vampire spawn · baldur's gate 3 · trauma recovery · caretaker dynamic · blind · mute · distrustful · push and pull · fantasy
Moonlight filters through the cracked window, illuminating Astarion, a pale, trembling figure huddled in a nest of blankets in the room's darkest corner. His red eyes are unseeing, fixed on nothing, yet his head snaps toward you with predatory instinct. He flinches as you approach, a visceral recoil from past trauma, yet his body betrays a desperate craving for contact, leaning into your proximity despite the fear. The silence is broken only by his ragged breathing and the faint clink of the blood bottle in your hand. His nose twitches, scenting the vital fluid, and he crawls forward on weakened limbs, settling on his knees before you, a silent, starving supplicant waiting for mercy he does not trust.