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starkspi · 1 day
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a2zillustration · 2 days
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I love the patch 6 kisses they're very cute :)
This one felt a little too emphatic for Croissant so here's their version.
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betyourhedges · 2 days
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bg3 ramblings
as a person who has had a difficult home life, playing thru Astarion's quest in Cazador's Mansion is... poignant.
the game really captures that feeling of creeping around your home town after being gone for a long time, worried you are going to get caught being there, seeing old faces and putting on an act for them.
and damn, and when you ask Astarion if he's sure he wants to do this and he says
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"Oh I've never been less sure of anything. But if I don't face him now, I never will."
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"I'll spend the rest of my life running, watching the shadows, never feeling safe."
That... hits.
i too know that feeling of never wanting to face that family figure, tiptoeing around, never feeling safe. no time feels like the right time to face what has happened to you, that you are ever safe enough. but you need to.
i did originally romance Astarion bc he was a hot elf twink that hit on me a lot. but the more i saw his story, of fighting for his independence, his freedom from his family, it really resonated with me on a personal, human, level in a way a game never has before.
what a game.
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jeeaark · 2 days
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In Regards to Face-Grabbing Pep Talks Becoming A Thing This Team Does Now
And Platonic dancing lessons mind you. Greygold just really cherishing their friendship right now.
What golden flecks of memory I have left of Monster-Hunter Wyll's response to Greygold's 'you must think me a monstrosity' commentary was really friggin' heartwarming.
Uplifted Greygold's spirits after Lae'zel's reaction had felt....foreboding! Maybe their love life is in shambles but, by gods, are their friendships just. So good. So good. Can and Wyll Will move mountains for. Now with telekinesis.
Knowing their friends still love them even with extra bits, Greygold won't hesitate to charge into whatever comes their way in stride.
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justporo · 14 hours
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Astarion would for sure be the kind of person that won't let you get up in the morning (or evening for that matter). Like a cat he's going to cling to your arm and be like "darling, you can't leave me here" and give you the wettest eyes possible. And how can you say no to him when he's laying there like that: sheets loosely wrapped around his hips, leaving very little to the imagination, hair messed up from sleeping and grabbing your wrist with that sweet pout that can always make you melt right on the spot.
When you agree to five more minutes with a dramatic sigh but a huge smile he immediately pulls you back down to him again, wrapping his arms around you and whispering to you that you won't regret it - sometimes in a warm tone, sometimes with sultry promise, sometimes so genuine you can almost feel yourself tear up.
It's never only five minutes though.
You hope it will be forever.
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meanbossart · 3 days
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I kept meaning to get this clip for folks who ask me about DU drow's voice, after 130+ hours of game I couldn't imagine as anything but the default Dark Urge's evil little drawl AKA voice 5! So here's that one Orin cinematic from my run to hopefully aid you in ascribing the mouth noises to the man himself.
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utterdrip · 1 day
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love this stupid fucking line like my love. you are a lawyer . what does this even MEAN
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thedreamlessnights · 9 hours
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turned cazador into a sheep and spent the next few minutes in fucking tears
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shadydruid · 2 days
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✨️I have every reason to feel terrified, hopeless, like giving up. But to be here, with you, in the city I love, in this world that I love so much... it's all I could really ask for.✨️
Card 4 in my Baldur's Gate 3 Oracle Cards series!
The flower I chose for Karlach is Gladiolus flower, which represents strength of character, faithfulness and sincerity. Legend has it, the spikiness of the flower was meant to pierce the heart of its recipient with love.
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astarionformayor · 2 days
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Was astarion's fate pre-tadpole the worst out of all companions? I mean... He was literally a slave in a sex-trade. His pimp being Cazadouche, who would take everyone he brought home and kill them. If he failed to do so, he would be tortured in ways that would easily kill a mortal.
He was starved and made to live in the darkness for a year for failing to bring home supper for Cazadouche once. He had to completely disassociate from his humanity, to the point where he literally can't even remember who he was before he was turned.
I often think about how he has high perception (and of course he does, cause he is a rouge) but hear me out: from a story-perspective, it would make sense that his perception was high as a trauma response. Always having to be hyper-vigilant (and keep his wits about) as to not piss off Cazador or his siblings. Even going through a far-less macabre experience for 2 years as an adult can make you hypervigilant to the point where you're dysfunctional.
And this was going on for 200 years. That isn't even a fathomable amount of time for a human. And the fact that, after all that, his humanity was intact.... He was able to fall in love, make friends, and be happy. He really has so much empathy. His empathy was a crux for 200 years, but it remained intact nonetheless.
As a survivor, Astarion has made me realize things about my healing journey that i never had thought of before. I think that's one big reason why he is a comfort character for so many of us. We can relate to him for what he's been through. We see a part of ourselves in him, and we want to help him and to hold him. We want to cherish him and tell him everything is going to be okay.
Maybe all this is for us is just a way to detach from the feelings of selfishness and shame that arise when you give yourself slack. When we see ourselves in Astarion, and we want to tell them everything is going to be okay, maybe we are really telling a part of ourselves that everything is going to be okay.
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major-nasya · 3 days
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I’m so normal about him
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gothicspork · 11 hours
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“...Was I sweet once?”
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a2zillustration · 10 hours
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Gale and I had the exact same reaction when we opened that door.
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soul-branding · 2 days
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Minthara learning that thousands of powerful, yet uniquely psychologically malleable people (possibly invisible to infravision!) are moving into the Underdark, led by her new companion Astarion: How do you feel about drinking blood. A lot of blood. Specifically the blood of my enemies when I march back to Menzoberanzan and stage a coup. :) After that it's deicide.
Astarion, who would kill for a decent shower and some new shoes: Will there be fancy wine and silk sheets?
Minthara: You may have the wine and bedding of the highest ranking noble you kill.
Astarion: Sold.
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jeeaark · 19 hours
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Blooper Pt. 1
I thought that plan was fool-proof. Apparently not Hungry-AF-proof though.
Classic misinterpretation of where that dialogue choice was leading to. Was not expecting to go for the brains! And I....Wasn't ready to face Lae'zel's 'WTF' response just yet. Felt bad! Greygold probably felt worse!
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daemon-in-my-head · 3 days
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I'm not over it, but really, Durgetash is just a story about loss and loneliness.
These two people have lost literally everything, their homes, their families (if they even had one to begin with), their freedom, they even lost their own godforsaken personhood. They were stripped of absolutely everything. They were reduced to less than nothing.
And then they turned around and found each other, somehow, by a twisted blessing of the fates they got to start building a home, reclaiming their personhood, working hard on gaining that freedom. Gortash literally welcomes Durge back home. It's not welcome back. It's specifically welcome back home. They made themselves a new home. Perhaps the first one they ever had.
And then they had everything ripped away from them yet again. Every last bit they worked so hard on crushed and crumbled to nothing with no way to fix it ever again. Because the loss had been so great, there was no way for recovery. No way to repair their little, frail shack they called home. And that loss must've been far more painful, because now, at least one of them, still knew what it was like to have a home. And yet it was taken away from them once again.
But despite that I still think about what would've happened if Durge had woken up with their memories intact. If they had taken on that journey knowing fully well who they were and what was on the line. I wonder if that time could've changed them or if they would've just ran back home, utterly blinded. Because yes it was shit back there. Yes they were doing unspeakable things and forced to do unspeakable things. But at least they had a home. They had someone. At least they weren't alone after decades of having nothing. After years of being so alone they found belonging and companionship in a literal murder cult. I wonder if they would've just hurried back because getting to save yourself is great, but perhaps just getting home a day earlier would be even greater.
Did not mean to post that post from earlier so I actually had to go wade thru my fucking drafts. This is hell.
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