You know how Durge and Gortash went on a museum heist/mission to get some bhaalian relics and Durge used that as a way to test Gortash's "mettle in combat". In Durge's own words, it's always seemed to me that he was kinda doubtful that Gortash would prove himself well enough but that was clearly not the case, so now I imagine Gortash killing someone in a very gruesome and/or efficient way during the heist and Durge wildly swings from "doubtful of Gortash's abilities" to this:
321 notes
·
View notes
maybe you’re the knight who saved my life
-“Etienne,” Y Kant Tori Read
Inspired by The Meeting On The Turret Stairs
172 notes
·
View notes
ah ah we ask before we bite.
decided to do my first playthrough of bg3 as the dark urge and no regrets. the astarion romance is everything to me and I've had these two on a constant rotation in my brain for weeks (especially that one line i don't know why).
dark urge oc [chosen, she/they/he]
204 notes
·
View notes
I should probably let my thoughts coalesce on this more before posting, but what the hell.
I’m calling death of the author a little bit on Welch regarding Ascended Astarion. I’m sorry, but embracing his nature as a vampire does not make him inherently sexualised. That’s just so gross and I don’t accept it.
The main vampire trope in fiction does indeed seem to be that vampire=sex. If you’ve been alive in the past, oh, entire history of humanity, you may also have noticed that some people think woman=sex. Just the very act of existing as a woman makes you a sex object in some people’s eyes, and it’s an uphill battle fighting tooth and nail to claw back any agency. And then, the moment a woman does anything sexual, dares to declare openly that she does have a sexuality, she is told “See! We were right! You are an object! You want to be an object!”
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but there is nothing inherent about anyone that makes them a sex object. Not big boobs, not a nice ass, not your chromosomes, not your weight, your skin colour, nothing.
Embracing anything about yourself cannot make you an object because you are not an object.
So saying that ascending Astarion — the ending where he embraces his vampiric nature, which he did not choose and cannot change — is accepting that vampire=sex and forcing him to eternally be a sex object is just so fucking boring and uninteresting and in my humble and very articulate opinion, gives me the ick.
His relationship to sex may be unhealthy. It might not. (I’d argue it is, but that’s me.) Spawn might be a healthier ending for him. It might not. (It’s a debate we will never settle because nothing is so black and white.)
But what I will argue vehemently is that from the moment he’s tadpoled, Astarion ceases to be an object. His story is about reclaiming lost agency. It’s about a messy path to healing or redemption or not (or some other mix of it all). But it is not about becoming a slave again. It’s not about him continuing to live for what he can do for other people.
He gets his autonomy back. What is the fucking point otherwise?
98 notes
·
View notes
Look at these assholes just chilling while Arthur has to clean up their mess.
170 notes
·
View notes