#!!!! wyll my BELOVED

[amnestria-the-elf]

When you meet him, he says, "Destined to shed our skin and become illithid, or so the story goes (shrug)... But we haven't sprouted tentacles yet, thank Balduran..."

And then later he tells Shadowheart, "I've faced countless challenges and overcome them all."

My man has shit to do, this isn't even close to the worst thing that's ever happened to him, can we please get back to hunting devils and being heroes now, thanks so much. ⚔️

at the start of the game karlach and astarion are absolutely fucking reeling from being suddenly freed and are in a state of manic joy that would probably seem alien to them like a week ago, while gale has been locked in his depression tower for so long he's almost completely forgotten how to talk to people. shadowheart has not a single fucking clue whats going on because shar keeps slurping up her memories and lae'zel is literally in the midst of her ultimate nightmare scenario and trapped on an alien planet with a bunch of jackasses who have no idea whats happening. so almost everyone has experienced a situational personality shift and isn't quite the person they were a year before you met them. EXCEPT Wyll. Who is just like "this isnt even the weirdest thing thats happened to me this month." my man got scooped up, tadpoled, and slammed back and said "oh well, not gonna ruin my day" and went about his business teaching self defense to children and slaying evil beasts. He didn't even seem confused he literally did not give a shit. no urgency. He's like "I'll put that in my day planner but is gonna have to wait until after i hunt down this demon." When you recruit him there is no sense of "oh man we really gotta help each other because we have the same problem" he just would have said yes because you asked and he's wyll. Or because you told him he could kill mindflayers. He'd be like "sick" and done, no questions asked. Just another Tuesday for the blade.

[preciouslittle-bhaalbabe]

Gale making a speech at Cyrus and Wyll's wedding would be ADORABLE. I love that most of the romance banter for Wyll is "I'm getting married and I love my future spouse so much :3"

[royalbeemilk]

POOKIE ‼️💞

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[khywren]

[fihyn]

listen. wyll is good. wyll is earnestly and deliberately good. and I think people are inclined to think he’s somehow boring because he doesn’t appear to struggle to remain good in his heart despite everything that’s thrown at him. and I understand that internal conflict can often be what is most compelling in a character.

but I think the conflict in wyll is just more complex and maybe people aren’t looking closely enough to understand it. I really, honestly believe that being so earnestly good is wyll’s coping mechanism for the horrors rather than something that wars with those horrors within him. like a faith you fall back on again and again because without community or comfort or any other form of support, eventually all you have to hold onto is a desperate prayer. wyll clings to what is “good” and “right” (and sometimes “traditional”) because it is all he feels he has.

he talks a lot about his certainty. he speaks in a very assured and composed way about his ideals and his beliefs in true goodness and heroics. and I do believe he himself has just a depthlessly good heart. but. But. I do think there is some notable repetition in how often he revisits the same ideals if there’s someone around to listen. this repetition, to me, hints at some underlying doubts (NOT doubts about if goodness is worth it or not, just some simmering awareness that the systems that taught him goodness may not be infallible), not to mention an almost frightening martyrdom when it comes to himself.

and. AND. when wyll is struggling the most with these doubts, he turns to classical stories and traditional fables to comfort himself. he molds himself after the qualities of the heroes in his stories and takes very little time to consider what he wants within himself or who he might be outside of those stories. who among us hasn’t turned to fiction for comfort and guidance, when we have so little understanding from other people that we have nowhere else to turn? who of us - maybe especially when we were children - molded ourselves to be just like our favorite characters because we felt inherently unworthy to be ourselves? this is such a deeply compelling aspect of wyll’s character to me.

(quick note that I understand that he does sometimes do what he wants to pursue his own happiness - he is truly the biggest dork ever and loves being The Blade - but this still partially suffers from being what he wants within the framework that he feels he’s even allowed to have wants inside of.)

I think a lot of people think it is ridiculous or even foolish for him to not be angry with his dad. but I believe in the wake of what happened, wyll couldn’t bear to be angry with his dad, because it would mean giving up on the idea that his father is adhering to what is “good.” he’s willing to accept that his father is flawed or misguided in sending him away, but I don’t think he ever allowed himself to think on the reverse, to wonder, “why couldn’t he believe that I was good too? even if I did something that to his eyes, looked like it might have been bad?” because it was too painful to imagine his father as less than good. because wyll learned his ideals of being good from his father - and it is too much for him to let that be threatened. thus the pattern begins - even if it is painful, even if it hurts wyll deeply, it is better to stick to your ideals above all else because it’s just not tenable to give up being good. 

and he clearly does not think this way in regards to anyone else other than himself. he accepts people like vampire astarion and sharran shadowheart and militaristic lae’zel as his friends because he’s willing to give everyone a chance other than himself. everyone else in the world deserves the opportunity to live and thrive and see who they’re meant to be and it’s wrong to cast them out or harm them on the basis that their existence goes against some pre-established ideal… but not wyll. wyll’s wellbeing and happiness never comes above the greater good. he believes that so deeply. listen no one has ever loved this man for who he is beneath the heroics and it hurts but he believes that.

wyll not getting his own choice (apart from the player character’s ideas) in the act 3 mizora scene is frustrating, but maybe. maybe it hints at him feeling completely lost - coming up against this brick wall of a choice that either forces him to once again turn away from his father’s ideals to work with a devil to save that which he loves most (repeat what drove him away from his beloved father years ago) OR. face the idea that all this pain he’s feeling in regards to (seemingly) giving up his father in order to be “good” is something that maybe his father should have shown for wyll as well. ulder ravengard didn’t even appear to be conflicted in sending wyll away, and wyll is facing this terrible choice, possibly for the very first time letting himself wonder if his father was really as matter-of-fact about it as it felt from wyll’s perspective. maybe that’s why he doesn’t choose for himself. 

in any case, I do think we lost something as a natural consequence of having wyll’s character arc rewritten so late in development because it would have been REALLY rewarding to see some more act 3 wyll character arc in the form of “sometimes hard moral choices can’t always be solved just by sacrificing yourself” because I would have loved dearly to see him both come to realize he’s worth fighting for too, and that sometimes there isn’t an obvious “good” answer. not that I think wyll is naive, but I do think he’s come to associate “difficult” choices with the idea that “one of these choices will be painful for me but it’s more important to strive to be good than to strive to be happy” and has grappled less with “none of these choices feel right or good but I still have to make a choice.” 

as a final note I do believe ulder ravengard loves wyll but he is deeply flawed in his relationship to him. he does the exact same thing - wyll learned it from him - “what is ‘good’ and ‘right’ must be followed above all else even if it is deeply painful for me.” and I do believe sending wyll away was deeply painful for him. but he wasn’t even willing to show hesitation, and wyll learned that from him too. wyll never sounds like he’s even questioning his ideals, because his father never did, never showed wyll it was okay to struggle with them. not even when it was wyll himself on the line. also, due to his position as duke, ulder has naturally had to align his ideals with general civilian law, instead of doing what many of us would (what wyll does, when he’s out on his own), and understanding a certain loyalty to your own is maybe more important than perfect righteousness. 

[asspinkie]

pleased to say that i have graduated from the astarion school of i could make him worse and am now attending the wyll school of i could feel real love for the first time

[sharklovespink]

Just finished my first playthrough in Baldurs Gate 3 yesterday…

Had to cry in the end, I got my happy end with Wyll

Absolutely a unit of a game! 10/10

[ministerofchaosabsolute]

Wyll and Lily <3

[master-of-the-elements]

Underrated Wyll Reaction

I've never seen anyone post this, so I decided I would! I love this interaction because not only did it take me by surprise, but he's still so polite while being very stern! 😂😂

[wrenammil]

My love my fav my babeeeee I love Wyll Ravengard so much dude

He’s very pretty and I love drawing his heart eye <333

[preciouslittle-bhaalbabe]

Pookie is SERVING OH MY GOD

Clothes: PK Haunted Sea Set

[babydinosaur930]

With the bg3 toolkit unlocked I now go to bed each night hoping to wake up to mods that insert more wyll content. Because that sweet man deserves better.

[camthecleric]

I had to draw that Laois Meme but Wyll getting peeved at meadow

I would tag the original, but Twitter scares me

Edit: FUCK I MISSPELLED LITERALLY

[amnestria-the-elf]

*Grabs Larian by the collar and pulls them in close*

Listen. To me.

Wyll "If you were a song, I'd never stop singing" Ravengard should have fifteen different romanced greetings, at least three of which should be actual poetry.

Don't tell me y'all are incapable of writing sexy, romantic things for him to say. I know you're lying.

[ravengardstan]

HEAVY SPOILERS (for the Patch 7 evil endings + TW: gore)

So I’ve never been one to make edits, I just obsessively love watching and liking them on Tumblr. But honestly BG3 changed my brain chemistry, esp. the Wyll romance.

But after patch 7, I went and redid my redeemed durge play through for a not-so-redeemed ending & I could not get over it. A redeemed durge x Wyll play through is so rewarding but this is the exact opposite.

Mix that heartbreak with Pheobe Bridgers and you get this whole mess.

[creativemess33]

Fanart of my favourite 3 :)