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[personal profile] corporeity 2025-07-07 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ relief floods him, at proof of his use — his worth — however small. ]

I do. Well, up until Baldur’s Gate, as previously discussed.

[ though he knows she refers to the alternate history that overtook them. a temporal distortion. yet more illusory magic foisted upon them without a whisper of consent.

he swallows hard. ]


For what it’s worth, I had forgiven you long ago. Or he had.

[ for the pain of heartbreak. such is the way of love and youth both. it’s almost a novelty, to have experienced it young enough to cope with the pain, far better than he would when it came late in life. and, although a fondness for those he knew and loved in the other world remains, none can lay claim to his heart but the one who coaxed it back to life.

it makes it easier to sit at a remove, fingers entwined in astarion’s hair, even if his boyish fumbling seems no less embarassing from this distance.

(and if he doesn’t acknowledge their most recent encounter, their reflections changing in the night — well, one needn’t rush to unspool all at once, lest they entangle themselves anew.) ]
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[personal profile] corporeity 2025-07-09 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ as they navigate this newfound knowledge of each other, the last thing he expects from shadowheart is a compliment. you were a good boyfriend, an assertion at odds with the other astarion’s clear outline of his failings. a strike against mystra growing bored and then frustrated with him, too. he doesn’t linger in it for too long, thinking instead on the significance of being shadowheart’s first in that world and this one, with her memories stolen from her.

and even if she still possessed them — she speaks true. shar does not allow for sentimental attachments. for softness. for love. he feels impossibly touched, to have given her that (and be given that in turn, when mystra came to him as a boy; there were others after her, but none so all-consuming). ]


Oh.
Thank you.
I’m glad it was you, too.


[ and not another, with privileged knowledge of him when he was young and vulnerable and oh so gangly. ]

And I hope you know you can always unburden yourself with me.

[ that hasn’t changed. ]
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[personal profile] corporeity 2025-07-10 10:57 am (UTC)(link)
You know, I can’t recall having many, either.
After my folly, only a few tried to visit me, and I suspect that was largely to see how far I’d fallen.


[ in fairness, the old gale had been self-aggrandising and prideful. he wouldn’t begrudge them the satisfaction now.

since shadowheart seems open to talking, he pushes a bit further. ]


I imagine this is all very difficult for you.