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bg3smash-or-pass · 1 month ago

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In response to the recent (unpublished) anon I received:

(I won’t be answering the asks directly, to condense my response into one post)

Having now read Khalid’s Baldur’s Gate and Forgotten Realms wiki entries, I think it’s actually really neat that Khalid was deliberately given an explicit stutter and it isn’t just a shorthand to convey his timidness like I assumed it was, being a game from 1998.

But also.. Khalid is still anxious. That’s not just a “horrid ableist assumption,” that’s how his character is written. Many companions in Baldur’s Gate I are described as viewing him as “cowardly”. His whole character seems to be that classic idea of, yknow, bravery not being the absence of fear but doing everything heroic in spite of it.

I’m sorry you’ve seen enough bullshit ableism surrounding Khalid that your knee-jerk reaction to someone saying he sounds anxious is to feel that they are making fun of his disability and saying he’s cowardly and incompetent.

But coming into my ask box, insinuating I am making fun of his disability to make “myself feel superior”, asking if I ever get tired of “finding new lows to stoop to”, and demanding I take my post out of Khalid’s tag so you “don’t have to be forced to see how lowly I think of him” is just. Not it.

#ask #anon #commentary #I learned so many fun things in Khalid’s wikis though #did yall know he made the Khalid’s Gift amulet himself?#from spider silk and aquamarine #that the player character in Seige of Dragonspear helps him acquire #also jaheira thinks he has a great ass #and the fact he hasn’t been turned cold by the world is one of his most admirable features #I know she says that second one in bg3 but still #I haven’t um #still haven’t played act 3 #and the fact he has a stutter and it’s not just a symptom of his anxiety is really neat #this anon made me read multiple wiki entries for Khalid through completely #and tbh I do have a bigger fondness for him now #sorry I questioned Jaheira for liking you sir 😔#it’s what’s on the inside that counts as always #and also apparently a fantastic ass #still wild to me that this person saw me say in the tags of the Khalid post ‘I don’t think this man is hot’#‘he sounds like if wyll (traditional generic hero type) had anxiety’ and ‘if volo was competent but still had the same vocabulary’#and went ‘OP is mocking Khalid’s disability purposefully and thinks he is cowardly and incompetent’#like I am nervous to go into Khalid’s tag now if the ableism is truly that rampant that that’s somebody’s first reaction

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