinely so beautiful to read, and ugh it strikes home, because he really isn't this big bad awful villain, he's just a guy who let it get to his head and who let it sabotage his relationships and he didn't think about how else it effected him. This is such good writing, I weep at your feet 😭
GOD THE WHOLE ASTARION PART I AM IN SHAMBLES. The What was he doing, brooding over some unkind words? He wasn't beholden to anyone else now, ascension assured that he never would be again. and him just getting slammed with a vision of her to prove himself wrong, that he's totally in deep still, and there's nothing he can do to shake it??? Fucking masterful.
After months of drinking from Nyari, he'd been spoiled. At first, he'd assumed her's was the taste of all thinking creatures, but now, starved of her, he realized the truth that there was no comparison. Her blood was ambrosia, warm, delicately sweet, and rish as the finest wine.
SUCH A PERFECT DESCRIPTION 😭 I love this so damn much and I love that you've made it so that he even still craves her blood- that it has been the best he's ever had, because fuck YES i love that trope? Idea? Headcanon? Not sure on the word, but I love it so damn much and I love seeing it in fanfic. Let him be absolutely ruined for anything else ever. 😭
FUCK THE ENDING MY GOD. I'm just weeping here, fucking thrown around like a shoe in a dryer- jfc I love this story so much 🖤🖤 This is incredible and you write so god damn well I literally look up after I'm done like I was just in another world. I am genuinely just so obsessed and I love reading this and you're so talented- I need to scream into a pillow about it 😭 I CANNOT WAIT FOR MORE- I'LL BE BACK SOON!!!! 🖤🖤🖤
Omg I am OBSSESSED with this comment thank you for live-reacting <3
He's so stupid it makes me want to bite sheet metal.
Cycle of abuse BaBY.
This makes me so sad- I want to throttle Astarion into the ground.
I was joking to my beta reader that I started writing Astarion fanfic because I love his character so much, but by writing AA and pairing him with such an absolute angel, I've actually just been building an army ready to take him down. Which... I think means I'm writing AA correctly?
VOLO MENTIONED!! I love that you included his dorkish little fucking fanfic of the tadfools, this is so god damn good 🖤🖤
Yes I had to! I love the idea that he's just written all this nonsense that people in the city now believe about the tadfools. And Nyari just has to respond to questions about things that never happened. Modern AU Volo would 100% be on ao3.
Also Elias seems like such a sweetheart 🥺
Aw I love that this is your impression of him!!! It must be nice for Gale to have a student so truly fascinated with his stories.
Can we all collectively hug Gale? I just want to hold him in my palms 🥺
I need to pull him out of my screen and wrap him in blankets like a burrito. And then tell him he's enough and always has been.
I am so happy she's hanging with him and getting surrounded by a friend who cares so much about her 🥺
Seriously, Nyari and Gale's friendship means so much to me. He's so good to her, and I just know that during the course of the game they leaned on each other so much.
he really isn't this big bad awful villain, he's just a guy who let it get to his head and who let it sabotage his relationships and he didn't think about how else it effected him.
I was thinking about a post I saw that said AA (if it was his "canon" ending) could absolutely become a major villain in a future game, which would be so heart-breaking because we know who he is underneath all of it. Like, yes, he could very easily be a big bad guy, but we know that he's more than that.
him just getting slammed with a vision of her to prove himself wrong, that he's totally in deep still, and there's nothing he can do to shake it??? Fucking masterful.
Thank you and I love you omg. Poor vampire bbygrl is in so much denial.
I love that you've made it so that he even still craves her blood- that it has been the best he's ever had, because fuck YES i love that trope?
I am a SUCKER for any fic where he's hopelessly addicted to the taste of one person's blood. It's one thing Twilight really got right. And in AA's case, feeds into his obsession and makes me absolutely feral.
This is incredible and you write so god damn well I literally look up after I'm done like I was just in another world.
AAAA I cannot thank you enough!!! Truly, I've read your comment so many times. Just, staring at it and weeping. Thank you for taking the time to leave me so many kind words. I'm so glad you're enjoying this. Any time I'm feeling insecure about my writing, I'm just going to return to your comments because they're so sweet <3
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