#TavFlayer

[madbalalaika]

for your silly bg3 art requests - i don't suppose you'd ever be down to draw some squids? perhaps something romantic/cute with emps and tavflayer...? ;w;

(i'd honestly buy a commission if i could, your art is so beautiful, but i live paycheck to paycheck and can't afford that much so i figured i'd throw my hat in like this anyway ;-;)

First time drawing something other than humans. That was actually very fun haha

Also, fun fact I just learned: apparently, mind flayers sleep on beds made of damp moss!

(Honestly don't worry about that. As desperate as I am for commissions right now, I would feel so bad if someone gave me their last money :"))

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[mintcrows]

remembered i actually drew this

[bladeofthewest]

[kyrieph]

Multitasking

[astralprisms]

Finally some art of Xa'rok's illithid form! Courtesy once again of the ever-patient @greseadraws! Thank you for always honoring my Emps requests and being such a pleasure to work with! And thank you for bringing illithid!Xa'rok to life!

Xa'rok and Emp off on adventures with D'jaxia in the astral sea.

D'jaxia was abandoned for being born lame, but Xa'rok, an exile in their own right, stepped in to raise her. The lame leg doesn't cause D'jaxia any discomfort and she has five other to compensate for balance. Those who make the mistake of underestimating her don't live long enough to regret it. And, well, her friends have to eat after all. (:

[des-no9]

A wee custom design for my tavflayer, Vanquish 😈🐙

Notes:

Wanted to incorporate some of her former Tiefling features into it, especially her crest. May play around more with that.

Kept her love of accessorising and tattoos.

She kept her hair tied back a lot. Transferred that into her keeping her tentacles draped over her shoulders a lot 🤣

She's still pacted and bound to her GOO patron, Caiphon. Hence the focus fused to her wrist and the purple bleeding through her skin.

[theastralprism]

happy holiday wishes from the sword and shield of baldur's gate!! 🐙🎄

[imperial-daffodil]

One last for the night - how the Emperor's gaze always follows Tav has my chest hurt.

There is pride here. And fondness. And in that moment, I imagine, after all that has come to pass, anxiety.

Will they stay?

And then, the question. Of course, hidden as an offer to continue their partnership. Because, how else?

And look, his eyes, while asking, and after Tav answers positively. The Emperor is smiling.

Bonus, the cutest Illithid shoes award goes to Tav:

[bludermaus]

"Friend! We will remain with you. You are a good friend - no, more. Rescuer."

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[rokujolady]

The Emperor cradled her chin in his long, bony hand.

[There are many aspects of my past that I find unpleasant to revisit. I do not consider myself to still be Balduran, and I do not think he could understand who I am now…but I was him. There is a straight line between him and myself, and though I am missing memories, I consider the ones I have to be precious and not mere crumbs left over from a parasite’s meal. You say you wish to be your authentic self and you think you are a copy, but you cannot tell when the copy-self began, and the original-self ended. In this case, I think the concept of authenticity is meaningless. It is only a construct made to give your original-self some intrinsic value at the expense of your copy-self when there is not a real difference between the two. It is not helpful.]

This is an excerpt from my emperor/tavflayer fanfic, Glorious. I’ll be adding a chapter for @theemperorweek The Emperor Week, but it is going a little slowly so might be late.

[corvitine]

I’m happy with Dahlia’s design but wanted to mess with her just because. Like, what she would look like with a more typical mind flayer body type? She’s tiny for an illithid, not quite as…gangly I guess you’d call it? And she has shorter tentacles. Idk maybe I just wanted to see what she’d look like with long tentacles lol. I’ll probably keep her design as is but I do kinda like this drawing. Maybe this is her a bit later? Like maybe she just needs to grow some more? I don’t know. Just speculating.

[transquad]

Illithid Tav — romance epilogues

EDIT: This has only partially been updated with the Patch 5 party stuff and has nothing from any patch after that, I'll get around to it ... Someday

I am obsessed with the concept of a protagonist sacrificing their humanity for the greater good. That's why the free Orpheus + illithid player ending made me so fucking happy, up until Astarion decided to dump my ass in the last five seconds of the game, because he can't handle a few tentacles or whatever. It made me realize that as much as I like him, I really don't like his romance. It's just so much giving and so little receiving. I think my character deserves someone who can actually offer him a little love and support and reassurance every once in a while. Including (especially!) after he transforms into a squid man.

So I wanted to go into my second playthrough knowing which of these sluts would still love me if I was a worm.

Unfortunately I have not been able to actually find many variants of these scenes on Youtube. But from what I could find, this is how the epilogue scenes with romanced companions play out if the player character becomes a mind flayer:

• Astarion dumps you. Good Astarion says he is open to the idea of getting back together someday but he needs a break to process things. (Exactly what's going on in his head here is anyone's guess.) Evil Astarion thinks you're icky now and only wants you as a powerful ally.

PATCH 5 EDIT: Despite having six months to come to his senses, at the party Good Astarion seems pretty disinterested in getting back together with Tavflayer, something I'm never going to forgive him for.

• (Crownless) Gale fully accepts you. You fuck offscreen. He asks you to marry him. He even says he will find a caterer who does brains for your wedding. It's incredibly sweet.

• Halsin fully accepts you. You fuck offscreen. You are invited to his anprim commune with the caveat that he will need to introduce you to his followers carefully, for both your safety and their mental health.

• (Good) Shadowheart fully accepts you. You fuck offscreen. She wants to take some time to go on a quest to find herself / spend time with her parents, but you're welcome to go with her in disguise.

• Wyll certainly acts like he accepts you, but he basically makes you his secret attic wife in the name of protecting you, which is pretty fucked up, dude. Halsin & Shadowheart are also very concerned about your safety and have the same impulse to hide you away, but it's easy enough to convince them that you'll be fine. Not Wyll, apparently. (What the hell, man?)

EDIT: If you don't get this dialogue because one or both of you go to Avernus with Karlach, then he is normal about everything at the party.

• I don't think Karlach gets a normal epilogue scene if she isn't a mind flayer. No clue what changes in the dialogue that she does have if you're the mind flayer.

• I don't think Lae'zel gets a normal epilogue scene if she returns to the Astral plane, which I believe she always does if you're a mind flayer. Yeah, she dumps you even after you sacrifice yourself for Orpheus. Sad! However. I saw someone say in a Youtube comment that if you are (were) also githyanki then you can go with her, even if you're a mind flayer now. So if that's accurate, I guess that's the exception?

• EDIT: Good news! Minthara is also a squid fucker.

Glaringly, none of these scenes acknowledge that Disguise Self is a spell that exists, and it's unclear how different they would be if they did.

If you know something I don't know, especially if you have proof in screenshots or videos, please let me know so I can update these notes. I have become very invested in finding out which of these clowns are squid fuckers.

[mintcrows]

squit doodel

[irlloviatan]

there's a memory / of how we used to be / that i can see / through the flames

i am hypnotized / as i fantasize / forgetting lies, and pain

but i can't go back. / the ashes call my name,

pouring the fuel / fanning the flames / breaking the habit, and melting the chains

embracing the fear / chasing the fight / the glow of the fire will light up the night

the bridges are burning / the heat's on my face / making the past an unreachable place

pouring the fuel / fanning the flames / i know: this is the point of no return...

i won't turn around. i won't turn around...

[childabortionservices]

sillyyy silly tavflayer hhehehee

[shadowthehedgehog]

THROWING TOMATOES AT THEM