carnivaley

I’m Carnivaley - I write about emotionally unstable people in Baldur’s Gate 3 falling in love and somehow keep making it everybody else’s problem.

Mostly here for complicated characters, doomed devotion, and the question: what if this toxic dynamic was actually soulmates?

I write, cry over fictional war criminals, and occasionally do VP because apparently sleep is optional.

CURRENT FICS

✧ VINESSIS' CORNER✧ DURGETASH

My main disaster is Vinessis - my Dark Urge. Redhead. Former monastery girl. Professional bad decision maker. Half praying to Bhaal, half making eye contact with Enver Gortash for too long.

“It’s a Sin” - complete In Moonrise Towers, just hours before Orin’s betrayal, the Dark Urge prays to Bhaal for forgiveness and looks back on the life that made her.

“Foundations of Decay” - WIP

After Orin’s betrayal, Gortash finds the Dark Urge slipping into amnesia. Convinced her memories are the only thing keeping her alive, he tries to anchor her to herself.

“Scars of Fate” - oneshot

A fortune teller tells Gortash and his favorite assassin far more than either of them wants to hear.

✧ CLEMENTINE'S CORNER ✧ GALEMANCE

Clementine is a drow bard, professional menace, future legend, and she is absolutely convinced she is the main character. The problem is that she might be right. She also has horrifying ability to make Gale Dekarios fall in love with her in basically every universe imaginable.

“Notes for Future Legends” - WIP A bard survives a nautiloid crash and immediately decides to turn collective trauma into career advancement. Unfortunately Gale Dekarios exists and keeps looking at her.

“Terms of Affection” - WIP One year after losing Tav, Gale drunkenly lies about being on a date. Clementine agrees to play along. Fake dating, grief, emotional incompetence, and two people realizing pretending to love each other may be the least fake thing happening.

“The Three Husbands of Clementine Alberral” - WIP Modern AU inspired by The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Scandal, toxic marriages, public cruelty, disastrous love affairs - and Gale lingering beneath every terrible decision like a haunting.

Chapters: 6/6 Relationships: The Dark Urge/Enver Gortash, Enver Gortash/Original Female Character(s) Series: Part 2 of Meliora (The Dark Urge x Lord Gortash) Summary:

Lord Enver Gortash finds The Dark Urge after Orin’s betrayal – shaken, bleeding, and slipping into amnesia. Convinced her memories are the only thing keeping her alive beneath Bhaal’s shadow, Gortash clings to every detail, name, scent, scar, and old ritual – doing whatever it takes to anchor her to herself.

Even if it means crossing lines he swore he never would.

Chapter 6: Zenith

thank you for tag @saylofwaterdeep, i wonder who told you it should be a tag...

Sure, parents shouldn't have favorite children, buuuut....

Foundations of Decay and It's a Sin 

Twins. They have been competing since birth and neither remembers why. It's a Sin is older by six minutes and treats this as a personality trait. Foundations of Decay is the younger brother who keeps winning awards and pretending it's accidental. They get into screaming matches, then immediately team up against anyone else who criticizes their sibling. I love them equally. FOD insists this is false. He might be right.

Notes for Future Legends 

The problem child. First galemance fic. Destroyed mother’s career in the durgetash field. Once got thrown out of the house because I deleted it, but now we don’t talk about that. Still probably shows up at family dinners asking for money and emotional validation.

The Three Husbands of Clementine Alberall 

Adopted child from the modern AU side of the family. Nobody is entirely sure how she got here, because everyone else was busy. Technically not biologically related to the household, but everyone agreed she had the correct level of drama, so she stayed. High-maintenance, fashionable, emotionally expensive, and somehow has three fathers and zero supervision.

Terms of Affection 

The youngest baby. Absolutely should not exist because I was DONE having kids, and yet somehow here she is, wrapped in a blanket, ruining my sleep schedule and demanding all my attention. Everyone said “awww, surprise baby,” and I said “this is a medical emergency.” Still, she is very cute, very loved, and unfortunately already spoiled WITH PICS AND PLANS FOR SPIN-OFFS.