#also i love shadowheart and gale a lot

[a-drama-addict]

hello look at my child Skadi (she/her) she’s a half-drow druid and i love her very much

#she’s like 27 with greying hair bc she’s sexy #i lomve her very much i played a lot today and im just shaking her violently w affection #expect art or more rambling #also i love shadowheart and gale a lot #and karlach and wyll #actually i like most of the companions #a-drama-addict speaks #bg3 #oc: Skadi

[trashcatsnark]

ngl, didn't play EA but I'm poking around datamined dialogue from an EA version- I find it very inchresting, that seemingly, they definitely turned down the dream guardian's like horniness and romantic interest. Like it seems to be implied that at one point the dream guardian like- tries to kiss you during the first encounter, like lots of notes about cheek caress, thigh touching, and leaving you with a smooch souvenir. And then in the morning you get a pretty good idea of who everyone saw (Karlach didn't have a file for it that I saw and Shadowheart's was vague, beyond- "someone she is attracted to") and Gale is funnily enough seems (from my searching) to be the only one who admits that... yeah, he smooched them...

And like, totally get why they turned that down for final release, but god if that was still the case- I would have lowkey tried not to laugh my ass off when who the dream guardian is was revealed and ask Gale how he liked the taste of squid mouth, was it worth it, bud?

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #look no shame to emperor fuckers and if anyone of the companions would be an emperor fucker it would be gale given his reaction if tav turn #but like god that fucking reveal would have had such a different vibe if I knew gale had kissed his dream guardian #i love gale but that is worth some fucking bullying also given the emperor is now flirting with me seemingly exclusively in front of them #like oh im romancing gale and the squid he kissed wants me now too- am i the homewrecker in this situation? #have i now through the transitive property kissed the squid? #is this the start of the worlds weirdest throuple? #probably not being mindflayers are a bridge too far for even my monster fucker ass #which tbh is just because i'm a lot more picky about amphibious reptilians or otherwise non-mammalian based monsters #and thats probably enough oversharing in the tags #tho also for those wondering gale sees mystra astarion sees cazador laezel sees vlaiikith wyll sees mizora and again shadowhearts is vague

[lore-vigenere]

I can tell this playthrough is my favorite because I just spent 30 minutes buying dye for everyone's armor based on what I think they'd like to celebrate finishing all their personal quests. An in character shopping trip where my Tav was like, "We've come so far, and we need to look good for the ending! Everyone's getting new drip, my treat!"

Whereas last time, I didn't care about outfit cohesion in the slightest.

Anyway I'll be ranting in the tags about my choices if anyone cares.

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #OK SO RAMBLING INCOMING #Shadowheart got custard and pink rose because she was tired of purple and black #and i thought something bright and fun would suit her #Karlach got boreal blue because blue looks good on her and she totally knows it #that one was mostly personal preference tbh #Astarion got lush burgundy because its described as being worn by wealthy people #and he has an image to maintain so of course #Wyll got faewild green and dun because he spends a lot of time in the wilderness #and it may or may not be a subtle message from my archfey warlock #Gale has dark amethyst because the man likes purple and looks stunning in it #Lae'zel got sinful red on bone white and i dont think that needs explaining #and my Tav Talice has peach and apricot because its a gorgeous color combo and i liked it #Halsin Jaheira and Minsc didnt get anything because they look fine as is #and also tbh they aren't part of my Squad #i love them all dearly but they're like the overworked parents and uncle for the crew #this was a Kids Only shopping trip

[mokeonn]

I started an honor mode playthrough with probably the cutest tiefling in bg3 and I fuckn got killed during the Phase Spider Matriarch, so I decided to continue my save with dishonor because my character was just so damn cute. Well for some reason or another the game didn't?? Switch it to custom mode?? It's still honor mode??

So I'm either going to get those golden dice in the most dishonorable way possible or the game is just pulling on my leg and It's just honor mode without the reward.

#simon says #the character btw is a pink tiefling fae warlock/bard named Poetry #she's wearing purple and yellow clothes until I find pink dye #and she's wearing the volo bard reward clothes which make her look absolutely adorable?? #i just gotta draw her soon #she's also a Wyll romance. because I have yet to romance Wyll and I think warlock/bard is a GREAT combination to romance him with #it's funny because so far Astarion has been my main romance (i think 3 times now) #and he fuckin HATES her #Poetry is a little goodie two shoes who is not using those Illithid powers so everyone else loves her kindness and whimsy #and Astarion thinks she's the world's biggest pinkest killjoy #legit got angry at her and asked if it's her life purpose to ruin his fun #it's gonna take him a while and a lot of silly responses to get him to warm up to her #and i dont think the mild annoyance at her goody goody antics will go away #but yeah i just... love her so much #the other playthrough is another goody goody no illithid playthrough but he's a half-drow druid saving himself for Halsin #it's pretty funny as Poetry though because Shadowheart is already ready to start something together and Gale has started flirting #but she's only got eyes on the blade of Frontiers baby #oh and Poetry is also a dark urge playthrough who is avoiding her urges as much as possible #unless it's an unavoidable event she is surpressing that #Bhaal somehow spawned the world's cutest murder machine #anyways im gonna keep playing today because im tired (i drank last night) but I gotta draw poetry soon she's so cute

[userastarion]

girl help literally all i want to do all the time is keep playing baldur’s gate 3

#part of it is that i am DESPERATE to romance astarion #but i’m also just trying to. you know. play the game #i just love how the characters interact and i just switched out lae’zel for wyll bc i had swapped him for karlach a while back #i keep getting torn bc i always love having astarion in my party & i’ve tried running w no shadowheart but #i NEED the cleric #so i basically just swap out a fighter lol #wyll may not stay bc if he keeps getting downed immediately he’s outskies #i enjoy gale a lot but that motherfucker dies CONSTANTLY #so he’s a permanent camp fixture lol #i may change it up for future playthroughs but at this point. sorry gale #karlach kicks serious ass & i think the only reason i switched her was for variety #i hate that you only get 4 lol it is hard to choose #b:personal #text post

[leavemetoplaythesims]

i think i've decided to romance astarion

#i think i'm getting along with him #i was gonna romance wyll but then he flirted with both lae'zel and shadowheart back to back and i was like no thank you #shadowheart was also like no thank you you just flirted with my fucking nemesis #also he's a little boring sorry #at least right now #they just haven't really connected #and dating gale feels like lot to live up to #if you know what i mean #also very dangerous #i feel like they would work better as best friends #i love halsin shadowheart and karlach and i definitely want to romance them at some point just not with my current character

[antiqua-lugar]

so, I thought I was not gonna get Wyll shamelessly flirt with Lae'zel since Dorian got his romantic conversation at the Tiefling party (no kiss because Dorian wants Wyll to kiss him and choose him of his own free will)

but instead I just got all three banters at the crèche

and like I, as the player, think it's probably a bug, but this whole conversations must be so confusing to Dorian because like he honestly thought this was going somewhere? but maybe it's not? maybe Wyll just tells people their smile means everything and in another life he would have danced with them all night platonically? maybe that whole conversation was actually Wyll rejecting him and he didn't catch on?

(maybe telling Wyll about the Nightstalk memory was. Not good? maybe it's not that surprising Wyll isn't really into someone haunted by thoughts of murder who has to take notes on Being A Good Person? like he did tell lae'zel her eyes are pretty and asked if he believed in love at first sight and if she ever did a good deed for the sake of it so)

I have spoiled myself as little as possible for the romances in BG3 so I know nothing about where Wyll is at (except that he has a dance scene in Act 2 because Caradoc had to turn him down last time). Lae'zel is special but he does flirt with almost everyone without it meaning anything, so maybe this is all what is it to it but right now I also like to think that he's also working through his feelings and this is one way to do it.

Like yeah, he got a huge crush on Lae'zel that isn't really going anywhere, now he is crushing on Dorian and that might go somewhere and he really needs to think this through because Dorian is a very handsome dramatic bard who shares his special interest but.

...also why everyone who catches his eyes is like that.

#anyway dorian is gonna spend a couple of nights playing all the songs he knows about how if you love them you should let them go #and telling astarion how actually this is for the best because wyll is so great and deserves better #and astarion wants to hear exactly none of that #but apparently now he has a friend so this is his lot in life #also in this playthrougth bloodweave is happening in the background so a part of astarion is like ha! this will never happen to me #and then it does #astarion and dorian have some older brother thing going on because dorian doesn't remember shit and regardless he is young and terrified #astarion now feels like an older sibling in a not fucked up cazador way and it's a lot #oh god I accidentally made gale and astarion as the older queer pair to dorian and wyll mess #if I can make also lae'zel and shadowheart happen in the background I struck gold #antiqua plays bg3 #wyll romance

[stinkrascal]

i swear to god bg3 wants me to become a mind flayer so bad bc i had to reload my save twice last night bc i got turned into a mind flayer mid battle and the whole game ended at one point, and then when i realized why that happened and fixed it, i was turned into a half illithid and had to reload my save again bc i dont wanna be one! like baldurs gate wtf let me live 😭

#bg3 spoilers #also THE EMPORER #i love him hes my husband now #apparently he’s romanceable… you know im gonna smooch that mind flayer #not this playthrough but eventually #im still trying for halsin 😁☝🏻 astarion is my situationship rn but he annoys me #hes so flippant like sir i need u to dedicate ur heart and soul to our love not struggle to use the term ‘girlfriend’ u rat #i hate when ppl are romantically unattached that is NOT me so astarion i hate you. be romantic why don’t you #actually it’s funny bc he’s the guy my pc is romancing rn but he also has the lowest approval of all her main companions lmao #shadowheart and gale would DIE for my pc right now. and halsin likes her a lot too! astarion is just like well she’s ok ig 🤷🏼 WE R DATING? #sorry i had 2 get this out. i stayed up til 5 am playing bg3 this game has taken over my life #FINALLY im at baldurs gate!!!

[saturniade]

replaying bgate is so fun man...

#ive been feeling real down lately but oh thank you lots the watery dopamine of videogames <3 #i should go for a walk tho. in real life. AND THEN IN THE VIDEOGAME #yoo my post #this playthru im playing origin astarion + romancing wyll and im loving ittttt also my party is so ranged/magic heavy lol #that because my first party was me + lae`zel karlach astarion. so im mixing it up w me + wyll shadowheart gale ofcourse! #didnt do a lot of their quests my first time around (and i mean I Just Didnt Have Gale.) so this one is a cool new spin! #achievement hunting and even more exploring... (i keep finding new areas and things!) #third plauthrough we will be going DURGE. and maybe HONOR MODE. which is famously A BAD IDEA #just fought ansur in origin astarion n survived by the skin of my teeth... idk how i can win that in honor mode... #siiigh anyway. maybe by actually buffing myself w elixirs beforehand lmao

[oars]

anyways i think karlach could just melt through something idk

#umm if gale cant speak he cant cast right and a lot of saw traps look like they cover the mouth from what ive seen. nvm then #idk minthara #i feel like astarions bad foresight could be his downfall ummm wyll i think theres chance. like i think he'd just find a way #and hes pretty cautious #shadowheart i love her but i do not think so but i also think shes smart enough to not be there #i think minsc could make it. he'd get trapped but i think he'd find a way #laezel would get stuck in a glue trap #halsin apparently can break down and iron gate maybe he can just rip shit off but not without injury #ig it just depends on the trap

[apricote]

wheeee found the legendary weapon in the creché <3

#i honestly didn't even know there was a weapon in monastery until i saw someone talking about it 😭 #i gave it to my girl shadowheart. i think it will be useful in the shadowcursed lands #shadowheart is almost always in my party. #as is astarion because he's useful picking locks and disarming traps #i also take karlach out a lot #i honestly don't take wyll with me as often as i should :( #idk why because i love him and he has hilarious banter with the others #gale is so squishy that he's dead in like two seconds lmao. idk how to outfit wizards #but he means a lot to me #💬 #bg3 ramblings

[killjoy-prince]

So I'm on playthrough #4 of this game playing as Astarion this time around with the intention of romancing Wyll and man, picking all the good and heroic options as Astarion especially in Act 1 really is a case of "He would not fucking say that" bc Wyll likes all the good and heroic options and Astarion is. not that lolol

One thing is by chance I found a workaround on how to not make Wyll a devil and still keep Karlach alive. It worked but now im wondering if making him a devil would of been better narratively? Also I just got used to the horns that I kinda miss them. I do have a save thats right before doing the workaround but I did quite a bit of stuff so is it worth it?

#prince's talk tag #i no longer know which tag to put these rambles in lolol #i wanted to try playing as Astarion bc 1) hes my favorite character but also 2) he's a rouge and i love playing as rouge characters #they can break into anything and i want all those extra goodies #but i also so a bunch of astarion and wyll fan content and that cemented my want to pair them in a playthrough so it worked out #and bc i dont have a Tav this playthrough i can have a full group of origins #my party this time around is Astarion‚ Wyll‚ Shadowheart‚ and Lae'zel and the banter so far has been a lot of fun #shadowheart and laezel are like 2 seconds from killing each other and wyll is explaining why his name is spelled with a 'Y' #'Wyll with a Y. Why?' 'Yes with a Y! :D' made me laugh #also despite playing a character with 8 charisma my irl charisma is coming through the game again bc both Lae'zel and Shadowheart want me #theres options I can pick for both of them to initiate their romance and after beating some orcs Lae'zel turn on the '!' sign so id do it #i didn't. im not going for her yet. but this is like 4 playthroughs now. i gotta do her route next #also i gave gale one (1) artifact and barely had him in my party but his first scene initiated #i turned him down so fast bc i already did him in my last playthrough. i need a break lolol #wyll meanwhile is at exceptional affinity with me but hasn't said anything yet.... maybe after i take care of the goblins he will?

[quenthel]

My biggest BG3 hot takes are like... They should not have included Minsc halsin n Jaheira as companions only supporting side characters at MOST, given Kagha and maybe Auntie Ethel more to do, made DURGE the default custom origin, given gortash his own little toy fortress, shouldn't have hired super famous famous VAs both for him n Ketheric so they have more lines to say, should have made Bane voiced, should have made the Ansur stuff separate from Wyll's quest aaand should have leaned away even more from like the inherent evil races (like drows n goblins n mindflayers) being inherently evil... Also IG more consequences for eating worms would have been nice

#quenthel special #like i know why they did many of these things... #but esp w the surge tav thing im sorry i personally prefer if games have a more focused msg #i like that seemingly the bad path choiches are about repeating cycles of abuse #like astarion becoming a power hungry vampire like he is meant to be #gale getting struck down by mystra for attempting to become just like her #shadowheart fulfilling viconia's ambitions #you see you see... #ik there is a lot of differing voices abt karlach's ending but i love trafedy personally... #idk what else they could have done w it that wouldnt feel bad also bc of the nature of her story... #ah well i have more serious stuff to say abt each of these lol

[astrxealis]

super busy but hi i miss ffxiv i played again today raghh happy 10th anniv the rising event makes me cry i love ffxiv :(( but anyway! bg3 thoughts in tags!

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #meow :3 #my approval w shadowheart is so high lol ... she & my tav are a couple. of bestiesss <3 #astarion is amazing bcs i got bit the 2nd fucking night of playing and just before that too lae'zel wanted to get in my pants #IT'S AMAZING what the first cutscene i got for long rest was wyll already turning into a devil bcs i had all origin charas alrdy #and then after that ?? astarion bite scene. he didn't even talk abt the stars anymore or whatever he just jumped straight to biting my tav #oh my god and lae'zel wanted to get it on w my tav SOOO badly ... her dialog is so funny i love her #anyway :3 my tav is a slowburn w astarion but they r fr getting there. sometimes rising sometimes going down but it's been rising more #lately and teehee <3 my tav also thinks karlach is the sweetest and ADORES her. you can see him making soft heart eyes at her always. #also got the learning magic moment w gale and god it's so dangerous for me to get gale cutscenes tbh bcs i'm trying not to favorite him here #he has. what. stuff w magic and stars. shut up. i can't handle that rn or i'll fall in love LMFAO <3 #wyll ..... i don't use him in my party good gods and he Still remains the character i know the least even tho i know him a lot more now #but i REALLY like him. i would say he's my 3rd fav after karlach who is after astarion but so are shadowheart and gale and lae'zel... so. #i'm. not forgetting anyone right #but yeah basically all of them r my favs <3 and my tav gets along w all of em p well tbh #he's a good nice person but chaotic (he's my bard baby boy <3) so it's REALLY fun playing bg3 w him as my tav ... apollo my dear #i should make an elf oc named emil. give him brown hair. be even more self-indulgent thru making more & more charas. #btw i saw a painting of apollo online today. as in the god. and almost cried (positively) bcs my tav named apollo looked so similar #amazingly w the slightly curly hair blah blah blah and the general colors. apollo just. generally means a lot to me ok. anything w apollo.

[raven]

companions in bg3 are no dragon age (i mean, origins or 2, i dislike everyone in inquisition tbh) but somehow they managed to make being a massive faggot the least interesting thing about astarion, which is commendable

#my main party is astarion / karlach / shadowheart. mc is a warlock. shadowheart is only for the healing but shes fine #really like karlach. like gale a fair amount. (used him before i got karlach would love to use him more) #like wyll but have not used him for even a single second. umm. who else. laezel i could take or leave. actually facing this decision rn lol #i think this game would benefit on letting you have one more person in your party though. maybe less xp to balance that #**also i like astarion a lot i dont want to see anybody talking about him tbh. ive heard about it i dont want to see any of that

[nethereasypeasy]

Some fluffy head canons I have about the Baldurs Babes

mainly at camp :)

Gale stops tav to lace their boots, sarcastically tutting as he does it.

Karlach holds her hands round someones bowl and cups to warm them if they cool down too much. (Mama K microwave™)

Jaheira and Halsin share nightcaps and chat about the tadpole team. Mainly laughing at their comparative lack of experience - always ends on a 'they're good eggs tho' vibe.

Astarion and Shadowheart rate people's hair to eachother as an injoke, tav hears them mumbling numbers behind them whenever they speak to someone.

Lae'zel asks Gale to explain and pronounce things when no one is around because the 'annoying wizard' won't make fun, he's too eager to teach.

Jaheira has the best bedtime stories but they get Karlach hyped up and she asks a lot of questions till Astarion begs her to be quiet. Wyll takes mental notes for his own storytelling.

Karlach will force a game of 'I Spy' any time there is silence on the road.

Wyll is very good at little random gifts, he just remembers anything someone mentions to him. He's also low-key emotional if you return that kindness, 'you remembered?! 😭'

Halsin stops, kneels and whispers as he points and shows tav interesting plants or animals he spots when walking. 'look there's the mother and her babies' type shit. (He is camp dad(dy) ok)

Wyll teaches Lae'zel fencing. She's too keen though and tries to pin him down. She is not as graceful... But she has fun... chk!

Gale keeps a tiny portrait of Tara on him, you can't tell me modern au Gale's phone wouldn't be full of cat pics.

Astarion watches over the camp at night, he acts like he 'might as well/ I'm the only one lurking in the dark around HERE darlings' but sometimes he secretly gets a little teary looking at his first real friends all together.

Shadowheart writes moody poetry. She would tell Gale but she doesn't care for his taste... Or his possible critiques. If he ever did find her journal though he would be VERY enthused.

Astarion and tav will play with people's wardrobes when looting. Tav loves a funny hat and Astarion will do impressions of who he thinks would wear such god's awful attire.

Gale and Wyll play chess together after dinner some nights. They both say progressively cheesy lines when they take pieces, which is its own game itself at this point.

Halsin would quietly sing or hum to owlbear baby and scratch at night. Little lullabies and he'd probably tuck them in too. OR he'd be big daddy bear and snuggle up, especially when owlbear is scared and misses his mum.

The gang have played 'never have I ever' ONE time and ONE time only. It was a messy night.

... Jaheira was 100% last man standing.

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