#New Tav is a neutral durge... and I think everyone has the hots for her except Lae'zel.

[shadowkira]

Me finding the harpies in BG3 and immediately thinking they're hot... Shadowheart liked their singing too, immediately once the fight started Lae'zel and Karlach got caught up in their song. Lol.

We're all sapphic messes.

[robinyourcreator]

Your OC's Personalities

thank you @defira85 for the tag! always love an excuse to yell more about my gorls

Adana (left) and Alde (right)

I will tag @skingrad and @tacticalgrandma aaaaand anyone else who wants to me to coo over their Tav/Durge/Rooks!

How would you describe Adana’s personality?

Adana comes across as a “light touch.” Very warm, very sincere, with an easy confidence and a gently teasing/mildly self-deprecating sense of humor. She knows the reputation and archetypes people are going to ascribe to her for being a bard, and she’s more than happy to play into them. She’s an extremely anxious, nervous wreck of a perfectionist and a control freak underneath, but the sincerity is real even if the confidence isn’t. Intensely principled but with an incredibly low sense of self-worth or even self-preservation, so she’s willing to die for anything and anyone, at anytime. (We are working on this.)

What brings Adana joy?

Being Useful™, making other people happy, helping others, defining herself by the needs and desires she fulfills in others—hey, wait a minute.

...A well-kept ledger. A good deal at the market. The antics of small children and animals. A good book. Art and music. Time to herself when no one wants or needs anything from her.

What does Adana strongly dislike?

Condescension. Entitlement. Abuses of power. Anyone who thinks they’re better than her. And… alcohol, actually, because she’s that kind of a control freak. She still partakes because to not do so would invite questions, but takes an absurd amount of care to never get past ‘mildly tipsy’ while still looking like she’s drinking as much as everyone else. Nearly any touch she doesn’t initiate herself.

Is Adana scared of anything?

Being made helpless. Cold, dark places. No longer being needed.

What is Adana’s alignment?

Neutral-to-Chaotic Good. Intensely principled, but those principles are largely, “don’t do, or fail to do, anything that will keep her up at night” with a side of “fuck the establishment because rich people are awful.” It is of utmost importance to her to Do and Be Good, but laws are just suggestions that quite plainly don’t apply to everyone.

How would you describe Alde’s personality?

Now? A quiet, skittish soul with the occasional shameless streak when she wants something badly enough or feels she’s done something worthy of praise. Prefers to observe before she acts, and but also just because she likes to observe in general. A kicked puppy. A stray kitten left out on the street in a cardboard box in the rain. A single kind word to her and you will have a friend for life. The most pitiful and pathetic little creature. Comes across as much younger than she is (100+, but her default answer is “26” because of 1) baby face 2) haircut makes her look fourteen years old 3) the ‘tism 4) the memory loss making her a poor baby bird who was only just born yesterday.)

Pre- having her brain eaten by worms, thus rendering her this precious baby bird who was only born yesterday? Workaholic in constant sensory overload. “Arrogance and efficiency” and “murder made flesh.” The most miserable not-quite-human being alive. Desperately lonely.

What brings Alde joy?

Any kind of physical affection. People watching. (Particularly for people she can put on her yuri knight vision goggles for ;) ) Learning new things. Patient teachers. The whole world is new to her, and she will find joy in any part of it that’s pointed out to her.

What does Alde strongly dislike?

Funny enough-- blood. It’s hot, it’s sticky, it gets everywhere, and it’s such a pain to get out of your clothes. Also red meat, because it tastes like blood.

Being mistaken for being younger than she is-- or worse, being condescended to because someone has mistaken her for a child.

Poor tactical choices, which she takes as a personal insult. You used this sloppy of a formation? Against ME? How dare you. The arrogance of semi-immortal demigodhood has remained post brainwipe.

Is Alde scared of anything?

She is terrified of being the thing that kills her loved ones, of course, but she mostly trusts them to protect themselves from her. Precautions have been taken. They know what to do. If they have to kill her in the midst of an Urge then so be it.

But more than that? Abandonment. Alde is terrified that she will be found to not be worth the trouble. She is trouble. She knows that. She wishes she wasn’t, but there’s nothing she can do about that. But she can hopefully make herself useful enough to… make up for being herself so much trouble. Even without the Urge, she's going to be a magnet for trouble for the rest of her life anyway, just for being a Bhaalspawn. She'll make up for it. She promises.

What is Alde’s alignment?

True Neutral-to-Neutral Good. Alde is largely a passive observer in her own life. She doesn’t have any strong moral opinions, (having just been born yesterday, after all,) but she has good instincts. She wants to return the kindness she has received, but she doesn’t really go out of her way for anyone who hasn’t already endeared themselves to her. (This is, admittedly, a very low bar to achieve. One kind word. One.)