#farryn (tav)

[weavefaerie]

y'all i just got back to wyrms crossing on my current good tav and DAMN IM SO DOWNBAD FOR THE DISGUSTING SCRUNKLY SMELLY LORDLING... this tav is supposed to hate him but i'm struggling

[desiredcrescent]

look i know mechanics wise you cant cast spells and rage as a barbarian but I'm deciding rn to take issue with that for my own silly reasons!!!

Farryn's turn to being a lot more aggressive in combat as he hit level 12 is a reflection on his approaches to survival and I think it'd be cool as shit if I was able to take a level in barbarian ok,,,

The highly indulgent wip I have sitting in my documents where he finally breaks, yelling and feral as everything mounted on his shoulders is too much! He never wanted to be a hero, he wanted to survive, to avoid conflict at all costs and have a chance at truly living without impossible weight on his shoulders.

He finally spills the truth in a way that hurts him more than anything else and... it's Karlach that coaches him through it as he's recklessly flinging off spells, emotions overwhelming and rage burning through him. She teaches him how to weaponise it, sate it and ultimately control it.

Instead, the once over cautious sorcerer who exclusively cast spells at a distance, who focused on being as far away from enemies and companions as possible, finds himself with a new repertoire of spells at his disposal.

Shocking Grasp

Burning Hands

Thunderwave

Fear

Spells that require him to be in close quarters, that demand he's being focused upon as he now fights in order to survive

[eyesofthelvmb]

#EYESOFTHELVMB : farryn solana, an original character ( tav ) associated with baldur’s gate 3. a wood half-elf druid. outlander. single-ship muse with multiple verses. this blog may contain triggering content. ―― private and mutuals only. crafted with love by vin, twenty-nine, they/he. party members: @pvlenights ( astarion & gale ).

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For the weirdly specific but helpful character building questions:

For Farryn: 2) How loosely or strictly do they use the word friend?

Daeris: 9) Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive?

Cress: 45) What's something unimportant/frivolous that they hate passionately?

2) How loosely or strictly do they use the word friend?

Farryn uses it pretty strictly, he is highly specific about who he deems to be his friend. He doesn't use the term friend until he is certain, and it will be one of the more honest and vulnerable moments he shares with someone.

By the time he calls you his friend, he'd kill for you, he'd bail you out of jail, hide the body and frame someone else for you etc. There is NO casual friendship here he doesn't know the meaning of that, anyone below friend he'd sell them out for a stick of gum

9) Do they give tough love or gentle love most often? Which do they prefer to receive?

Daeris definitely defaults to giving gentle love!! He is all about emotional support and open affection for others. He would likely (eventually) prefer the same reflected to him, but he wholly expects tough love.

He's supposed to be the comforter!! he's supposed to take your worries and crush them or soothe you until they no longer weigh you down, so for someone to do the same for him would be losing that innate sense of purpose he holds himself to... to be comforted like he does to others would ping in his head as a neglect of his role that he falls easily into.

45) What's something unimportant/frivolous that they hate passionately?

HMM OK so if ur wondering what took me so long it was this one because Cress, for the most part, is approaching everything with the capacity to not hate any specific thing, especially considering they're discovering so many things and stuff!!

BUT. omg, they HATE incense. They've not been around it much but it's too much for them, the scents often strong and off putting. They don't get it really. A normal fire is pretty and more refreshing to them!

cress coming across people burning incense for their own meditation/ceremony w/e and it's like a -1 million debuff to not be rude on accident.

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OCs in 3s

Rules: Post three pictures or images you feel relate to a character. They can be face claims, famous artworks, photos, or anything you think fits the Vibe™.

Thank you to both @thedragonagelesbian and @hexblooddruid for tagging me 💖💖💖 If anyone else sees this and wants to go ahead, consider yourself tagged xoxo

Farryn | Dissident Fate-Changer, Defiant of Savras | Wild Magic Sorcerer

Daeris | Arbiter of Suffering | Oath of Vengeance Paladin

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Oh the mortifying ordeal of having to kill your narrative foil. you didn't even know till yesterday. and yeah, still gotta kill em.

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@thedragonagelesbian replied to your post “time to play more baldur gate!! i found out smmn...”:

im obsessed with this actually; the ANGST of that fight going so poorly for farryn is DELICIOUS, and romanced!astarion's dialogue in the crypt always kills me (when he says it to durge!cyrus, who he very much /did/ kill, i'm going to lose it...)

​OH YEAH ITS TASTYYY

i also realised, in a blunder of my own making, he didn't have mage armour on ,,, meaning his ac was 15, no wonder my mans went THROUGH IT!!! (i am bad at games this isn't new but u bet in canon this is because farryn had over prepared and still blundered, his emotions all consuming)

Oh the thoughts of all the other ways this ended,,, but for now :] look how happy he is,,,, maybe love and happiness can be real,,,

[desiredcrescent]

making myself emotional over Farryn's need to rescue Lae'zel and how it tumbles around with everything he's learning about Orin along the way. The unspoken understanding he holds after conversing with Sarevok and how he has to bite back at the part of his mind that echos with familiarity for Orin's misfortune, how his own experiences of being surrounded by a dedicated cult uncaring for his autonomy were not too dissimilar.

How Volo spins the tales of a gruesome creature in the Slayer, how it's a sign of Bhaal's chosen shedding and giving themselves fully to their god- and how Farryn feels the eyes of Savras and Fate peer beneath his skin.

How he understands the confusion that lingers when your own mother tries to kill you. As well as the determination it takes to survive it.

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contemplatin and havin thoughts. do i giggle and talk abt a super protagonist flavour text aspects i project onto my guys. Do i discuss this on my blog?? Is is ok to???

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So ya like BG3 Characters?

I got encouragement from one (1) person and im ill with oc thoughts so here we go ✨ Maybe more characters to come but we're dealing bg3 here!

Always open to discuss characters with others, receive asks and the like! I just get very distracted so it might take me a few days to get to you 😅

have some memes before walls of text ✨

Farryn, Tiefling Wild Magic Sorcerer (25 years old)

If you think there's a favourite here on the blog ur right. this is my babyboy. He occupies my brain most of the time. First bg3 tav realness. (the art is by my lovely partner bwee)

- Romancing Astarion and Halsin

- Besties with Karlach

- Dancing around emotions with Wyll (The potential that larian purposefully stood in the way of actually makes me ill fr,,,, why did i not get the dance scene besties.... what did i do wrong...)

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- Glass cannon who's willing to push himself to the limit (magical fatigue themes my beloved) to guarantee his survival. He IS reckless but he will make sure everyone gets out alive.

- He's a city boy stumbling around out here, Perishing at the rough and tumble camp life but he is also in awe of the natural world.

- He mostly acts with self preservation in mind, leading to him being largely non-combatitive whenever possible, or at worst making bold but necessary sacrifices for his and his companions' safety.

- Hates the idea of gods being these fonts of absolute rules and fate being prewritten. Hated everyone being on their god related bullshit.

- He will claim to be a hater!!! he is lying with his 20 CHA score!!! he is in fact a lover at his core. He has so much love for his companions and the world around him despite how it's treated him.

- he's kinda vain in that rich kid way, he has an appreciation for dance and fashion, definitely has standards when it comes to meals eaten too.

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Farryn is the 3rd child to an influential Baldur's Gate family. He was raised in complete secrecy from the prying eyes of the Baldur's Gate elite due to him being born a tiefling. It'd simply ruin his family's image. His family were deeply devoted to the God of Fate, Savras, and in turn all were either skilled diviners, or various clerics in His service.

When he turned 11, he awoke to his magic in a display of chaos, and gifted the slight gift of being able to take control of the wheels of fate. His family then suddenly doted on him, believing him to be the potential chosen of Savras, and this being a blessing for new followers. Their dedication and warped ideas of Farryn lead them to trying to canonize him as some sort of figurehead on the day of his 14th Birthday. After the failure, they bide their time until Farryn's 21st, to try again. But this time he ran, and has been since trying to live in a world where he never truly existed.

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Daeris Cylian, Half-Drow PalaBard, Oath of Vengeance/College of Swords (57~ Years old)

So he was conceptulised as: how fucked up would it be to play a dark urge paladin who fights so hard to keep his oath and yeah. answer is pretty fucked.

- Romancing: Undecided! the allure of Wyll romance is true,,,

- Besties with: Lae'zel, he likes her forwardness and devotion.

- He's not taken his bard levels yet but we're getting there guys. Fic incoming.

- Resisting the Urge (i might be splitting saves to have him break beneath the urge but shh not rn)

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- Soft spoken and gentle mannered, until he's on the battlefield.

- Being a durge he's perhaps a bit too comfortable being covered in blood

- His two instincts being 'kill' and 'be killed for the cause' creates a guy fr.

- He'll never wield a shield, but he'll put himself on the front lines to take the hardest hits. He believes that if he gets hit, its one hit that hasn't landed on someone else.

- He tries to see the best in people, but the second they're responsible for another's suffering?? thin ice.

- Hot. He's hot.

- He plays the lute and violin but he doesn't know that. (calloused hands perhaps better suited to the delicate playing of an instrument, rather than the brutal grip of a heavy weapon)

- Martyr complex off the CHARTS. He will throw himself into every situation possible with little to no regard for his safety. He'll always take the opportunity to suffer in place of someone else.

- an "I'd die for you" kinda guy if that wasn't super clear.

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Daeris awoke on the Nautiloid with the prayers of Ilmater rattling in his head before even his own name. He fought through the nautiloid, horrified at what was going on but unable to save anyone else or lessen the pains they were experiencing. As he awoke on the beach in the wreckage, he swore an oath of vengeance for those who perished on the nautiloid, to hunt down those responsible for... well everything.

Being quick to dedicate himself to Ilmater, he remembers pretty much the core beliefs, about shouldering the suffering of others and acting as selflessly as possible.

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Cress, Tiefling Circle of Spores Druid/Gloomstalker Ranger (20 something, they never really kept track)

- Romancing: No one yet but they have eyes for Karlach

- Best friends with: Lae'zel and Wyll

- Not sure the split on Ranger/Druid levels just yet, I'm not a min-maxer with this stuff and its mostly based on vibes.

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- Happy-go-lucky to a fault! They're so energetic and trusting but this comes with its issues.

- They're SUPER trusting of their 'guardian' and are grateful for some direction.

- Due to their mostly spore-based connections with the Myconids, Cress doesn't love talking. Their voice is often hoarse from disuse, and they definitely prefer any psychic or magical means of communication.

- They're in LOVE with the flora of the surface, they have no idea how to garden but they're so happy to learn.

- They're a psychical touch kinda person, purely because of the lack of it they had growing up.

- If we got one guy who hates gods (Farryn) and a guy who's whole thing is abt his relationship to a god (Daeris), Cress is the guy who simply is a bit clueless on the gods. They live under a rock in those terms. They've read books on some gods but that's probably as far as they've gotten.

- They literally want everyone to like them sooo much.

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Cress is a tiefling who, after being abandoned by their parents at a young age, found themselves scared and alone in the Underdark.

They were just a child stumbling around, and happened upon the Myconid Colonies. Being a child who didn't particularly understand, they just saught shelter and community. And the Myconids offered them this, wearily at first, but as soon as it was clear this child wasn't really going to mean them harm, it was an easy enough transition. Being raised by Myconids was a strange one, perhaps distant in a way but Cress only yearned for acceptance, which they offered freely.

As they grew older, they conversed with outsiders and assisted adventurers and acted as the go to for vibe checking those who wished to temporarily stay in the Myconids' company. They also became an expert navigator for lost adventurers, only asking for seemingly meaningless trinkets from the surface. On one such trip up to the surface, they found themselves snatched up by a nautiloid, and the adventure begins from here.

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Honourary mention to my bastard (affectionate) Serene- I'm just eepy otherwise I'd do a full breakdown.

He's a Knowledge domain cleric to Mystra because i want to menace Gale personally. He's in my co-op game with my lovely partner and between the two of us we've made our tavs the good ol Excited Labrador and Black Cat friendship. Serene is relatively fearless which doubles up as his greatest flaw. idiot for the sake of research and curiosity. the weird hateful yaoi they could have with gale is definitely compelling

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[desiredcrescent]

feeling nauseous and cant get on my puter to make a fully fleshed out post just yet but there's something to be said abt my bg3 characters and their relationship to home as a concept (Feeling loved, safe and secure) vs home as a place

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no one warns u about the constant Ls you sign up for by playing a sorcerer gkfkdke

Farryn in comparison to both Cress and Daeris was such a flop at low levels. everyone bullies you. tou can barely defend yourself. your wild magic goes off and ultimately debuffs everyone.

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White boy quest progress check:

Largely following through Astarion's plot has been fun consideration for Farryn's relationship with him. Farryn wants a very similar thing to what Astarion wants- Security. But he's aware, much like his magic, that the world is chaotic. There are no guarantees, farryn refuses to believe Fate is prewritten and unchangeable, and so the pursuit of total power, to him, only provides another element of chaos as opposed to stability.

Because Farryn suffers from being my first pc I'm trying to do the "right" things with him but it's become apparent over the course of the game that he'd rather let others choose what they think is right for them as thats Something he had to fight for himself.

But he also reserves the right to tell others he thinks they're wrong <3

This has meant that leading up to this point Farryn has been neutral/leaning slightly negative on the whole ascension thing- not because of the sacrificing others aspect, but because surely it can't be that good. Farryn is weary of it actually working at all but if thats what keeping astarion happy rn, he'll play alongr

and walking around the palace, checking in on Astarion?? Oh. Farryn has realised his boyfriend is dumber than he had previously checked him for. And that doesn't mean he wants to strip astarion of choice of his own future, but it does mean he will not hold back about his judgement fjdkdkd

time to play more baldur gate!! i found out smmn funky happened with my Daeris file and i might have to redo some stuff but ah well,, more screenshot opportunities ig

but aaaa anguish and suffering. back to the act 3 farryn grind 👍 (i love him act 3 is just stressin me oooouut)