#Currently playing as Ash the monk tiefling (romancing Gale)

[moonybadger]

Me: Man I should really finish BG3

Dark Urge: You should start a new game as a gnome bard

[bitchesgate3]

How many characters do you have in the game? Do you prefer to stick to one or do you have several for different playthroughs?

Uhm... heh heh! I'll give you my honest answer right up front: currently I've been sticking to the same character, playing mostly the same way each time I jump back into the game.

If you see a female Tiefling, it's Acerbissime no matter what I’ve changed of her look lol.

I'm not only constantly refining my canon for this character, but also using her as a control for searching for more permutations in the game and any changes when patches come out.

Check out her description and my other 2 characters under the cut below!

Acerbissime. Unchanging features of hers includes mysticism, a cold exterior and a fiery interior. The sort of character you regard like a statue - something that manages to blend in due to it’s stillness, or something that stands out due to it’s foreboding aura. As if there’s an uneasy, palpable vibration around her, betraying an ever growing fever pitch within. Hell can be a dark place. Wrath is her secret vice. She is currently an Eldritch Knight Fighter, but I am entertaining the possibility of Barbarian and Monk. Alignment dances among lawful neutral, neutral evil, and lawful evil. Power is a tune she dances to, in all it’s forms.

On a personal level she is guarded, but often unaware when her true feelings ooze to the surface. When you become her primary peer group, you may find yourself enthralled by the fiery person underneath - hidden as if revealing it all would burn even herself. Her crude leadership has a bite to it, if you can tolerate it. Obviously borne from an insecurity in trusting and dealing with others. But she possesses wisdom like a wraith - speaking from the ashes of a heart. There are flickers of trust, sympathy, and passion in her briefest of words - more often in her silence. Her insight lingers in you as if stung by something otherworldly. Some find it fascinating in contrast to her usual façade. Others find it tantalizing. I find that this character’s emotional distance, brainy demeanor, and tentative but heavy trust and loyalty makes for fulfilling interactions between her, Lae’zel, Wyll, and Gale.

I have two other characters that I create sporadically for testing purposes, but nothing as extensive as Acer.

You may have seen this guy recently. He’s based on one of my favorite characters to roleplay back when I used to do play-by-post rpgs. I call him Valetudo in BG3. His main skill is persuasion. All he does is drip honey from his lips. Gold is his main motif. He’s supposed to be gorgeous with dazzling eyes that mesmerize like the devil snake Asmodeus in the old Redwall books. He is intended to be crafty to the point that if he can’t avoid a fight by talking his way out of it - he’s screwed. 

His alignment tends to be chaotic good although he did have a sense of honor eventually. In BG3 though, sometimes I make him very much a male drow in every sense of the word (ya’ll know how I like my men) and make him chaotic evil. There’s an aspect of deceitfulness and manipulation inherent to this character that doesn’t go away even when he’s supposedly chaotic good. He is the main candidate for a legit, non-toxic Astarion romance, but also was the first character to get in good with Shadowheart. But I had another character in mind for her.

Last but not least. This one is intended to be the tank type. Protector. Honorable. But also an extreme, by-the-book hardass. A possible candidate for a lawful good paladin who goes out of her way to save innocents, but is so hard to work with you just KNOW something is going on with her. She will most likely be wrestling with a terrible guilt and failure of someone she loved being unable to be saved - or someone she loved becoming lost to the darkness of villainy. There was also an aspect where she battled with dark desires herself. 

She’s not intended to be a gith, but the last time I played her as a human fighter, that was a time when I didn’t take screenshots. Pictured above is Giiga, her gith version with her half-orc version’s name. Her proper placeholder name is Anastasia.

A softened version of Anastasia is who I’ll probably romance Shadowheart with, but in her current form, she is the character I use to test disapprovals with. If you ever see a male tiefling, that is the male version of this character type that I sometimes roll. I do intend to elaborate on this character more though because there's something fascinating about forcing a lawful good and a lawful evil in the form of Lae’zel to work together. Respect is as far as they’ll ever get, but most likely a fight to the death over ideologies is probably their end.