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weight on my soul, undone by your hand by ballofbitter for magmethius
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Dec 2025
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"The thing about safety however, the Emperor now realized: is that you could be as safe as a babe wrapped tight and bundled against it's mother's breast, but if you were also alone — the void would always find its way back in to the very corners of your mind, slithering and making it through the smallest of hairline cracks that formed in the silence that being completely safe promised."
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The Emperor has had a lot of places to hide over the passing years, but much prefers to be found.
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through the cloak of a fog by ballofbitter for Gally
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
07 Oct 2025
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"It was that damned sad look on her unfortunate face, the subtle down turning of her lower lip tucked neatly just under her fangs, that made him begrudgingly want to help her in her hour of apparent extreme distress.
Gods damn it. What was happening to him?"
AKA: Role-Reversal fic with a side of mild villain swapping where Karlach and Astarion go hunting for her next meal. (Chomp!)
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as i burn alive (but not alone) by ballofbitter for Professor_Rye
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Dec 2024
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Karlach wants to hear their voices, more than anything. She doesn’t want the last thing she hears to be the sounds of the engine coming apart at the seams, the torturous grinding echoing from within as it continues to sputter in its fruitless endeavour to stabilize. She doesn’t want the last thing she sees to be only the blurred, twisted faces of the people that she loves, everything else lost to the ripping pain radiating through her skull. She wants to feel like she’s lived forever and a day after seeing of hundreds of new dawns, years. To know nothing but the warm embrace of a full life lived of love and happy memories, those blissful pictures caressing an old body into her last moments, surrounded by people that adore her. It feels like she’s barely touched the edges of what the world - life has to offer her.
And it was already at its end.
AKA: Karlach struggles with the possibility of a return to Avernus to escape her fiery end. What if there were more of her new family willing to put their necks on the line for her? (Think of the free snacks!)
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"Karlach's usual smile she wears has truly returned, the kind that shines so brightly it reaches the innermost corners of her soul. It's a smile that burns hotter than the engine in her chest ever could, a reminder to all that are fortunate enough to know her that she is so much more than the shadow of an hourglass glued to a table."
aka: Karlach wakes during the night to talk with her lover about a dream she has that she doesn't know if she will ever see - and tries to believe there is still a chance her sunset isn't as soon as it may seem.
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A snapshot into the developing relationship between Vetra and Ryder, complete with interspecies awkwardness and lots of purring.
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Under Your Scars - Hellions and Wildhearts by ballofbitter
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Jun 2024
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My gift for Ballofbitter for the BW3 Secret Santa!
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Karlach vs the Birthday Quest Chain by Gally for ballofbitter
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Dec 2025
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The Shadow-Cursed Lands are a challenging place to find a birthday present. What is Karlach going to do? She simply has to get Eos something for her special day. Good thing she has all these new non-devil friends to ask for help! They’re bound to have tons of great ideas! … right?
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last light, last light, in your bright red eyes by Volossya
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
28 Feb 2025
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When Isobel intervenes on behalf of a drow being cast into the shadows, she gets much more than she bargained for.
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30 Apr 2025
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Sweet Dreams of Winters Warm (Choose Your Own Ending) by Tavylia_Sin
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
18 Jun 2024
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Gale and Karlach share a moment alone before the end...and what end they face is up to you. Links at the end of the first part will take you to the ending you choose~ (yes, you can go back and read the other if you wish, it's not honour mode!)
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A genuine smile quickly gave way to another sigh. “Why are we here?”
“Because everyone else went to bed, and for some reason I got lumped with the grumpiest face for company.” Despite her words, Karlach’s tone was light - she was glad, for once, to not be alone when the shadows nibbled at the back of her mind. The sand in the hourglass chafed at her in ways she didn’t want to think too hard about. “But what are we going to do after this?”
“Well, I assume eventually one or both of us will get tired enough to sleep, and we’ll finally go back to the rooms upstairs and pretend like we had our full 8 hours when everyone else gets up.” Gale shrugged, taking another sip of lukewarm ale.
“Not that, I mean…” Karlach made a broader gesture with her hands towards the door, to the city, to where all their troubles somehow managed to lay sleeping until dawn. “I mean after everything’s done. When we win. The city freed, everyone paraded around like big damn heroes…” -
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They both lost everything to the nuclear fire bombs of the great war. Now centuries later kindred spirits meet as if it was written by fate, igniting a new kind of fire within them.
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