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Tʜᴇ Pᴀʟᴇ Eʟғ | Asᴛᴀʀɪᴏɴ Aɴᴄᴜɴíɴ ([personal profile] illithidnapped) wrote2022-02-03 01:54 am

INBOX II




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[previous inbox]
doggish: gonna have to be secretly in love with each other (sad ⚔ i think we're just)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-11-28 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[There's no happy endings, not when it comes to stories from their past— and yet still some part of Leto feels his trepidation growing in a way it normally doesn't. It's something to do with the way Astarion writes of him, all the emotion distant and observational, but it's more than that. It's the similarities. The echoes that Leto would be blind not to recognize— and the revelation that they did not come from his lover alone.]

You modeled yourself after him.

[And doesn't he know full well how that feels . . .]

Did he teach you how to survive during those first years?
doggish: (shock ⚔ oh! goodness!)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-11-28 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ten years, and it's nothing and everything all at once. (A handful of months, and it was a lifetime and a fleeting gasp of air, there and gone). He can almost picture it, too: Astarion, terrified and so achingly young, desperately clinging to a confident, charming figure who knew how to navigate the world and didn't mind sharing that knowledge . . .

No, more than that. Who took him under his wing when he had no real reason to do so, save to find another hand reaching out in the bleakest darkness.

You were bright. And wondrous. And unsurpassed to this day, even as I know you better. He has not forgotten the visage of himself in Astarion's memories: a warrior with blade drawn and stance ready, blazing bright with lyrium as he stood in front of Astarion's sprawled form. A savior, a hero, bright and bold, ready to defend him from the world and all its horrors. And now Leto wonders distantly if he wasn't the first to strike such a figure— if, in fact, he was the second. If Astarion had not dared to look at anyone that way after the death of Vincent . . .

Maybe. Maybe not.]


Varania. Always, Varania.

[He thinks it a genuine question at first, so distracted is he. Only afterwards does he read into the jagged scrawl and realize that Astarion might be picking a fight— but that's all right. Maker knows he's endured so many of Leto's snarling moods over the past year.]

Tell me how he taught you. Or why you ask such a question— unless it was him who endured for your sake.
doggish: it's a general anger you know like just a state of being not a specific mood (anger ⚔ angry but like at the world)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-11-30 04:31 am (UTC)(link)

[Something hard drops in the pit of Leto's stomach, nauseating him as he stares down at the words. He left, two words that might come across as cold and stoic if you couldn't hear pain woven within every word. A hurt so potent that it closes Leto's throat and blurs his vision for a few seconds, no matter that the scar is two centuries old.

And what does he say to that? I'm sorry is meaningless, though he is. You deserved so much better is far more true, but Astarion knows that already. I love you, I wish I had been there, I will never do that to you, I will never leave you, my heart hurts for you, and all of those are true, but it isn't what he wants to say.]



Fuck him.

[It’s vulgar as he so rarely is, spat out and snarled. He can hear his heart thundering in his ears, a rapidfire rhythm that’s growing louder by the second.]


If he was fool enough to leave you behind, he isn’t worth recalling.

[That isn’t true, but he’s furious.]


You were a far better sibling than Varania ever was. A far better companion than anyone I have ever met in my life. He was a fool to leave you behind— and the fact you are here, now, with allies at your side and a knife in your hand ready to slaughter your master, only proves it.

And where is he now?

I will give him credit for teaching you if it helped you survive— but I will never forgive him for that.

Fuck him.
doggish: despite the warning signs (sad ⚔ i love you)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-12-03 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't reply. Words are useless when he's so close that scrawling out an answer would only delay him more— and anyway, what is there to say? He knows why Astarion asks, so better to give him a few more moments to exhale the memories away.

A moment later there's footsteps darting swiftly up the stairs two at a time. A door opens, and like clockwork, a familiar chorus of delighted barks and eager whines arise around the coffin. Three bodies barrel across the room, leaping around Leto in a bid for attention that's equal parts overjoyed and greedily eager for his focus— but oh, all three girls are destined to be disappointed, for his pace slows just long enough to give each of them a swift scrub behind the ears as he murmurs his greeting. A few voices call out from beyond the partition, and those are offered a rumbling greeting tossed carelessly over his shoulder: yes, hello, so blatantly uninterested that it borders on rudeness— but who cares, for there the coffin is, and then—

There Leto is, emerald eyes serious beneath the low-hanging hood of his cloak.  

There's nothing else so important as this, he thinks as he climbs into the coffin and closes the lid behind him. Nowhere else he needs to be that matters as much as being home, curled up and holding his mate as the last of those emotions shudders through him. He won't say anything, for there's no use in reopening an already raw wound. But he saw the way ink had smeared; he sees the redness in his mate's eyes, and he will not leave him alone to weather this storm.]


Come here.

[He wraps his arms around his mate, gathering him up without prompting. Come here, my love, his palms warm and firm as they sweep over his back. Gently he presses a kiss to his forehead, the tip of his nose, and then finally to the corner of his mouth. Come here and be with me.

A moment, and he wrinkles his nose in wry amusement.]


And do your best not to shriek your delight.

[If distraction comes at his own expense, all the better. Leto untangles one hand only to sweep the hood back away from his face. Two puppish ears pop out, one and then the other sticking straight up: their fur the same shade as his hair, their appearance tall and pointed.]

The tail is tucked down my pants . . .

[It's a miracle it isn't wagging, but chalk that up to his concern for Astarion.]
doggish: (happy; chibi mode activate)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-12-05 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[There's no wisdom in fighting it— and truth be told, no real desire to either. He'd be embarrassed if this happened in front of others, but as it stands: there are far, far worse things than wriggling beneath the outpouring of delighted affection from his mate. Leto beams beneath the onslaught, alternating between kissing back when he feels cool lips against his own and rumbling in open contentment when he doesn't, his heart melting for every doting compliment and cooing exclamation. Gods above, he hears again and again as claws brush against his ears, and ooh, it feels so good. So good. So so so good, and without thinking he pushes into it, eager as Ataashi on her neediest days.

(Funny, he thinks a moment later. Funny how things change, for it wasn't two years ago that he would have been repulsed beyond belief by this transformation. Horrified and all but ready to take a blade to the damned things if it would fix it, and now . . . now, he knows better. Perhaps he will never adore magic. Certainly he never will in Thedas, but things are different here, and at least it no longer terrifies him the way it once did).

And oh: he loves this, he does, but ow.]


Wait, wait— Astarion

[Laughingly said, but he does his damned best to free at least one hand so he can reach behind him. It's the work of a moment to shimmy his pants down low on his hips, just far enough that the other addition his backlashing magic gave him can finally spring free. It is, mercifully, proportionate enough that it doesn't take up much room in the coffin— but there's no mistaking the rapidfire thump-thump-thump that beats against the side.]

Er— it's uncomfortable to have it constrained.

[So. Yes, and he clears his throat, something a little less than embarrassment crossing his expression. It's no worse than the ears, but still. It's an odd thing to have a tail. Odder still to be unable to control how it wags— nor, indeed, how much faster it goes each time Astarion lavishes another bit of affection upon him.]
Edited 2025-12-05 01:31 (UTC)
doggish: so you can come back home again (happy ⚔ why do you go away?)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-12-07 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh gods, he's going to regret this the moment he exits out of the coffin (if he exits out at all; perhaps he'll just live in here for the next three days, forgoing food and water until these ears disappear). There's no way the others can't hear Astarion right now, effusive as he is— but oh, that's a problem for later. Right now Astarion is looking giddier than he has in ages, and flustered though he might be, Leto can't possibly take that away from him.

Especially when there's a part of him that's trying not to bark in overstimulated, giddying excitement. His tail is wagging up a storm, his cheeks flushed happily as he squirms within his husband's hold, every doggish instinct within him sitting up and panting in open response: it's him it's him, he's his catulus, oh he is he is, he's such a good boy good boy good boy, nonsensical and overstimulated in the sweetest of ways.

(Outside the coffin, there's one very petulant, very confused whine. Why, Ataashi wonders, are those wonderful sounds happening when they aren't directed at her? It can't be at the brats; they're still both visibly baffled as they snuffle the spot where their father had been a few minutes ago, trying to determine what makes his scent so strange right now. Which is good, for she'd riot if it was directed towards them— but if not them, and not her, then why is it happening? And yet there's no answer, no matter how loudly she whines— and so after a few minutes, she teleports her way beneath Shadowheart's bed, ignoring the cleric's startled squawking in favor of bedding down for a good sulk).]


Hush— hush

[He's still grinning as he says it, unwilling to fully put a stopper in his amatus' excitement. But when mere words don't prove enough, Leto darts in to press their lips together in a forceful kiss. Settle in, the emphasis coming from how he surges forward and urges Astarion to lay flat against the bottom of the coffin.]

You are a menace. Does this really thrill you so much?

[Of course it does. It thrills them both, for Leto's tail (now perched in the air) is still wagging furiously.]

It was an accident, not deliberate— and if you do not settle down, the others will come disturb us, and that will be the end of your fun. You—
doggish: just SLAP his hideous beautiful face i just wanna SLAP IT (embarrassed ⚔ i just wanna slap his face)

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[personal profile] doggish 2025-12-07 03:01 am (UTC)(link)


[Astarion's hands are still wandering over him: one at his ears, the other at his tail, claws combing through soft fur with indiscriminate adoration. The latter wraps around the base of his tail, tugging faintly, and Leto—

moans.

The noise mercifully quiet enough to be unheard, but unmistakable in what it is, for his expression has gone vulgarly slack. For a moment he stares at nothing, cheeks flushing dark as a toe-curling wave of absolute pleasure unlike any he's felt before ripples through him. Oh, oh, and that felt—

Maker. The kind of pleasure akin to when Astarion sprawls him out on the bed and angles his prick just right before pistoning into him; it ripples up his spine and goes straight to his cock, so uniquely good that for a long few seconds he does nothing but stare blankly into space. Fuck. Oh, fuck, and he's so close to begging Astarion to do that again, but— he swallows thickly— not right now. Not when everyone is awake.]


I think, ah, I think it may be sensitive.
doggish: agreeing before you know any of the weird details! (flirt ⚔ well look at you)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-12-18 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Venhedis, Astarion . . .

[He breathes out the curse as his eyes flutter closed, something hot and heavy dropping like a stone into the pit of his belly. Fuck. Fuck, even that— even the slow, teasing glide of clawed fingertips through fur— is enough to make him shudder, little pinpricks of pleasure rippling down his spring. His hips glide and rock against Astarion's thigh, knowing that he's stoking the fire and not caring.

Because he knows that seductive tone, the one that always leaves him practically salivating from desire alone. He knows that wicked look in Astarion's eye and just what it means for the future: promising him the filthiest sort of vulgarity if only he'll beg sweetly for it . . . gods, it's not a question of if so much as when. And, perhaps, what Leto intends to do with these precious last moments before they lose themselves in one another.

Again, something instinctive in him whines. His back arches, his hips grinding forward more shamelessly: again, again, and it's only with an iron will that he manages to shove the desire to the side.]


Yes. But wait

[As quick as when he's scolding the pups, the tone short and sharp. Not unhappy, not at all, but he knows his husband well enough to know that the moment Astarion hears yes, all the gloves are off. One hand stretches out and glows faintly; there's a buzzing noise, the taste of turmeric thick in the air, before the idle noises of outside fade.

There. That's better, and he cocks his head as he faces Astarion again.]


Can you manage it all in a coffin? Or shall we find somewhere else to explore?

[He is not above renting a room for six hours. Then, wryly (baitingly:]

Could you even manage to wait long enough to get to the brothel?

[And this time, Astarion will be able to actually feel the way his tail wags in playful invitation.]
doggish: they're made, not found (happy ⚔ if soulmates exist)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-12-27 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[My little pup— oh, it's been an age since Astarion has called him that, and the subsequent shuddering grind of his hips glides in eager response. But the way his tail flicks up (not lifts, not just yet) is all for the slow suckle of lips against his neck, hot and slow and claiming. With a low groan he tips his head invitingly to one side, lazy waves of heat pulsing through him in time with every flick of Astarion's tongue.]

Nn, Astarion . . .

[For a long moment Leto wavers, torn between the impulse to tease and the molten temptation of simply sinking into this here and now. His eyes flutter closed, his lips parting as he arches his back in blatant invitation, his tail lifting just a little higher . . .

But it's so much more fun to play.

His eyes gleam eagerly as he draws back to face Astarion. You haven't gotten me just yet, no matter that he can't seem to stop grinding against his thigh— nor shuddering each time those clever fingers tug on his tail.]


Could I endure it? Having you so desperately ravenous to touch me— taste me— that you can't help but drag me into an alley and put your mouth on me. One hand between my thighs while the other tugs my tail, seeing how loudly you can make me moan as you glide your prick against me and promise to fuck me if only I'll beg you sweetly for it . . . I suspect I could endure it, Astarion, yes.

But that isn't what I want.

[Reaching back, he takes Astarion's hands (quietly mourning the loss of those fingers combing through his tail) and pins them lightly against his shoulders. White teeth flash as he bites his lip, emerald eyes hooded with desire.]

I want you to give me the most loving sex of my life— and given what you have offered me over the past four years, Astarion, I suspect that will be more of a challenge than you expect. I want to fuck on a bed, not hidden away while we fumble for room. I want to fuck the way we used to, not with my magic to silence us or with limited tools, but with all the space and time and toys we desire.

I want, [he says, and wends his way closer, blunt teeth catching against the soft skin of Astarion's jaw over and over,] to sprawl out on the bed and hear the way you groan for how my tail lifts for you. I want to feel your fingers in my hair as you pin my face to the mattress and listen to me scream as you fuck me hard enough to break the bed, forgetting every word except please. I want to be so filled with your come that I drip it, and worship you with my tongue and my throat until you finish on my face— claimed on both ends.

And I want to tie you to the bed. I want to listen to the way you groan as I tease your fangs, fucking your mouth with two fingers while I bounce on your prick. I want to pin your legs back and fuck you slowly, watching you melt beneath me all the while.

[He draws back again.]

I want to go to that brothel, amatus.

And I know you have self-control enough to make it there, for you have before.

So.

[He leans down, offering Astarion one languid, indulgent kiss: their mouths moving together with molten indulgence once, twice, before Leto breaks away with a little gasp. Sitting up (as much as he's able to, anyway), he gathers his cloak around him.]

The Fey Fox is six blocks away, and the sun was setting when I came in. You can either walk with me— or you may meet me there, and see what surprise I may have in store for you when you walk in.

[Either way, he has every intention of climbing back out of the coffin and heading towards the brothel. Thank the Maker for cloaks that cover not just ears and tails, but a notable swell at the front of his trousers.]
doggish: power bottoms! (happy ⚔ bienvenue)

[personal profile] doggish 2025-12-30 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[It's such a wretched thing to leave him.

Truly: for a moment Leto's heart falters, his eyes softening in response to that plea. Stay, and every instinct within him cries out to fulfill that wish. But the coffin opens in the next second, there's that scruffing little command— and oh, for all his heart longs to be near Astarion, it will be so much better when they have the privacy of a room. Still: there's a little nuzzle of assurance offered in that chaotic transition: I'll be there, wait only a little, and then Astarion is gone.

To his credit, he walks fast as he strides down the street. He's no interest in prolonging their separation, after all, and maybe that's why negotiations for a room seem to take so long. Or maybe that's just due to his age, for the madam takes a special sort of pleasure in making him ask for what he wants. If she thinks she'll embarrass him, more fool her; Leto answers tartly and swiftly, and soon enough she's accepted his gold. From there it's up the stairs, ignoring the flirtatious men and scantily-clad women who coo at him and think him an easy mark, counting the doors until at last—

The door opens, the door closes. And Leto leans back against it with a heavy exhale.

Gods, he hadn't realized how starved he was for an empty room until just now.

He won't ever say a word of it to Astarion, not least of which because he knows the lack of privacy grates on his husband's nerves as well. But he's such a solitary creature at heart, and to have spent the past however-many-weeks sharing a space with not just one or two, but a whole host of people he barely knows— gods, it's a lot. And now to have a space where for the next day or so, they won't have to fuss over what others might overhear or think or say, or be on their guards twenty-four/ten . . . oh, it's worth the price, he thinks.

He paces around the room once or twice, stretching his arms above his head, taking a few moments to do nothing but savor it. How he can kick off his hated shoes and walk around barefoot without a host of questions; the way he can cross the room without attracting any stares, friendly or otherwise, or have someone inquire after him . . . gods, he should have brought Ataashi, he thinks with amusement— and then, glancing over at the array of toys laid out, remembers just why he hadn't.

And he'd promised Astarion a surprise, hadn't he?

It takes him only a little time to get ready, and thank the gods for that, for no sooner has he finished setting everything down that he hears a tell-tale scraping. One pale claw makes its way between the window slats and unhooks the latch, and Leto is just about to greet him when—

Oh.

Oh no.]


Come in, [he says, just in case it's something to do with being invited in. But no, that can't be the case, for Astarion is inside . . . sort of. Halfway there, anyway, and it's not his fault that his bat-form is so rotund, nor that the window swings outwards instead of in— and so Leto tries (semi-successfully) to bite back his laughter. That, he gives his husband; he does not bother hiding his grin as he approaches.]

Are you stuck?

[Of course he's stuck, but far be it for Leto not to be a little brat in moments like these. Still grinning, he angles his hands around his husband, trying to figure out a way to sort of— just grab Astarion and the window both—]

Stop— Astarion, stop

[Finally he just sort of clamps both palms around that fat, fuzzy little body, pinning his wings down and forcing him out before yanking him right back in.]

Is that better, hm?

[Rude, the way he's so blatantly enjoying this.]
doggish: power bottoms! (happy ⚔ bienvenue)

[personal profile] doggish 2026-01-07 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He laughs in delight when Astarion transforms in his arms; he's chuckling still (hot puffs of air ghosting against chilly lips, his arms already wrapped tight around his husband's lithe frame) when Astarion's mouth meets his. In an instant he surges into the kiss: neck craning upwards as he tips his head to deepen it, his thighs spreading in open invitation. I missed you, I longed for you, I want you, every inch of him thrumming with swiftly-growing desire. Another, another, just one more, until his lips throb from how they ache and he has to break away with a gasp to suck in a breath of air.]

Mm, but perhaps better still with a be— ah, aha—

[One nimble claw glides against the rim of his ear, teasing at the tip— and oh, Maker, it should be illegal to do so much with so little a touch. Leto's mind goes blank as he fights not to roll his eyes back (or worse still, pant with his tongue lolled out like a bitch in heat). It's just— gods, these puppish ears are just as sensitive as his elven ones, and every slow, seemingly careless little flick of a claw leaves Leto shuddering.]

Astarion . . .

[Wait, what was he saying? But it barely matters. A bed, a couch, a wall, a floor— gods, he'll get fucked against the frosted window so long as Astarion will keep doing that.

Except . . .

They have a whole room to themselves right now, and why should they indulge in something they could have done in the coffin? If they're going to indulge as they haven't been able to in months, why not indulge? Those golden false piercings throbbing beneath his shirt were only the start as far as Leto is concerned.

Knees locking around Astarion's hips, he flips them over in one smooth movement: hands bracing against Astarion's chest as he perches atop him and his tail wagging faintly as he surveys his husband. Almost absently he rocks back, plush ass rubbing slowly against the swiftly-swelling line of his cock.]


Aht . . . not yet. What do we say first?

[He hasn't forgotten Astarion's talk on why letting Leto take charge is so immensely difficult— but on the other hand, it's not as if he doesn't know what he's doing. He has no illusions about topping, but playing . . .? There's such a thrill to be had in baiting a tiger, and they've always flirted with danger.

With one hand he pins his wrist loosely to the floor; he glides his fingertips over the swell of Astarion's bottom lip with the other, coaxing him into opening his mouth. The moment he does they slip inwards: not to greedily take, but merely to tease, knocking against his teeth and tracing the line of his fangs.]


When you want something . . . when you have spent the past twenty minutes thinking of nothing but how I'll look flat on my back with my thighs spread, begging for you to plunge your cock in so deep that the entire brothel will know your name from the sound of my cries alone . . . when you're outright salivating around the swell of my fingers for the thought of tugging my tail until I bark for you . . . [He rocks his hips back, stomach rippling gliding against Astarion's cock in one sinfully fluid motion.] Astarion, what do we say first in order to get it, hm?
Edited (a lil more sluttiness UvU ) 2026-01-07 22:28 (UTC)

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