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I wanted to recreate this dance scene in my fic, so did a little in-game photoshoot!

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Been playing with Reshade, took some cute pics of Saff and Gale!

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OC Tag Game ✨

I wasn't tagged but saw @skelvron-keiman do it and decided to join!

Tagging @deerancha @chaoswritesthemultiverse @miradelletarot @itinerantginger-blog @hi-jinkx @parkouringrabbit

🦋 Saff 🦋

This is Saff, from my longfic The Wizard's Apprentice: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54266689/chapters/137427991

General:

Name: Saffron Alias: Saff Gender: Female Age: 26 Spoken Language: Common Sexual Orientation: Straight Occupation: Apprentice wizard

Favorite: 

Colour: pink & purple Entertainment: reading, dancing, spending time in nature Pastime: learning magic, tending to her plants Food: lemon cakes Drink: sweet, fruity cocktails

Have They…

Passed University: No, she never had the chance to go, but she did graduate from her apprenticeship during the events of BG3 Had Sex: Yes, with Gale and some partners before him Had Sex in Public: Yes, Gale's mischievous side rubbed off on her Gotten Tattoos: Nope Gotten Piercings: Pierced ears Gotten Scarred:  Yes, a scar on her forehead after being attacked by an abusive ex Had a Broken Heart: Yes, by that same ex

Are They…

A Cuddler: absolutely, everyone gets hugs! Scared Easily: Yes, though progressively less so over the events of the game Jealous Easily: Not particularly, more likely to be sad that she might lose something Trustworthy: Yes, when offered a cure to her tadpole if she left the others, she refused to abandon them.

Family

Sibling(s): She grew up in an orphanage with no knowledge of her family, but considers the other kids in the orphanage to be her siblings. Parents: She doesn't know her parents, but thinks of the matrons in the orphanage as mother figures. Children: I haven't got any firm headcanons, but she would like to adopt, as she knows what it's like to be a child left behind without a family. Pets: None, though she might insist her plants are pets!

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I've been so excited about the BG3 photo mode, and of course this was the first thing I did when I got it 😂

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Back to back against the world ❤️

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Describe your Tav/Durge’s personality w/ a character(s) you associate them with.

Tagged by @thelittlesorceressbg3! Thank you for the tag!

Sansa Stark: Sansa was a big inspiration, young girl who believes in true love and fairy tales, but has to learn the world is not like that and grow strong enough to survive in it. Though luckily for Saff, she actually did get her fairy tale romance. This inspiration is referenced in the fic - Saff's favourite food is lemon cakes, in reference to Sansa'a favourite food being lemon cakes!

Cinderella: Saff's whole story is a bit of a Cinderlla story, except instead of a fairy god mother giving her a ball gown, it's a mind flayer giving her a tadpole.

As a little bonus, a character I associate her with not for personality, but for appearance:

The moment I saw these pictures of Daphne I thought "that is EXACTLY how I imagine Saff would look in real life!" then watched Bridgerton just to see more of her 😂 Daphne is definitely much more cunning than Saff, but they both want their fairy tale ending!

I tag @deerancha @chaoswritesthemultiverse!

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Comforting Gale after he receives the news from Elminster ❤️

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Tagged by @chaoswritesthemultiverse!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

4, going up to 6 if you include 2 group-written fics that I wrote a chapter for!

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

260,298

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. The Wizard's Apprentice

My longfic, my baby, my hyperfixation, following Saff through the game, exploring her relationship with Gale and her 'personal quest' to find out who she is.

2. Stars

A short one-shot inspired by the Mage Hand interaction between Gale and Karlach, in which Gale helps Karlach write a poem for Wyll.

3. There Once Was A Party Infected

A collection of limericks about the companions.

4. Fur and Feathers

AU horror one-shot about little Gale summoning Tara, because he wanted a friend.

4. What fandoms do you write for?

Just Baldur's Gate at the moment. Used to write a lot of Doctor Who fanfic back when I was a teenager, many centuries ago.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! I didn't when I first started using AO3, but then started replying when I realised how much I love receiving replies to comments I've written.

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Definitely Fur and Feathers, the whole premise is a horror tragedy.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I guess Stars since it's the only other fic I've written that actually has an ending 😂

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not yet... will see if that changes when The Wizard's Apprentice reaches certain plot points.

9. Do you write smut?

Yes, there's several smutty scenes in The Wizard's Apprentice, and I've written a few pieces of smut that never made it to AO3.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Never have done before, but wouldn't be opposed to it!

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I'm doing two fic trains with some other authors from the Magic Man discord, have really enjoyed them!

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Currently I'd say FlutterWeave, the ship between Saff and Gale, but I have had many favourite ships over the years - the Doctor & Rose, Jessie & James, Genji & Mercy, Genji & Lucio, the list goes on.

15. What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Uuhh I suppose technically the Doctor Who fanfic that I was writing as a teenager and haven't touched for 20 years might qualify for this... I don't want to finish it, but I do feel bad for abandoning it. Other than that, I haven't got any WIP fics that I'm not currently working on.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I'd like to think I'm not bad a building up a mystery and dropping hints, some subtle enough that you don't notice them unless you go back and read it after you know what's going on. Though maybe making hints so subtle that no one notices them is a weakness 😂

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Reusing the same phrases and sentence structure over and over and over. If I had a penny for every time I wrote some variation of "he met her gaze" I'd be rich.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in a fic?

I've done it quite a lot in my long fic - some Welsh, a lot of Latin for spell incantations, and a little bit of Draconic. A lot of relying on Google Translate and translating back and forth to make sure that if someone translates it back to English it says what I want it say. If I were writing a full conversation I'd want to try to find someone that speaks the language to check it, but since it's mostly just been a few words or a sentence at most, I haven't done that.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

It was either Recess or Kim Possible, though Doctor Who was the first one I wrote seriously for.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

Definitely The Wizard's Apprentice, it is my baby and lives rent free in my head. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself once it's finished, but luckily that's ages away 😂

Once again I think everyone I know on Tumblr has already done this or been tagged... so if you're reading this and want to do it, I tag you!