#honestly i should take a look at that marduk fic again it gets pretty dang spicy

[quitefair]

Hey, hope you're having a good day! How about 6 and 15 for the Tav ask meme? 👀

Thank you! Hope you're having a great day too :)

(answering these for my tav!)

6. How would the player go about meeting them in Act 1? What is their introduction?

You'd probably bump into her at the Grove, alongside two of her elder siblings who are also of the Church of Ilmater. Gula (the cleric) would be working with the other healers, Enki (the monk) would be doing fuck all to help, and can be found spending time with the kids. Probably has already befriended Wyll at this point.

Marduk on the other hand would probably be more of a peacemaker between the tieflings and the druids, settling arguments between both the factions and trying to stop them from getting at each other's throats. Has probably already tried to go and look for Halsin herself, but without success.

You'll meet her with the other tieflings when you first come across the grove. She'll be fighting alongside them against the goblins, and once the battle is done she'll come up to you and give some exposition as to what you just walked into - and that's where your tadpoles sense each other.

She's cheery and quick to complement. Astarion would probably get annoyed by her, Lae'zel too, though she can tell that you've met a capable warrior and won't question much if you decide to recruit her. The rest would probably warm to her immediately.

15. Is your Tav more likely to fight/flight/freeze/fawn?

Again, she's often a peacemaker, trying to get both sides to stop arguing or fighting and come to as much of an amiciable solution as possible. So she does tend to fawn, I guess? She's very good at calming people down, at rationalising in moments of high emotion. Also helps that she can read people very well, though how and why she's come to that is also a funny little story... (*cough* hypervigilance *cough*)