#The Druid rambles

[thechaoticdruid]

I know we love to dress Astarion up in red and black cause it's so vampire core and he looks damn good in it, but have any of you thought about purple? I mean his default armor is purple. Purple is the color of nobility, it's expensive, it's vibrant, it's fancy.

Dress this man up in purple!

[thedomesticanthropologist]

Man, in Halsins confession he is SO "I follow my heart wherever it goes, I go wherever nature wills me. Before we start anything you must know I don't want to take you away from anyone else, I don't want to stop you from being with other people or going wherever you go and you cannot stop me from being what I am"

So the very good communication, clear statement: I want a non exclusive connection with you where we share our bodies together but don't try to control each other's paths/decisions/relationships

And its like oh! That's cool. You're straight up, and this sounds like just a physical addition to our friendship, no strings attached, alright. He WAS clear that he sees love and sex as different (I've had many lovers but my heart does not stir easily, it stirs now) so he IS clear he has real feelings but it's presented fairly casually? And very like 'no big deal if you don't feel the same!"

But then you sleep with him.

And oh my GOSH I can't be the only one who saw that man fall HEAD OVER HEELS IMMEDIATELY. And be like, super insecure about it as well as super upfront? The dichotomy is intense!

He NEVER assumes you're going to choose him or want to be around him any more than usual, and seems genuinely grateful and surprised every time you do. It's like he was setting himself up to be a side piece whether you were in a relationship with someone else or not when this started BUT

He ALSO is very very open about his feelings. "My heart. My love. I was lost until you pulled back the veil." And many many more deeply, deeply felt words. He's in love, AND he kind of assumes this whole thing is temporary.

I say that because of his ending. He says he's leaving, and he's clear the way he was in the beginning - no matter his feelings, he goes where nature wills. So there's consistency there. But he is GENUINELY surprised and DELIGHTED if you say you want to come with him.

My analysis is that he never once let himself believe that he COULD have something more with the PC. He never changes who he is, he's always upfront- if he wants to take another lover at Sharess Caress or bang a friend he has that right and he genuinely wants the PC to do the same if that's what they want too, he doesn't want to get in the way and he doesn't want anyone getting in his way. But. But

His heart does not stir lightly. And it does now

I don't think he's fallen in LOVE in a long time, and he can't believe he's going to commitment from a partner, he thinks he's just going to get a taste of you before you move on.

Being Polyamorous doesn't mean not having dedicated partners, it means not trying to stop your partner from doing what they want. It means being free to sleep with others, and to not stop your partner from leaving if they choose to go elsewhere. The way he words it in the beginning sounds like he means " if passions fade you move on, you follow your heart where it leads"

He just never expects YOUR heart to lead to him

And when it does, he is so, so surprised and grateful and lucky and honored.

He's such a complex character and so different from how I've seen romances shown in video games, movies, books so far I really like him.

[bardic-perdita]

Decided to sculpt something for my work's secret santa this year. Still need to paint it, but I do like how the sculpting turned out

[nugatorysheep]

dryad...... dryad save me......

[nezumithewriter]

if i had a nickel for every batshit insane male protagonist in a obscure puzzle game with equally batshit insane puzzle solutions made more crazy by the game’s poor quality, I’d have two nickels

which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice

[hylianengineer]

This is how DnD went tonight, and I think it really encapsulates the spirit of the game as a whole.

Me: "We as a party have made SO MANY bad decisions!"

DM: "And I love you for every one of them! It's like a trophy on my shelf, Bad Decision #24."

[foxish-draws]

Found the spore druid specific armor & I'm distressed, Velli looks really good in it but it's gonna be a way more involved thing to draw;;;

[pyxxie-nyxxie]

Character themed dice bag I really enjoyed making 💖

[unfaes]

love seeing my mutuals be obviously obsessed with their own oc's / characters ♥️ like HELL YEAH fam you made that person from your own brain !! be loud &. proud , show them off !! mean anons r like "who asked" – MEEE ! i want to hear everything about them !

[thechaoticdruid]

Ah I swear every time I go to twitter I see people talking about how AA will find another spawn and replace Tav because he doesn't love them.

Look I prefer the spawn ending. I think it's better for Astarion to grow and move on, choosing a future that he wants instead of obsessing over being better than Cazador.

That being said I still enjoy the dark twisted toxic romance of Ascended Astarion. I get it some of y'all just want to live in a palace with a vampire sugar daddy. But I still 100% believe AA still harbors love for Tav. He's still Astarion despite making the absolute worst decisions and being his worst self.

No I really don't buy the he lost his soul idea because......He can literally die and be resurrected by Withers....You kinda need a soul to be brought back in that way. Withers literally describes the process of it when you ask him what he can do for you.

But I'm getting off topic my point is that Astarion's love for Tav is still there, albeit buried deep down under Astarion's bullshit.

He's desperate to keep Tav so much that he wants to bind them to him for eternity and there is literally banter dialogue with Minthara asking to be Astarion's spawn to which he rejects her saying it's for him and Tav alone. Minthara also mentions Astarion's hands and fangs haven't strayed from Tav in another banter. I'm not saying AA and his consort have a happy healthy relationship. He's clearly overly possessive and toxic given what happens if Tav tries to leave him, but he's not going to just toss Tav aside. He's obsessed with them.

From what I've heard dnd vampires have the tendency to be like that. :p

Anyway I just had to get this out because people on Twitter annoy me. Let's just enjoy both good and evil endings and get along. Please? 🥺

[nerves-nebula]

I wish I was as bug brained as halligan mystery of the druids

[transkingcobra]

My current Tav may not be one for PDA but I’ll be damned if I ain’t gonna watch him kiss that vampire 82949394 times

[nugatorysheep]

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This damn comic is fucking A N C I E N T but as far as like, the content of it- not necessarily the art because I always hate my older art, but the presentation, what is objectively here- still feels right to me, so I'm sharing it. again

[naptimeclown]

I hate accidentally being rude. Whenever someone is like "hey this made me think of you!" or "I got you this cause I thought you'd like it!" sometimes I just ask "Why?". And most people interpret that as me not liking it, or being upset at them for thinking about me. And I don't mean it that way! I'm just so genuinely curious what it is about me that they thought I would like whatever it is. Or what about that thing did they think I would like. What made you connect that to me?? I want a peek inside your brain at what I am to you!!!!!

[palameiad]

i love mael :( i miss mael :(( plz home come mael :((( mael :((((

[bloodfueledmachine]

day 28