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gale of waterdeep 🌌 ([personal profile] alldoomnogloom) wrote2024-06-08 08:42 am
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-28 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ honestly? that's fine. well maybe not ten minutes, but he can have a couple of minutes of uninterrupted clinging at the very least. it is very different being physical, and not just running through him and being all ghostly. ]

Something for you to get used to. I can't say I mind being warmer.
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-28 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh. well.



no arguments here. kissing for ten minutes is definitely on the to do list. between kisses, he will take the chance to get one last little quip in: ]


When we're dealing with the more familiar cult, let's not go through this shit again, deal?
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ physical affection first, touring the gy second. which is entirely fair, there is so much gy to tour actually. smart move. ]

I do rather, don’t I? Blue’s a good colour on me.

[ he takes a moment to tilt gale’s face carefully to one side and then the other. ] And here’s you, looking rather handsome even after clambering out of the grave.
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ they’re that couple who are like we look good? oh we know. awful, really. good for them.

hmmm. he squishes gale’s face slightly between his hands and leans in to give him another kiss. ]


And I, you. I suspect, despite everything, this would not have been your preferred choice though. [ it’s hardly accusing, he just… knows gale. ]
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh help. he’s just getting blindered with this i guess. an unprovoked, out of nowhere, sneak attack. and one that he has to stand here and listen to with his hands captured and no idea what he’s meant to be doing in the face of something so very, very sincere like this.




hreughk. ]


…

[ although ]

That’s what I bloody thought you’d think, you—! [ gale is being so sincere and astarion just hears the big sparkly words “I Was Willing To Throw Myself On A Miserable Pyre To Prove Myself To You And All” and sees red. but he does restrain himself to headbutting gale’s shoulder and no more. ]

…

[ then he sighs. ]

Neither Karlach nor I wanted you stuck on the other side out of a sense of obligation and self-sacrifice. Like you had to be there, you needed to see something through. As much as neither of us planned on leaving you there alone.

It is easier here. And we— I would much rather you were here with us, than facing it all alone. [ he turns his face a little to look at him. ] Although, you had that epiphany all by yourself even if it took a while. You even ended up with a way here that put no onus on anything other than the responsibility everyone has had this whole time. Clever, love.

[ is it them if he doesn’t go from pissy to soft? ]
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this why they wrote loving KYS letters to gale like the world’s worst long distance correspondence. so he didn’t do the self-sacrificial bullshit!!

he huffs and slides his arms around gale’s waist. ]


I imagine she’ll be willing to talk it out with you. Robin was quite apologetic about fishing me. And stabbing me. [ murder things. ]

I suppose I can be persuaded to forgive you.
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I imagine quite a few people do.

[ yeah they can just be all sappy and cozy until astarion gets hives or something. ]

This isn’t a bad start.
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

This reminds me.

[ pinches his side. ]

Stop fucking with the Karsus texts.
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't been reading the terrible cursed necromancy book the entire time I've been here! [ because he doesn't have it ]

It'd better stay purely academic. No sudden changes of mind and aspirations to do something with it, even if it's not ascending to godhood.
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he nEEDS TO STOP DOING THIS ASTARION HAS A HEART THAT CAN HAVE A HEARTATTACK NOW. aaaaaa. he absently traces the outline of the mark as much as his fingers can with gale still gripping his hand. ]

...



I think the latter is rather important to the former, if you want to be picky. Can't really seek out the meaning of happiness if we're both permanently gone, can we?
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
So there we have it. A plan of action.

[ don't die. be happy. smooches his neck. ]
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[personal profile] haematocritical 2024-07-29 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ yea!! it's a perfect plan! nothing can go wrong. and get used to it. ]

I think that's allowed. Just for once. Dying really takes it out of you. [ even if all you did was unravel your very existence in front of everyone you know and love. wow. ]

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