#carly plays bg3

[arlathen]

appreciate larian's commitment to giving gnomes lore-accurate ridiculous names while also treating them like serious nuanced characters. guy named wulbren bongle will ask you to commit an act of domestic terrorism and you don't even giggle at it.

[100-yardstare]

ok i know you reblogged it 2 days ago but like, who cares... so the "give me a character and I'll break their ass down" thing: Lae'zel

Hey Carly! It's been a while since I last talked to you, hope all is well.

How I feel about this character

Love her! She's my fave female companion and her voice actor did an awesome job with her. I often say ghaik as an insult/reference between me and my friends that have played BG3 lol.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

I haven't played or watched a playthrough like this, but I think a Dragonborn!Tav is probably one of the more interesting relationship dynamics based on what I've seen.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Lae'zel + happiness and with all her new companions would be ideal. I watched my bro get the ending where she can't come to camp and is off at war and I really hate that for her. I haven't figured out a way to both save my Tav and get her a good "freedom" ending so that she can join the others at the party.

My unpopular opinion about this character

Don't think I have one. I think we can all agree that she is a looks like she can kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll-type.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Correct me if I am wrong, but let there be a good ending where she is not in another war/crisis and can be happy! Like, she came a long way with the events of the game and all the companions deserve a shot at the best ending without the expense of Tav turning into a freaking squid!

GIVE ME A CHARACTER and I’ll break their ass down:

[mycomaid]

I WANT TO DANCE ... independent & selective ba/ldur's g/ate 3 companion oc. written by annie. sideblog to @publicabsent. rules & info under the cut. ... I WANNA GAZE AT THE STARS.

full rules are found on my main blog. basically don't be a snot rag & we'll be cool. it's likely there will be bg3 spoilers here, & while i have not progressed far (considering the device i was using to play cannot handle it & i'm downloading it on my new device as i type) i'm not afraid to spoil some things for myself, especially fixed plot points. i may only know the barest details, but you get it.

STATS:

name: annette carli race: half-elf (wood) class: druid (circle of spores) age: low twenties, quite young background: hermit [raised by a hag in seclusion, studied in her books deeply]

known spells: druidcraft, mending, infestation, guidance, speak with animals, healing word, entangle, heat metal, barkskin, moonbeam common/preferred wildshape forms: cat, ferret, fox, black bear, screech owl

THE STORY:

as far back as she can remember, annette has lived with her mother -- a powerful witch, bound by blood to the fey laws, nasty in disposition but charitable enough in her raising of the young half-elf girl. (annette never truly knows the extent of it, but her mother is of no blood relation -- a green hag, bound by a deal to care for the child that she'd been promised by a young man long ago, long before he ever thought of children.) a life of isolation, following rules of her mother, & being told the outside world lies, they hurt, they never could take care you the way i can, shapes the young girl's childhood & adolescence. the hag's aversion to beauty manifests itself into her crippling insecurity. annette learns the foundation of her druidic knowledge by sneaking to read some of the tamer books in the lair, learning simple things. her sneaking & the tension between her existence & her mother's practices came to a head, resulting in annette being deposited somewhere in the woods, unable to find her way home.

she learns much from simply surviving, growing in her druidic practices outside of a circle. her upbringing echoes into her fears of becoming like her mother & in her magic, leaning toward the mushrooms & the brambles instead of the herbs & flowers. she does, unfortunately, encounter the young lord everett mallory. he is everything mother warned her of -- a liar, looking for what he wants with no thought of how to earn it, impolite, trying to take what is not offered. it's her first wildshape: she panics, turns into a rabbit, & bounds away. thus we find her now, a lonely druid always running from & never moving to anything.

the main difference between her bg3 variation & general d&d is her being tadpoled & being a companion to tav. her personal quest would likely be either resolving her problems with everett or, if you feel daring, helping her realize that the hag was not her mother & maybe even dispatching the hag.

[arlathen]

every other party member: im cursed. im going to die. im owned by someone much more powerful than me. my days are numbered for one reason or another -- the tadpole is only the latest life threatening circumstance.

halsin: i like whittling ducks :)

[arlathen]

why'd they show astarion getting his guts rearranged by halsin when wyll is so clearly canonically in love with him.

[arlathen]

also when you ask gale to let u fuck halsin you do so (or can do so, I don't remember if there's another option) by being like "what do you think about introducing a third person to our relationship" and his first thought is "you want to have a baby??"

[arlathen]

the revelation that gale is party cook has made me start selecting my long rest ingredients like. chef. your ingredients tonight are three salamis. five lemons. a watermelon. a single boiled potato. horseradish. and a baguette. you have one hour. good luck.

[arlathen]

when karlach does her little idle dance/hops. like if u agree.

[arlathen]

congrats to the writers who wrote these item descriptions for being the funniest people alive

[arlathen]

i love having the upstairs of the elfsong as a camp but having everyone move in really makes you realize what an eclectic bunch you've collected. imagine everyone filing through the tavern and up the stairs. a cambion an aasimar a dog a random little kid and their cat. a dead-undead-lich-skeleton thing who may or may not be jergal.

[arlathen]

CANNOT get over the fashions in this game. look at her. pussy puss puss give em cunt cunt cunt ❣❣

[arlathen]

one thing i appreciate about bg3 is how there is basically always some little kid at camp for me to mother.

[arlathen]

im so serious why didn't they include more sorc subclasses.

[arlathen]

brother idk what i was thinking running into the house of hope with marian and gale both loaded up on fire spells but Jesus fuck.

[arlathen]

man. do you ever walk up on what you know is a combat encounter and just go. I don't think I wanna be involved in this at all actually.

[arlathen]

in gales cutscene where he tells u about the orb and he gets on his whole knees and holds ur hand to his chest. brothers that awoke something sinful in me.