#emotional tadpole

[shushmuckle]

[bardic-inspo]

Cannot say thank you enough to the amazingly talented @tadpole-apocalypse for bringing Astarion & my dearest Naomi (Tav) to life. And cannot recommend commissioning them enough!! 💜💜💜

[cats-obsessions]

The Flymms should have recognized Durge, and when they read Sally’s mind, her first reaction should have been screams of terror. Durge was surely there when Enver tadpoled her, two hateful, glowing eyes looming over his shoulder. Durge was the voice begging to slay the Flymms in one big, bloody display of power. Durge was the one to hang up Gortash’s portrait while the tyrant gloated over his groveling parents. Durge was the dagger that reminded them every day was a gift that would be taken away the second Enver got tired of them.

Of course they remember Durge. Isn’t it only proper to introduce your lover to your parents after all??

[maegalkarven]

No, but all the implications!!!

Gortash starting to treat Durge's wounds as a mere way of ensuring his ally doesn't die while he still needs them.

Durge begrudgingly allowing it bc fighting against it is more trouble than it's worth, though they're a little peeved by the idea first. Letting others treat their wounds feels too vulnerable, too...intimate.

Gortash slowly establishing that as the means of control because well-treated dog is a loyal dog and he needs Durge loyal to him.

Durge getting used to that because for the first time ever they're offered comfort, for the first time ever their pain eases, even if only the physical one. Learning they don't have to bear pain, what they can simply go to Gortash and he'll make the best healers take it away. Or better yet, would bandage their cuts himself, almost as if he cares.

This gradually turning into routine to the point where Durge once gets hurt Badly, blacks out and drags their uncooperative body to Gortash's house bc subconscious is a bitch and connected Gortash = comfort/relief/no pain/etc.

Gortash being met with the bloody unconscious body of his ally on the floor of his bedroom and being both annoyed and, strangely, relieved, because his plan of leashing Bhaalspawn is working and because he'd prefer to know if Durge is hurt and be in control of their healing.

[majorasnightmare]

i know that technically the lack of party reactions to several of the act 2 Dark Urge Lore Reveals (and general lack of reactivity to non cutscene durge plot in general) is because of development constraints and budget and Releasing The Game On Time At Some Point, but PERSONALLY i just find it enjoyable and interesting to interpret it as addressable character flaws in them 💔

i love when characters are incidentally shit friends to people they care deeply about for very understandable reasons, and also i love when those seemingly small decisions explode into disproportionate consequences and maybe also have a body coubt

[fandom-junk-drawer]

This 👇. Just this 👇.

This is my favorite picture of them, and I'm glad I had it on my phone and not my hard drive. At least I have this.

[rahorarty]

i think the party should've gotten one group hug in before the end

[bhaalsdeepbat]

Tfw a scene hits you with such force and clarity, it's absolutely like a religious vision

When Astarion gets up in the middle of the night to handle the twins so they will be quiet and let Mercy sleep, Mercy sneaks off to the undercity ruins. Theyre gone for hours hunting any Bhaalists who are trying to maintain the ruins, slaughtering the Bhaalists, and then going to the altar to yell directly at Bhaal, only to be met with silence. Mercy screaming that he couldn't take anything else from them. They'd make damn sure of it. Just never saying "You took everything you wanted from me, but you cannot have the twins." And it's a threat. One that isn't answered.

Then returning to a fretting Astarion (bc they're both still unlearning their codependency)

[shadowkira]

Ngl it's probably for the best for Karlach's sake that she and Minthara aren't sharing a camp when she can't touch people.

Minthara would 100% be fucking with her and filling her mind with the filthiest thoughts in an attempt to make her burn her tent down. Poor Clive, poor Karlach. 😔 (😏)

[stormsofasorceress]

the wizard of waterdeep & the spy sorceress of the maegi ring

[shimelyasmin]

im really sad about how wyll’s whole story is going in act 3 bc it feels like, compared to the other characters, he hasnt gotten any huge scenes where he’s actually making decisions for himself. like for the scene where mizora forces him to choose between breaking his contract or saving his father, you choose for him and he agrees to whatever you tell him to do instantly like. why. there also just hasnt really been any scenes outside of camp that wyll really gets to shine in even tho theres been plenty of opportunities for them

[lavelans]

wait i just had a cursed thought. is the emperor romance just the solavellan romance

[bladesalvation]

ik Durges can dig up Kanon's body but Kelemvor clerics can perform last rites and don't touch me im emotional over this line--

[pinkkinoko]

Some more frog doodles for you

(If you know where the left one is from you’re a real one💯)

[cryptidranger]

Making a backstory for my new oc and finding ways to tie him into the pre-tadpole mess with Gortash and Durge

[neraiutsuze]

withers: hosts a lovely party where you can meet all your friends and speaks warmly to you of all you've done, even if you became illithid :)

also withers, when he's alone: bane bhaal and myrkul are idiots bc souls disappear when the host becomes a mindflayer

WITHERS BUDDY AM I STILL ME OR NOT, I'M GETTING MIXED MESSAGES HERE

between this and "tempted to eat my delicious friends' brains mid-party vs bonded with the disgraced god of song with a pang of bardic guilt mid-party" i am struggling with this existential crisis myself here