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introducing
a girldirt
production

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❝ I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams. ❞

— max von sydow as antonius block, the seventh seal (1957)

SHE OF SILKEN SHADOWS AND SILVER TONGUE.

fallon, woman of the shadow's cloak, where the only road that beckons is one paved in the revels of ill-begotten fortune. oh how she loves the song of steel, minor only to the beauty of a dull gaze. better to pinch the boon of a coin purse, to fiddle with the rusted mechanisms of an unwatched lock. 

a half-elf, born in the folly of her noble father, the dishonourable virric mossdreamer. her poor maiden mother passed in the destitution of a beggar, not from the sickness that gripped her humanity but the sharp side of a dagger. not that this is the story she peddles, such a tale begs the tender ridge of an achilles heel. for to fallon, there is no finer truth than a lie.

the path of squalor was not one to be tread by her. she vowed to double the wealth of her father, and then some. throughout the region she carved out for herself the reputation of a skilled criminal whose back was not to be turned on. a friend to all: a fool to none. with her three closest allies, she formed a band of wily thieves known for reliability only in their execution of contract.

CAZADOR SZARR'S OFFER IS NOT AN UNFAMILIAR TUNE.

retrieve precious cargo and handle with care. yet this forbidden fruit has fangs and the spite to match. when fallon's mark proves both humanoid and slippery, gaining the upper hand, she finds herself on the receiving end of a peculiar bargain. help astarion bring cazador to ruin and earn whatever loot is hidden in the rubble.

but things are not so cut and dry. cazador's proximity to fallon's father is a bargaining chip he isn't afraid to throw into the ring, at the behest of a certain devil. his promise to avenge her mother is one that she cannot bat an eye at. yet as the road grows weary beneath her light step, fallon must decide between the betrayal of everything she has ever known and trust to a man whose eye is on a prize far greater than her humble comprehension.

MASKENBALL (DANSE MACABRE)
— arthur kampf, 1949

𝑷𝑳𝑨𝒀𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻

SEVER THE BLIGHT, hemlocke springs

UZUMAKI, softcult

CONTAMINATED, banks

ARE YOU TEN YEARS AGO, pvris

CLOSER, kings of leon

LICKING AN ORCHID, yves tumor

MADE OF STONE, daughter

DANSE MACABRE, duran duran

WOLF, now now

ANXIOUS THOUGHTS, le siren

MISERY IS A BUTTERFLY, ex:re

PURIFIED BY THE FIRE, yves tumor

VIRGINIA WOLFE UNDERWATER, chelsea wolfe

VOYEUR, baths

THEY STAY DOWN DEEP, giselle

BABY TEETH, flower face

VIENNA, the fray

A PEARL, mitski

THE FATHER COMPLEX, many rooms

HONEY (ARE YOU COMING?), maneskin

ᘛ∎✠∎ᘚ
𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐍
as played by poppy drayton

❝ the liberator of coin ❞

i sometimes wish i stayed inside
my mother
never to come out
— SMOTHER, daughter

ᘛ∎✠∎ᘚ
𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐍
as played by neil newbon

❝ the pale elf ❞

like a dream where my teeth all fall out
on repeat
— UZUMAKI, softcult

ᘛ∎✠∎ᘚ
𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐊𝐀𝐒
as played by barry keoghan

ᘛ∎✠∎ᘚ
𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐀
as played by jamie chung

ᘛ∎✠∎ᘚ
𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇
as played by dev patel

ᘛ∎✠∎ᘚ
𝐕𝐈𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐂 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑
as played by robert pattinson

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CAZADOR SZARR as played by tadanobu asano

RAPHAEL as played by mark strong

COSMEL as played by annabel scholey

&&. all others as described.

BOOK ONE OF TWO

THE DANSE MACABRE // THE DIES TENEBRAE

i. ok i might be suffering from a severe case of bg3 brainrot. i got it a week ago and i alrdy have 100 hrs in it idk how. astarion is my sweet baby boy who has never done a wrong thing in his life ok i won't be hearing otherwise /lh

ii. fallon is not tav! i wanted to write something a bit more speculative that could sit next to the canon, like if tav never found astarion on the side of the road. it centres more on astarion's questline and alters the bg3 plot, rearranging a lot of the way the information is presented. however it will be rife with bg3 spoilers so i'd rly only recommend reading if u have played the game and/or don't care about the plot being spoiled. 

i also ended up digging through the forgotten realms lore and incorporating it within, so i guess this is as much a dnd fic as well as a bg3 one. i started off simple but now have a compendium. i draw a lot on the twilight war and the erevis cale series by paul s. kemp. thus given size, i've split this book in two. the first instalment will deal mostly in characters, the second in the wider plot of the mindflayers.

iii. warnings for canon themes/subject matter. if it's in the game, it'll probably be in here. i won't be tagging anything so this is your warning! the plotting of this ended up being angsty as hell for reasons that will make themselves evident quickly. i'm in love with all of the characters i've made which i hope makes the moral questions of the story compelling.

iv. DTS for the lovely -highgxrden, sseraphines, cosmogyrall- & montjoys. also ty for tala for helping me with my fc conniption over fallon, i was honestly atp of being like yeah lemme cast 7 different actresses for her.

v. ngl im really into this story, it's been ages since i've had a bunch of scenes just pop into my head so i might get a bit zealous abt posting here. the bg3 fandom on wp is very small so this is a labour of love! i hope those of you who do follow along enjoy <3

vi. lastly, i hope it goes without saying that writing does not equal endorsement! happy reading! and please don't be a silent reader <3 comments & votes are greatly appreciated and help motivate me during the writing process!