#anyway it makes sense why he fucking hates xarrai at first LMAO | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

collegeoflore · 1 year

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obsessed with the way xarrai and astarion’s lives ran so parallel for like the entire 15 years xar lived in baldur’s gate. constantly dancing around each other but never actually meeting. when xar wasn’t playing in the lower city taverns they were in the helm and cloak in the upper city convincing patriars to empty their pockets for a night with them and astarion was luring victims in the outer city and they just kept almost crossing paths over and over again but never really meeting. it makes that line after you meet sebastian in cazador’s dungeon where you can tell astarion “face it, you would have killed me” so juicy for them because they both know they were like. actually always a hair’s breadth from that reality

#oc. xarrai #r. hold me like a knife #i live for their parallels tbh #a lot of them weren’t even intentional i just planned xar out and then astarion kept opening his mouth and ramza and i would look at #each other like 👀#but then i leaned into it. it works. the two of them are like weird distorted mirror images of each other #bg3 spoilers #just in case #also like. don’t have good words for it rn but i like the dichotomy of like #xar more or less achieving the luxury that astarion wants to pretend he had #(but they mostly only get it by lying and stealing. and sex work which is the most honest shit they do LOL)#but xar is just. like. not a high brow high class kind of guy vs astarion who desperately Wants to #project an image of being very High Class #there are interesting things to be said and astarion’s desire to appear higher class and like capitalism and cazador but i #am so tired. and not equipped to discuss it rn #anyway it makes sense why he fucking hates xarrai at first LMAO

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