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  1. Summary

    In which we explore the impacts of extreme sleep deprivation and chronic plot trauma on a team of main characters. Let's count who in this team has been explicitly called out as not sleeping for one reason or another. Is it cause for concern? Probably.

    No Sleep Crew: Rook, Lucanis, Neve, Bellara, Harding

    Sleep Crew: Emmerich, Davrin, Taash

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    Astarion: HAHA! I manipulated and tricked you all into liking me and never abandoning me!

    The Party: By making well-balanced decisions that met the needs of the group while helping us accomplish our short-term goals and listening to us talk when we were upset and stuff? Despite the fact you didn't always want to do that?

    Astarion: Wait....

    The Party: That's just friendship, stupid.

    AKA: A collection of things that ostensibly happen in the same little mental universe. Loosely based on the events of an Origin Astarion run and the various questions it inspired. Not published in sequential order, but ordered somewhat by the narrative timeline.

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    Mostly sexy Sandman one-shots that might or might not have happened off screen during some point in the show. Therefore, canon compliant. (Ish.) General themes include Dream getting the shit kicked out of him, various entities doing the kicking, and those who care.

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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    “I hear it.” Rook spoke barely in a whisper. When she turned her head to look at him, he could see tears streaking down her cheeks.

    He pulled himself upright in an instant, his hands automatically going to wipe the tears from her face. Her eyes met his. Lucanis tried to ignore the way Spite buzzed at the back of his skull like an anxious dog.

    “Hear… what?” There was a distinct possibility he did not truly wish to know the answer.

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    Every Grey Warden must eventually answer to the Calling. Even Rook.

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    31 Dec 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 6

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    Rook and Neve have an interesting way on making sure the team works well together. Neve is in charge of the team's ice breakers when they welcome a new member, and its Lucanis's first night in the light house.

    (Ch1/2 - Lucanis's first night)
    (Ch3 - Davrin's first night)

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    31 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    “A gift?” Astarion didn’t bother trying to hide the incredulity in his tone. It was bad enough that he was still having to adjust to running away from the sun again, and an open reminder of the other things he was lacking as a permanent vampire spawn felt particularly cruel. “In case you forgot, I can’t fucking see my—

    Astarion cut himself off mid-rant, his eyes falling angrily toward the mirror only to see…something. Not himself, not really, but standing there between his partners, with their reflections plain to see in the mirror before them, he could almost get…a sense of himself; a hazy outline more easily imagined with Lae’zel’s slight frame against his left side and Halsin’s wide bulk against his right.

    “We know,” Lae’zel answered, stalwart despite the ferocity of his attack. “But we can help.”

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    20 Dec 2023

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    On the run from Cazador, Astarion takes shelter in an abandoned house, only to find out that the house is not so abandoned after all.

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    14 Nov 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 35

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    He didn't know how long he stayed down there. He didn't need air, but he needed blood. His hunger went from a static hum in the back of is head to a roaring thunder, pounding against the back of his eyes and making drool run down his jaw and uncomfortably into the neck of the stiff formal wear he was wearing. He hadn't been dressed particularly finely that night in the manor: who had changed his clothes? Where was he?

    His brain rejected the answer on the tip of his tongue.

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    23 Oct 2023

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