#. aesthetics: rion .

[jaxonware]

✨ tone rion ✨

[mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora]

Santa Maria ai Monti, Rome, Italy

[miscreantes]

this is a tag post, permanent starter call & interest check for rion, of the baldur's gate franchise. other fandom verses available. follows baldur's gate 3 timeline.

[spawnofbhaal]

If only a certain popular rpg had more to its elves other than "hot ppl pointy ears." I miss elf lore.

[spacemonkeysalsa]

Appetites

(Angst and fluff and smut)

It's been five years since the Vampire Ascendant Astarion helped save Baldur's Gate. He has everything he ever wanted, and he's miserable.

Isolde is nobody, and has nothing. When given the option to become a vampire spawn, her response gives Astarion a moment of pause; “No. Thank you. I think I’ll just die.”

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or read Chapter Eight below the cut

He really should have a contingency plan beyond just killing everyone who was an inconvenience, but it was just such a historically effective strategy—or, it had been so far. It wasn’t until Astarion was buttoning up his waistcoat over Rhapsody and approaching the entryway that he realized he ought to have asked how many flaming fists had come. If it was just one, or two, then they probably wouldn’t be missed, but many more than that and it seemed likely that even more would come looking. His body count for the last twenty four hours was not conducive to a low profile. He just wasn’t entirely sure what else to do. He’d try bribing them first, of course, but indiscriminate slaughter as a contingency plan was looking riskier every time he resorted to it. In addition, it had only taken them a few hours to track him down. Had he left a trail?

Then, to his discomfort, he saw it was only one flaming fist, but it was Rion. 

She leaned against the banister in the entryway, arms crossed, eyes examining the portraiture, unimpressed. Her fist uniform and warhammer didn’t quite fit the aesthetic, but she looked as comfortable as an honored guest, not at all intimidated but the luxurious surroundings.  

Shit. Bribery wasn’t an option, she wouldn’t go for it. Killing her wasn’t a good option, Jahiera would be devastated, and murderous. Blackmail? Threats? Coercion? No. Not yet. First, charm.

“Rion! I’m always saying you’re welcome here, never thought you’d take me up on the offer,” Astarion slid up against the banister next to her, to observe the portrait as well. It was one that had been hanging there for decades. He didn’t know the figure within and always found it tasteless, but hadn’t gotten around to ridding himself of it yet. “I was rather starting to think you didn’t like me.”

“This isn’t a social call.”

“Pity. I like socializing, not sure I can be much help with anything else. But let’s give it a try, what can I do for you?”

She took a long moment to respond, and he tried to read her expression. Her breath was a little shallow, her jaw clenched. She seemed upset, but not as guarded as he would have thought. Maybe she wasn’t here to ask him about any bodies just yet, but he couldn’t think what else it could be. Surely, this had to be about the dead noblemen. “My mother trusts you.”

Astarion hadn’t expected that, and couldn’t hold back a scoff. “Oh, dear. Give her more credit than that.”

“No. She does,” Rion did sound a little disappointed. “She didn’t, for a long time, but things have changed.”

“She thinks I’m on the path to redemption?” Astarion tried to force a tone of chiding, but it turned too vicious and he found himself dissatisfied with his own performance.

“More like everyone else is on the path to damnation, but you’ve been there long enough to slow down and have some perspective,” Rion shrugged.

“Interesting.”

“Isn’t it just,” Rion rolled her eyes and looked away from the portrait but wouldn’t meet his eyes. “I’m saying this because I have to ask you some questions, but I don’t expect the truth from you.” This rather blunt declaration was punctuated with a frown that lingered as she added, “I’ll accept lies, for now, because I honestly don’t know what else to do. And I have to come back with something. But. If there’s some kind of trouble, the kind my uniform can only complicate, maybe consider that the High Harper is still your ally, in spite of everything.” Now she was guarded, but just a touch and just for a moment.

Then it dawned on Astarion that this strange attitude from her might not have anything to do with him. Rion had always been too idealistic for her own good.

 It had to be difficult, being a flaming fist and believing in something. He couldn't relate to either experience, but he could imagine.

He spared a moment to pity her before he nodded his assent. Whatever her dilemma, it seemed he would benefit from it.

“Baron Horrold has gone missing, and one of his rivals Baron De Cloyo and his wife were murdered last night.”

“Oh! How very shocking, and tragic,” Astarion thought he actually managed to express something as close to genuine surprise as he ever had before, but Rion wasn’t looking at him, wasn’t even noting his response. She didn’t care.

“The corpses aren’t talking, but the living are. A lot. According to Horrold’s people, he was meant to come here last night.”

“He did,” Astarion decided he might as well tell a half truth rather than a full lie, “just before sunset. We discussed business until about midnight and he left.”

“Midnight?”

“Yes. My majordomo has gone walkabout. But, you could ask the groom what time exactly he was able to see them off. I’m sure I was at rest by that point.”

“Alright.” Rion’s response was far from enthusiastic. “That gives me a timeline. Thank you.”

“Timeline? For how long he’s been missing?”

“His wife believes he’s dead also. Or, she’s insisting he must be. At first, I thought it could just be a way to throw suspicion off of him for the De Cloyo's deaths. But, she wants to use a scroll of true resurrection that the family has in their vault to bring him back. We have three days to find the body first. Waste not.”

Even in the moment, Astarion was impressed by his own ability not to appear affected by this information. He hoped. He also appreciated how quickly he came to a conclusion about it and actually made a plan. Find it. Steal it. “I may be wealthy and powerful, but a scroll of true resurrection waiting in the wings to bring you back to life?” It was easy to laugh and for it to sound like genuine mirth. It was just so absurd, “Why—gossip travels fast, but I imagine half the patriars won’t even know he was gone!” He gave in to the urge to giggle again, feeling moisture at the corners of his eyes, “That’s real privilege for you. I’m terribly jealous.”

“Would that even work on you?” Rion raised an eyebrow at him.

“I— yes ,” he cleared his throat, “I mean. In the sense that I think if you killed me now and used one, it would be like nothing happened. But any greater utility than that timed out long ago.” He hadn’t actually looked into it too deeply, because everything he’d heard confirmed his bleak beliefs. 

He remembered vividly, the long passed day he learned that he’d been a spawn for too long. A scroll of true resurrection could theoretically offer a route back to freedom and mortality. An escape from undeath, if used one on a spawn that was still new enough. 

Astarion hadn’t been new enough for a long time.

Of course, much later, that skeleton had hung around handing them out for a deep discount, but in Astarion’s case it had never come up. “Even then though, maybe not.” He shrugged, “I guess I don’t actually have any idea. Now that you ask. And the opportunity to find out passed by. I certainly like to think your mother and our other allies would’ve brought me back, when we were overflowing with access to that magic for practically nothing. But, I made a serious effort not to die in the first place. I’m well aware that people don’t go around saving my kind. Quite the opposite. We die and everyone agrees; it's for the best.”

Rion didn’t say anything to that. Maybe it was his imagination, but it seemed like he’d struck a cord. Or, maybe she was having a totally unrelated conversation with herself inside her own mind. She finally nodded, with a somewhat self-conscious look on her face when she caught him staring at her. “All right. I’ll just pop in and have a word with your groom on the way out.”

“Tah,” Astarion offered lazily. He watched her walk out, arms crossed and rhapsody biting into his wrist through the fabric. If he’d had to guess, and he supposed he did because it was rather important to have a theory, he’d say that Rion knew full well he was lying and that either he knew the Baron was dead, or knew something about his disappearance. She probably didn’t think he’d killed him, outright. But, she didn’t exactly seem troubled by his death. The scroll of true resurrection could be responsible for that apathy, but he wasn’t sure that was the only thing. What she’d said about Jaheira stuck him, even as he found himself following after her. Confide in the High Harper that he needed help? That seemed to be what she was implying. 

But, Rion was wrong. Jahiera wouldn’t just help him for the hell of it. And he didn’t need help. Everything was fine. Some people were dead. A scroll of true resurrection needed to be stolen so one of those dead people couldn’t tell everyone how they died. These were problems, indeed, but he hardly needed to employ the righteous scrutiny or aid of a folk hero to solve them.

He could handle this.

Jahiera might trust him, and that trust might be enabled by sentiment or senility. But that trust would only go so far. Covering up a murder was far beyond the pale and he was a little surprised Rion would be so careless as to say anything at all. Somewhere, deep down, she had to know that he wasn’t a reformed murderer and never would be.

But that wasn’t what Astarion found himself pondering as he hit the streets of Bladur’s Gate, under the blazing sun. He wasn’t ready to plan a heist, or to work out what was going on with Rion and her mother and the whole of the flaming fist. His feet carried him, somewhat without his intention, towards the House of Grief.

Where the fuck was his majordomo?

[jamessunderlandgf]

Baldur’s Gate for fandom opinions?

the first character i fell in love with:  had to be wyll. i saw him and then i bought the game exclusively to romance him NSBFJSND

the character i never expected to love as much as i do now: …def rolan cs that came completely out of left field but his general air of being sopping wet and eventual character arc really got me. they put crack in those tieflings i stg

the character everyone else loves that i don’t: cutting this ask here and censoring but. ast*rion. i don’t hate him— i genuinely think that he was extremely well written, a lot of it has to do with his fans and the way it seems that he was given a disproportionate amount of character development/content compared to some other companions

the character i love that everyone else hates: i don’t think there is one? there’s a community for everyone in this game which slays

the character i used to love but don’t any longer: i guess gale— at first i was all in but now i think i go back and forth on my feelings towards him

the character i would totally smooch: is it cheating if i say all of them. top of the list tho— rolan, wyll, jaheira, karlach.

the character i’d want to be like: i wanna be dame aylin for aesthetic reasons her character design slaps so fucking hard

the character i’d slap: lorroakan. fuck that bitch OFF the balcony he goes. SKRT

a pairing that i love: the obvious one is dame aylin/isobel but i am also partial to wyll/karlach and dammon/karlach. i could be convinced into becoming a lae’zel/shadowheart truther as well

a pairing that i despise: i can’t think of anything in particular tbh but i know that will change HAHA

[pond-of-koi]

I’ve never been a huge Tone Rion fan and only know her for Pokkan Kara, but I’ve always really liked her V3 design, and is one of my favs based purely off of aesthetic. So I really want to know where the hell her V4 design came from?? Like, there’s Vflower’s drastic redesigns that were like

still recognizable despite all the changes, and then there’s Tone Rion’s???

I get that her V4 is meant to fit with Yumemi Nemu’s design but damn😭 we couldn’t even keep the colour palette? Not even a little?? It’s not even a redesign at that point that’s a whole other person! This isn’t meant to be a dunk on her V4 but girl what happened??? I went a long time thinking her V4 was a different vocaloid I had never heard of I was so confused like who is this gamer girl!??

[f4irydaydreams]

name game aesthetic

search your name + aesthetic on pinterest and use the first 9 images. ty for the tag @yourgoddessofmischief

shayshay i love yousoooooo much <3

this has no business being so accurate

npt: @biderboy @shadesofvelma @bellatrixscurls @o-rion-sta-r @delilahsroses @bambiangl @n0agranger 💞

[1-up-chump]

The day mk abandoned the kung fu death tournament high eastern fantsy aesthetic and then copied the Dcu/mcu aesthetic

Is the day mk fuckin died. It started with the cash grab crossover, then the dlc guest characters, and now this convoluted inconsistent assassination of characters.

Examples:

sin\del (was supposed to be manipulated by dark magiks from q=uan chi. Was never fuckin evil and never killed jerrod bc SH/AO KAH/N DID AND THATS SCREWING HIS CHARACTER OVER TOO all for some mommy dommy milf fantasy which is absolutely from a "hetcis man's" gaze dont fool yourself)

ku\ng la\o (turned him into a second banana cocky type and just keep killing him for shock value when before he kinda never got this treatment. He was is and always WILL be li/u kan/g's equal in skill and warriors heart)

ra\iden (a LITERAL GOD who was so strong he was only bound by the rules of mortal kombat and the elder gods and his soft spot for mortals and loyalty to protecting earthrealm, kind and wise. Turned into a supposed dEmi-GOd who was willing to use the realm that was his charge as a fucking bargaining chip to a man who's more untrustworthy than shan/g ts/ung, he's hardly around OR he's suddenly not as powerful until he remembers he can obliterate ppl with lightning, he's a cold hardass who's so alien to mortals emotions despite being around them longer and basically raising one like his own son)

li\u k\ang (turned into basically every shonen protagonist ever type levels of character development, gets fucked over in the romance department Although kit/ana has her fair share of problems with writing too, becomes a god in the most deus ex machina way possible and is so intrusive to kun/g la/o and his legacy to meddle with the great kung lao like some sort of savior bs)

sha\ng tsun\g before aftermath (having his whole ass character trashed to the side for some milf dominatrix fantasy in 9 is the only reason i fucking need here lbh)

son\ya (her whole character is stale and practically revolved around the fact she fucks and marries a dude she's so incompatible with just bc of "we need the original characters to make next gen characters we dont care if they're compatible lol" literally has an accidental pregnancy literally divorced jo/hny and then fucking dies, and then comes back anyways "but its the version fans like right oh btw shove in the fact that Son/ya's purpose is to malke cas/sie and thats it shes just mom character now but #gurlboss am i right plz buy game")

ja/x (gets traumatized to hell and back for very little payoff used as depression fetish exploitation, at least his tower ending is great despite the "#woke" bs, his daughter however has the most fucked ending to basically erase herself to make j/ax happy like???? Sonya literally has an avengers/justice league ass tower ending all peachy keen but the black woman cant have any happiness huh mmm sure ok yeah.)

Jacq/ui (honestly im not too into her character but when i heard about her tower ending it pissed me off so much and made me hate the writing even more like oh some characters get basically whatever they wanted no consequence but some characters are doomed to be fucked??? Like hello favoritism MUCH?!? -coughhanzosgodofwarripofftowerendingcough-)

with new characters added that have so much potential but poor execution (i mean seriously you wanna tell me ce/trion and kroni/ka actually killed the elder gods THE ELDER GODS AKA THE BIG POWERFUL DIVINE COUNSEL but have trouble with making rai/d/en and li/u fi/ght and kill each other??? Let alone try to kill one at a time??)

I do like some things like kolle/ctor and ge/rus and cet/rion like i like those characters but by god cetr/ion was wasted potential you cant drop her brother was fucking shinn/ok and then proceed to basically make her some weak errand girl who i feel in the end is making fun of the "divine feminine gaia" aesthetic like the writing wants her to be the bad guy but also sympathetic in the dumbest way possible and she sounds like someone on Twitter who just learned about the concept of "balance" and slaps buddha quotes incorrectly

Also i never cared for shin/nok until recently when i was like "hey wait no his concept kinda slaps actually"

At the end of the day we all have our opinions i guess. And mine is: mk new timeline is written by people who like superheroes movies when mk should be written by people who like kung fu movies

[struungout]

Sooooo Ken and Shuu arrived sooner than I expected. XD They arrived along with 2 other packages in the mail today and aaaahhhhh they’re so handsome. ; w ; Shuu’s eyes and hair haven’t arrived yet so he’s not fully put together just yet. xD;

In case y’all following me didn’t put it together already, these two are my dolls that I’m turning into Ken Kaneki and Shuu Tsukiyama from Tokyo Ghoul. I actually originally got the Switch Rion head to be Ken and had no plans to make Shuu into a doll, but when the head arrived, the head just screamed Shuu and I ended up having to find something else for Ken. Ended up going with a Migidoll Jina head mostly because I have always loved Migidoll sculpts, but have never really had a proper opportunity to own and keep one long-term. Plus, boy!Jinas are my favorite thing ever.

Anyway, ended up putting the Soom jointed hands I have onto Ken’s body and they, of course, don’t match at all bahahaha. I’m hoping to maybe eventually get them color matched, but I’m not in too much of a rush to get hand pieces done at the moment. I actually got him some Asleep Eidolon jointed hands so I wouldn’t have to get shit color matched, but…aaahhhh the AE hands just ain’t doing it for me. They way they’re put together is janky and I just don’t like how they look. I’m majorly picky with doll hands. D; Soom is definitely my favorite with jointed hands. The aesthetic of the sculpting + the joints just looks so good put together.

But yeah, my boys looking so handsome. KomorebiDolls always does amazing work. ; w ; Really need to get more clothes (and shoes for Shuu) for both of these guys that’s in character for them.

[cheyconicbookreviews]

Tiny Nightmares

⭐⭐⭐💫/5

👻👻👻/5 I picked this book up for the cover. Not even going to lie. I love me a good creepy pasta, so this book tickled my sick sick funny bone. Overall, there were a lot of stories that fell flat, but some of them were breathtaking, heart racing, and downright bone chilling. Here are a few of my faves. Some of these are definitely reminiscent of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark", others are absolutely bone chilling.

This book is also just incredibly aesthetically pleasing.

Before you read the anthology, I *highly* recommend checking content warnings.

Heads – this section seems to feature stories that have a focus on, you guessed it, heads. A little mind-fuckery too.

Jane Death Theory #13 Rion Amilcar Scott This is a whopping 2.5 (if that) pages that packs a super mega punch. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Unbeknownst Matthew Vollmer Creepy in the unsettling way that this *could* be a thing and we’d never know. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Lone by Jac Jemc “She took a photo of the sky, disappointed by the dimness of the stars as they appeared on her phone’s screen.” This lil gem has the pure essence of a creepypasta– the exact reason I picked up this book. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hearts– stories that make your heart race, deal with the heart, etc.

The Owner by Whitney Collins When I tell you I gasped– ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Candy Boii Sam J. Miller I’m not even on to the second page yet and I can feel my heart thundering. “We think we’re safe, speaking through software. But we’re not. We’ve already let them in.” This story had impeccable creepypasta vibes. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Marriage Variations by Monique Laban A choose your own adventure horror tale. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Limbs– extremity horror

Pincer and Tongue Stephen Graham Jones When I tell y’all I screamed when I saw my mans as the author here. I F’in love me some SGJ. ,(Did I bother to read the cover of the book beyond the title? Apparently not. ) Stephen Graham Jones has a talent for pulling twists out of left field and I am here for it. Also includes my biggest fear and ick (plot twist, it’s not the vampire or the werewolf) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Mask, the Ride, the Bag Chase Burke ⭐ c r e e p y p a s t a ⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#mothermayhem Jei D. Marcade IF you have ever seen the Three Extremes, #Mothermayhem could have made it 4. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Viscera- gore Caravan Pedro Iniguez Oh… OH ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Human Milk for Human Babies Lindsay King-Miller This should have been in head. Like 100% ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Parakeets Kevin Brockmeier Immediately looking to see if there are any full length books this man has released. Oh my god. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Should I have read this right before bed? God no. But here I am.

[aryshacore]

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[dakotawritesif]

the king’s hound @the-kingshound mc 1/3;

Rion

Pronouns: They/Them

Romance: Arthur

Very quiet and withdrawn initially, mostly due to their past experiences with loved ones being not-so-loving. They learned at a young age that, despite being soft hearted, it was only a weakness and they had to hide it if they wanted it to remain intact.

Spoiler alert, their heart got broken anyway.

They fall hard for Arthur and it’s kind of obvious to everyone around them. Still manages to be a slow burn romance simply because they can’t bring themselves to trust so easily despite being desperately in love.

The scar on their face came from a training accident, if anyone is curious. They caught on that blocking with their face is a bad idea. Don’t worry, they’ve improved greatly since their youth...

Playlist / Picrew

[lorspolairepeluche]

ship aesthetics (19/?) - rihallen (rion severan/halla trevelyan/cullen rutherford)

a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

-franklin delano roosevelt

(rion belongs to @inquisitorseveran)

[jamessunderlandgf]

1, 5, 8, 18, 19 for Avalon?

a win for me in my mind palace— you asking abt her fr

1: are they associated with a certain color? what color do they wear the most?

gold— her armor is so polished and shiny it reflects it like an imitation of the sun itself. under that, she’s known to be in a lot of jewel tones and faded off-whites. once in a while some pastels.

5: how do they typically dress? does their wardrobe lean more towards practicality or aesthetics?

that armor doesn’t come off; it’s literally a second skin. she might as well sleep in it. very rarely will she be out in public in anything BUT armor/full plate during the game, but once everything has settled down and she’s not a paladin anymore rip she hangs it up and dresses down significantly.

8: do they have a nickname? who gave it to them? if it's not derived from their real name, what's the story behind it?

in my brain sometimes i call her tavalon cs of the “tav” aspect of the cc but that’s me being silly. her gods given name is avalon so you will refer to her as such 🫵🏻

18: their opinion on lying, stealing, and killing?

she is painfully lawful good—lying and stealing are a no-go; she is so deeply untrusting of everyone around her so if any of the party members are wont to do either (ast*rion, looking at you), she will greatly disapprove. she won’t stop them, but it will fuel her superiority/god complex to all the hells and back. cs she’s above untoward means of receiving goods and information.

killing only happens if it absolutely must but. she will, eventually—kill out of passion. much to her eventual guilt and turmoil and what have you.

19: are they quick to anger? what sets them off?

she’s extremely self-righteous and prides herself on her patience so any display of unnecessary violence really sets her off. she’s literally like “we could have handled this diplomatically” but she’s yelling in your face so her point doesn’t really get across :/ poor gal.

[the-tevinter-biscuit]

its here! this big project ive been working on! these aesthetic posters were based off this post and they’re portrayed left to right as follows: scorpio, pisces, sagittarius, aries, leo, virgo, cancer, libra

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