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✨️ The Emperor is ready for Valentine's Day ✨️

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there is a redraw flashmob on twitter: https://x.com/skeptical_lynx/status/1885885801470570676?s=46&t=EuBiJuFrpmM7JiLiuDbaCA

this art on bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/skeptical-lynx.bsky.social/post/3lh62brdj622l

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playing other games after bg3 sometimes rlly makes me miss being able to play with only one hand via the mouse... like unless im playing a 1st person shooter or something i groan whenever i also need to use wasd or the arrow keys

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i was starting to have withdrawal of not drawing emps (college is killing me)

inspired by this post

more serious version:

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No emps dont eat that! You're an obligate carnivore!!

alas, I only caught the last half hour of the stream but the idea of him eating things he shouldn't really resonated with me.

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Half Squid Half Man

For some reason I can't directly put in on Tumblr because it bugs... So I'm putting in on a limited visible mode on my Youtube ^^'

HERE!

The things I've spent my week-end on for some wtf music, and I hope you'll have fun watching it XD

Music and actual scenes are and belong to OCT's "Half Horse Half Man", and their artists - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_R180kIGs

Characters of the Emperor, the role of Tav, and everyone else are from Baldur's Gate 3 + Baldur's Gate 3 and the places, and belong to Larian)

The (bad) drawings and re-creation of the music video scenes and lyrics are made by Seynne

Done on IbisPaint X using the brush "Peenzilla" to mimic my mechanical pencil, and "Manga ALcohol Brush" for that one scene in front of the moon. Assembled with music with OpenShotVideo Editor. Drawn with the SonarPen my best friend KimikoSoma offered me for my birthday last year, I'm forever grateful, but hope she doesn't regret it ^^'

Took a bit more than 40 hours (when I was sick a.f) between drawing the initial stuff on paper, redoing them on my phone, and then putting with the music.

Thanks a lot to @desfraisespartout and Gemmababbler who both saw it when it was respectively at the beginning and then 90% done, and who DID NOT try to dissuade me from doing it, and thanks too for liking it, and I hope it'll still make you laugh XD

And, @lulu-croissant, @revoleotion, @astralprisms, @kitthenameless Shin, all my friends and fellow Emperor Lovers : I don't know if I'm sorry, but I hope you'll have a good laugh too XD

@juimondraws I'm sorry to tag you, but your comic definitely inspired me the "Asta coming for a snack" part of this and has a nasty surprise, I hope it's Ok ? and by the way - your art is gorgeous!!!

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Do you think Balduran and Ansur ever… um… while in dragon form…

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take this game away from me

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looking at flags/booleans and apparently at one point the player could sleep with the emperor not once but twice?? this doesnt seem to be used in-game but imagine what couldve been...

+ a non inclusive list of other interesting unused flags:

PlayerWasObscene (???)

HeldTentacle ("Player held the Emperor's tentacle, romantically.")

VlaakithFlirt ("Player disrespects Vlaakith with flirtation.")

EmperorGaveSpeech ("Emperor gave the motivating battle speech.")

also i love how the conversation you have with raphael at sharess' caress is referred to as RaphaelTango

ive been looking through the game files/parsed dialog for the emperors scenes a lot these past few days so i thought id start a thread of things i find funny/interesting

"daisy"/the dream visitor and "emperor" are used pretty interchangeably (and the emperor is referred to as daisy even after the reveal)

both it/its and he/him pronouns are used for the emperor in devnotes

despite obviously not emoting like a human the emperor still gets descriptions like "longing", "smiles", "sheepish", "look of gratitude" etc etc

+ some of my fav devnotes hehe

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I always wondered how the emperor kept an eye on us..

alternatively,

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Baldur’s Gate 3 silies

The Emperor being concerned for the player character

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I absolutely adore the Emperor and all interactions with him. And I love this meme - *now* it suits him perfectly :D

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I was someone once... An adventurer.

(read more for me rambling about the emperor)

theres rarely any particular meaning or intent behind my art but i swear the emperor is literally my muse, so i thought id share my thoughts about what this piece means! i was listening to punish by ethel cain and couldnt get this idea out of my head… i feel like the line "i was an angel, but they made me leave" or the fallen from grace motif pretty well encapsulates the tragedy of balduran and the emperor and why he'll always be such a sympathetic character to me.

ultimately while there are valid reasons to believe the emperor's evil/irredeemable or whatever, its quite literally not his fault he became what he is. he never asked for his ceremorphosis (of course, he came to accept it, but that doesnt make it any less fucked up). its generally considered that mankind is capable of good and evil in equal measure, but if your humanity is literally stripped away from you, what is there to stop your descent? this isnt even to justify his actions but instead about how titles like "angel" and "demon", "good" and "bad" etc etc are so subjective and perception-based. like if it was the human(oid) balduran and not a mind flayer behind all his actions throughout the game, i doubt he'd be so universally hated. i mean, better a bad person than a literal monster, right?

there's also the "only god knows / only god would believe", or to me the idea that no matter how hard the emperor may try to exercise morality, he's so far departed from his former self that people will only ever see him as a villain, not a hero. its truly a damned if you do, damned if you dont situation. and most ironic is the fact that despite everything, he hasnt fully lost his humanity. he genuinely yearns for companionship and mourns what hes lost and who he used to be (to some degree). i think hes so well-written because he is just like you in the sense that hes simply playing the cards he was dealt, right or wrong. i could go on and on about this awesome character and song (especially its themes of perversion, punishment, and love) but that's the gist. thanks for reading ^^

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your grace

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I'm sure this has been done before