I want to be the one to do it. I want to be the one to kill you, when the time comes. You will let me, won't you?
Finally have done enough editing and back and forth on this that I'm confident in sharing it--I've made a Ballard/Gortash playlist for my own enjoyment and maybe yours as well! About an hour forty, intended to span the fifteen years between their first meeting and Ballard's post-tadpole homecoming.
Lately I’ve been obsessively listening to this song, having daydreams of this cool angsty and drama-dripping video montage that’s way beyond my scope of talents.
But let me (over) share, nonetheless.
The pre chorus but when they say:
“You’re like a butterfly, caught in the middle”
I just SEE Astarion gazing at Karlach with love and sadness when she isn’t looking. And it’s like AGH my heart 💀
Then:
“You’re like a star”
Is Karlach looking at Astarion under the moonlight, as they lay in bed, he’s trancing or something and she watches him breathe. Yes, the lot.
I don’t even like butterflies as imagery, wtf is wrong with me. Anyway. I love creating movies and shit in my head and torture myself with it. It’s GREAT.
So have a listen.
It’s all epic but sweet and melodramatic and angsty and introspective metal.
Thank you Devin, for always setting my mind spinning somewhere else.
Usually, I make playlists that remind me of a certain piece of media but because Baldur's Gate 3 is so diverse and full of independent stories, I settled for making small playlists for my three husbands:
Sharing the playlist I made for when I work on stuff for them. I'm often editing, adding and excluding songs, so it's a work in progress.
Needless to say this is a personal list of songs that I know and like that imo evoke either Astarion or Karlach's stories independently and/or their relationship with each other. It's not all lovey dovey, and due to my personal taste in music, there's some really heavy shit in it.
Anyway. Just putting it out there in the ether!
(Though, I'm thinking it'd be nice to see what other people would choose as songs for them too :3)