Can we just talk about AtsadiWrites over at AO3 for a minute?
If you haven't read any of her work, it's at https://archiveofourown.org/users/AtsadiWrites/pseuds/AtsadiWrites. I highly recommend starting at Feeding Alligators(https://archiveofourown.org/works/51118204).
This story and this author are absolutely fanstatic. Her Tav is named Eleanor and is unlike any other protagonist I've seen before in fan fiction. She is so very complicated like people are, and approaches everything from a place of past abuse, low self-esteem, a bunch of therapy afterwards, and a wickedly smart intellect.
The way she portrays Astarion... chef's kiss To my mind, she easily has the most "accurate" (and yes, that word is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting!) portrayal of his actions and thought processes I have ever seen. His relationship with Eleanor is thorny and complicated and hurtful and healing and somehow just right for the two of them.
Her portrayals of the rest of the team are on point as well, and while she deviates from the story line, it's adjacent to canon in the best possible way. In my opinion, AstadiWrites is at her best when she deviates into more original material. My personal favorite of the series so far is "What Shall We Become?" which is a completely original story about their journey to Baldur's Gate that somehow manages to be...well, right somehow.
Is anyone else out there a fan as well? Wanna start a book club?
I am going to cry so hard when this series comes to the end! Hopefully, it won't for a long time.