#⊹ ࣪ ˖ nia speaks !

[phyronia]

something i appreciate very much about baldur's gate 3 is the way it doesn't try to sand down its characters edges to make them fit into their roles as victims of their past better. it doesn't make them soft and sad and scared at the expense of their other, sometimes less palatable traits. even though the things people have done to them have molded them, they're still full people beyond that, warts and all.

karlach, for example, was an unwilling soldier for ten years. but she still loves fighting. smashing heads is often her first answer to any problem, because it's what she knows, and she's not ashamed of that. she's good at killing, and she's proud of it. ask her about killing devils! she gets so into the details that she forgets what you were even talking about.

astarion's been through two hundred years of hell and barely even knows who he is any more, and he's so terrified of losing his freedom that he's willing to hurt anyone (including himself) to try to protect it, but he's also just genuinely a huge bitch. not even in a 'pushing people away so they can't get close' way, he's just kind of a dick! and that's wonderful.

and gale's the last one i'll talk about for now because this is getting long. he was groomed by the literal goddess of magic and cast out for trying to prove himself to her by helping her, left to slowly and painfully die and endanger all those around him, then told to kill himself for redemption in her eyes, and he was down enough on himself to believe this was fair! but also! he is hubristic and arrogant and absolutely thinks that yeah 'rip to everyone else who reached too far for godhood and doomed themselves and others in the process but i'm different'. he's a disaster.

i'm just go glad larian gave us these characters that aren't just poor little snookumses. they have the range

[fairyofshampgyu]

Need someone to write a corpse bride au beomgyu fic, except he’s the corpse and you accidentally somehow marry him 😭😧 do we see the vision

[allthegothihopgirls]

NIA NAL [DREAMER] READING GUIDE!!

dreamer made her first official comic appearance in 2021, although you may recognise her from the tv show 'supergirl', where she debuted in 2018, the first trans superhero shown on television.

nia is not an alternate version of 30th century 'dream girl' nura nal, who's been around since the 60s, which is a common misconception. nia is nura's ancestor, from the 21st century.

(important appearances highlighted)

DC Pride 2021

DC Pride 2022

Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021) - #13-15

Lazarus Planet: Omega

Titans: Beast World - #1-2

Titans: Beast World Tour: Metropolis

Lazarus Planet: Assault on Krypton

DC Pride 2023

Suicide Squad: Dream Team - #1-4

Action Comics (2016) - #1060

Bad Dream: A Dreamer Story

DC Pride 2024

Absolute Power: Ground Zero

Absolute Power - #1-2, #4

Absolute Power: Super Son

okayyy that's all, have fun with her!!

[distraughtlesbian]

can i speak my truth ? can i keep it real ? there shouldve been more in-party conflict in blades 2. like obviously mc should’ve gotten to cuss mal out in particular when he was like You Dont Know What We’ve Been Thru as if getting kidnapped and forced into a magically induced coma and getting your blood stolen and having constant benadryl nightmares is a walk in the park lmfao, and also just gotten to talk more about what they went through and how it’s impacted them

but also there should’ve been way more beef between the other party members. like girl if i’m nia and i’m spiralling scorning sleep and food constantly hunting for a way to free MY GIRLFRIEND (!!) from the clutches of some goth elf cunt on top of making the fantasy catholic church christlike again and repressing my inner shadow demon and one of my friends is like “hesdeadjim.png give up also fuck you” and then fucked off to be an alcoholic pit fighter, i wouldve actually just thrown hands when we saw each other next. no magic no nothing just me and my nasty little fingers (covered in paper cuts from all the arcane shadow tomes ive been reading) coming straight for her eye sockets. staff of silverlake should’ve been nia’s weapon and she should’ve leapt into the pit in chapter 4 and clocked imtura in the skull with it.

like you bitches should be CRAZY!!!! you should all have DISORDERS!!!! you should be begging ravens perched on busts for RESPITE AND NEPENTHE from your memories of me !!!!!! the moon should never beam without bringing you dreams of ME and the stars never rise but you feel MY bright eyes. tyril should be half-mad with grief and stress he should be mumbling to himself and seeing mc’s silhouette in dark corners. nia should be clearly and obviously off her fucking rocker and constantly on the verge of self destructing and taking us all out with her. imtura should be constantly blind drunk so she doesn’t have to feel her grief or anything at all really. mal should have been in the wind the second it started looking like mc wasn’t coming back and nobody’s heard from him in months. kade should be in a bottomless pit of grief bc when he was stuck in the shadow realm we never gave up hope and we went to rescue him but now that the tables are turned he’s slowly losing hope and day by day and night by night we recede and he becomes more faithless. threep and loola should be inseparable sleeping in a pile together never beyond a wing-length from one another and keeping obsessive tabs on all the other party members no matter how far-flung across morella they are because they’ve already lost everyone and everything they knew to the shadow court once and they’ll be damned if they lose anything else. also kade and aerin should’ve built up a weird semihostile rapport bc once everything fell apart and everyone went their separate ways it was just the two of them in the whitetower palace and kade would go to his cell and sit out of arm’s reach to vent about his time in the shadow realm and his grief and hopes and fears. they both knew and loved mc, in their own ways, despite how aerin hurt them, and now they’ve both lost them, maybe for good. maybe one day aerin starts talking back

where is the SPICE where is the FLAVOUR? where’s the DRAMA where’s the OOMPH where’s the PANACHE? you cannot look at me and tell me these dysfunctional bitches wouldn’t fall back into their worst habits once the one person who held them all together up and vanished into the void. why am i not ending each chapter feeling like i’ve just gotten punched in the dick bc the love is so obviously still there and that’s why it hurts so bad. they should’ve put their whole budget and pussies into forcing the party to fit themselves back together even though they’ve all grown new sharp edges and keep cutting each other up. they should’ve gone full dark no stars about it. grief is an amputation but hope is incurable hemophilia you bleed and bleed and bleed, plants that are split down the middle dont heal they die, you are a language i am no longer fluent in but still remember how to read, what lived and died between us haunts me still, if someone asked me at the end i’d tell them “put me back in it”, i care what ghosts think of me, come back even as a shadow even as a dream, someone has to leave first this is a very old story there is no other ending to this story, etc, etc, you get it you understand. also the mc should’ve come back WRONG.

[mewkwota]

I was imagining something like a Smash Reunion Party where everyone's families were also invited, but regardless of the scenario I can see Mario staying in touch with fellow Fighters and celebrating important moments with them. Such is the way of Mr. Nintendo. :>

[orphyd]

his new hair was giving very steve harrington so...yeah

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Heyy —

Do you have any head canons or thoughts on Apollo’s relationship with Athena and Hera? I’ve always thought that Apollo was Athena’s favorite brother and that Apollo was Hera’s favorite stepson (LMAOO if she had to pick ofc).

(tbh that’s probably bias speaking for the Hera part BUT SEE THE VISION OKAY. In a happier world, she would totally mother him at every chance she could get.)

Okay so I DO actually have a post on Athena & Apollo already! You can find it here :3

AND AS FOR HERA-

Let us begin.

I DO IN FACT BELIEVE APOLLO IS HERA'S FAVORITE STEPSON. LIKE HEAR ME OUT.

It is MYTH CANON that she thinks he has fine as fuck hair. like his hair is worth 10,000 dollars Regina George style. she called him up to laugh at zeus as he stole away with Europa in the form of a bull and was like 'HOW FUNNY WOULD IT BE IF YOU WENT AND SHEPHERDED YOUR DAD RIGHT NOW. TREAT HIM LIKE THE BULL HE IS.' and in that same conversation calls Apollo 'my fine archer'.

like. that alone is pretty convincing evidence that while she's not like. FOND of him, he is probably her favorite stepchild XD

definitely her favorite twin. because she literally beat the shit out of Artemis during the Trojan War with her own bow. and called her a hussy. poor artemis </3

but anyway. post-toa would be the start of being on the mend i think. to an extent.

i affectionately call them 'stepduo' and that's actually my main tag for them hehe

and there's no doubt in my mind that when Revolution comes...they are on the same side :)

[outrunningthedark]

wwe:✨DOMMY TIME ✨ kinda has a nice ring to it 🤔

[satorisoup]

people will think im ordinary until they say one (1) thing about tmnt and all of a sudden im explaining the entire lore starting from the 1990’s movie & why donatello is the best turtle i fear… T^T

tag limit fights me… i must yap… please listen… SOB </3

[rushingexpress]

Question; What do you think is happening in this fever dreamy picture?;

AHAH— I've been bedrotting (non aesthetically) and this made me crack a smile for like the first time in the day

okay so, it could be like a tier list kinda thing or just 'ThE pOwEr Of FrIeNdShIp!!' kinda fucking thing

[fae-morrigan]

Jon's canonical Thing being languages is I feel underexplored in fanon considering almost everyone he's close with is likely bilingual.

[phyronia]

very normal about how, if you look closely, you can tell astarion's shirt is dirty and aged and rumpled. it's slightly shiny in a way only threadbare fabric gets. it's a white shirt but the colour is mottled, in some places closer to grey. and while he takes great pains to repair it and keep it looking as good as he can manage, the signs of damage are on display for anyone who cares to look close enough.

a lot like astarion himself.

[fairyofshampgyu]

Would anyone care if I wrote a merman beomgyu fic? 🤔

[writerfae]

I should write the final showdown from the perspective of the ghosts of Cyprian, Kyndra and Nia watching shit go down while they chill by the cursed Alderking’s side

[distraughtlesbian]

sorry for speaking my truth it will happen again. i think my main issue with valax’s redemption arc is literally just that there’s never a moment where the mc gets to actually talk to her about what she did—there’s not really a cathartic conversation, so valax and mc moving past what she did to them feels less like forgiveness and redemption and more like an agreement to ignore the elephant in the room

like sure we got to talk about our trauma (in chapter 17 of 20. lol. lmao, even) to the party, but valax wasn’t present for that?? and like, sure, she says once that she is sorry “for the pain she caused [them]”, but there’s a difference Tew Me between “sorry for hurting you ig ✌️😗” and actually being like “yeah, i abducted you and forced you into a magically induced coma and stole your blood and robbed you of a full year of your life and repeatedly tried to murder you, to say nothing of the grief i caused your loved ones. i did all that shit and i’m sorry for it and deeply regret it, and i acknowledge that you don’t owe me forgiveness, but i will spend the rest of my life working to build a better world for my people instead of being my mother’s pawn”, and a difference between “my mother is unhappy with me for saving you :(” and actually like, giving the mc space to talk about the impact of her actions towards them. like girl you are not getting out of this shit with one sentence’s worth of apology and a sex scene lmfao!!!

during the first half or so of the book the focus for mc is not falling the fuck apart bc they have a friend group to tentatively piece together and they’re averse to showing fear in front of valax, so they’re repressing all their trauma—and by the time valax joins the party, the narrative has gone full Valax Cool And Good mode, and fully allows you to flirt with her and tease her and generally stops taking her seriously as an antagonist. which would be all fine and good if we had actually at any point gotten to be like, “hey, you abducting me and keeping me in a magically induced coma and stealing my blood and trying to kill me has actually caused me a lot of lasting fear and pain,” followed by some set of choices wrt forgiving or not forgiving her for all that in light of the revelation that she did all that shit bc her mom tortured and brainwashed her

like why are my friends more pissed off about the time this bitch abducted me and did evil little experiments on me than i am. free valax she did all that shit bc of her mommy issues but i should’ve gotten to call her a cunt just once. pb stop making all your mcs generals in the idgaf war challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[allthegothihopgirls]

u guys looooooove to throw the cassandra phenomena on any dc character EXCEPT nia nal... be so serious rn