#but i'm not posting the semi-fanfic i'd die of embarrassment

[green-nonsense]

@catsareruiningmylife *cracks knuckles*

my screenshot folder is definitely full of content (though a lot of it is screenshots of all of the dialogue because i keep liveblogging it to my friend)

but so far nothing has beaten this screenshot for me, 10/10

I'm being so so normal about this screenshot I swear

I eventually put them in matching outfits. i went out of my way to find the tailor and ignore 60% of the quests on the way there. i was on a very important mission

(Astarion is unfortunately always covered in blood in many of my screenshots because he's always targeted by enemies, RIP)

Most recent interaction i've had that's kind of related to their relationship was when I found a bard NPC who was selling instruments, and as another bard, I made friendly conversation with said NPC, who told me about experimental lute strings he was making. They proceeded to have a long conversation about music

and I got this notification:

and considering Astarion largely prefers me being deceitful and unkind in dialogue choices, I'm choosing to think that these approval points came about because he loves to see his boyfriend gush about his interests

I'm a GIANT sucker for scenes where character 1 is injured and character 2 is angrily (out of concern) healing them in some way, which is why I stocked Blue up with a lot of healing spells for the roleplay aspect. He's not the best healer, which is why I also keep Shadowheart (a cleric) in my party, but she's primarily doing the heavy lifting with the tankiest character of the party at the time of battle (it varies who it is), which usually leaves Blue to heal Astarion (because I already spent all of Shadowheart's actions on healing the tank). But I also didn't build Blue very well and while he has a lot of utility, he is a bit of a glass cannon at times, he gets downed a bit too easily in the more difficult fights. Which is good for me as a drama enthusiast, because Astarion is always the one whose voiceline triggers when Blue is downed (most commonly a very concerned and desparate: "No! You can’t die, get up, damn you!"). There is definitely some dramatic twist in here but I'm still drafting what I want their relationship to look like - and it's growing into a fanfiction sized notes app file on my phone, no joke. I'm so normal about these two i prommie

I've still yet to play Astarion's personal quest, but because of how I built Blue, I smell that he'll definitely get downed in the battle with Astarion's evil vampire master, and i can't wait for that to inspire more drama in my head lmao

Also, despite the fact that I love drama very much, I cannot bring myself to cheat on Astarion, no matter how much delicious angst it would create (in my head)

Thing about Astarion is that he's not used to true intimacy, he used to seduce to both survive and to bring sacrifices to his master. he wants to act as if sex is something casual to him, but it clearly very much is not. he says he's okay with the MC's casual relationship with Halsin the druid (who is upfront about only wanting something casual as long as Astarion is ok with it), but thanks to Neil Newbon's great voice acting, i have a feeling he's not actually okay with it and is only pretending to, because he doesn't know how to say no and is to some extent scared of losing MC if he does indeed say no. And that's way too sad, even for me. This also happened extremely late into my relationship with Astarion, so I felt like at that point it would be a bit strange to suddenly have Blue jump into a casual relationship, after helping Astarion rebuild his sense of self and boundaries for so long. Probably if I triggered it way earlier in Astarion's romance, I would've gone for it for the drama, but not when it already morphed into something cute. As much as I wanted to progress Halsin's romance to see just what the hell the infamous bear sex scene looks like (i believe it's the second scene with him, so I'd need to make good progress with Halsin) I don't want to sign myself up to lose that much campaign progress for a dumb scene to marvel at lmao, that's probably a "second/third/fourth" playthrough type stuff

Hiii i love my bg3 character he is an asshole with golden retriever energy somehow. Everyone in the camp is bffs with him and he is so so so stupid. He has encyclopedic knowledge of many things and a high proficiency in deception and persuasion but has dogshit perception skills and dogshit smarts

He's pretty and i love him.

He is also a menace to society

He is desparately in love with astarion and puts a foot in his mouth at least once per conversation

Most of the companions have expressed interest in him but in my head rather than him rejecting them, they could not get over how dumb he is

I named him after the centaurea flower and the word "moron" but I based him off of this energy drink

I am starting a collection of characters i made based off of energy drinks

Here's my boy Sour Apple, a tiefling monk, based off this

His eye is glowing because of a bug

His guardian is also bugged. I randomised them, so I have no idea how they look like

*hamster banana joke*

I made Lae'zel interested in him in record time and I think that's so funny I began to pursue her

He is also built like a brick shithouse

I'm making a paladin next

Tune in next time for more bad and awful characters