#it's also why i strongly dislike a subset of shippers being like 'they're narrative foils!!111!!!'

[galedekarios]

The whole astarion/durge thing makes me so mad because you'll also get people saying it was just because he had more parallels with durge's story than the others or something which is. Simply not true, I think you could draw brilliant connections with all of them. Especially Shadowheart like not being able to have convos about pasts with evil cults or even idk amnesia struggles is insane to me. It's right there😭

i feel you.

it's not only a) wrong because we know that at least part of the reason this happened is because ast*rion was prioritised by larian, with the lead narrative designer admitting as much.

which, to be quite frank with you, is another can of worms considering the context here. they were part of a fan discord as a big fan of the character they ultimately ended up prioritising so before being hired by larian - making some truly questionable (in hindsight) remarks there, too.

and b) you could literally find parallels between any and all of the character if you truly wanted to. they are all connected to some degree. a fight for autonomy, themes of abuse and escaping said abuse, of finding themselves, etc.

#it's also why i strongly dislike a subset of shippers being like 'they're narrative foils!!111!!!' #like yes #that is the point #*all* of the companions can be used as foils to one another #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #bg3 critical #larian critical