#bg3 zarys

[bareee]

So about that box…

Realized I posted this on the Tav-Dex so moved it proper XD whoops

Through my two play throughs, i never kept the box… don’t know what happens from this conversation on cause I never go back to her after XD It was Astarion fault… Im blamin him, even though I did it. Zarys didnt neeeeed to be persuaded in game, but Mark bein unable to lie, rather not risk it…

[thisaccountisagainstmywill]

On that meme bandwagon.

[dustdeepsea]

Realised that I never posted these portrait studies back when I finished them in June.

[theycallmeratt]

Special shoutout to @captainsigge and @my-favourite-zhent for sharing these screenshots.

More memes below the cut

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Part 4

[sharess-festhall]

Spending my day wondering how Zarys and Rugan initiate new recruits.

[absinthe-auncle]

Made some more BG3 text post and tweet edits

Part 1

[bg3womenconfessions]

I love how smooth Zarys' voice is, how smoothly she transitions from compliments to threats. I'd obey that swordhar's every order.

[bg3smash-or-pass]

[dustdeepsea]

Zhentarim Appreciation Masterlist

So I've been drawing and writing for these criminals for a while and I thought it might be nice to have everything in one place on my blog!

This masterlist will continue to be pinned and updated, so do check back to see if there is anything new.

Zarys

performance review (Zarys/Rugan, explicit) [AO3]

Salazon

you are the apple of my eye (SFW, shirtless)

Olly

[my tumblr tag]

somewhere I have never travelled (Olly/OFC, teen) [AO3]

Olly and Nora in Baldur's Gate + bonus snippet (Olly/OFC, SFW)

Olly pinup + bonus Olly/Nora snippet (SFW, shirtless)

letter to Nora (snippet, Olly/OFC, SFW)

Rugan

Trouble Will Find Me series [my tumblr tag] aqua vitae (Rugan/Tav, reader insert, explicit) [AO3] Nine Lives (Rugan/Tav, reader insert, explicit) [AO3] Gods and Monsters (Rugan/Tav, ongoing series, mature/planned explicit) [AO3]

The Zhentarim Learning Library (round robin contributor, crack treated seriously, explicit) [AO3]

Lucky Fox (Rugan/Dammon, M/M, NSFW)

Gods and Monsters (Rugan/Tav, SFW, shirtless)

underdark sketch practice (Rugan only, SFW)

tied up/as a treat (Rugan only, NSFW)

if you hate me so much (Rugan only, SFW, shirtless)

if I stay here, trouble will find/if I stay here, I'll never leave (Rugan/Tav, SFW)

sketchy practice (Rugan only, SFW)

69 follower thank you (Rugan only, SFW)

Paradise Circus (Rugan/Tav, NSFW)

your hair was long when we first met (Rugan/Tav, SFW)

manga cliches/art poll (Rugan only, SFW)

little serpent, long shadow (Rugan only, SFW)

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[theycallmeratt]

Special thanks to @my-favourite-zhent and @captainsigge for the screenshots

More under the cut!

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Part 2

Part 3

[fistfuloftarenths]

i read it like:

rugan recruited her. held her hair when she puked up her guts first time she killed. now the fucker's gone and gotten a bunch of do-gooders involved.

in her waystation. that she has to blow up. through no fault of her own because what the fuck happened up there and why. pereghost is going to want to know what happened in detail and he's not going to like her answers.

so she's throwing her weight around in public to the rest of the zhents. rugan has the experience but she is supposed to have the authority and she doesn't want them questioning hers. they smell weakness like a shark smells blood.

not when she's got to lead them into the underdark next and it's rugan's fault she's a zhent swordhar to begin with. that fucker. this is all his fault and he's not even doing the reassuring-to-youngsters-out-of-their-depth thing. that she doesn't miss. at all. just ask her.

and rugan, bless him, after his initial face drop - zarys is sick of hearing about this hero who came and saved him before it turns out he wasn't exaggerating (much), the hero is gorgeous - just lets it roll off his shoulders and flirts with you anyway. in front of zarys.

while she's trying to come to terms with being lucky to even get to the pereghost what with what lies between them and the gate

Not getting over the duality between when you meet Rugan for the first time and he plays the Big Bad Zhent, promising you that Zarys will have your head if you steal their cargo, threatening you to be sure you don't cheat him if you convince him to make a deal "the Black Network had eyes and blades everywhere", kinda showing off with "I'll tell my associates to expect you".

And when you reach their hideout and Zarys just fucking roasts him publicly non. stop. "YOU GAVE THEM THE PASSWORD??" "You have fire in you, if only Rugan was like that we wouldnt be in this situation". She's really like "Yes Rugan is the moron of the crew urgh Im so done I will complain about him to every single person walking by"

[sarenhale]

A sketch of my sorcerer Zari. She was a street artist/performer in Baldur's Gate

[fistfuloftarenths]

salazon characterization, pt 1

(everything's taken from BG3 Datamined Dialog without which everyone would be even more out of character than they already are)

Act1/Plains/PLA_EscapingZhentarim.html

Synopsis: Salazon is preparing a fire-trap at the entrance to his gang's hideout. We can either sneak up on him or be sneaked up on in turn - either way we have to convince him we should be there or he'll get skittish and blow us all up. In general he's jumpy and suspicious of us, but relieved when we convince him we're a friend. Think an inexperienced guard pointing a gun at us when he's been told to be on alert.

You got the passphrase from Rugan:

You did not get the passphrase from Rugan:

Intimidation:

Persuasion:

If you're a rogue:

Failed Intimidation/Perception:

Detect Thoughts:

Failed Detect Thoughts:

[alpydk]

Trying to talk myself out of getting a Zhentarim tattoo...

They're the bad guys, right???

[killerpancakeburger]

It's pretty fucking funny to me that almost the whole time you bargain with Rugan he's like "Stealing from the Zhentarims is a VERY BAD IDEA. You WILL regret it, and then you will DIE" but then the second you offer to split the profits with him he does a 180 "sure, why not! This will definitly NOT bite me in the ass later" 💀

[dustdeepsea]

And once is nonce. His chest and arms had fewer scars than she remembered, when they had last made camp together years ago. So surely, this doesn't even count.

Zarys is newly promoted, and managing the Zhentarim hideout near Wakueen’s Rest. Rugan has a problem with following orders. (Set before the events of BG3.)

I support women's rights, but also women's wrongs.

Many, many thanks to @thisaccountisagainstmywill for help with honorifics in Forgotten Realms, @fistfuloftarenths for their literacy headcanons, and helping me with Rugan and Zarys' relationship timeline, and @littleplasticrat for beta-ing this for me at lightning speed on a lovely weekend :)

Mind the tags please!

performance review

Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

Rating: Explicit

Relationships: Zarys/Rugan (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Rugan (Baldur's Gate), Zarys (Baldur's Gate)

Additional Tags: Power Play, Breathplay, Under-negotiated Kink, Desk Sex, Workplace Relationship, Penis In Vagina Sex, Zarys is her own warning (Baldur's Gate)

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