Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Karlach/Tav (Baldur's Gate), Karlach & Wyll (Baldur's Gate)
Characters: karlach, Wyll, Tav (Baldur's Gate), astarion
Additional Tags: Nonbinary Character, Nonbinary Tav (Baldur's Gate), Trans Female Character, Trans Karlach (Baldur's Gate), Trans Male Character, Trans Wyll (Baldur's Gate), Wyll's transness is not relevant, but its canon bc i said so, Emerald Grove Tiefling Party (Baldur's Gate), Act 1, Drunken Flirting, Drunk Sex, its mostly, Mutual Masturbation, Stripping, Facials
Series: Part 2 of Surfacing
Summary:
Karlach is trying her best to enjoy the party. Truly, she is! But it's hard to truly relax when you have an engine in your heart. Laz is convinced that that shouldn't stop her from having some fun.
I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, not in the gutter but in the gravel-and-cement schoolyard, during the winter months of real school. They would cluster in groups, holding each other's mittened hands and whispering. They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliated by explaining where babies came from. Some of their mothers phoned mine to complain, though I think I was more upset than they were: they didn't believe me but I believed them.
I don't know why my brain has done this, but anytime I look at the song Surfacing by Slipknot on on any playlist, my brain reads "Sounding." The song is no longer "Surfacing." Everytime the guitar plays in the beginning, I just think "Oh hey, it's the Sounding song." Everytime I read a fic where sounding occurs, the guitar in the beginning starts playing in my head on loop.
you haven’t seen me in months
though you still yearn to hear my voice
but when we do all you talk about are these tides
but i didn't choose to float out to sea this time
is this everything you wanted?
or was this never enough?
i never understood what you wanted
but i assure you this is what you need
as you seem to need this more than me
like sinking ships in calm waters
still submerged, trying to reach the surface
but a sea of misunderstanding separates us
and i’m not sure you want to swim to the other side
am i everything you wanted?
or was i never enough?
i never understood what you wanted from me
but i’ll assure you in all the ways you need
as you seem to need me more than me
i'm just floating wherever i ebb and flow
we'll never pass each other in this current anyway
and if we do, it'll just be to keep you treading water