probably my favourite thing about shadowheart is how her wisdom and charisma scores are expressed in her character. she lies all the time, it's absolutely central to her identity that she doesn't give away pieces of herself freely.
she is also so fucking bad at lying. if it isn't obvious that she's trying to redirect or mislead from the get go it becomes painfully obvious the moment she chooses to share something on purpose. literally everything about her changes when she is telling the truth - her posture, her expression, her tone of voice, her choice of words. she might as well have a neon sign above her head that lights up with 'I AM LYING' when she's trying to use any charisma skill.
but her wisdom score is such that you can blatantly call her out and it achieves as much as getting her to stubbornly jut out her chin like both parties KNOW that she's lying. we all KNOW she is hiding something. she KNOWS she cannot hide this.
that doesn't mean she's going to tell you though what are you, crazy? so what if you know she's hiding something fuckin' hell if she's gonna tell you about it jog on mate
obviously this is absolutely hilarious and i love her your honour
Holy cow there’re a lot and I really do mean A LOT of Welcome Home AUs, and more coming too. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but it makes sense considering WH doesn’t have a lot to work with so it leaves tons of room for fans to play around with. I just hope it doesn’t get outta hand like what happened to Undertale with its AUs.
People are free to have creative liberty on what aus they wanna make- like you said there is very little canon content to munch on so people will pull a “fine I’ll do it myself” JCHFHDHU-
I personally don’t mind it as well, but I do enjoy the aus where they purposely change Wally’s height just to make him more simp-able LMAOO
COMMENT YALLS HYPERFIXATIONS ESPECIALLY IF IT HAS TO DO WITH A VIDEO GAME!!! i love to know about other hyperfixations, no spoilers for the games i’m playing please!
my current obsession: hollow knight (especially @bluegekk0 ‘s feral pale king au)
The worst thing is, Viconia would've fit perfectly in Shadowheart's storyline. From Viconia's (non-romanced) epilogue, we know this:
Viconia does found a cult of Shar in Waterdeep and she is betrayed by one of her followers. She is, not Shar. Shar, in fact, admonishes Viconia for this, showing she clearly never ordered that. And Viconia does not give a damn. This is the woman who left the cult of Lolth and went to the 'lighter' option that was Shar (compared to Lolth). She already deals with agents sent by Lolth, she's not going to let Shar tell her what to do.
The nature of the betrayal Viconia was the subject of is left entirely up to the player. With Viconia and Shadowheart's backstory being what they are, Shar's plot for a Selûnite child could've been perfectly inserted as the reason for Viconia's falling out with Shar.
Viconia left Lolth because of how children were treated, how she was treated herself. She did not turn to Shar to do the same thing. She would reject Shar's plot the moment the order came, and that would be the perfect trigger for one of her follower to turn of her. Shar's cult being what it is, I don't think taking down the whole lot is overkill to avoid further backstabbing. There aren't many who will pick their priestress over their goddess, especially not with how Sharran's faith emphasizes self-effacing. Can't make a decision for yourself when you don't think for yourself.
Shar's reprimends following what Viconia did further proves this wasn't what the goddess wanted. Complete that by adding she's incensed Viconia rejected her order and slaughtered her willing clerics, and you've got the perfect connection between Viconia and Shadowheart.
In BG 3, we could've met Viconia in Baldur's Gate, rather annoyed because she's been getting an influx of Sharran agents after her, and she's tracking the source to put an end to it. A Shar-aligned Shadowheart could've the mission to purge the cloister that failed to kill her, while a Selûne-aligned Shadowheart would work with her to put and end to the cloister, to give them both some peace and quiet.
Epilogue could've them both sharing tips on 'How to best kill an agent of faith sent after you'. They both have sharp tongues and a similar past, they could've had fantastic banter.
hey remember when i said i was drawing Vic Chaos as a milf?
alternates with different lighting (with and without words) and a time lapse under the cut! (btw the words on the cover all have to do with lore in my post covid au so send asks if you’re interested <3)
tw for nudity (without genitalia) in the time lapse cause i shaded the whole body before drawing the dress