#muse ; wyll .

[ride-a-dromedary]

Wyll reciting fairy tales he knows by heart to the children in Reithwin, and making up new endings each time they revisit to see if they catch him and were paying attention.

Wyll entertaining the tiefling kiddos with big, showy tales of castles and monsters and dragons and knights, all with nameless heros so the children can put themselves in the adventure.

Wyll having whole stanzas of poetry memorized that he can recite at any time, and often does under breath as he walks or swings his rapier in rhythm to keep time (he doesn't count his waltz, he *speaks* it)

Wyll dropping his favourite quotes from plays in casual conversation (and making some up completely on the spot, but they're so dead on you wouldn't be able to tell).

Wyll who could have been a poet, a playwright, a storyteller. Who *is* all of these things, even if it's not at the forefront of his being.

#BG3 Musing #Wyll Ravengard #wyll who is fanciful and dreamy and sees mermaids in his dreams even when times were difficult #wyll who was educated in high society!! wyll who has a grasp on rhetoric and rhyme!! #wyll should be in the book club! #just...ah #ahh!! #edit: i'm glad this post blew up because wyll deserves it - this isn't about wyll being a bard though #it's a very pointed reminder that wyll is likely very highly and class appropriately educated

[mintytealfox]

looool I hadn't noticed this in game before but Astarion looking at her like 'damn gurl, you're more openly thirsty than I am right now'

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 wyll #bg3 astarion #bg3 shadowheart #bg3 karlach #karlach #astarion #wyll #shadowheart #bg3 tav #oc: enver #bard tav playthrough #minty musings

[jstor]

Update on your mod's BG3 playthrough:

Like seemingly everyone else in the Baldur's Gate 3 tag, I'm working on romancing Astarion (something about my concurrent reading of Carmilla, etc.)...

Which had me thinking about vampirism in general. Here's a book chapter that discusses the historical and literary evolution of vampirism as well as its transformation in science fiction settings.

#jstor #mod's musings #to be fair i kinda romanced everyone at my camp... shadowheart wyll gale AND astarion. i did not mean to do this i was trying to be nice #baldur's gate 3

[thefangdomcryptid]

So apparently besides assuming every Tav is a self-insert because gods forbid people don't want to play as themselves for whatever reason, we are now gatekeeping which characters' trauma we are allowed to relate to??? I naturally blocked this person because the question was apparently not asked in good faith but to start an argument, but it just doesn't sit right with me.

Like, fine, we get it, you don't like Astarion. Fine. You don't get why he's so popular, also fine. You don't have to understand why people like a character, because sometimes you never will.

What isn't okay is to talk down to people because they find Astarion's trauma relatable and through his journey find a sort of closure of their own, because we all have our own Cazadors to deal with, but we can't always confront them, so this is the next best thing.

Yes, all the character have their own trauma, Karlach, Wyll, Gale, Shadowheart, Lae'zel. But I can't relate to them. Do you know why?

Because in the height of my C-PTSD I was not nice. I was not helpful. I was a shitty person that made shitty decisions and treated people around me and myself like shit. I was NOT a good person. So yeah, I can see right through Astarion's mask. Just like him I felt alone, and no "heroes" came to save me either.

It's also why I don't really enjoy Ascended Astarion because he feels like me at my worst. I mean obviously not exactly the same, but hurt people DO hurt people. It doesn't mean everyone does, but some do.

Anyway, if you relate to Astarion because of your trauma, or even Ascended because it's a way to deal with yours, you are valid. If you relate to Wyll or Karlach or anyone else for that matter, you are also valid.

And if you can do one thing in Fandom, then be kind.

#musings #bg3 #ascended astarion #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #gale dekarios #lae'zel #wyll #halsin #shadowheart #karlach

[mightymizora]

Just thinking about potential paths through the upper city reputation quests in BG3...

That the Baldur's Mouth Gazette running bad press about you doesn't really hit until you get into the upper city, and then it is extremely difficult to gain access anywhere. Guards know your reputation, people won't be seen to do business with you, building reputation is extremely hard and the work arounds mean you have to ally with questionable sources.

Unless!

You can get the remaining Jannath's onside. This reputable house's remaining child is having issues with her husband who you hopefully happened to rescue, and if you can solve them, you get a powerful ally.

You can sort out who is and isn't in the pocket of Gortash in House Ravengard, and restore unity to the household through saving Ulder and reuniting him with his son. This takes a good amount of detective work, as Gortash has been getting his agents into house Ravengard for DECADES. You learn LOADS about Wyll and the family during this quest, including more about Ulder's role in the last Bhaalspawn crisis and the impact of his reform on the city, and his relationship with his own father and his wife.

You get your ally in Ramazith's tower (which is now correctly in the Upper City where it belongs) who blesses you with an aura of charm, which helps.

Cazador is trailing you everywhere, and can also be a way to find favour if you give him Astarion. Failing to do so will mean that his people are also on your tail, until you deal with him. But you can't deal with him until after...

The inauguration ball! An exclusive event for the finest of Baldur's Gate. Gortash has invited you specifically, how wonderful. There's dancing, there's even a bit of time for finding out secrets about Gortash and the Banite cult and even stealing a dance with either your love interest or the man himself. If you agree to ally with him, you're taken to his private quarters in his estate... to avoid the bloodshed. The patriars are massacred in an unholy alliance between steel watchers and vampires... and you realise Astarion is missing. You then have to rescue him before the ritual can take place (which makes more sense for the doors being locked in the Cazador estate...) And if you don't? Cazador will support you in the final fight.

#musings musings #there's probably more but here is a starter #bg3 #wyll ravengard #enver Gortash

[rosymourning]

my headcanons for gear that "belongs" on companions:

Lae'zel would be geeking about the cool githyanki loot we get, and she'd refuse to wear anything else, no matter how much "better" it would be for her build

Shadowheart would be really hype about the dark justiciar bits and bobs we pick up at the grymforge and the gauntlet, but then would refuse to wear any of it if you spare nightsong and respecc. then, she'd start dying things fun colors and get a matching set thing going on

Astarion thinks the drow armor is really cool looking (and so do i) and he feels so sneaky and cool while wearing it, so he always does. it's confusing to the rest of the camp at first, but eventually they get used to it and start assuming he wants that hooded drow headgear they just found. he puts all his "normal" fashionable self into his camp clothes

Karlach never wore armor in the hells and she's sure as shit not going to start now, so it takes a lot of convincing from Tav/Durge to get her to even put on a magic amulet or use an upgraded weapon. once she finally does, she thinks it's the coolest thing ever to have a magical item and then starts hoarding anything another companion isn't actively wearing

Wyll is the opposite of Karlach - he's always excited to try out a magical item and brainstorm how it can improve his skills in combat. out of all the companions, he cares the least about how it looks

Gale is hungry, beyond that, idk

#mine #gale #laezel #shadowheart #astarion #karlach #wyll #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #headcanon #musings

[bhaalbaaby]

forgot i made this list and never officially posted it on tumblr but here's a tier list of companions least to most likely to notice her curves when they first meet.

small notice: she is not wearing any practical armor because she is not a fighter nor does she really want to be. she is wearing this when they first meet since she was taken while taking a break while working lol

Wyll - I don't think he'd look at her boobs first. I think he'd be too focused on tadpole and his mission and trying to do the right thing to take a look at her body. He also just the most respectful too. I do think he does notice later at camp though when he can breathe lol

Lae'zel - She doesn't care in the same way as the others. She mostly thinks Penelope is dead meat because she is not in fitted armor and thinks she's just waiting to die lmao

Minthara is similar to Lae'zel. She's busy trying to find the grove and Penelope is just in the way. When she sees her again in her camp, she's more grateful and ready for vengeance than to look at her boobs lol

Shadowheart - She looks but it's more like "Oh she's stacked," but is similar to Wyll where she's like we have bigger things to think about.

Astarion - He looks when he's trying to see how best to use her out and like figuring out how she can serve him. I do think he thinks about her curves though lol

Halsin - Halsin looks and especially at the party thinks about giving in to temptation, but remains strong to his cause, but he definitely thinks about it.

Gale - He gets flustered and has to work hard at not slipping up and mentioning her curves. He thinks he has it under control until he accidentally says that he is abreast of things

Karlach - I think she looks the most but hides it with her height, but she definitely is like eyes boobs eyes boobs eyes boobs. She does ask if she can find her some better armor though so she won't get hurt.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #bg3 tav #tav: penelope #oc musings #headcanons #wyll #lae'zel #minthara #shadowheart #astarion #halsin #gale #karlach #being a lil silly

[she-dwells-within-the-forest]

I definitely need more bg3 mutuals since my blog has clearly become a screaming into the void about it type of thing.

Soooo 'in the spirit of hypothetical questions' will you scream into the void with me.. darling?

(I may follow back if I like your vibe 😏)

#bg3 #bg3 astarion #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #astarion #bg3 lae'zel #gale bg3 #bg3 gortash #bg3 shadowheart #bg3 wyll #bg3 halsin #bg3 minthara #bg3 minsc #bg3 jaheira #bg3 musings #gale #lae'zel #shadowheart #wyll ravengard #bg3 karlach #karlach

[ithinkthiswasabadidea]

I wonder if Wyll ever sat for a moment, thinking about the choices set before him that fateful day when Mizora came to offer him the only way to save Baldur's Gate and the greater Sword Coast

Did he wonder why it was a devil that came to him, rather than an avatar of a god? That he was forced to take a step downwards, towards the embrace of the Hells, instead of up to the glory and light that he so desperately wanted to embody?

In a perfect world, he was chosen to be a champion. He would have become a paladin instead of a warlock

How many times did he think about it all, wondering what he did wrong, to fall so far out of sight of anyone or anything good, in a moment like that? Because as much as the meddling of the Hells and their substantial influence and powerplays were the reason it was Mizora, how long did he blame himself?

#wyll ravengard #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate iii #bg3 #bg3 wyll #bg3 blogging #hmmmm just musings

[orphic-musings]

The pain we wrought from words unspoken…

Characters: Karlach x gn! reader, Wyll x gn! reader, Halsin x gn! reader, Aylin x Isobel, Bex x Danis

Genre: Angst, fluff (but not for you)

Warnings: hurt no comfort, misunderstandings, spoilers for the end of act 2, implied reference to death (character)

Summary: After an arduous battle everyone is celebrating and taking a much needed reprieve. Except you, whose heart has a hole that is home to loneliness and grief. Is there no one to comfort you?

Notes: Omg i am back and with a BALDUR’S GATE FIC!?!!??! yes i have been taken by this game too and it has me in a chokehold and forced me to write for it. im sorry it had to be angst it makes me so sad maybe i will write comfort pt. 2 if people want it! pls enjoy :-) (sobbing) lemme know if i missed any warnings also not proofread aha

Karlach:

Aylin had her arm around Isobel the whole night. You recall earlier how she had lifted Isobel into the air and spun her around, nothing but mirth and pure love in her eyes. The action had brought a genuine smile to your face. To see something so joyful and pure after so much torment and toil was a gift, an uplifting you didn’t know you needed. But it came with a bittersweet pang. Everyone was busy chatting away at camp, spirits were high as everyone had a much needed moment of reprise after the defeat of Ketheric. Though you still wore a smile, your heart faltered.

“Holding up, Soldier?” A warm and familiar voice appeared behind you, and you turned to be met with an equally warm smile. You nodded, returning the smile, a genuine one.

“I’m so glad to see everyone reunited and safe, it seemed like such an impossible reality before, but now….” You turned back to the Selûnite couple in a loving embrace as your sentence trailed off. Karlach’s eyes followed, but then she looked at you. Your eyes were faraway, and your smile seemed almost sad.

“Alright there?” She asked, concern in her voice. Ever conscious of the feelings of others, she could pick up on any hint of bitterness or longing in others. She knew it all too well.

“It’s just, seeing all this love… I should be so happy, I am! But it still hurts. It must be nice to mean that much to someone.” You didn’t face her as you spoke. Despite your calm voice and your content, peaceful face, she sensed a deep hurt behind your words. Her mouth opened, and her hand instinctively reached out to grab your shoulder, but she stopped.

You mean so much to me, I cherish every moment we spend together. I could forget myself in your smile, forget the world in your eyes. Just one look at your face can quell all my rage. I would spend every hour I could with you, I would not hesitate to defend you and protect you. I want to be with you. Is what she wants to say. But instead she turned away with a solemn silence of her own.

You didn’t react to her silence, times are hard, and love seemed like a luxury. You stood like a statue as she slipped away, mourning internally her prescence, as she ripped herself from your side unwillingly.

Fighting Zariel’s war was easier than fighting her feelings in that moment. But any moment could be her very last. For someone who would rather live and die in the present, fully and without regrets, she feels a hypocrite. But imagining the hope of being with you, the joy you might have from knowing how much she needs you and cherishes you, was too much to bear. She couldn’t stand the thought of taking that all away from you. It’s a lesser evil to keep it from you, to keep it from herself, in the first place, than to have fate cruelly crush it all. At least that’s what she told herself as she faced the wall of her tent, away from your own dejected form, with hot tears in her eyes.

»»————-　♡　-————««

Wyll:

It seemed a miracle that you managed to save all the tieflings, and the gnomes on top of that. And even more so to defeat Ketheric Thorm, and at last promise safety and rest to all in the shadowlands. But any praise or recognition went over your head as you reeled in the aftermath. It felt surreal, and almost like it happened too quick, and you were still having trouble processing it. Even as you walked around Last Light Inn to rejuvinate your mind.

“You’re alright! My gods you’re alright!” You heard a voice call, and as you rounded the corner you saw two Tieflings in a tight embrace. You recognized Danis as one of the prisoners you had rescued, and pride swelled in you momentarily. As you watched the reunion in tender delight, you failed to notice a presence join you.

“A joyous sight. It makes me feel better about all the toil thus far.” Wyll’s voice spoke beside you, smooth and clear. It made you smile, even as you felt the sweet atmosphere waver, threatening to leave behind a cold emptiness.

“A shame it seems so scarce these days.” You said, watching the couple wander off into the warm inn. His face fell as he noticed the melancholy in your gaze.

“Indeed. I only hope those who have love, and hope, hold onto it dearly.” You merely stared off into the distance, unmoving and unresponding. It wrenched his heart, but he remained with you. It somehow felt like the least, and the most, that he could do. He wished you would turn to him, so he coukd see the light reflected in your eyes. But you couldn’t, for the price of love and hope was one too high for you to pay, in your mind. And despite your proximity, there was a perceptible distance between you.

»»————-　♡　-————««

Halsin:

The camp was brimming with relief, chatter sounding from every corner as parties discuss the aftermatch of the fight at Moonrise towers. Many people had joined you after the fight, since it had really only begun, and your companions had proven themselves capable of leading the cause. But you were mostly grateful for the presence of those who had helped you make it that far, namely the archdruid of Emerald Grove. Halsin was relieved, and content as well. He had fulfilled his century long quest, and the lands were now safe. And so were you.

“What now? You’ve got what you wanted, after all.” You asked, unsure if he would stay now that his task is finished.

“I have. But perhaps there is more that I want.” He replied, a smile on his face. You felt the warmth of his words, and you almost let it invade your senses, but you shook it off. Curiosity threatened to get the better of you, even if you werenmt sure you wanted to know the answer. But before you could stop it the words had left your mouth.

“What is it that you want?” He paused to glance at you, the smile never having left his face.

“Not what,” he began, his gaze shifting past you, “but who.” He let out a sigh after that, like it was good to get it off his chest. But your heart fell. You had known you shouldn’t have asked, but you needed to. Just in case of that small possibility.

“Ah.” Is all you managed in reply. After a beat of silence you turned and left abruptly, the intense beat of your heart felt like it was punching your ribs. Halsin’s smile faded as he watched you walk away. Had he said something wrong? No, he realized, he had merely misread the situation. You didn’t feel the same way, you couldn’t have. He felt silly in that moment, and laughed it off as he had done with the other rejections in his life (though they were few). But he could not shrug off the pain that wrenched his heart.

The next day the camp felt uncertain again. Comforting, yes, but uncertain. The party would be on the road again, and many things could change until they next made camp again. But the heaviest thing hanging in the air was your silence, your distance. It was to be expected, he reasoned, after the awkward encounter, but he hoped it didn’t mean you couldn’t still be friends. The very thought caused his throat to tighten.

But you couldn’t even bear to look at him. Of course such an experienced, handsome and capable man such as him wouldn’t have a soft spot for you. Thinking about it now made you ill. You couldn’t be near him, because all you thought of in his presence was how lucky someone else was to have him. And as you journeyed down the road to Baldur’s Gate, your distance grew. So much that it caused an uncomfortable wedge in the group, a palpable bitterness that soured the air.

Every night sorrow would muster in the two tents on far sides of the camp. Frustration, tears and regret proliferated there in those moments, planting seeds of woe to be reaped when the dawn broke. And the cure for sickness was only right where they dare not look.

#fanfic #x gn reader #orphic musings #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate tav #baldurs gate karlach #baldur's gate iii #baldurs gate wyll #baldurs gate halsin #baldur's gate spoilers #halsin x you #halsin x tav #halsin x reader #karlach x reader #karlach x tav #karlach x you #wyll x reader #wyll x tav #wyll x you #bg3 aylin #bg3 isobel #bg3 #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 angst #karlach angst #wyll angst #halsin angst #gn reader #there are so many possible tags lol #god why do i write angst

[rowanisawriter]

wip whenever

tagged by ten thousand people over the course of the past few weeks where i haven’t had anything to share so now i’m going to subject you all to wyll/shadowheart from a prompt fill i’ve been picking at instead of writing my exchange fic like i’m supposed to…

.

Once upon a time, a princess. Perhaps. She is as quiet as one, as secretive. Hidden away in some internal world, or maybe trapped. Wyll can’t tell exactly how much of her quiet mystery is due to her devotion to her goddess or something else. Whenever he tries to ask, he gets a simple little smile and no explanations. No reasoning as to why she’s whispering to herself, sitting on her heels at camp, far enough from the light of the campfire that the edges of its orange glow barely touch her. No hint on the strange and all consuming injury on her hand that distracts her. No closer to understanding the thoughts that go through her head, strange and beyond his imagination, but he wants to try.

He begins with small gestures, the ones he’s read about in books, the ones they used to read to him back in the city when he was still a duke’s son. He hands her a cup of vinegary wine they found in some ruin or another, a flower plucked from the roadside, a shiny flat rock perfect for skipping across a still lake. She always accepts gingerly, as if expecting a trick along with the treat.

“I just like seeing a little smile on your face,” he tells her earnestly.

She starts to believe him, he can tell by how her smile begins to widen, but then she clutches her injured hand close to her chest and turns away. A princess in peril, locked away in the tower of her mind, and the dragon that traps her within. He feels something in his chest expand at the sight of her pain. Lucky for them, he’s a hero. Saving maidens in distress is what he does best.

#idk who out there (outside of the galeheart server lol) has ever even thought about wyll/shadowheart #but i for one am rolling around in the mud of Prince Charming and princess in peril #maybe a play on fairy tale idk #it looks ok so far idk where this will go #also someone fuckin slap me i NEED to finish this exchange fic #and my useless boomer mother in law is stayin the weekend with us so who knows when i’ll find the energy to write while ignoring her #republican propaganda and veiled antivax musings #less than a year and we move so fuckin far we’ll never clap eyes on a republican again god i hope i last that long #anyway LOL #wyll ravengard #shadowheart #wip whenever #my writing

[ride-a-dromedary]

Why, yes, I am thinking about Halsin and Astarion slipping into speaking patterns that fell out of fashion 200+ years ago, and when speaking to each other, it becomes an eclectic mix of centuries old slang they pull out of nowhere, standard fantasy speak, pieces they picked up along the way, and "shit's wild, bro".

Bonus points, for more fun, if they have different threads of different old speaking patterns because they come from two different places.

#And everyone in camp - save for Gale whose verbal gymnastics put everyone to shame who just nods matches and outdoes - #is just like *eggman* what the FUCK are you two talking about #BG3 Musing #jaheria too tbh she's just like oh fucking FINALLY #larian missed out on having so many old elves and immortals in the party do you know what kind of verbal debauchery #they could have gotten up to? #i keep thinking about baby wyll commenting that 'agog' signifies that astarion is over 2 centuries old and astarion being like #i am in the company of fetuses #dare i tag this as #halstarion

[mintytealfox]

I am doing a run where I am changing everyone's classes to the most opposite class I can think of and BOI is it uncomfortable! this is what I have so far:

Astarion: Paladin Gale: Barbarian Wyll: Cleric Karlach: Rogue

I am still trying to decide for Shadowheart and Lae'zel

but my current team is with the three bois and I am just loosing my mind

-We accidentally broke Astarion's oath in like 5 minutes and he sounded so SAD "something is wrong. I feel like I've...lost..something" I have never reloaded so fast in my life. He must continue on this path and I must hear more about his fascination with being the one who does healing every now and then, and him finding it as a novel thing/concept (but we did check out the oath breaker thing and its likely a glitch but his eyes were a light feint blue during that cutscene- talking to the oathbreaker- I was choking on air)

-Then there is GALE with him trying to rawr and be scary but its just not translating very well lol

-Wyll is just chillin lol when he heals he is YELLIN some of those spells lol

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate #minty musings #im just rambling #astarion #bg3 astarion #gale #bg3 gale #bg3 wyll #wyll #bg3 karlach #karlach #bg3 shadowheart #shadowheart #bg3 lae'zel #lae'zel

[tofixtheshadows]

Larian Studios should've had me on speed dial so they could call me up and ask "Hey, our origin character who was coerced into a Warlock pact as a teenager and ideally breaks free from it in any good ending, what should we do with him?"

And I would have been like "I'm so glad you called! Wyll is a Bard. A charming free spirited folk hero with a dramatic entrance and catch phrases and a taste for dancing and courtly love? He's meant to be a Bard. Yeah, College of Swords. Yeah it's really easy to picture him with a lute or a guitar, isn't it? He could have easily had access to music lessons when he was young. I know. Oh no need to thank me! Can't wait to see the concept art!"

#Baldur's Gate 3 #Wyll Ravengard #I mean I have many notes about his story but we'll leave it here for now #I need to be showering it's fucking midnight #musings with Dea

[bg-brainrot]

Making up random names for fanclubs of the BG3 characters:

Astarion - Ancunín Aficionados

Gale - Dekarios Devotees

Karlach - Mama K's Groupies

Lae'zel - Lae'zel's Chosen

Shadowheart - Followers of Lady Shadowheart

Wyll - Fiends for Wyll

Bonus:

Halsin: Hounds for Halsin

Minthara: Zealots of the Church of Minthara

#astarion #gale #karlach #lae'zel #Shadowheart #wyll #halsin #minthara #bg3 #welcome to my latest late night musing #is this anything? not really but I'm having a good time

[evildeerboy]

had a dream last night that if you reject both wyll and gale in the same playthru they just start drunkenly making out with each other in front of you to make you jealous. i think this should be in the game actually

#wyll/gale is such an underrated ship man they are both romantic idiots #Like legit imagine the poetry nerd vs the anime prince in a romantic musings contest #They’d both get embarrassed and die #ever.txt #Also gale was latino in my dream 🫡