#he's my murderbaby

[femmedplume]

God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit

[y-rhywbeth2]

For personal silliness, the headcanon of Durge being a reincarnation of Charname is funny to me, because most of my Charnames grew up as LE/LN self-appointed librarians in Faerûn's biggest library and will violently kneecap you if you don't return your godsdammed books on time.

And then Durge's temple - and I'm attributing this rule to their reign - has a lending library which is very insistent that you return the books on time...

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose...

[leomonae]

If you think Astarion is not very good in combat, please consider that this may be something where you will feel differently after changing around his build/equipment some!

[corvidcrybaby]

The old man heaved a tired sigh. The glow from his lantern glinted off his spectacles, concealing his eyes from view. He murmured a stream of unintelligible words under his breath as he waved his hand through the air in a placid but firm gesture. The mist dissipated in an instant. The attic, in all its archival glory, littered with books and papers and spent inkwells, was visible to the lost girl once more. With that, the apparent Rabbi set about taking stock of the young lady’s ailments. Leaning over her, he murmured something to Guard, who gingerly knelt once again, laying She Who Is Nobody onto the wooden floor, one hand supporting her between the shoulder blades. The old man removed his glasses and smiled at her, kneeling down such that he was eye level with her. He kept his distance, not wanting to alarm her any further than the others had already done a fine job of doing. Her heartbeat was deafening. That even he could hear it spoke volumes. The old man was no vampire, baruch HaShem, but he heard it all the same. This was a definite problem. “Hello, little one,” the old man whispered. “You’ve had a terrible night, haven’t you?”

I call this piece You Reposted in the Wrong Attic.

[toadstool32]

Also re: puzzle age difference I never really read that Atem would be like. Way older than Yugi somehow. (This might just be that I missed something and means I have to rewatch the show) But also I remember seeing takes that like oh Yami is yuugis mentor or in a very strange take I saw that he was his DAD(?? Dude) and then also the whole. Ancient Egypt spirit thing. He's old he's ancient and yuugi is a small baby (*gags*)

I used to get into fights with one guy in highschool about this actually if anything Yami is like three days old and he just learned how to push a man off a cliff happy birthday murderbaby. I personally think Atem would be like 15-16 since his tenure as pharaoh was rushed and short (or I might have read millennium world wrong that too could happen) good old dad dies and the baby pharaoh has to ascend yahoo (something something child kings. Crying about it. Insert that dsod video of the guy in the weather shouting "that's my father")

[writinginthesecrettrees]

Sometimes I wonder why I love Grimm so much.

And then I see Nick take out two reapers and send their heads to their boss and I'm like...

Oh, yeah. He's my murderbaby.

[litlunacy]

Fynn took over this interaction and I had nothin to do with it. My boy is...so fuckin touch-starved.

Look at his big ol' "oh no, my dream friend is sad" eyes. (Insight: Beneath the resilient veneer, a touch of fragility. He needs comfort.)

Fynn is catching feelings for every man who says a single kind word to him. Baby. Baby boy. My little murderbaby.

Had a bit of a crisis after this wondering if this meant he'd fuck the squid in act 3. Decided that, in canon? No. He'll be with Astarion (and maybe Halsin by that point too), and while Fynn def has feelings for him, he would absolutely insist on discussing it with his other partners first. Post-canon if they meet up again and hash it out a bit? Definitely. His elf lovers can watch too. Or join.

Which also made me realize that Fynn is absolutely letting the Emperor eat Orpheus. That's his friend. Weird squid friend, but still. Sorry Lae'zel.

[quacaserous]

1, 2, and 3! for the durgetash asks :> (for all your durges)

hehe tysm for the asks!! answering these for anyone who’d like to know more abt my murderbabies >:)

1. What’s durges creation myth? Not the ‘and then there was a gore baby’. Give me the details, what did Bhaal actually do for Durge to torment Toril in a few years?

ill be honest i havent thought about this one enough to provide an actual answer so im gonna update this post once i’ve figured it out! 😭

2. Did Bhaal always have a plan for Durge to just eradicate all life or did he have a different plan before his death and revival? What exactly did the lord of murder have in mind when creating that particular spawn?

i’m not sure about cerys and saber tbh but with cassius i think bhaal’s goal was to just have like. a clone/avatar of himself on toril, someone unapologetically murderous and hedonistic and he actually achieved that for a while!! cassius was everything father dearest needed him to be, “the purest bhaalspawn there ever was”. that was until gort came along ofc :) gortash nurtured the ‘tumor’ that was cassius’ own personhood, showing him he need not do everything in his father’s name - he can be his own person, which in turn caused cassius’ fall from grace

3. Was kid Durge a usual child before the Urge awakened, or were there some signs indicating something was off about the kid? How did the environment react to them?

cassius — i’d say out all 3 of my durges cassius would probably take the crown for having the strongest “what the fuck is that thing” vibes lmaoo 😭 even if he didn’t look that much different from a regular tiefling (atleast to the dwarves’ knowledge) he definitely looked like an outcast in his foster family, and acted like one too. he lacked the tight-knit familial bonds that his dwarven foster parents and sister had, and really struggled with things like empathy, selfishness and emotional control. essentially it was like a (cannibalistic) cuckoo bird situation, they took care of this strange tiefling child that someone (sceleritas) dropped on their doorstep one day until he got so unsatiable he killed & ate all of them :,)

cerys — truth be told cerys was already a very impulsive, chaotic child so it would be kind of difficult to tell which parts of her behavior were influenced by bhaal and which were just cerys being cerys. her caretakers hoped she would grow out of it eventually - she wasn’t a bad kid, after all, just a little.. odd :) however, as she got older, her then-harmless antics grew into more alarming stuff, like sleepwalking towards knives, having recurring night terrors, hurting small animals for shits n giggles and so on. it also probably didnt help that she didn’t have the typical coloration of a tiefling, marking her as the black sheep in her community

saber — personality-wise saber was a pretty normal kid for the most part (if a little quiet/withdrawn, but that’s just what she’s like) so there was nothing too out of the ordinary regarding her behavior, but her looks did kind of set her apart from other drow children; saber doesn’t have the dainty, cat-like features typical for an elf, and seemed to loom over other children her age (which hasnt changed, she still towers over most people) so anyone but especially other, actual elves could sense there was something Off yet were unable to put their finger on exactly what it was abt her that creeped them out

[bylightofdawn]

Okay, finished TBB series finale and spoilery talk behind the cut.

I'm kinda lowkey sad they didn't bring Tech back in some way but I understand why they did it from a narrative standpoint and HOLY SHIT the emotional impact seeing his shattered goggles as Omega was leaving home really sucker punched me. So, I'll give you that point, Felony.

I'm refusing to acknowledge Scorch is dead. NOPE. Clone Commando's have katarn armor and he completely survived being shot in the chest four times and then falling hundreds of feet to the foliage.

He ends up falling into a lake, pulls himself to shore and is discovered by the Imps and given treatment only to be rescued by his squad afterwards. That's the real canon ending. La. La. La. La. La.

Honestly, it wasn't even Scorch, they murdered my murderbaby and I'm so grumpy about it. You can't just use his colors and then completely wipe out his ENTIRE FUCKING PERSONALITY.

So yeah, I refuse.

Riyo is STILL alive and doing well and is helping rescue clones because she is the GOAT. This makes me so happy. I also game away lowkey shipping Emery and Echo?

Uhhh all in all this season has been mostly okay. NGL TBB has always been kinda mid in my opinion. I am glad we got a REAL ending for TBB and ugh Hunter telling Omega she's their kid really tugged on my heartstrings.

I love the idea Wrecker/Crosshair/Hunter co-parenting Omega.

I am however freaking the fuck out over her becoming a Rebel pilot considering their average life expectancy. LOL

It DOES feel like bait for maybe a new project maybe? Like I would absolutely die and be sent to another plane of existence for an active Rebellion era project, especially one that is centered around the pilots because GIVE ME MY FAVORITE CORELLIAN SON WEDGE ANTILLES RIGHT NOW.

This would also give us a chance to get some damn answers about the clones. How did Wolffe escape the Empire? How did he and Gregor and Rex end up living together on Seelos.

What happened with Cody and WHY DID REX CALL OUT FOR HIM IN THAT ONE EPISODE. -slams pots and pans-

I have more questions than answers than when this show started. L M A O

brb gonna cry at the thought this might be the last real clone content we get in SW.

[yj-98]

rook I DO want it out there that MY personal canon tim (and cass and kind of damian) have their opinion on jason solidly in the "he’s family-in-law and also an ally (when/if he’s behaving) but i really would rather he wasn’t because of personal vendettas" territory but i support your agenda so much because it makes sense... it could have been how their relationship was headed pre-n52 when they took the damn coward's route

oh i agree 100% on damian and cass honestly (and i feel like cass's opinion would also sway tim. he loves his sister) and i do see where ur coming from... especially for the bit. but also because like. the inherent drama of most of the family just not wanting him closer than he needs to be is interesting for both interpersonal drama and also bc like. im sorry but part of what makes jason interesting to me is how tragically stuck in hes gotten himself. he cant mend these bonds, he wont let himself and he makes it worse even if he wants things fixed

to me personally tim would start solidly in camp "fuck this guy except when we have to be co-workers" but doesnt have as Much personal stake in keeping jason at an arms length but they could! could. get something closer to siblinghood in the event that dc's writers also handle jason well! which they do not. tim having a sense of "needing" to "handle" jason because hes willing to get close, can still talk back even when jasons being a dick, and isnt compromised too much by having Known jason like bruce/dick/babs.... could be interesting! considering the history they DO have!!

i find tim's willingness to bend (or let get bent) rules depending on how they line up with his Head Rules and personal wants interesting. NOT saying hes murder-y or would condone anything jason fucking does (im tired of murderbaby fanon tim) (so much of me finding potential in those two is the fact that ive sort of just taken jason out of whatever the fuck dc is doing. hes mine now) but i feel like tim would have the ability to eventually find SOME common ground. stick those guys in a situation. let them go thru the EFFORT of becoming closer (whether they want to or its all circumstantial!) instead of just................................. saying theyre close now

[aoba-hime]

my redeemed durge is actually a better person than my og tav bc he knows what order to do the quests in and all the prostrats for these quests. murderbaby himself has saved more civilians than goody twoshoes tav

[strangefellows]

Gilles de Rais, William Shakespeare, Jack the Ripper, Solomon, Nero Claudius, Kid Gil, Abigail Williams. Revenge for my 5k answer to yours.

First impression

Gilles: WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK OH SHIT OH SHIT THAT'S BAD--

Will: ..............yeah, okay, I want to deck him and that probably tracks

Jack: WHY IS JACK A BABEY-- oh. OH. BABEY.

Solomon: [brb incoherent screaming because Plot Reveal]

Nero: LMAO why does she look like Artoria?

Kid Gil: WHY IS GIL BABY WHY IS BABY GIL NICE WHAT IS HAPPENING WHAT IS HAPPENING HE'S SO CUTE AUGH

Abigail: I have Concerns about this girl and this chapter. CONCERNS. But also FUCK SHE'S ADORABLE

Impression now

Gilles: Die Bitch Die. I don't like him, does anyone? He's a fairly boring Saber and Caster? Oh, you know, the child murder and eldritch monsters and all that.

Will: I'm going to beat that man senseless (affectionate), what a genius (derogatory). I'll probably have more thoughts again after Apocrypha - jesus I have to finish that shit - but for now I'm gonna punch him.

Jack: AN ACTUAL MURDERBABY THAT IS MY CHILD, I LOVE HER, I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

Solomon: [incoherent screams turn into sobs] COME HOME

Nero: She's absolutely a delight! Her appearance will trick you into thinking she's a boring Saberface but no, she's wonderful, she's awful, she loves herself and is so confident, what a girl. What an emperor.

Kid Gil: Well that's the 10yo form of my Fate husband, of course I love him. I have...mixed feelings about him that I'll talk about later, but generally speaking I adore this little brat.

Abigail: DAUGHTER DAUGHTER ELDRITCH DAUGHTER I love her so much and I wish I could pull her but she's very rare and I have others to save for. She's still absolutely babey though and a good naughty girl.

Favorite moment

Gilles: NONE, DIE. But no in all seriousness, there's a bit in the Shimousa (or Salem?) manga where he talks to Dantes for a little, and that was actually kind of an interesting thing.

Will: None yet lmfao sorry bitch. Okay no wait, him and Hans fucking. Writing the Solomon and Sheba play while shitfaced ass drunk just to make us all suffer, but also thank you I love you that made my day even as I cried.

Jack: I REALLY NEED TO FUCKING FINISH APOCRYPHA. But in FGO, idk, she's just very sweet and baby in the events somehow and I love that all the time.

Solomon: IDK MAN THE REAL ONE WAS ONLY HERE FOR FIVE MINUTES BEFORE HE MCFUCKING DIED. I'm not counting that speech in Temple because it's too sad to be my favorite even if it was amazing. I'm cheating and pretending the Chaldean has at least a little of him in there and saying when he saves our ass from Kirsch that time in Atlantis and then is just like UGH DON'T LOOK AT ME at Fujimaru, like I AM LOOKING DISREPSECTFULLY SIR SORRY

Nero: She's a delight in Septem, but like, so many of her scenes in Extra slap extremely hard, I love her roast of Gawain especially, as does a lot of her my room scenes with Hakuno.

Kid Gil: Not gonna lie, I remember the scene in the Prisma*Illya manga where he absolutely mcfucking nukes someone for using Enkidu and I loved that very much.

Abigail: PANKEKI PANKEKI KURONEKO PANKEKI-- but also, her appearance in the Summercamp event was very sweet and funny.

Idea for a story

Gilles: I would not want to write a story about him XD but frankly, it might be interesting to explore the fact that we've more or less proven the child [redacted] and murder accusations were false, vs the evil psycho persona he's kinda shoved into by the Throne even so.

Will: FACE THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS AND TALK TO OBERON. But no, there could be some fun stuff with his NP if it does what I've heard it does in universe.

Jack: Babey Girl, go have some cute fun with your friends, have a nice day, no murder :)

Solomon: I WILL DRAG YOU HOME BY YOUR VOLUMINOUS HAIR YOU DUMB MAGE GET BACK HERE I AM BEGGING YOU. But also what if Certain People were discovered early is always fun.

Nero: I want to see her and the other Extra+CCC cast actually interact more, BB kind of cockblocked that in the SE.RA.PH Event lmao. Musings on Hakuno vs Fujimaru?

Kid Gil: Exploring the headcanons I'm gonna mention below, or maybe just let him maul his older self for once, that'd be hilarious.

Abigail: A Day in the Life of An Eldritch Child Wandering Around the Chthulu Mythos with Cats and Her Adopted Uncle.

Unpopular opinion

Gilles: .....idk man

Will: IS HE POPULAR? IS HE NOT? IS WANTING TO SUPLEX HIM INTO THE FLOOR POPULAR OR NOT IDK MAN

Jack: She looks FINE you guys.

Solomon: IDK? He's SO at least 50% of the Chaldean I'm CONVINCED OF THIS FACE OKAY, I'M COPING.

Nero: I'm not really sure? I hear some people aren't really a fan of her in FGO compared to Extra, but I think she's fine?

Kid Gil: I'm not sure if having mixed feelings about him is popular or not, to be honest?

Abigail: IDK XD

Favorite relationship

Gilles: N/A do not approach any Jeanne

Will: Him and Hans are fucking hysterical, to be honest, but I'd love interactions with him and Oberon. Just for the lols.

Jack: Her and the other littles in Chaldea and Amakusa is absolutely fucking precious.

Solomon: [lies down] Sheba....Fujimaru....Mash..........

Nero: Her and Hakuno to be quite fucking honest. But also her and Lizzie is hysterical.

Kid Gil: shrug emojis into the distance, actually

Abigail: Her and Lavinia, her and Fujimaru.

Favorite headcanon

Gilles: I do not think about him XD

Will: Hm....I'm not sure, I can't think of any XD He and Hans drunk write way too often for everyone's own good. Hans wouldn't even drunk, but Will MAYYYY be coerced into writing fanfic for people.

Jack: She really, really likes raspberry jam. Strawberry is also okay, but raspberry is her favorite. Put it on everything.

Solomon: UHHHHHHHHHH he's at least in part the Chaldean. He's not a generally good person as Solomon, he's very terse and grumpy. Let him live. He's tired.

Nero: Despite the whole Gilfest/Nerofest rivalry, Nero WILL hang out and drink with Gil sometimes, they get very loud and obnoxious (and they'll talk about Hakuno sometimes).

Kid Gil: This is implied in some My Room dialogue and probably in Hollow Ataraxia which I haven't read, but I do definitely double down on the idea that Kid Gil isn't actually what Gil was like as a child, but the what the Gil we know in the present day would be like if he were a child. That's Kid Gil, not Gil as a kid. And he's very aware of this, and he wonders quite a bit about what he was ACTUALLY like.

Abigail: In my 'verse, she is one of the only people aware of the fact that my Fujimaru is running in a reset timeline, as the first one was a terminal bad end my Fujimaru's little brother - the Master at the time - reset to let his sister have a try. She's extra protective of my Fujimaru for his sake, because Big Brother wouldn't want anything to happen to his big sister.

[y-rhywbeth2]

The games never really following the sourcebook lore becomes slightly easier for me if I breathe deeply and take the Legend of Zelda approach to game canon: the games are retellings of the legends of these stories and thus the details get murky as they pass from bard to bard. Blame Volo for 99% of it, he's notoriously unreliable.

Some bard telling the story in an alehouse in Tethyr who's never been the Heartlands in their life: 'And then the party trekked Westwards through the mountains towards the Grey Harbour.'

A patron who's actually been north: '...but the Fields of the Dead are grasslands though. There are no mountains-'

'It's called artistic license, now shut up.'

Retellings of the events of BG2 feature the demigod queen of the elves of the Wealdath.

Meanwhile in reality the BG3 party actually did travel through endless swathes of grassland, presumably following the Chionthar westwards. And the green elves start laughing/rolling their eyes because what romanticised N'Quess drivel is this that they think they've got a monarch hidden in there? Some start sarcastically calling Rhothomir 'your majesty' or 'Queen Ellesime.' The Sy'Tel'Quessir don't do coronals anymore, at best they've got the Moonflower dynasty over in Evermeet (theoretically) ruling all elves before Amlaruil vanished, anyway. Bards never do their godsdamn research.

Also, for personal reasons, Durge being 'normal' is just propaganda - my murderbaby has been working very hard threatening a lot of bards to make sure Bhaalspawn hunting stays at a minimum.

[vespertine-legacy]

That shit hurted.

Raz has seen how you “share,” Valkoriate, and she’s not gonna play that game. And she feels like she’s on borrowed time now, anyway after the stunt with driving Marr’s ship through your son’s fleet, so, fuck it all, basically.

Into the carbonite we go!

[whollyunnecessary]

There was 100% a take where they kissed and it had better show up somewhere.

[quacaserous]

6 and 9 from the most recent durge asks? For all three obviously >:3c

AHH tysm for the ask :)) i had lots of fun thinking about the answers hehe <3 (answering these asks for anyone interested in my murderbabies)

6. How did they actually learn their craft/class? Was it before or after becoming Bhaal’s chosen? Did they study it under someone? Did they have a natural talent?

cerys — well, she’s a rogue/circle of the moon druid multiclass, so she learned to steal & blend into the crowd as a child out on the streets, while her druidic powers were a natural talent – she first discovered them when she got lost in the forest as a little kid, and made her way back home with the help of a bird :) afterwards, she’d go on to experiment with her powers and learn spells intuitively, the way a sorcerer would. she lost touch with her druidic magic after getting tadpoled however, and only recovered it with the guidance of halsin & jaheira, who both felt a spark of it within her, despite her firm insistence otherwise.

cassius — cassius is an assassin rogue with a few levels of fighter, so, like cerys, he first learned to steal as a poor kid in the streets of baldurs gate and then honed those skills at the temple of bhaal, where orin, then excited to have a sibling to share her talents with, taught him the precise, murderous art of being a rogue. sarevok, on the other hand, through relentless training (that definitely wasn’t intended to just kill him) taught him endurance and spread his fighting horizons to duelling, not just ambush from the shadows.

saber — saber, upon hearing the whispers of bhaal & (regrettably) killing her foster family in the underdark as a teen, ran away from home and began to wander upside, pursuing less-travelled paths at the edge of wilderness until she stumbled upon a monastery. there, seeking to find balance within herself and a way to control these urges, saber became a way of the shadow monk, before, of course, slaughtering the entire place :) finally giving in, saber let her instincts lead her to the temple of bhaal in baldur’s gate, but felt no need to change her class, since her hands proved to be a useful enough weapon.

9. Bhaalists are surprisingly skilled with a wide range of weapons. Which one was your Durge’s favourite? Did they use it often or did they use something else for their ‘regular’ schedule?

cassius — he prefers using his body as a weapon, actually! even when not transformed, cassius’ tail resembles that of a slayer’s, which is spiked and pretty heavy, so it packs quite the punch! and his teeth & claws of course, but if none of those are an option he prefers daggers or flails, depending on if the goal is to murder someone or just torture them.

cerys — cerys prefers light, one-handed weapons like daggers and sickles so that she can have one in each hand and also really, really likes enchanted/magic weapons (shiny... 👁️👁️). huge bonus if they’re engraved or have a nice shape like bloodthirst or stillmaker, she enjoys anything with a unique design/personalized (gortash will use this information for evil). unlike cassius, cerys will only lash out with her claws & teeth if given no other choice, or if possessed by the urge.

saber — as a monk, she mostly fights with her fists but she’ll use a longsword or a spear ocassionally! saber likes a weapon that will allow her to keep a fair distance between her and the victim/enemy, so up-close and personal weapons like daggers are not her favourite.