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Guys he's so pretty..

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Omg the love triangle/breakup dynamics in BG3 kill me

Astarion offering to have a sordid affair down the road if you romance Wyll is amazing - and you can agree to that lmaooo. Honestly his retorts and jokes about Wyll if you pick Astarion might be the funniest in the bunch, love that he calls you a scoundrel if you agree hahaha

Karlach's got some really kind and funny things to say about Astarion as long as you get his act 2 scene before you sleep with her (the throwing his pomade into the river comment, joking about sharpening stakes, saying he's not one whose heart you should play with, etc). If it's the other way around you def feel like a piece of shit for picking him and she is right to make you feel that way lol. Also let her be the one to end things, don't tell her you're ending things first unless you want to cry, holy shiiiiiit 😭😭😭 I swear she makes me wanna cry more than anyone else this whole game (such good acting!)

Shadowheart, she also has some really insightful things to say about Astarion if that's your love triangle, but I think you can't really do an act 2 scene with her until the end of Act 2 / early Act 3? So in early act 2 she only gets one breakup option instead of 2 like the others, which only happens from Shadowheart initiating the breakup after you get the other person's act 2 scene. Regardless she & Wyll seem to take a breakup best imo

Meanwhile from what I can tell Gale does not take it well if you pick someone else no matter which order you do the love triangle. He's either super hurt or pissed no matter what I did even though I didn't even kiss him in the weave in my game!! I had no way to tell him let’s just be friends before anything with Astarion happened, although to his credit he does have one or two okay responses of wanting you to be happy as long as you let him down gently in the convo before his act 2 scene. He's just clearly very hurt and down bad though, I felt awful the whole time lol, almost as bad as with Karlach

When I've tried to make the love triangle happen with Lae'zel, she was just ultra salty no matter what I did & Astarion only had like one non-generic line 🤷‍♀️ might also be bugged cause when I tried to pick her after getting his Act 2 scene she said nothing and all I could choose was leave/breakup. Felt like they didn't add as many options for her? You can tell it def affects her though cause even though she's pissed she says your "bruises will scar" :( so... still a bummer

Similarly for Wyll if you choose someone else over him, his comments are mostly generic about writing your story and honestly he’s pretty mature about it, but you don't even get to tell him you wanna date both, which is where they can say some pretty emotional/funny stuff, so again, doesn't seem like a lot of variations were put in for him

I find it interesting that you seem to only get the "you chose me instead of X?" dialogue with Astarion if you break it off with Shadowheart or Karlach, where you can tell him you're "dead serious" about the relationship. Unless I missed it, he didn't have anything to say when I talked to him after breaking up with Gale or Wyll or Lae'zel, which is when that dialogue pops up with the other two.

He seems to have the "i hear you have a new lover / what, why?" speech with everyone though. If you choose someone else over him before his act 2 scene he has the same various replies of "lucky you, you'll think of me / i'll think of everything we did / having you once was enough" etc, but if it's after his act 2 scene it's all "I didn't think / you were a mistake" :( and you'll feel terrible about yourself

ALSO while I'm talking about it, idk if this happened to anyone else, but the "I hear you have a new lover" speech was bugged for me for Gale/Wyll/Lae'zel, so he skipped saying the 1st shady unique line for them, BUT I could see it in the journal. Karlach's seemed to work fine though. Adding pics for reference minus Shadowheart

UPDATE ok it is a known bug and Shadowheart def has variations too, adding the youtube link for these. Also I had NO idea about the act 3 versions, omg these are SAVAGE towards Wyll and Gale ahhahaha

[savingthrcw]

I'm at the end of act 2 in BG3 and I'm suffering because I want to rp but I don't want to spoiler myself everything that happens next, do you see my pain??? I'm using the mod so the entire party is with me and I have all the convos and ugh

me losing it over shadowheart and astarion below

there is so much FUN that can be explored in rp like. honestly after the nightsong Lex and Shadowheart's friendship is ruined, which is so painful because she'd actually likes her more now but also she'll never fully trust Shadowheart again? because she had to basically bow her head and tell her 'I'm not okay with you killing the Nightsong but I can't lose you so I'll let you' and THEN Shadowheart made the right choice but it still meant Lex had to accept something like that to avoid having to kill her? (because I need a cleric), because she didn't trust her to make that decision from the beginning without interfering and initially it made Shadow more determined to kill the Nightsong? but how could Lex not intervene in the hope that Shadow wouldn't sacrifice someone held prisoner for her goddess if the ENTIRE TIME Shadow was saying that she'd do whatever Shar wanted even if she had to fight Lex? DAMN IT.

especially because like I said before Shadow lost ALL of her trust when Lex woke up at night to find out she put a knife on Lae'zel's throat while Lae slept and told her she'd claim she had started changing into a Mindflyer, like they are both obsessed with their beliefs but that moment alone told me Shadow would do anything to complete her mission. and now even if she feels lost shadow is starting to think more for herself instead of doing what her god, who took her memories of why she's doing things, demands her to do, and Lex LIKES that person but it's too late gkjlsgdjfgd

hell Lae'zell took not going after the creche better. but also ASTARION WHAT THE HELL kind of relationship did I end up writing. Lex threatened her ONCE because she knew Lae would like it and she was RIGHT.

but also ASTARION WHAT THE HELL kind of relationship did I end up writing, I'd love to ship them in rp even more than in the game tbh because there are more dialogue choices when we are free (let aside that my 'canon' ship is Wyll because it happened naturally since their interests align) but the 'we banter and bicker all the time but I'd do you' is one of my faves especially with the bonus 'if anyone tries to force him into anything I'll go feral', and Astarion is always so touched that Lex will give him a choice about pretty much anything despite shooting down his 'let's be evil' ideas and not letting anywhere near her neck lol

Gale is breaking my heart, HE BETTER NOT DIE. Karlach is my bro but also needs the damn hug but the guy who could have helped died at the last light inn so uhm