#I like Astarion too
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a-small-writer-in-a-big-world Ā· 6 months ago
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My personal hot take for BG3 is that I see the appeal that Astarion has but personally heā€™s far too mean for me to get into him and the fan base surrounding him makes turns me off from him so much.
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a-drama-addict Ā· 3 months ago
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not caring too much about a fandomā€™s favourite guy is the worst. youā€™ll think ā€œoh iā€™ll look into the tag see if anything new and coolā€™s thereā€ and itā€™s just that fucking guy again
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ruushes Ā· 11 months ago
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sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes šŸ„ŗ)
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theoldkyokodied Ā· 1 year ago
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Really quick doodles of a few scenes from the stream yesterday. Including combat flirting taunting, galeā€™s magnificently distracting shoes and.. whatever you wanna call gale agreeing to give 15 gold to astarion šŸ˜šŸ˜‘šŸ˜šŸ˜‘šŸ˜ (thatā€™s me blinking)
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artist-rat Ā· 3 months ago
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my sister finished her first bg3 run, here's evil gang reunion photo <333 (withers invented polaroid for the occasion idc)
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mossy-rock-in-a-field Ā· 11 months ago
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Several weeks ago, my retirement-age mother requested that I play Baldurā€™s Gate 3 for her because she has trouble with controllers/keyboards and wanted ā€œto see what all the fuss is about with that cute wizard boy.ā€ For context, my mother and I have done this sort of thing in the past with certain RPGs (dragon age, mass effect, etc.), but itā€™s been a few years since sheā€™s personally requested a game like this. Basically, I control her Tav but let her make all the choices so she can determine how the story plays out without worrying about mechanics. She treats it like a choose-your-own-adventure book.
Anyway, here is a list of some of the things my mother has said and/or chosen to do throughout the course of BG3 in no particular order:
She is (obviously) romancing Gale. She is quite smitten with him and his passion for books and learning; she also thinks heā€™s polite and qualifies as ā€œrelationship material.ā€ She also REALLY likes the things heā€™s said about his cat so far (my mom is a cat lady), so I know sheā€™s gonna flip shit when we meet Tara in Act III.
Sheā€™s playing a normal druid Tav with a generally good alignment. Her favorite spell is Spike Growth because she thinks itā€™s hilarious whenever enemies walk into the AOE and die. I usually end up having to cast it at least once per battle per her request. Sometimes twice.
Contrary to her alignment, my mother tasks me with robbing every single chest, crate, barrel, and burlap sack we come across; this also includes people and their pockets. The party is always at max carrying capacity. ALWAYS. She doesnā€™t like selling things because ā€œwhat if I need them.ā€ The camp stash is in literal shambles. There is no hope of organizing it. Sheā€™s got like fifty seven sets of rags and a billion pieces of random silverware.
She MUST talk to every animal and corpse in the game. I think five hours of her total playtime so far (47ish) has been spent speaking to animals as many times as humanly possible. Like, I was thorough in my own playthroughs, but this is on a whole other level.
She did NOT get Voloā€™s lobotomy, but she did let Auntie Ethel take her eye in hopes of a cure for the tadpole. I did not understand the logic then. I still do not understand it now.
She is far more interested in fashion than equipment stats. Do you have any idea how much gold Iā€™ve had to spend on dyes just to make things match? SO much. Same vibe as that ā€œplease someone help me balance my finances my family is starvingā€ tweet but instead of candles itā€™s thirty thousand fucking bottles of black and furnace red dye.
We broke the prisoners out of Moonrise, but they got on the boat too early and bugged the fight by leaving Astarion and Karlach behind. Wulbren Bongle somehow got stuck in combat mode even after engaging the cutscene on the docks below Last Light; he he kept trying to run ALL THE WAY BACK TO MOONRISE nine fucking meters at a time while I frantically tried to finish the fight with the Warden, otherwise Wulbren would have run straight into the shadow curse. (I wouldā€™ve let him go; fuck Wulbren Bongle, all my homies hate Wulbren Bongle. But my mom didnā€™t know that, and she wanted to keep him safe. So.)
She had me reload a save like eighteen times to save the giant eagles on top of Rosymorn Monastery. Wouldnā€™t even let me do non-lethal damage just to get past things. I think getting that warhammer for the dawnmaster puzzle took us like an hour and a half alone. (Yes, I know you can use any warhammer, but SHE didnā€™t.)
Sheā€™s started keeping an irl notebook to keep track of her quests between play sessions. She writes down ideas and strategies when she thinks of them during the week, then brings them to her next game session at my house. I think she wrote about three pages on possible approaches to the goblin fortress alone.
She insists that I pet Scratch and the owlbear cub before every single long rest, no exceptions. Sometimes I have to do it multiple times until she is absolutely sure that the animals know exactly how much she loves and cherishes them. She has also commissioned a crocheted owlbear plush from a friend of hers and is very excited.
Iā€™m sure thereā€™s a bunch of stuff Iā€™m forgetting, but those are some fun things I thought of. Sheā€™s enjoying the game and is telling all of her retired friends to get it and play it for themselves. She asked me ā€œwhat is Discordā€ yesterday and I think my life flashed before my eyes.
anyway shout out to my mom for being neat
Part 2 ā€” Part 3 ā€” Part 4 ā€” Part 5
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araneapeixes Ā· 10 months ago
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Uh Oh....the ladies have entered their 4th pint stage
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dopepoisonivyoncrack Ā· 6 months ago
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Astarion pencil study. Traditional art
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albaharu Ā· 6 months ago
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bg3 the princess bride au āš”ļø no idea who vizzini would be
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everchased Ā· 6 months ago
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at least it'll be wonderful while it lasts.
(a little post-game downtime discussion, when they have the time and space to talk about these things. also in my canon, scratch gets to stay. :/)
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n0ahsferatu Ā· 9 months ago
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i love my puter all my friends are inside it
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paarthursass Ā· 1 year ago
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genuinely love how the whole gang is like "fuck this guy"
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bluebeetle Ā· 10 months ago
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I saw someone say Astarion bg3 is "the most queer coded man ever" and yeah. Its. Its because hes queer. He has canonically slept with men. He will date women, men, and nonbinary folks. "Queer coding" you mean the literal text they coded into the fucking game?
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i-made-a-bg3-blog Ā· 10 months ago
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Wild that people think Astarion would make a good dad, cause I cannot imagine him as anything other than the family friend who is your absolute last choice of sitter even though your kids love him because every time you pick them up from his house, they'll tell you something like, "Mom! Uncle Astarion taught us how to throw knives!"
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valgeristik Ā· 1 year ago
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i dont think he remembers what a normal meal is, nor does he care
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morebird Ā· 1 year ago
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Keep your distance, darling.
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