#but there's hardly a real pause to acknowledge that every single mind flayer you see was someone before that
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#baldur's gate 3#baldur's gate#oc: jewel#aberrations#mine: dnd#keep thinking about the much more interesting narrative buried in this game in bits and pieces....#like. the very first choice in the game is reacting to a newborn creature calling for help#and i love that you're rewarded for helping and showing compassion#but imagine if the game took you to task for choosing cruelty towards a helpless creature just because it's a ''monster''#and avoided the Compassion For Me But Not For Thee dissonance of like#you run around asking people for help because of the looming threat of being turned into a mind flayer#you help so many people crushed under the great wheel of power and violence#but there's hardly a real pause to acknowledge that every single mind flayer you see was someone before that#was forced or tricked into that pyramid scheme#and if they escape they can only exist as themselves in the shadows#i love these little scenes we do get but god. act 3 and the Cooler Netherbrain Confrontation in my head is like#what if we tweaked it just a bit#and made it sizzle#anyway miss jewel has reached the top of the OC Favoritism Chart along with miss kit. HER <3#what if you were a nihilist charlatan monk beholden to nothing and no one and worn down by your long elven lifespan#who learned to feel compassion again through curiosity and sympathy towards ''monsters''#maybe the only person to ever willingly become illithid because you understood that change is not evil and the ''self'' is energy in flux#what if you rewrote the narrative that everyone else tried to sell#instead of domination and suffering you made it into an act of triumph and care for reviled creatures who didn't ask to be made#an ultimate act of charlatan-ism too <3#someone tells her 'this is how things are' and jewel says 'i think not actually <3' and gets away with it
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