#changed him to be a PC brother instead of ireena cause

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meeting Izek Strazni sent well last night

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curse of strahd run by a DM that likes the idea of the plot and very little of the sourcebook let’s gooooo

ireena’s bi

we have Countess Strahda instead of strahd. she’s a lesbian who fell into the evil side of gaslight gatekeep girlboss

uhhhhhh can’t talk much about sergei and tatyana cause the lore has drastically changed

i looked away from ezmerelda for too long and now she’s a social justice druid? queen shit but girl what?

victor vallakovich. what to say about him. 5’2, emo kid haircut despite being like 27, trans guy who created an “instant top surgery” spell called the Titripper (and has way more top surgery scars than usual as a result), only bad at magic because he’s dyslexic, probably a wild magic/shadow sorcerer who just hasn’t realized the books are harming rather than helping

the brides all got their own backstories outside of strahda because we respect women having their own narrative. unfortunately i forgot to actually decide what the current relationships are so god only knows their identities

we’re getting off-topic

the Abbot is some form of nb but doesn’t have a design yet so idrk

lady wachter has an Understanding with strahda and may have killed her husband i have no idea. she’ll tell me when she’s ready

OH our female bard got seduced by strahda and it went exactly as well as you’re expecting

i kicked van richten out for being a racist fuck and his replacement is a 217-year-old half-drow named nyro, who is going to end up in some undefinable qpp with the 650-year-old elf PC

we have a he/they barbarian who is both the smartest and most emotionally intelligent party member. everyone clap for leif

mt. ghakis is solely being referred to as Mount Gay Kiss cause i couldn’t figure out how to say it

ismark. straight man, but also a werewolf now, so i think he’s a pretty damn strong trans ally lmfao

anyway i accidentally bowled my whole party over with ireena’s own personal hell last session (pov your girlfriend sleeps with your new friend to keep her busy while your gf’s stank-ass butler kidnaps your brother and you find out about this because your friend comes and confesses this to you while sobbing). shoutout to victor who heard that whole confession with zero context and has been pantsless for about a third of the time he’s known the party

In honor of pride month I want to hear about how queer you made Barovia please and thank you.

For my game:

Strahd is an obvious bisexual king.

Rahadin is asexual, but not in like, an ace kind of way. Like in a single-celled organism kind of way.

Ireena is aroace! A decision partly inspired by a certain pool of water (iykyk), and also because she’s a little bit my self-insert. A PC hit on her in like session four and was immediately told, “Do not ever speak to me that way again.” She’s iconic and I adore her.

IZMARK. IZ. GAY. And madly in love with the druid. Unfortunately Izmark does not know he is gay. He believes it is very normal to lovingly stare into your homie's eyes and look down at his lips and imagine what it would be like to kiss him. And it is very normal to comment on how attractive your homie is, cause that's just what bros do.

Vollenta is a beautiful lesbian who refuses to let the fact that she is married to Strahd change the fact that she is a lesbian and nobody will tell her or her pile of bodies otherwise.

Ludmilla is on the ace spectrum. I mean, come on. She's with the guy for power and grant money. She says she loves him, and they're definitely intimate, but she's the kind of girly to take notes before during and after, you know?

Escher. What even needs to be said about Escher. He's Ravenloft's resident twink and proud of it. He's a little lonely and can't stop thinking about the boy he was in love with when he was young, who is now old and grizzled from age, while Escher himself remains the same age he was when he betrayed his lover and chose Strahd instead, but like... he's also pretty and immortal, so who cares?

(Escher Bonus Content: Two moms! They loved him very much and were upsettingly supportive of his decision to become Strahd's newest consort)

Anastrasya: idk she's dead pre-campaign in mine so if you came here looking for commentary on her you will not get it.

Ezmerelda is a trans lesbian! She's gorgeous and I adore her. She's just so confident that she can kill Strahd on her own and I think she's right for that. I knew I wanted her to be a love interest for one of my PCs, and it just so happens that the player in question has a type.

Danika is also bi, and she's very happily married to her wonderful little husband. This hasn't come up in the campaign at all it's just something I know to be true in my heart.

The Abbot: Gender! Fluid! Call them whatever you want. He/him when you want to play on ideas of masculinity in religious circles, they/them when you want to make them seem undefinable, she/her when you want your PCs to reflect on how much mom trauma they all have :)

Sergei is straight but that man loves the queer community so much and he deserves an honorable mention.

Arrigal is gay and very pissed that the party keeps knocking on his wagon door at 3am. His ex-husband/current boyfriend has been coerced into co-parenting a child with the cleric.

There's definitely others but these are my versions of the little guys. I am so interested to hear other people's takes on them.