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I’m glad I wasn’t born in mid evil times bc I’d be all like aaaaaaa I want to listen to Blue Monday by New Order but all I have is this stupid lute

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Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

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while i did a gifset to showcase an armour set, i was also intrigued by just how different the animation is for the wizard class vs gale's unique animation:

wizard class animation

gale's unique animation

it's amazing to see not only just how quickly gale performs the somatic component of the spell, but also his efficiency of movement compared to the standard wizard animation.

there's a world of difference here, the difference between a wizard vs a prodigy, an archwizard and chosen.

#gale #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #i never even realized this wtf #he really is talented wtffff

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it’s so funny if you keep the gith egg in Lae’zel’s inventory the whole time because you eventually get the chance to ask her about it and she’s like all attached and whatnot, and up until this point you can be like “well we can just pretend she’s leaving the egg in camp every day and not literally carrying it around” but then you get dialogue options to suggest to her that she leave it in camp and she’s like “Camp!?!? The place where people get kidnapped and try to fight each other and devils won’t stop showing up? I don’t think so.”

So like there is no way to headcanon your way out of the fact that Lae’zel is literally carrying this egg around every where she goes because she explicitly refuses to leave it alone in camp

#lae'zel #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #the way i had this exact headcanon addressed in the game lmaoooo #i was like 'oh she doesn't really leave it at camp at all! haha'

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everyday i wake up and i think about him

(more bg3)

#sighhh #truly ruined my life at this point #but idc im grateful lmao #Astarion #bg3 #baldur's gate 3

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that moment when you cross the point of no return with a character should be accompanied by a specific chime i think. like 🔔 congratulations! this one has been installed in the Permanent Collection and you will never stop thinking about them as long as you live

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Need I say more?

#ffvii #final fantasy 7 #final fantasy 7 remake #this man is the actual worst #would kill hojo a thousand times over #honestly Cazador too fuck that guy for real

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“Omg your so quiet”

me around people I actually like and trust:

#its the truth #me when you first meet me is not me when you actually know me and i can be myself lol #idk how some ppl do it. just act like besties when you meet someone new #like?? no i am observing how much of a weirdo you are like me lol #and if we have enough in common then i'll drop the polite customer service/coworker act and talk a lot haha #with endless swearing

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Hot Take: Astarion does NOT hate flowers. You just missed a few subtle hints through Act 1 and early Act 3.

Astarion's negativity is directed toward just about anything remotely pleasant as you move through early act three, starting the moment you leave Wyrm's Rock. First thing after Gortash's coronation he marvels near tears at the colors of the city in daylight. If you ask if he's alright, it pisses him off.

There's other instances I can't quite remember but he's a straight crank throughout early Act 3 and it took me several hours of gameplay to have a lightbulb moment about his newly crappier attitude.

He just spent the last two hundred years seeing everything in the overwhelmingly warm dim tones of indoor lighting via sconces, rushlights, and braziers, or the dingy blue gray of moonlight outside. Daylight colors are something he had more than a lifetime to forget and now that he has a chance to remember that vibrancy in his own home town, he knows he's going to have to forget it all over again either by death or by remaining a vampire spawn forever. The worm isn't going to live rent free in his head forever, and killing Cazador to ascend in his place likely feels like an insurmountable and impossible fight against a literal titan who could stomp him flat without a corm of effort.

He doesn't hate flowers, he hates EVERYTHING right now because it's all going away very soon and if he convinces himself he hates everything then he won't miss it when it's all gone again. He was denied this for two hundred years and he's PISSED at what was stolen from him and PISSED it's all going away again.

He behaved similarly in Act 1 about anyone besides him enjoying physical intimacy. Some of this content was cut, to my best knowledge, but the overwhelming majority of his dialog addressing the PC romancing anyone but him are negative or backhanded. This is for two reasons, I think. A: his Simple Plan just dissolved right before his eyes when you chose someone else which in his mind means he has zero safety net, and EVERYONE gets to enjoy sex (key wording being ENJOY, not simply having) except him... And it pisses him off.

He also gleefully interrupts the bug bear and the ogress, I think for the same reason as the above paragraph, being: If he doesn't get to enjoy intimacy neither do they.

He reacts with anger and disgust at anything he's being unfairly denied. Which... That's fair. His feelings are valid, but his reaction to it is pretty shitty and meanspirited.

The other companions I tend to keep in my party, (that is Lae'zel, Halsin, Karlach, and Wyll) however, are actually appearing to behave pretty patiently with him in Act 3 which I find interesting.

In the instance with the flowers Karlach doesn't bother trying to convince him otherwise of his opinion, she just tells him how they make her feel instead and rather than getting snippy or doubling down he more or less agrees to disagree. I also don't recall anyone disagreeing with Astarion during Gale's last quest tasks when he mentioned that he quit praying to gods who wouldn't hear him a long time ago but to be fair, I think the gods did everybody in this crew dirty and they all know it. It seems like they're consciously giving him the space to be mad about things, is what I'm saying.

Everyone I know including myself who crawled out of a long-term hot garbage situation kinda went wild for a bit with freedom, spoke poorly, behaved strangely, had extreme emotional reactions to things, and made some particularly terrible choices. I think that's just a part of recalibrating yourself, healing and learning how to be okay again.

Point is, I wouldn't conflate too many of the turbo-negative things he says with how he actually feels about anything. We certainly know what he says and what he feels are two very different things.

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #it's possibly another one of those cases where he's lying in party banter but being sincere alone with Tav #the graveyard 'cute' flower could just be he thinks your thoughtfulness is cute and not really the flower tbh #but i do think this take may also apply where he's kind of trying to convince himself that he doesn't like it cause he knows he'll lose it #i do think the bugbear thing was just him enjoying being a weird lil gremlin tbh lol #like it's hilarious to stop them because why not? he loves chaos #at least early on

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a less trusting person might think this all sounds very suspicious.

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #he was bullshitting but i do wonder if maybe a tiny bit of this was true lol #based on his comments later on #about how it did mean something to him and that of course he's attracted to Tav etc etc #and i mean he won't choose to sleep with you if he doesn't like you so.... #he does like you a lil even if he's mostly just trying to manipulate you to secure an ally

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#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #he's not wrong lol

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Now.

NOW.

I am less interested in the question “was Astarion a good magistrate” in terms of “how corrupt was he”, what I wanna know is. just in terms of raw skill competency, was he good at his job? I want to see the legal correspondence that passed across this man’s desk.

Like, he’s a fantasy noble, and a magistracy is almost definitely a nepotism thing; there’s a very real possibility that his career consisted of signing off on confessions without even reading them, and then fucking off to get daquiris at 11am. His int is what, 13?

But also two things can be true; it would genuinely be hilarious if he IS a brilliant legal mind, extremely well educated, utilizing a comprehensive knowledge of legal structure & precedent to hand down a vibes-based edict bc the suit you wore to court was just not it

#see i can be persuaded it's either situation #but apparently in his origin run he can offer to look at the legal stuff on Wyll's contract??? #like holy shit my mans remembers anything about law!? #which makes me think maybe he knew what he was doing but probably just didn't give much of a fuck #which i mean. relatable #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #anyway i do get the impression as a high elf he was probably some sort of rich upper class magistrate but not necessarily a noble #but that doesn't really explain his rogue background so idk. kinda like the idea that maybe he was rebellious in some way before being a mag

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i think what is really attractive to me about astarion’s character is that he balances his feminine/masculine traits so well.

like he can be pretty feminine with how he expresses himself (flamboyant, vain, showy) but he’s intrinsically masculine in a lot of aspects (his desires to pursue, protect, provide) and that was sooo surprising to me because usually it’s very black or white with that kind of thing— you typically get characters that are wholly masculine/feminine (or very heavily leaning on one side), not a mix of both (especially not in a man).

it just makes him feel much more alive and not so one-dimensional. it’s really a disservice to try to force him into a box by depicting him as only one or the other. let him be a silly little peacock man in peace

#yeah like i love his flamboyance #and his vulnerability tugs at the heartstrings #but god damn do i melt when he's showing some 'masculinity' too #saying he wants to protect you and shit #and his body language in the intimacy scenes too can be more “masc” like the lift and graveyard push #even his face design is very masculine and he has surprisingly wide shoulders #but his camp shirt is kinda androgynous (and old-timey) so thats fun #anyway he's the perfect blend of both at times and i also do love me some androgyny #peacock is a good definition for him cause he's beautiful and pretty but still acts masculine #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers

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When you ask Astarion to talk about your relationship and he replies

"Can we? I suppose we can"

It's so obvious to me that they way you phrased the question tickles him immensely. You're asking him *permission* to discuss your relationship, in a way where he can decline, and this is such a NOVEL CONCEPT to him.

You can see him smile a little, look up and away like /oh my God's, how cute. 'Can we', pdfdt, I shall grant you this like a king bestows a boon upon his people, ha! CAN WE/

And just that magnanimous "I SUPPOSE we caan~✨️✨️" as if he's trying to be casual about it but even just this little thing, this way of approaching him, this way that YOU speak to him means so much and really informs why he's catching feelings in the first place

#astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #yesssss he is so clearly chuffed by this lol #i love that his relationship has so many bits of respect and agency and consent sprinkled everywhere in it #just amazing #and it's great how he responds so positively to you treating him like an equal #love it so so fucking much #and it's so cute when he's being all coy and playful in lines like these i fucking love it

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astarion’s behavior after if you fail the checks and he drinks your character dry makes a lot more sense if you consider that he was probably blackout fucking drunk after finishing all the blood in your body. he realized you had stopped moving and was just like “well. this looks like a problem for Morning Astarion :)” then stumbled back to his tent probably knocking over a bunch of cooking pots by the fire on the way (#failqueen) and did whatever the elf trance equivalent of passing the FUCK out is. woke up the next morning, realized what happened and had no choice at that point but to play it cool. Oh no something terrible has happened

#i find it interesting that if you fail the narrator says he doesn't care lol #like is it that he's so lost in finally drinking some good blood that he's mentally unreachable? #or is it that he heard you try to speak but doesn't care? lmfao #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers

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#isobel #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #loved her look and makeup just chefs kiss

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#goddd karlach ❤️❤️❤️ #she is The Best #forever torn between wanting to be her bestie or wanting to be scorched by her lmao #or on her back during pushups hahaha #but really this outfit on her is so rad #karlach #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers