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wilteddreamsofbaldursgate · 3 months

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New dad Astarion who is about to see his newborn child for the first time.

Of course, he expects his child to be the personification of serene beauty and divine grace. Them to have their father’s silken silvern locks, his immaculately chiselled features—the artwork perfected by Tav’s wonderful watercolour eyes…

And then he actually sees the child and—well—everybody assures him that, yes, Astarion, all babies look like that barely a half hour after birth…

He kind of has to take that at face value because he hasn’t seen an awful lot of newborns in his lifetime.

But it would’ve been nice if someone had told him that newborns happen to look like shrivelled potatoes, because he’s really, really trying to not let his bewilderment show.

Astarion swallows.

Tav’s beautiful eyes are watching him, waiting for a reaction—an enthusiastic one, no less.

Maybe Tav will believe that he’s overcome with emotions at seeing his firstborn child?

“Oh my, darling, I’m…speechless,” is all he can choke out, though, being rather proud that it’s at least not a lie.

To his luck, Tav only nods dreamily, her full attention back on the odd little bundle in her arms.

“Isn’t she perfect?”

Yes, perfectly hideous.

Astarion only hums in a way of reply.

That—his daughter, he supposes—is with no doubt one of the ugliest things he’s ever seen, but he has a feeling that his honesty wouldn’t be appreciated after Tav laboured for hours to give birth to this…potato-baby.

“Come, hold her, Astarion,” Tav says, then, bidding him to sit next to her on the bed.

The mattress shifts under Astarion’s weight and he obediently holds his arms out so that Tav can gently place the sleeping child against his chest.

Now that Astarion can take a better look, he can confirm that his daughter’s hair is of an indefinable colour and that her features are neither his nor Tav’s, plain as can be. Surely it won’t stay like that?

He and Tav are so ridiculously beautiful, their child can only be drop-dead gorgeous, right?

Astarion’s stomach drops indeed when, suddenly, something occurs to him.

Oh dear, what if it’s his fault? He has no recollection of his family whatsoever; it’s very much possible that he and his immaculate looks are the exception in his lineage, and that he’s passed on only those mysterious less-than-perfect genes…Tav, as per usual, can’t be the issue!

Astarion is still catastrophizing when the bundle in his arms begins to stir.

All of a sudden, gold-speckled pale green eyes are looking up at him as if to ask what the fuck this weirdo’s problem might be.

“Oh,” the weirdo in question exclaims at once. “Darling, look, she has your eyes!”

Tav, hugging him from behind, rests her chin on his shoulder, so she can watch as Astarion’s finger tenderly strokes their baby’s chubby cheek.

Their daughter also has, as it turns out, ten fingers and toes, a cute little nose and a hungry mouth—everything that’s supposed to be there is there, and it seems to be working fine, too—which is a huge relief.

And aren’t those the tiniest pointy ears Astarion has ever seen? Let alone the unexpectedly strong fingers grasping at his!

Astarion, worries forgotten in a heartbeat, can’t help but smile at the baby in his arms.

She is perfect, after all.

Tav, face hidden in the crook of his neck, begins to tremble against his back.

For a second, Astarion thinks she’s crying but then her laughter fills the chamber. It takes her a good moment to articulate whatever it is she finds so very funny.

“She'll grow out of it, you know?” Tav giggles in between her fits of laughter.

Astarion stiffens. “Of what?”

“The turnip look. That’s what you’ve been worrying about the whole time, haven't you?”

“I was leaning more towards potatoes—but yes, I might’ve been a little worried about that,” Astarion admits sheepishly, although a grin is already tugging at his lips.

Regaining her composure, Tav reaches over Astarion’s shoulder, her hand joining his as they get to know their child.

“Give it a couple of days and she will look like your proper little elf—beautiful just like her father.”

A content sigh leaves Astarion’s lips, right before he presses them against Tav’s temple.

“That’s the second best news I’ve heard today, my heart, truly.”

#astarion #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #dadstarion #astarion x tav #astarion headcanons #astarion x f!tav #baldur's gate astarion #astarion ancunin #to the best worst dad #astarion father of the year every year #Inspired by Howl from Howl's Moving Castle or rather Castle in the Air #where his first words upon seeing his newborn son are “My word he's ugly!”—truly an inspirational man!#my grandma said for legal reasons i'm not allowed to call any babies ugly so these are astarion's words not mine #just so we're on the same page #emicha writes

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miabrown007 · 11 months

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Félix: kidnapping is a love language Kagami: you have no social skills, idiot

*two weeks later*

Félix: okay, so when Marinette's at her most vulnerable, I'll gaslight her into thinking I'm her boyfriend, so she'll follow me into an abandoned building where we can put her in an altered mental state and present to her my family's life story in the imaginable most cryptic play of theater she has ever seen, which will reveal to her our horrible secret and the fact that her abusive father-in-law is also her arch-nemesis Kagami: you're so big brained, bae 🥰

#I LOVE THEM BUT GOD THAT WAS THE LEAST SELF-EXPLANATORY WAY TO GO ABOUT THIS #fucking theater kids /lh #miraculous ladybug #ml spoilers #ml representation #ml representation spoilers #maybe they do team up nicely with Marinette because can ever be simple sfdgdfhgjfhg #I'm so pumped for the final ohmygodddd #also did you know I wrote a story in highschool where the son of the villain revealed his family's true nature to the MC #in a cryptic fairy tale. where he assigned his father as the evil prince who moved into the king's family and married the pricess #who ended up comatose and waiting for revival?#the moral of the story is we're all insane here and I cannot believe I literally wrote 30k about this #and not have the gall to diss on feligami they are the MVPs fgdhjdfhgfjgk #also props for being so much more useful going about this whole thing than Luka <3

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chirikalovesjill · 1 year

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Jill & Leon in Resident Evil: Death island trailer (2023)

#resident evil #Jill Valentine #Leon Kennedy #resident evil death island #jilleon #where's my jilleon shipper at #all 3 of us #we're eating good #violetcalio this is for you

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aellivi · 5 months

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Still figuring out how I want to draw this guy.

#sozo #sozo cotl #cotl sozo #cult of the lamb #my art #comic #fanart #Huge fan of the interpretation where he's off his rocker btw #this man is not sane #he's only nice to us cause we're enabling him #tell me about your sozo theories #i am begging you #send me requests i will draw sozo for free #i love a good recovery AU #if you pretend this man is refined in any sense of the word. lol. lmao.#he's a raccoon in my garbage at 3 am #sozo cult of the lamb #cult of the lamb sozo #im not sure what the accepted tags are so im just doing all of them

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icewindandboringhorror · 6 months

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I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

#tumblr polls #hrmm... a little poll perhaps.. about a subject I find interesting.. since this image came across my facebook today #still really not feeling that well. no longer shaking violently and such but I still feel weird and weak much more than usual #They did say my markers for like infection or inflammation were elevated but that they werent sure of the cause so hopefully #it's nothing too serious. they did also say a lot of different things can cause that thing to be higher than normal but didn't go into spec #fics of what. maybe some of them are relatively benign or something. I still havent felt much back to normal since #I got really sick that one time though. I feel fine on and off but then little bouts of feeling weird and sick happen. hrmmm #ANYWAY.. looking for small ways to be productive. such as little doodles on evil ipad or editing game videos #or posting polls or cat pictures or some other like not very labor intensive things #I WISH I COULD FOCUS on writing HHRGGhh... I need to finish my game.. it would be so freeing.. a project that's been looming #over my head for like 5 years even though througouht that 5yrs I've probably spent a total of 3 months working on it lo.. ANYWAY #I still partially really cannot beleive that people CAN see stuff in their heads. There's always part of me that's thinking like. well mayb #e everyone DOES see the same exact thing but we just describe/conceptualize it so differently that we think we're talking about #different things when we're really not. But I have been assured by people I've talked to about it that they can GENUINELY really see #stuff in their heads like as vivid as an actual picture in real life or something. And the other senses are neat too. Like for exmaple I #can hear in my head much better than I can see imagery. I still CANNOT hear vividly like as if I were listening to actual music out loud..#but I think it's developed more than my sight. AND interesting how this varies the creative process. a friend I was talking to on the phone #said they write by literally just watching stuff play before them like a movie. where my process is COMPLETELY different. AND that affects #the content/what details we focus on as well as our individual styles of writing have differences that can be traced back to that.. hrmm

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drizztdohurtin · 29 days

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Gale Headcanons: Deciding to Have Kids and Conceiving

pairing: Gale x afab!reader (use of she/her pronouns)

〚 Masterlist | WIP List 〛

-MDNI-

Warnings:

section 01 - deciding to start a family: NSFW under the cut

section 02 - conceiving: NSFW

the language used is breeding kink adjacent

suggested pre-read: pining, dating, domesticity, and marriage

01. Deciding to Start a Family

Gale would very much follow your lead; he loves you so much, and he doesn't need kids to feel happy and fulfilled for the rest of his life, all he needs is you

but if you want them, he would be more than happy to start a family with you (ready and willing, if you will)

I'm torn between Gale wanting to have kids soon after getting married versus wanting to wait a few years so that you and him have a little more time together to settle into your lives as a married couple

It mostly depends at what point you bring it up

The only way he'd be interested in starting a family right after the events of the game (where you'd be pregnant by the epilogue party) is if you two spent a lot of time discussing it during the events of the game

Otherwise, I think he's more likely to prefer starting to try for a baby near the mark of one-year post-game at the earliest

mostly because once you two get home to Waterdeep after defeating the Absolute, he starts teaching and I think he'd want to settle into your guys' new life together before bringing kids into the mix

If you guys talk about it and decide to wait some time before starting to try for a baby, he'd still think about it a lot

He might've imagined when he was young that he would one day have children but once his life became all about magic and he became M*stra's chosen (and her "partner") he'd stop seeing it as a possibility

Especially once he got that orb in his chest, even if he could've lived with it for the rest of his life he was convinced it made him infertile or something

I don't think he's ever longed to have kids, though

but now, after everything, he'd be so happy to finally be settled down and actually have the opportunity to have children

As you guys got closer and closer to the point of trying for children, he'd start thinking about his future more often, and it'd be spurred on by his decision one day to start reading about fertility and conceiving, pregnancy and birth, and raising children

he'd think a lot about what it will be like to have a tiny Dekarios running around, or what they may look like, or how you guys would decorate their nursery

Would he have a boy or a girl first? How many would you guys end up having? If you had multiple, how close in age would they be to each other?

He'd start thinking about names quite early on, but not bring them up to you until you were finally pregnant

And he'd wonder if (and hope that) the trials of pregnancy would be kind to you once the time was right

What would it feel like for him to place his hands on your round belly and feel the little life inside moving around?

What would it feel like to wrap his arms around your growing form in bed at night, or to lay his head on your stomach and talk to your baby?

And what would it feel like to finally hold his baby in his arms?

there'd be many moments when he looks at you and thinks about how wonderful of a mother you'd be, and how honored he'd be for you to carry his child

he'd think about how you would look while pregnant, about getting to watch your stomach grow with his baby, ever so slowly throughout the span of your pregnancy

but he'd also consider how much of a sacrifice it would be for you; the fact that that's what you wanted was yet another thing that made his head spin with admiration for you

and sometimes, his thoughts would lead to less… innocent places

because the thought of you carrying his child just filled him with such intense love and adoration

as time went on and he thought about it more and more, his yearning grew until the idea of you, your belly and breasts swelling and your hips widening, would send blissful rushes of heat down to his groin

some nights, it's all he can think about - and he might even get to a point where he's asking you to start trying early

"fuck the plans we made, I want this now, my love. I want to give you a baby now."

You'd have to be the one to remind him why you two were waiting (whatever that reason may be), and that once the time was right it would all be worth it (or you could cave to him - I probably would)

02. Conceiving

Once the time is right and you two decide to start trying, he makes the first night a whole thing - because obviously he would

He would make you a really nice dinner and set the table with candlelight to start

and he'd do a wonderful job of building up to the main event - holding your hand in his, giving it a few kisses, and often flashing those bedroom eyes you loved so much

your body was already ready for him the second you step into your shared bedroom

The bedroom - smelling rich in vanilla and bergamot - would be lit up by a bunch of candles scattered throughout and littered with pink rose petals around the bed and the floor

He would take things slow that night, despite how you were wetter than if all the world's water had accumulated between your thighs

He'd still strip you painstakingly slow, taking his time to kiss every inch of skin he revealed

In his mind, he had every intention of getting you pregnant, so he wanted to make sure he took time to worship your body, knowing all of the things you would soon have to go through to bring your child into the world

He'd pay extra attention to your hips, waist, stomach, and breasts

The whole night would be about you - so he'd only let you go down on him if you insisted (like if you really enjoyed doing it), but he'd make you wait until he's coaxed at least one orgasm out of you with his tongue

Once he's made his way back up to your face, he'd place a pillow under your hips and position himself at your entrance - holding off from pushing into you for a minute

kissing your lips and roaming his hands around your body instead, and sliding himself back and forth between your folds, spreading your wetness onto his cock

He'd ask you if you were ready, if this was really what you wanted

And you'd give him the enthusiastic consent that he'd been waiting for before finally pushing himself into you

and GODS would he be slow about it

The man would be in no hurry to get it all over with - the night would be incredibly intimate and drawn out

You guys spent so much time leading up to this moment - time that only made his anticipation and excitement to become a father even stronger - he had no nerves or second thoughts about it now that it was finally happening

Maybe he'd have a moment where reality sinks in, but it doesn't scare him away - it fills him with longing and desire for where the rest of your night was headed, and enthusiasm for what he hoped it would result in

Before he starts moving his hips, he's kissing up your neck to your lips, telling you how long he's waited for this

He knew exactly how to hold you, kiss you, talk to you, and move his hips against you in ways that have you completely unraveling beneath him

Along with the normal professions of love that he makes when you guys have sex (how much he loves you, how beautiful you are, and how good you make him feel), he also tells you how much he wants to give you a baby, how gorgeous you'll look when you're pregnant, and how wonderful of a mother you'll make

Once his orgasm nears, the pace of his thrusts into you would increase, and he'd hold you closer, tighter against him

He'd tuck his knees in on either side of your body as your legs clasped around his waist, the new position allowing for deeper penetration and more control over his thrusts

His forearms would snake under your arms and around the back of your shoulders, holding you almost crushingly close to him

You'd feel his whimpers against your lips, and hear him ask if you were ready for him

and what a delightful feeling it is when his cock starts to twitch inside you as that final band of tension in his abdomen snaps

His hips would sputter to a stop, grinding against you with each wave of his orgasm - refusing to keep thrusting as he doesn't want any of his seed to leak from you

You'd feel deep moans against your skin as he praised you for how incredible you made him feel, again, like he never wants you to forget

He'd stay like that for a while, reveling in the post-orgasm bliss as he's buried inside you, his lips locked onto yours

As he holds you, he'd tell you how happy he was, that he couldn't believe you two were finally starting a family

You likely wouldn't get pregnant on the first try, but it wouldn't discourage him

He wasn't of the mind that there was any reason to worry if you weren't getting pregnant quickly

And frankly, he was enjoying all of the nights you two were spending together

As a serial Galemancer and a raging breeding kink fan, I'm so sorry to say I don't think he'd be very breeding kink-y

He would find the act of trying to get you pregnant to be the most intimate thing he could possibly do with you

In his mind, he's literally giving you a piece of himself for you to somehow create life out of

He sees it as the greatest testament of your love and devotion for each other

(and this belief would definitely carry over to your pregnancy, but we'll get into that another time)

so he feels he should treat the situation with the respect and care it deserves, by worshiping your body and never letting you forget how much he loves you

Throughout the rest of the time you guys are trying to conceive, he definitely keeps reading his books to prepare himself and to learn anything new that might help your chances

He'd already be cooking relatively healthy for you guys, but one day he'd learn about how different nutrients are thought to help fertility - so he'd change your guys' diet a little bit to be more conception-friendly

Gale would always be very loving to you each time you get your period

Like I said, he wouldn't be worried if you don't get pregnant right away, but he still wouldn't be able to help the small twinge of sadness when your period comes - especially if you're also upset by it

He'd be incredibly sensitive and compassionate of your feelings during that time - and he'd do anything in his power to make it better

Though he has always been supportive and patient with you during your period, he'd still find a way to go above and beyond

Whether you're on your period or not, if you're ever sad about how you haven't been able to conceive yet, he'd be right there next to you, holding you close as he rubs your skin in comforting patterns, telling you everything was going to be alright

He'd tell you it's okay if it takes a little longer than expected, and it's not a reason to worry yet

that he understands your sadness, and you have every right to feel the way you do - but he'd also plead that you try not to worry too much, to not be hard on yourself

and he'd promise that one day, when the time was right, your body would finally tell you what you had been waiting so desperately to hear

If a while went by with no signs of pregnancy, he'd wrestle with some thoughts of what if there was something wrong with him, why hadn't he been able to give you a baby already?

He'd definitely worry about if the orb had caused some irreparable damage to his body or somehow made him infertile

But he'd try not to let this get to him too much, and he wouldn't want to bother you with the thought - it's not like the orb was actually radioactive

No matter how fast or how long it takes for you to get pregnancy symptoms, he's very much the type to acknowledge that your symptoms align with pregnancy but still not want to jump to conclusions

He'd say you two should wait to get your hopes up until a cleric can confirm it (or until you don't get your period when you're supposed to)

Meanwhile, you're nauseous every day and getting sick after lunch and are having food aversions to stuff you guys eat regularly

He just really doesn't want to jump to conclusions that could upset either of you if they turn out to not be true

#AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE LEAVING OFF #please stay tuned for my Gale pregnancy and fatherhood hcs <3 #my writing #my hcs #wife #bg3 #gale dekarios #x reader #headcanons #smut #baldur's gate 3 #brainrot #x tav

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liesmyth · 12 days

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Is it better if John erased their memories, or if they came back that way and he just decided not to fix them?

It's immensely better if he intentionally mindwiped them. TO ME.

I'm a John fan. I think he's a tremendous tragic antagonist, and that everything he does in the HtN backstory is relatable if not painful familiar. He was under immense pressure, trying to mitigate the literal end of the world, having his mind and his whole self changed in ways he had no frame of reference to understand. He went from being desperate and trying to do his best to being carried away by circumstances to going absolutely fucking insane. There are many ways to rationalise John's actions all the way to the end, which is what makes it such an effective corruption arc. If you want to engage in some blorbo apologism, there are plenty of excuses to be found.

There's absolutely no fucking way to excuse mind-wiping his friends. THAT is why it's so important to me that he did it deliberately, in cold blood, justifying it to himself as a way to take their burdens upon himself so they wouldn't have to feel guilty. He removed their agency. He didn't want any peers in the world he'd created. He could have acknowledged what had happened, for better or worse, and tried to make amends - but instead, he chose to remove their knowledge that something had even happened in the first place. It's the turning point! I need him to go into that with his eyes fully open. He's doing it on purpose! He weighed the pros and cons and prioritised his comfort over his friends' identities.

EYE believe that his story arc is infinitely more powerful if there's a point we can look at and say "here is when John's story went from things happening TO HIM to John doing terrible things". Especially in a backstory that's ultimately about divine corruption and losing touch with your humanity, I think that turning point needs to be something that has a personal value to him, something that can't be chalked up to "he was high on death" or "humanity was doomed" or even "he touched the soul of the earth and went insane."

I think it's important, thematically, that one of his first actions after acquiring godlike powers was to make sure that no one would be able to remember his human self and challenge him on equal footing, even if he's still internally lamenting his own loneliness and wishing things were different.

Obviously, this is all coming from a known John Girlie™ and Eldritch Alecto Enjoyer — I interpret John's ascension to quasi-divinity as something that was mostly imposed ON him and he couldn't control, which is why I need him to cross the moral event horizon outright with the mind violation of his inner circle. Someone who views John as more directly culpable in the end of the earth might feel less strongly about the importance of the mindwipe in his story arc than I do, but TO ME it's the culmination of the tragedy. You've become the inhuman horror, baby.

/post that inspired the question

#i'd totally read posts or fics where this happens differently but TO ME it's juicy if he does it outright :3 #i doubt we'll ever find out for sure bc i think we've seen ALL that we're going to ever get of the resurrection unless it's from alecto's d #so it's really all headcanons! but this is mine #ask #anonymous #elle tlt posting #ejg #tlt thoughts #SORRY I HAVE SOOO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THIS

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