Under Dark Stars We Burn (Astarion x OC)

Astarion knows what it means to be trapped. To be used, controlled, shaped into something meant to serve. Two centuries of slavery have taught him that survival is all that matters.

So when he finds someone powerful enough to help him kill his master, it should be simple.

Use her. Win. Be free.

But she isn't simple. She doesn't demand his loyalty, his debt, or his suffering. She stands beside him anyway. And that defies everything he's ever learned.

As the mind flayer's corruption spreads and Cazador's shadow stretches across the miles, the walls he's spent lifetimes building start to crack. Because safety is not the same as freedom, and survival is not the same as living.

And for the first time in two hundred years he wonders--what if he could want something more?

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Based on the video game Baldur's Gate 3. The only character I own is my OC, Mara.