Baldur's Gate 3 early access for my birthday and I'm so impressed!
The games I gravitate towards all emphasise story, choice, and character so I'm definitely in my element.
We've also come a long way from Baldur's Gate saying evil aligned characters are the only queer romance and must all meet a terrible end. "We were simply too sexy and bad to the bone, baby," interjects Dorn and Hexxat (channelling Matt Berry).
I have a feeling Astarion and Lae'zel are evil aligned but they are also full of potential to grow and change beyond some strict 'Good and Evil' dichotomy.
Lae'zel has a limited ability to help how she was raised to think about anyone and anything outside her militant Githyanki cloister, but she's making small steps towards understanding (kinda) and her endearing hesitant curiosity is a poor secret underneath all that arrogant aggression.
Astarion is... ha... so wet. The wettest. I adore him and I'd be dissatisfied if he ends up being the Judas in your party. Mainly because I'd be disappointed at Astarion for being the most transparent idiot in all Faerun (but I suppose it's typical of him). Out of all the companions I think he deserves a redemption tale most. Or at least a chance to figure out who he is without centuries of compulsion and slavery. He tries too hard to be evil but his hearts not really in it, I think.
Given the conversations around Astarion I expected him to be more like Fenris or Zevran from Dragon Age fame but he's very different imo. If he reminds me of any other fictional character it would probably be Baz from Carry On... If Baz had been forced to be a kept boy by a sadistic sire for centuries...
Anyway, my money's on Shadowheart as your Judas (depending on your choices) but I can already see her lovers sharpening their pitchforks at the idea, so maybe not. (I love Shadowheart too but I can see her being the least loyal of them all. No matter how much she likes you she has her own goals).
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@steddiemas Day 2: Winter Sentence Starters (Sentence Starter Saturdays)
"Holy shit!" Eddie shrieks, his voice regrettably echoing around the small quarters of Family Video's storage room, "Your hands are freezing!"
He envelopes Steve's hands in his own, brings them to his mouth and starts blowing. Steve grimaces and attempts to yank his hands away, but Eddie only tightens his grasp.
"Don't you have any mittens!" he continues, frantic as they now tug back and forward.
"No way," Steve scoffs, "I'm not walking around with an ugly pair of mittens pinned to my jacket."
He cocks his chin and his eyes flit down to the set of navy-blue mittens joined by a length of matching yarn and attached to Eddie's worn parka jacket via two safety pins.
"Excuse me!" he defends, letting go as he brings his hands to his chest to shield his mittens from further insult.
Steve giggles, "You look like a kid going off to kindergarten."
Eddie holds up a warning finger and feels his jaw clench, "My mittens are pinned to my winter jacket so I know where they are at the beginning of winter when I need my winter coat and mittens! Then, when I enter a premises that is supposed to be warm – to seek out my boyfriend whose hands should be warm – I pin them straight back on my jacket for safekeeping. It makes perfect sense!"
"So this was Wayne's idea because you kept losing them?" Steve asks, raising a brow and smirking.
"... Yeah," Eddie admits, looking down at his mittens.
The embarrassment is fleeting (this is practical for god sake!) and Eddie moves to unpin them.
"Eddie, I'm not taking your mittens!"
"Take my mittens!"
"How am I supposed to work in them?"
"You can stack away returns in a pair of mittens," Eddie offers, twirling the mittens by their joined string.
"And how am I going to type or use the phone?"
Eddie pauses and bites the inside of his cheek.
Damn it, he always has a checkmate defence.
"Turn the AC up!" he says with a click of his fingers.
"Can't," Steve grumbles, folding his arms and leaning against the built-in shelf that was supposed to support their regularly scheduled make-out session, "The AC is broken."
"What!" Eddie looks around, waving his hand about, "Where's your customer complaint form? Suggestion box? Something like that?"
"Eddie, you are not filing a complaint to Keith."
"I sure am!" he nods, determined, "Complaint or my mittens. Your choice, babydoll."
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hello! do u draw the maps and diagrams in the backgrounds on ur art by urself or do u use pre existing images or smth :0?
(like the map in ur most recent gaz work)
Haha, hell no! I could never have the patience or skill for that 🙆♀️ Most of my backgrounds for the latest COD art have been collage work. So for the Gaz one--I found a bunch of images through google and rearranged them how I wanted through mostly trial and error. yeah, if I had to draw a whole map of London by hand..💀
All these ones have backgrounds made through collage:
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