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powdermelonkeg · 9 months ago

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First drawing of Crowdsourced Durge, aka Daggerroot. It's been AWHILE since I last picked up a tablet in proper, but I think this is a decent drawing to start with (also thank you to @too-many-blorbos for helping me with posing)

Details below the cut:

In-game appearance

Crowd-decided details:

I am romancing Gale

This is a Resisting Dark Urge playthrough

They're a middle-aged, nonbinary, deep gnome Way of Shadows monk

On top of their Durge skills (Intimidation/Medicine), they're also proficient in Insight and Stealth

Chaotic Neutral-Good Alignment: Impulsive, acts in the interest of friends only, can be easily persuaded to do the right thing by said friends, but seldom ever the wrong thing. Doesn't care what friends get up to unless it negatively impacts other friends. Strong sense of wanting to rectify past mistakes, but refuses to be told the "correct" way to do so. Thinks stealing from/killing/spiting evil characters is justified because "they deserved it."

Flaws: Blunt/has no filter, contrary for the sake of being contrary, weirdly prejudiced against elves (due to repressed Ketheric spite)

Good Qualities: Loves animals, unfailingly loyal, good at bartering and haggling

Quirks: Takes a trophy from each memorable kill, incredibly horny, will try anything (potions, strange food, licking the spider, Loviatar's blessing) at least once

Memory Loss Side Effects: Thinks everyone else has the Urge but Durge is just bad at controlling it, doesn't know cannibalism isn't normal, doesn't know what sex is

STR 9/DEX 17/CON 12/INT 10/WIS 12/CHA 15

Imposed rule: Short rest after every fight, and long rest when out of short rests

Additional fun facts:

Their name is Daggerroot. They picked their name as they were combing the beach for supplies, recognized a single sprig of it, and the lore around it came to mind: "Known as 'the executioner's garnish', this herb flourishes in blood-fed soil and has flavoured countless final meals." For some reason, the description brought them amusement. Both "Dagger" and "Root" are acceptable nicknames, though most people tend towards the former.

They're the group medic. This is why they're in charge. Because they have such a good medical knowledge due to struck out Dark Urge memories, they've assumed "surgeon" was their profession before being tadpoled. And, I mean, they're not wrong...

There's something just not-quite-right about them, visually. They LOOK a lot like a deep gnome, and to someone who doesn't know deep gnomes well, they are one. But to deep gnomes, they have a very uncanny valley effect to them.

Their dream guardian is identical to them. This is going to do LEAGUES for their trust in this person, with a fair share of existential crises on top of it. "If you're not what's causing the urges...that means I am. I'll listen to whatever you say, because you're clearly my better half."

Monk class backstory:

They killed their foster family as a young child before Sceleritas found them. Because they were out of control then, and now had the eyes of everyone in the Bhaal temple on them, they adopted monastic tendencies (gifted kid + fear)

That deep-seated fear of loss of control still persists in current form Durge (based on the canon origin monologue: "Injured beyond repair, I know nothing besides this: I must resist the Dark Urge, lest is consume my mind.") and leads to sticking with Monk as their class at the start of BG3

Bonus points, they gained admiration from peers in the temple for killing people bare-handed

#why are they barefoot? because they hate shoes #the guardian reveal is going to GUT them #also this ruleset for behavior is going to be fantastic for storycrafting #it is my sincere hope that i have enough spoons to draw dagger more often. and to improve while doing so #there's a hint to their identity in their outfit; i took a tiny bit of liberties #also i gave them bloody plum dye because default does not vibe thank you very much #vitiligo is hard to draw. i need to get better at it. practice makes perfect #bg3 #crowdsourced durge #daggerroot durge #the dark urge #also screw hands #i think the next thing I'll practice is expressions. both for the expressions themselves and to practice getting their face right #my art #real coffee hours #holy shit it's 4 am

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angelgendered · 4 months ago

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Would anyone like to maybe swap some fiction (on my end) for fiction, art, music, literally anything?

Selling original fiction may come in future but for now it's trading original fic and fanfic that I wanna do!

I especially want to write more in the Good Omens, Dungeons & Dragons/TTRPGs generally, Critical Role, FFXIV and BG3 fandoms/universes. I will write original fiction too of any kind about any 'variety' of character, i.e. I'll write about your monsters and furry/anthro creatures too.

Very much open to all Original Chars, Canon Chars, like 99.9% of kinks - my won't do list is like 5 things long, smut or genfic, crack, whatever you like that I can turn my hand to and am confident I can do justice to, any pairing I can confidently portray (popular OR your fave rarepair)

I will write anything within reason for your OCs too! Doesn't have to be fanfic, I'll write you something fetishy or something serious or funny or anything. I just REALLY want to trade fiction right now.

What I'm looking for varies depending on your capabilities! I will trade writing for!

Artwork. Digital or trad or physical works! I have OCs and CCs I like depicted, from furry to monster to humanoid. I don't care if you're 'good' by some arbitrary standard or you can only draw stick figures! Anything counts as art to me which I shall cherish.

(For my furry characters I'd really like some badges (physical or digital that I can print and mount myself) and ref sheets and general artworky things!)

(For other OCs and CCs, I might like a ref sheet (for AUs for canon chars), and literally anything else. Literally.)

Writing. I always have canon and original characters from the aforementioned fandoms, and more OCs besides, who I love to see written about by others!

Music. Maybe you compose things! I like character themes!

Video edits!

Literally anything you can imagine tbh

Obv length will vary from trade to trade, as well otehr stuff on your end, and that's absolutely fine! Also I have a loosey goosey deadline of one month before we trade our stuff BUT this is very much flexible on both mine AND your end.

I am more than happy to discuss at length either here over messenger or via Discord, mine is oli.writes.stuff and my settings mean anyone can add me!

I look forward to hearing from some of you maybe!

Edit: ADULTS ONLY. EVEN IF YOU ONLY WANT HAND HOLDING. NO MINORS, NO EXCEPTIONS.

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