#i did this wyll and gale and laezel so far

[pinacoladamatata]

Hurts hurts hurts me how other companions will be like "yeah you must choose one of us. Choose me though, the obvious choice. I love you."

And Astarion will be genuinely confused and surprised by Tav choosing him every time 🥺 his whole reaction is like "you chose me? But...WHY?"

[killjoy-prince]

So I'm on playthrough #4 of this game playing as Astarion this time around with the intention of romancing Wyll and man, picking all the good and heroic options as Astarion especially in Act 1 really is a case of "He would not fucking say that" bc Wyll likes all the good and heroic options and Astarion is. not that lolol

One thing is by chance I found a workaround on how to not make Wyll a devil and still keep Karlach alive. It worked but now im wondering if making him a devil would of been better narratively? Also I just got used to the horns that I kinda miss them. I do have a save thats right before doing the workaround but I did quite a bit of stuff so is it worth it?

[sae1549]

More very random head cannons. -SFW—NSWF-

Characters mentioned: Astarion, Gale, shadowheart, laezel, Wyll, Karlach, Minthara and Halsin +1

Content warning: hair pulling, oral f/recieving & m/recieving, knife play, size kink, predator/ pray kink.

Word count: 3.2k

Astarion

-SFW-

- He has a very gravelly voice in the morning that lasts around 25 minutes.

- He absolutely loves cats. And later you end up moving to the underdark, you both adopt a cat that is able to travel alone to get the things that they need. He sees it as your baby and treats it as such.

- He is the person you go to if you want any gossip. When you both get to the underdark I could see him becoming a bartender or something like that. Where he can swindle people of their money while having fun doing it.

- He can cook. Contrary to him not eating normal food anymore he was once human. But he will look over cookbooks for a while if you tell him that you would like to try his cooking.

- He dislikes flowers, of course he thinks that they are beautiful but they do not live long. He gets sad because he links that thought to losing you. So he tries to keep those thoughts away from him.

- He absolutely loves shoes, he can rant and rave about them, when everyone was in camp he would like to go up to gale the most. He really liked his shoes, even going as far as stealing them. Only to have a grumpy gale walking through camp with his arms crossed pushing Astarion over and taking his shoes back.

- Astarion has to clean himself in his bat form as well as his normal form. So he takes extra long in the shower. But he gets so fluffy!

- He starts seeing a therapist after everything is settled in the underdark.

- He loves to give forehead kisses.

- Astarion loves to be called beautiful!! Call him beautiful often!!!!!

- When you ask him what his natural eye color is he thinks about it for a while getting back to you telling you that they were a steel blue.

- He does not have many things, but he wants to some day. So without him noticing you slowly start to give him little things here and there. Like an extra bedroll that you had, a blanket. Some new pillows, candles, anything that you can find that you think he would like to make him more comfortable.

- He loves horror movie nights!!!!!!!!!

-NSFW-

Ascension ver.

- When he is ascended he does not care as much if you get off first.

- He would be a lot more rough, biting much more feverishly and more often.

- He would give you head, but he would not do it for long.

- He knows exactly how good you are feeling, but will make you tell him.

- He is the dominant one.

- He will take up multiple partners as he expects you to do the same. He would go out of his way to ask if you would want to add another partner into your nightly activities.

- His sex drive would increase greatly.

- He sets a brutal pace.

- He likes to tease.

- He would not fall asleep after doing it, but he would ask you about what you liked and how he did.

- He lets you rest your head on his lap to fall asleep after.

Gale

-SFW-

- Man can sing. But mostly does it when he is bathing or concentrating. Quite interesting to hear for the first time when you are in battle together. Singing in a tired gravely voice before shooting off another spell.

- He tried to convince Tara to let him dress her up in a cute little outfit one time. He left around 30 minutes later covered in scratches. That is to say he does not make those comments anymore.

- He likes painting from memory, yes he can control the weave but he would like to have some sort of proof if there was ever a day when he could no longer handle the weave any longer.

- When coming back from a particularly hard day, if you massage his shoulders a bit he will melt into a puddle and fall asleep.

- His favorite juice is apple juice.

- Always likes books more than movies. Does not matter if it is actually a good movie.

- He keeps photos of you on hand so he can show his students. And they know so much about you and he wants to ask if you would visit his class to shed some light on recent events. Totally not an excuse for him to see you more.

- He likes his food hot, even his salads. All food needs to be hot.

- Loves silver jewelry, his wedding ring is silver with purple stones embedded into the ring. You have the matching version obviously but it is a wide band with white and purple stones honored on the ring.

-NSFW-

- He is into pulling hair, if things are getting a bit more rough. You are sitting on his lap. Getting into a very heated makeout session, in a heated kiss his hand snakes up onto the back of your head, seating itself into your hair. The other hand softly rocking you back and forth. He breaks away from the kiss. “You are quite breathtaking my love.” He says through slightly labored breaths, he grips and gently pulls on the hair at the back of your head. Swiftly latching his lips onto your neck.

- He does like when there is a bit of lightheartedness while making love, but it is serious so he will always go back to being more serious.

- He likes to lay in the sun after finishing, watching as you also bask in the light, he thinks it makes you look ethereal.

- He would go at a moderate pace, and would not have very good rhythm when he first starts.

- He thinks it is a bit romantic to have music playing while enjoying eachothers company. So there will be soft piano playing in the background.

- He definitely uses magic, mage hand would come in handy, being able to bind your hands for a little rougher session.

- He does not own any toys, but would be okay with owning some if it helped you get off better. He would end up enjoying it immensely.

- Public sex is something that he could be talked into. As long as it is somewhere where less people are. But there is still the thrill of possibly being caught.

- He masterbates from time to time, it is not often. But if you are not around and he is fully alone then he would enjoy himself.

- His stamina is not very high, but he can fully please you and a little more if he is asked.

Lae’zel

-SFW-

- She would keep a collection of rusted or busted knives to fix while at camp. It helps her calm down plus it gives her something to look forward to.

- She would eat dinner at either 5 pm or 10 pm no in between.

- Talks to herself all the time. Saying she is the best therapist she knows.

- Her favorite color is Silver.

- She likes to read before she goes to bed.

- She also likes to sit on a high point at the camp to look at the stars.

- She would be an astrology girl. And would believe it completely.

-NSFW-

- She is the top.

- She is a biter, lightly gliding her teeth across your skin. She loves to feel you shiver from the touch she is giving you.

- She is not loud, and does not want you to be loud either.

- She would be 100% serious in bed. No laughing, no jokes.

- She has a moderate sex drive.

- She is a C cup.

- She would not fall asleep directly after having sex. She would wait until you fell asleep before she would sleep.

- She would have a small collection of toys that she would bring into your sex life.

- She has a lot of stamina, she would want to go more than one round if you are up for it.

Wyll

-SFW-

- He liked bugs when he was a kid.

- He really likes spicy food, and will go out with Karlach to find it.

- Has a very big sweet tooth, and loves to share it with everyone in camp. He has a whole pocket in his pack dedicated to sweets. Giving them away to children you may meet. It makes him feel extra happy if there is a group that he can give it to. But he has a special place for candy that you specifically like, which he gives to you when you feel down.

- He loves Halsin, and goes to him for advice about his father.

-NSFW-

- He loves sensual romantic sex.

- He could get off to kissing. You don’t even have to fully have sex to get him all riled up.

- Man is cheesy, he will set this up when you are living together. Setting out roses leading from the front door to your bedroom. When you walk into the bedroom it is enveloped in a warm soft glow of candlelight dancing over the horned man laying across your bed that is also covered in flower petals in the shape of a heart. “Welcome home my sweet.” He would say in a sultry voice, getting off the bed to meet you. Taking a rose off the table and handing it to you.

- He would be really good at praising you.

- “Tell me how good I make you feel.”

- He is not very experienced, but that is okay, he is very willing to learn.

- He likes things to be more serious in the bedroom, but a soft giggle or smile would not go missed.

- He would have a slow pace, he would want to take his time and enjoy every moment.

Shadowheart

-SFW-

- She loves yoga. And will do it every chance that she has downtime to do it. But it is mostly just her stretching.

- She would be a Hello kitty girl, and would own so many of the stuffed animals.

- She hates classical and post- disco music. But would love R&B and jazz music. Shadow heart in the garden with soft music playing in the background. She hums along while you are on the opposite side of the garden. This was an activity that you both loved to do. She would be dressed comfortably in a shin length skirt that was covered in loose soil. She turned the music on a little louder, swaying from side to side as you both worked together, sharing in kisses here and there. It was quite an eventful afternoon.

- she hates orange juice. Like genuinely hates it and will get upset if you give it to her.

- Likes a good cup of tea. With very little sugar. But if she were to have coffee she would want a lot of sugar but no cream.

- She wants a flower garden.

- She would end up being a plant girlie.

-NSFW-

-She is somewhat experienced. Having done it with a handful of people at most.

- She would get her nipples pierced. I think it would make her even more confident than she already is.

- She is very confident in bed, she is fully okay with taking charge or letting you take control.

- She would try almost anything once. Outside of things that would hurt her too bad.

- When you are in the comforts of your own home she is really into bondage. Being bound really excites her.

- She is serious while doing it, you can laugh during it. But she does want it to be a more serious moment shared between the two of you.

- She would prefer a faster pace, it would drive her wild.

-She is a B cup.

Karlach

-SFW-

- She gets very protective of scratch, he lays near her when going to sleep for a very long time.

- She loves going swimming since it cools her down. But will refuse anyone to go with her since the water around her would get way too hot. And possibly boil anyone going in there with her. But that is in fact how she has gotten you dinner before. When everyone was literally starving and going off wine and grape soup for the 4th day in a row. Karlach brings back fish. And sets them on the table. She announced that we will be having something different for dinner than the normal everyone was so excited that they forgot to ask. Later on that night she told everyone. And was met with a still silence. Before someone cleared their throat and everyone went right back to conversation.

- She would drink a lot of water to try and cool herself down.

- Her favorite color is Blue.

- She likes doing yoga to stay limber.

- She smells like Vanilla and Amber.

-NSFW-

- She is the top, no questions asked.

- She would have nipple piercings if she could. But her heat would have them melting to her skin. So she just settles for real and natural.

- She is not very experienced. Since she was always fighting for others she never got to find much pleasures of the flesh. But don’t worry she is a quick learner.

- She would definitely be goofy in bed, joking here and there. But does know when to be more serious.

- She would enjoy slow and steady pace, she would also enjoy taking her time. But also loves a brutal pace from time to time.

- She is a D cup

Minthara

-SFW-

- She would jump out and scare children if she could.

- I feel like she eats the crust first on pizza.

- Despises ranch.

- She ends up wearing glasses later in life.

- She would only eat while standing.

- She likes red wine, and will always ask if you would like to join her in a drink.

- She becomes softer and a bit nicer when you start to get close to her.

- She could fall asleep standing up. She is also a really light sleeper.

-NSFW-

- Scary in a hot way.

- She would be into knife play. Holding a knife to yours not the other way around.

- Top.

Her favorite part of her partner's body would be the neck. Thinking that it could be the quickest way to kill you in case you threaten her. But also that it is so sensitive and gives wonderful responses when kissed.

- Gives absolutely amazing head.

- She likes the predator prey dynamic, finding it quite thrilling to chase before taking what is hers.

- loves to see you in skirts (if you wear them) Or really tight fitting pants. And will tell you all about it in confidence later.

- She is quiet, she does not moan too much.

- She is very experienced, she has enjoyed many pleasures of the flesh. And is ready and willing to show you everything she has learned.

- She is very serious during the deed, there would be no laughing.

- Brutal pace or nothing. She wants to go hard and fast bringing herself and you to a high quickly before doing it again.

- She is a D cup.

Halsin

-SFW-

- He walks around barefoot. You question how his feet are still intact from all the rough places that you have traveled together.

- He literally sleeps on the ground for more than half of the time he is in your camp. I think he just didn’t know how to bring up that he didn’t have a bed roll and just waited till he could buy one. He will never tell you that though.

- He cannot handle spicy food in the slightest.

Likes plum juice, and would drink it all the time if he could.

- He has joint pain, so he sits on the ground to relieve a bit of the pain and stress off them. He will often ask if you would like to join him for a walk. When you say yes you both walk together for a few minutes before he sits on a rock in the woods. You sit down next to him and continue your conversation. For a long while. You knew why you had stopped, This had become a favorite spot to stop for him while you are in this area. Before he got up and continued walking. He would give you a soft warm smile as you walked holding hands.

- He will carve you small gifts and sneak them into your pack as long as you have the room.

- he would partake in the grass. But would be away from anyone else so they are not bothered by him.

- He likes fruit and vegetables over meat.

-NSFW-

- He is quite fluid, anything you want to do or try he would be down to do it.

- He loves when you kiss his neck, the tenderness will make him melt.

- His ideal place to do it is in a field of flowers, or a forest area where there is a soft patch of moss.

- He likes to bite, gently of course. But he gives soft nips and bites any part of their body. Loves leaving hickeys.

- We all know this man is experienced, he is ready and willing to give you all of that experience.

- He can be goofy during, he likes when things are lighthearted but sensual.

- Animalistic pace, or soft and sensual no inbetween.

- High sex drive.

- He only masterbates when he has not gotten action in a long time. But would find a very secluded area to do so.

- It takes him a long time before he falls asleep after. But when he does he sleeps like a rock.

- he thinks you being smaller than him is very hot. Definitely has a size kink.

A little extra…

Rolan

-SFW-

- He thinks it is funny when people try to cast magic and it fails.

- He ends up taking on an apprentice.

- When he has down time he would read all the books that were in the tower.

- When he would go back to his tower after the events of the game he would be sad seeing many of the books, but went in to look for survivors that may have been inside.

- He was a spoiled child, but he grew out of the spoiled attitude.

- He is only sweet in private.

- He would not be into PDA. But does kiss you when no one is looking.

- He wants to be able to teach people magic. But, would treat them all wonderfully. He would be a great teacher.

- He would smell like cedar and old books.

- When he blushes the blush spreads over his face and up to his ears.

-NSFW-

- His favorite part of his partner's body would be their hands.

- He thinks that it is so hot to cum on your face and chest. The thought alone would make him cream his pants.

- He is not experienced. He has not been able to experiment while on his travels.

- He is loud, his moans can be heard from a fair distance away.

- He loves to degrade.

- Power bottom on a good day. Bottom.

- He can get really shy when asking for alone time.

- He loves when you take charge and tell him what to do.

- He has moderate stamina. But will only want to go for one round.

- He will fall asleep soon after finishing the deed.

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I'm sorry for any of them being shorter than others. I have not been able to do all of their story lines yet. I am slowly working towards finishing them all. So if any of my head cannons are very off from the characters I am very sorry! Thank you!!

[sorcerous-caress]

happy halloween!!! could I request you to write were!shart reacting to the full moon for the first time and how the companions are on the receiving end with tav coming to control their puppy?

sending love love your writings!!!

Thank you so much!

Full moon and werewolf Shadowheart

[ fluff, nb!reader, were!Shadowheart ]

Shadowheart

Throughout her life, she'd always felt abnormally restless around the full moon. As if its light was desperately attempting to pull her closer with no avail, a call left unanswered.

She had always chalked it up to that moon witch and her unpredictable tricks, that it must be a pathetic attempt to steer her away from Shar. Not once did she suspect that it was her own body that was to blame.

After her lycanthropy reared its head out of the blue during your gang of misfits adventure through Faerun, did Shadowheart become acutely aware of the sudden changes in herself.

While the enhanced hearing and sense of smell was an added benefit, she could easily bury the primal surges of emotions that would come up every now and then. As long as she wasn't sprouting a tail or ears, as far as she was concerned, it was going smoothly.

Well, one night, when the moon seemed larger than it normal is, its light shining directly onto her. Tossing and turning ontop of her bedroll, Shadowheart woke up in cold sweat in the middle of the night.

Something was deeply wrong, she felt cold and hot at the same time. A primal scream left her throat as she curled around herself.

Waking up all of the camp, Shadowheart finally stood up in front of them. A fuzzy pair of ears twitching above her head and a wild agitated tail of fur swishing behind her.

Her eyes met yours, She growled, her teeth sharper and larger

Something deep insided screamed at her to bite, mark and claim you. She lunged at you in a second.

Laezel

She was the first to act and immediately pull Shadowheart back when her teeth were mere inches away from your neck. Laezel quickly yelled at Karlach to come and help her restrain the midtransfomation werewolf.

Even the both of them struggled to restrain Shadowheart with her unusual strength.

Laezel barely reacted to any of the threats and promises of a brutal death that Shadowheart threw her way, it wasn't until Shadowheart started challenging her and targering Laezel pride did it start agitating the githyanki.

"Shut your mutt's mouth, or i will see to finding a muzzle myself." She sneered your way.

Karlach

"Settle down now, Soldier." Karlach still kept a friendly demeanour as she held Shadowheart down, laughing awkwardly at her attempts to bite Karlach's fingers off despite the growing worry inside of her.

Man, this really wasn't the way to wake someone up. She was soundly sleeping, and now she has to keep a wild dog under control, oh well what else are friends for then?

"Uh Gale...a little help here, please?" With Laezel bickering with Shadowheart again, Karlach felt the werewolf taking advantage of the distraction to slip through her hold.

Gale

"A lycanthropy transformation in front of my own eyes, and i missed it." Gale was too occupied observing Shadowheart's state as a mage hand wrote down all the details in a floating scroll near him.

With curiosity filled eyes, he stepped closer to insept Shadowheart's teeth with no regard to the absolute chaos the three women in front of him were going through. Only when Karlach spoke to him did he snap out of it.

"Oh yeah, of course." With a simple incantation, he immediately paralysed Shadowheart with a hold spell. "Now, where was i?"

Getting even closer, Gale began inspecting her ears that seemed to have magically sprouted with no visible strains on her skin or head.

Wyll

When Karlach let go of the now frozen Shadowheart, Wyll couldn't help but feel like it was a bad idea. While he didn't personally hunt down any werewolves before, he had heard many tales about how unpredictable they become when exposed to direct moonlight.

And true to his words, from the corner of his eyes he could see the fuzzy tail slowly breaking out of the magic hold.

Wyll wasted no time in pulling Gale away. The wizard was mere seconds away from getting his face clawed off by Shadowheart's sudden attack.

"Goddammit, Shadowheart snap out of it." He pleaded, attempting to speak reason to his friend.

What else could they do when a now fully transformed and unrestrained werwolf stood in front of them, bathing under the moonlight in all of her glory.

Astarion

Shadowheart was going to tear them all limb from limb, Astarion was sure of it.

Chaos ensured as everyone frantically scattered and attempted to defend themselves, with no armour or weapons they were practically a slab of delicious meat on a silver plate for Shadowheart.

He needed to think of something and quickly.

His eyes met yours.

In quick motion, he immediately pulled you to his side, whispering in your ear to just play along.

Turning his attention back to Shadowheart who was tearing down the table Laezel was using to defend herself with, he took a deep breath then yelled.

"HEY! FILTHY DOG" he was immediately regreting his stupid idea, "HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE ME DRAIN YOUR LOVER'S BLOOD DRY?"

To seem more convincing, he bared his needle sharp fangs against your neck.

A single droplet of blood tickled down youe throat, he could taste the delicious thing against his lips.

Huh, you know, you actually taste pretty go-

The world faded to black.

The aftermath

"Is he still not waking up?" You stretched your arms above your head, sitting down to your kneeling lover as she casted yet another healing spell.

"Chk. He's as fragle as dry twig." Laezel tended to her wounds on the opposite side, Wyll helping her disinfect the claw marks on her back.

"Well, that dry twig is the reason any of us kept our throats attached to our bodies," Wyll tried to reason as he eyed Shadowheart cautiously.

"Amazing, truely amazing." Gale was sitting on the other side of Shadowheart, occasionally searching her head for any traces of the ears that were there the night prior. "It just disappeared, a whole structure of flesh and bones with perfect connection and nerves vanishing overnight."

From afar, you could see Karlach finally coming back with the buckets full of water from the nearby river. "How is Astarion's condition? Still sleepy?"

"Yeah." You answered, looking at the elf laying unconscious on the bedroll in front of you. The idea of pouring water on him to wake him up did cross your mind for a second.

Feeling someone's eyes on you, you turned your head to face Shadowheart.

"How's your neck?" She whispered with concern in her eyes. "I didn't go too far, did ?"

Rubbing the marked flesh on your neck, you saw her eyes follow your fingers as you traced over the teeth and bite marks.

[saltyowlet]

BG3FICFEB DAY 3: First Encounter with their Love Interest

Summary: The carrot is a metaphor, I swear

Pairing: Astarion x Fem!Durge (named) 

Word count: 2251

Ao3 Link: [x]

“You know, Astarion’s an odd fellow.” Olive couldn’t help but let out a loud snort.

“Oh really, what gave you that idea?” 

The evening sun bathed a bare haze of sunlight upon the camp. Gale took a taste of the simmering stew with a wooden ladle, a moment to ponder, and added another dash of herbs. Few of their companions, Astarion, Wyll, and Laezel, decided to go into the forest to grab any prey that lurked beneath the trees. Gale argued that they didn’t need any meat in tonight’s impressively hearty meal but Laezel and Wyll did not take a no for an answer and went off, Astarion tagging along in hopes of finding his own prey. 

Olive volunteered her services but got denied thanks to the wound Olive tried so hard to hide, a gift from yesterday’s encounter with goblin explosives from the recon. Astarion barely had a chance to warn the group of the trap when Olive ran in and triggered the explosives. After a few rounds of fighting the alerted goblins, they all managed to get away significantly unscathed, well all except Olive. The trap did most of the damage, the force throwing her far off to the other side of the chasm, and the sharp rocks left a gnarly gash in her right side. Injures like these were a dime a dozen for the most part, so Olive simply added some ointment and wrapped herself with bandages. 

If it wasn’t for Astarion’s habit of constantly barging in on her tent, Olive would have been hunting with the others, but the pale elf just had to catch her right as she finished wrapping new bandages on her ribs. The indignant screech Olive let out made things worse as the whole camp ran to her tent. It took Karlach and Lae’zel to drag a kicking and screaming Olive down before Shadowheart could have a chance to cast a healing spell on Olive. The whole fiasco was enough to bench their leader from the hunting team. Now, Olive was stuck cutting vegetables. Great

Gale let out a soft chuckle. “Not my most astute observations, but I digress. Our rogue’s love for chaos seems to have brought you quite a bit of trouble. I’m curious as to how you came about him. Everyone else knows how we all met and intercepted each other at the Grove but your and Astarion’s own tale remains a mystery,” Gale said while wagging the wooden ladle towards Olive playfully.

“By all means, if you do not want to share it, I understand, but I can’t help but question the motive. I have no ill will, but mayhaps Astarion’s own morality tends to clash with yours and the overall collective camp’s, hm?” 

Olive squinted at the carrots she had been chopping. She didn’t like how uneven her cuts were compared to Gale’s precise pieces. Handling a dagger to slice up goblins, no problem, but cutting vegetables? Olive let out a sigh, abandoning the half carrot to the side.

“Well, I initially left him at the beach where I found him, but I decided to drag him with me. Still not sure if I would make the same decision if I had the chance to do it all over again,” she joked as she reached out for the onions, praying to herself that her eyes would not burn this time. Olive made quick work, tossing the pieces to Gale who threw the prepped vegetables into the simmering cauldron. He eyed the unfinished carrot but said nothing. 

“Well, I’m astonished. I thought you did not hesitate to help him the way you helped the others. What happened?” Gale asked genuinely curious. Olive paused for a moment, stabbing the knife onto the cutting board as she casually leaned on it with her hand. She gave Gale a matter of fact look.

“He pulled a knife onto my neck.” Gale had just taken another taste of the stew when Olive blatantly confessed, earning a sputter. 

“He what ?” 

“Gale, you're dripping soup on your shirt.” 

Olive tossed a clean rag at the wizard’s face with a grin. Gale quickly wiped the splatter on his shirt and turned back to Olive with a look of disbelief. Olive gave him a shrug. 

“Your lack of self preservation is most alarming, I have to say. If he put a knife on you, just how on earth did you come to the conclusion of keeping him company?” Olive let out a laugh.

“Because I headbutted him.” Gale quirked an eyebrow. Olive pulled the knife from the board and started tossing it in the air and catching the blade between her tiefling claws. 

“Astarion had me pinned on the ground. I was still tired from, you know, falling to my death. I didn't have much energy so all I could think was slamming my head on his. Worked,” Olive said with a cheeky smirk.

“Our rogue’s cocky streak was well present then, and as you know whenever that cockiness gets to an all time high,-” Olive tossed the knife a bit higher, letting it twirl in the air a few moments before her hand shot out to grab the handle into a fist. As easy as breathing. “-Astarion deserves to be pushed down a few pegs.”

Gale’s eyes had been following the knife before a realization dawned on him. “Wait, you said you left him initially? Why the change of heart?” 

Olive looked up at the horizon, the sky burning its last orange light before the coming night. The air had gotten colder, making the campfire a wonderful reprieve.

“Because I headbutted him.” Gale blinked, turning the gears of his wizard brain to best understand the cryptic words of their leader. Nope, nothing came to mind. 

“You headbutted him. That’s it? I understand you have a propensity to be a bit forgiving about our occasional misdeeds, especially from the rogue, but I can’t help but wonder if it's better to keep things reigned in.” Olive’s eye twitched at the accusation. 

“Excuse you, that’s not my job, as much as you all like to make it.” 

Gale gave Olive a doubtful look that Olive rolled her eyes back at. Olive looked down at the carrot she had left and pursed her lips. Ignoring the doubt, she grabbed the root and started chopping, steadying her hand with each push of the knife.

“When I managed to get out of his grasp, I noticed how weak he was. Maybe because of the tadpole or maybe falling from the sky. Regardless, he was desperate. Desperate enough to pull a knife on someone while coughing up blood. I wanted to leave him there, he wasn’t my problem. Just as I walked away, I couldn’t help but feel guilt.” Olive stopped chopping, eyes hardened as she contemplated her next words.

“Don’t get me wrong, I had no sympathy for Astarion,” Olive grumbled as she lifted her knife eye level, staring at the tiefling who stared back in the shiny blade. 

“So many dead people on that beach. I didn’t find any survivors until Astarion. In his own twisted way, he was reaching out for help, for anything actually. I may not remember anything from my past but I know when I see someone who has desperately clawed for their survival for way too long. Long enough that a helping hand can seem like a hurting one. I think-” Olive paused for a moment, looking at her own black eyes in the blade, watching how the dark shadows swirled in her orbs.

“I think I saw myself in him, saw someone scared underneath the bravo and bite. Had I left him, would he still be alive or would the worst happen?” Olive gave Gale a quick glance before looking back at the disappearing sun. Gale did not know what to say. 

“I did not know how much our fates would intertwine or how much we needed each other back then, but-,” Olive swung the knife on the last bit of the carrot, slicing it cleanly into two, and shoved the now even pieces into the cauldron. “-I got tired of corpses for company.”

“I hear that,” Gale said solemnly. 

Olive took a moment to contemplate and let out a long sigh. Olive never realized how much that encounter changed her. Whether they turned into mindflayers now or died trying to be cured, one thing for certain was that Astarion had made a mark in her life. Olive shook her head with a soft chuckle. 

“By the way, Gale, why did you suddenly bring him up?,”Olive asked curiously. The wizard gave her a surprised look. 

“Oh you didn't know? Astarion has been-” Olive put a finger to her mouth, and made an imperceptive motion towards their back. Gale held his breath listening. There was sudden rustling getting louder and the familiar iron smell of blood. 

In an instant, Olive grabbed the cooking knife and a bigger dagger that she had sheathed and threw them both behind her. They both heard the sound of blade hitting flesh and a loud yelp. 

“BY THE TRIAD HOLD YOUR FIRE!! IT’S US! ” 

Both of them turned to see their hunting group cautiously step out of the forest with a large collection of caught animals. Lae’zel carried multiple dead rabbits, all hanging by rope while flashing a clearly annoyed face at Olive. Wyll had a small boar in his arms, using it as a shield for the knife that was currently lodged deep in its carcass. Wyll seemed hesitant to step any further as he still held the boar up.

“Hells, this was not the welcome party I had expected. Who didn't you think we were?!” Olive put up a hand to apologize. “I heard a sound and smelled blood. Better to ask questions later than after getting mauled. Sorry.”

“Hmph, your aim has gotten better,“ Astarion mused with the click of his tongue. 

He managed to catch her dagger between his fingers at the blade and was now tossing it around, not even having to look at it as he grabbed it by the sharp end with each throw. Olive frowned as she watched Astarion strut towards her, her dagger now his plaything. The tiefling marched closer to him and reached out to grab her dagger back. 

“Speak of the devils,” Olive muttered under her breath. Astarion must have heard it as he flashed Olive a signature smile, pearly fangs and all. 

“Oh darling, were you thinking of me? How honored I am to be laced within your delicious thoughts.”

Astarion took a step back to dodge Olive’s hand, his own still twirling the dagger between his fingers. His shit eating grin plastered his face, extremely amused by Olive's attempts at retrieving her weapon. Olive’s eyebrows twitched, wanting to give no satisfaction to the rogue.

“Please, we were talking about how soft your head became from just a smack.” 

Olive jabbed Astarion by the ribs with her elbow, making him falter enough for her to catch her dagger midair. Astarion scowled, rubbing his ribs. He lowered his face closer to Olive's, baring his teeth, this time in contempt. Olive matched him as well, her eyes steely as her hand readied her dagger. The scent of aged brandy coming from his neck tickled Olive's nose. Olive’s scowl deepened, hiding any trace of how really felt about his scent. They both heard Lae’zel let out a huff and a curse.

“Do your hate mating in your own tents, away from our eyes. I rather dine on our hunted feast in peace.” Gale had to stifle a laugh while Olive’s jaw dropped. Wyll began scooting a bit further, hoping to avoid the coming incursion.

“In what kind of plane is this a mating ritual?!” She felt fingers sliding under her chin and pulling her head to look at Astarion, a smarmy grin reflecting how absolutely delighted he was. Olive ignored the little flip of her stomach made.

“Oh, I could oblige, darling. All you need to do is come to my tent~?” Olive took a moment to blink twice before she slammed her forehead on to his. Astarion let out a yelp while Olive huffed in satisfaction.

“Sorry, darling. I thought I saw a mosquito on your head.” Olive grabbed the boar from Wyll who gave Olive a look of appreciation- and maybe a tinge of fear. The tiefling brought the boar near the campfire and started skinning it as everyone else gathered by the fire to help prep the other caught prey.

Gale let out a cough. “So, about earlier. The reason I asked is because Astarion claimed that when your both had met, it was he who saved you. That you, and I quote ’fell in love with him the moment he swept your feet’ Obviously, none of us believed it so I wanted to hear your side of the story, which makes more sense, I might add.”

Olive’s head slowly turned to Gale, jaw clenched tight. 

“He WHAT ?!” Olive jumped up from kneeling over the boar and snarled at Astarion.

“YOU LYING BLOOD SUCKING ARSE ?! DID I NOT SMACK YOUR HEAD ENOUGH?!” One look at Olive’s face was enough for Astarion to quickly get up from sitting and run off. Olive tailed behind him, her now bloody dagger ready to stab the elf. 

Lae'zel watched them run off with a disapproving look.

“I truly will never understand this plane’s rituals.” Gale and Wyll nodded in agreement.

[animentality]

Did they get a postive response from adding those Gortash lines? I thought a bunch of people hateing on it instead? Also what if they removed the lines to change them a go a diffrent direction. I'm sorry. I have a lot of worry they wont do something I agee with.

The overwhelming reaction was positive. Durgetash artists went on Twitter to celebrate, and the small but passionate fans of the ship went nuclear here and on Twitter, and helped BG3 trend, yada yada, tale as old as time.

Most people don't care about Durgetash or Gortash. The majority of people you hear from would be the people who like both of those things. It's also a small ship.

The haters of that ship are even smaller in comparison, because the hand that reaches out will always touch more than the hand clenched into a fist.

And the only "legitimate" complainers, who don't just dislike the ship on principle, are the whiners who keep insisting their durges are lesbians, and how dare Larian "force" them into a relationship with a man - which is literally not what Larian did.

No one bitches about how Gale's ORIGIN completely precludes him from being gay.

I see no reason why you can't similarly have Durge's ORIGIN make them attracted to men. Or, you know. Enver is special.

Oh. And also. It's so fucking platonic, if you want it to be. Stop being stupid and just say you don't like Durgetash. It's as easy as that.

Stop using "lesbophobic" as a handy label for your self righteous soapbox. You just don't like the ship, and that's fine. It's FINE. But acting like Durgetash is lesbophobic - oh, go play a Tav.

And also, Astarion and Gale and Wyll better not flirt with you in game, even though you can tell them to fuck off, or else they're lesbophobic too.

That's the only discourse that gained traction on Twitter. As far as I know.

If Larian had made Gale wear blackface or something, and people got pissed, then yeah. They'd back up on that, and get rid of it pronto.

But Durgetash???

Aside from the general evil antics, they're not that fucking controversial of a ship.

Most people don't even PLAY the Dark Urge.

I don't know how to stress this any other way...

People act like Durgetashers are loud - we're honestly not that loud.

Astarion fans are far louder, and yet, the most romanced companion is SHADOWHEART and then Laezel and KARLACH.

He's not even in the top 3. And yet, he dominates the content on Twitter and Tumblr... he's definitely more popular than Gortash or the Dark Urge or Durgetash together...but his fans are still technically the damn minority.

So Durgetash in comparison to Starries???

Infinitesimal.

And Durgetash haters?

Would be even smaller.

So what I'm saying is...

I'm kind of tired of answering asks about this.

I don't KNOW for certain whether or not this is Larian backing up or walking forward, and while I don't believe they'd walk back on this, and especially not for a handful of people, it kind of annoys me to even think about things outside of my control.

now if Larian makes a big grand statement and says actually we totally rescind something WE WROTE AND ADDED TO THE GAME because some people got mad...then I'll call them cucks, and complain.

But as of right now?

As far as I know personally, and assume in my heart... it's neutral.

The lines are probably just bugged. Also, not ALL of them are bugged either, so.

Please stop freaking out, guys.

I am the world's biggest resident durgetash freak, and I'm shrugging at this, and just saying it's a bug.

Don't let it bother you. It's out of your control, regardless.

(And I stress again - if we find out they're legitimately backing away from something they did...they have the spine of a ham sandwich. But until we know that for sure, I won't condemn them for this, because as far as we know, it is legitimately an accident.)

[galedekarios]

Sorry to bother you. You're the most information-gathering blogger I know, and also a true lover of Gale. So, even though I can only use a translator, I still want to join the discussion. Tim did use 'she' to refer to the writer. A Twitter user claims to have seen the writer of Orin and Gale, and I found a writer who seems to fit all these clues. Her profile is:[@sulkymoanyface Murder mommy, wizard wrangler, pigeon fancier. She/Her.] So, perhaps Gale has two writers?

thank you for your message! 🖤

that's very interesting and it might as well be true. from what little we know of the writing process, we do know that some of larian's writers were moved to different parts / characters and/or worked on multiple parts of the story / characters.

what i was able to find as far as writers go was this:

"sarah baylus was at first assumed to be gale’s writer since because she touched on some of the characters more in-depth in this pre-release videos.

she was asked on twitter if she wrote for gale, and she said that she does not and also clarified who gale’s writer is:

“Jan Van Dosselaer. He isn’t on social media, too busy doing wizard things.”

i sadly can’t find the tweet to provide a screenshot for you since her account appears to have been deleted since then. the most i could find is this reddit thread now.

edit:

the other writers are so far as we know may be:

Naaber - Chrystal Ding The Dark Urge - Baudelaire Welch Halsin and Shadowheart - John Corcoran Karlach - Sarah Baylus Minthara - Adam Smith Astarion - Stephen Rooney Wyll, Laezel and Kagha - Kevin VanOrd Gale - Jan Van Dosselaer Alfira and Auntie Ethel - Rachel Quirke"

[voidsentprinces]

Getting into Baldur's Gate 3 for real this time, since i am done with Persona 5 and Darkest Dungeon II. And I have to say, each one of our team mates (whom I've gathered so far) speak like different levels of "I am have been a teacher for X amount of time".

Like...Gale talks like the teacher whose just been in it for like, two years and is still trying not to take sides in arguements. Like: "Well, now...I WILL admit! Jessica did light the classroom on fire. But I am also, fully aware that her parents are going through divorce. With a liitttlle understanding on our part. We can help support her and let this little incident go to bed. Shall we?"

Shadowheart has been at this for at least 1 year and she is already getting reeeeallly tired of everyone's bullshit: "So then, he just LETS Jessica get away with it. This is the SAME girl who graffitied Astarion's Car "Queen Bitch" and cheated on every math test last Spring! I am warning you, Principle Tav. We NEED to keep an eye on her!"

Laezel is the PE teacher who gets really into it but also have tenure so doesn't have to give a fuck: "Now Jessica, imagine your opponent as Ms. Shadowheart as you strike their tennis ball RIGHT INTO THEIR FACE! Bath in the glory of your victory and HOLD NOTHING BACK! SHOW NO MERCY! STRIKE WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH AND LET THE OTHERS COWER BEFORE YOU!"

And then Astarion is the teacher on tenure who has been at this for 50 years and they couldn't fire him, even if they wanted to cause he also taught all of them when they were in High School: "Jessica's just looking for outlet for her emotions, we've all been there and I am just doing my part in pitching in. I let her graffiti my car "Queen Bitch" the other day. VERY theraputic and then I gave her a lighter and told her to "Go to town". And wouldn't you know it? She nearly burnt down the Social Studies classroom. And absolutely INVIGORATING display of her inner emotions. I think she is making VERY good progress--wha...what? Her grades? Oh darling, she's Fs across the board. But honestly, she can do so much better than this school."

Haven't recruited Wyll yet...he ran off after fighting off some goblins. So I'll let you guys know when I know.

[syn0vial]

okay, it's been a full year in helmfall, my bg3 rimworld colony. notes thus far:

so far, there have been hookups between karlach and wyll, astarion and shadowheart, and gale and jaheira (did i mention jaheira is here now?)

astarion is good friends with jaheira. laezel is good friends with wyll and shadowheart (lol)

gale has started to, ah, regain his magical abilities via psycasts :) so far, he can cast word of trust, word of productivity, and fire beam.

wyll and gale regularly cook the meals. astarion is the colony's primary researcher and hunter. halsin, jaheira, and shadowheart tend to the colony's crops and animals. laezel is in charge of construction. karlach does crafting. wyll is the de facto leader.

so far, the colony has a tavern, a kitchen, a farm with goats, horses, and muffalopes, a workshop, a prison, a research center, and a hospital. laezel is working on creating a defensive wall and killbox next :|b

despite the colony and surrounding factions reflecting a medieval fantasy culture and level of technology, sometimes the group stumbles upon the remains of like, an abandoned genetic research facility or whatever, at which point they scrap everything they can and carry the materials home to research/repurpose. which is very fun! i like to imagine the group's reaction to finding like, a cloning gene bank or whatever and scratching their heads as to its purpose.

so far the only serious injury that's befallen anyone is when lae'zel fucking cut off gale's thumb for insulting her fashion sense. in fact, pissing off lae'zel is thus far the greatest danger anyone in the colony currently faces in the rim.

alright, let's see if they can survive year 2!

[forgivenfolly]

doing spectacular this run so far where instead of accidentally romancing astarion i was trying to on purpose romance wyll which i did succeed at while also accidentally romancing astarion again. and laezel. and gale

[wizardtower2]

so! i am playing now. i am only at the start of act ii but i have come to the terrible conclusion that i do like astarion. UNFORTUNATELY. i came around on him not during my main playthrough but while playing my side dark urge hot mess. bc for several hours i only travelled with astarion and i found him like... startlingly compassionate....?! hes like darling. darling are you okay? 😰😰😰 every 5 minutes. its soooo funny for astarion to be the voice of restraint and sanity in the party. he is my wicked kim kitsuragi. however laezel is my #1 fav right now she rules incomparably. i loooooove her va so so much shes a treasure. also laezel is now my main tav's secondmost bestie which shocked me. i thought she and my gith would have more of a rivalry but we don't. we are mostly a very well oiled machine. i love her dearly.

other reviews. i still love gale. his redesign is cute i like that he looks sicker. im pleased with basically all the changes they made to him from early access so far and im glad they cut some of the dialogue they did which i cant really say about wyll sadly.... i still like wyll but i dont feel like i get him yet. part of it is unfortunately that its hard to travel with him due to both of us being bladelocks. i wont give up on my girl though. shadowheart.... basically unchanged feelings. though to be fair i have not gotten far with her quest yet i have no new info. overall she seems quite similar to ea. and karlach. sigh. unfortunately karlach is a character type i do not usually love and so far i do not love her. its arbitrary and cruel... she is so good to me in battle she does so much for my party's survival but i cannot reward her efforts with mine affection. 😔 maybe she will grow on me but i doubt it. we shall see!

[wyrmskulls]

End game spoilers.

Here is what happened for me and how I feel.

I had shit for Charisma as a Monk sooooo I had a rough time with Companions.

1) Wyll broke his contact, we saved his dad, and I made the choice not to go after the Dragon, my thought being- I think we have this without help. let leave the dragon for the next threat. (He was just one line at the docks in the end.... so not sure there. still wanna toss his dad in the harbor ngl)

2) I let Shadowheart make all her own choices. She chose not to kill the Nightsong, she choose for her parents to die. (My partner got her to keep her folks alive in their run.... and that felt better to me. so, oops.) She wasn't at the dock at all in the end weirdly.

3) I always told Karlach to live, I noticed the thing Companions asking for is not the choice they need but the choice they want. So I kept telling her No, bitch you are going to live. Only for her to die on the docks. I at some point started thinking about irl people who want to die thier own way... and I'll admit the thought of begging her to stay instead of just being with her as she died, sounded so selfish to emotional compromised me. (but this still feels really bad)

Those were the 3 of the main 6 not in my party, the whole game. I did pull them into the party for their story's where possible. These 3 had the lowest approvals but they were far from negative.

4)Laezel was hard, she was in my party the whole game but I didn't do the temple/creche by the time I went to go do it, Halsin was threatening to leave the party if we left the Shadowlands. So that all fine, but I really wanted to make it up to her, we got the orphuc hammer but had no way to the prism till the last minute. It was free the prince then or never. We freed him, only for him to get mad we didnt do it sooner. I was like, um, we couldn't break your bonds without the hammer we went to do get. So even your honor gaurd would have failed. Needless to say I was miffed, only to find out we NEEDED an illithad to over power the brain.... and the choice was the prince or me. Sorry bud but it's YOU. So at the end on the dock He gale Laezel his dragon and asked her to free their people and for Tav to kill him. This weird, but again was what laezel said she wanted, in my head such a strong warrior could do worse then becoming the rebel leader, so I let her go. Again it left selfish to ask her to stay while her people suffered, and I was still torn on the asking me to sacrifice Tavs soul for everyone on top of the rest of it.... so not 100% happy here either.

5)Astarion I romanced his ass, and convinced him not only are his siblings and the souls trapped for the ritual like him, but Tav was like them. This felt good at the time... but him running for cover on the docks and everyone being fine with is SUCKED. had a after scene with him, we agreed to look for a way to walk in the light together. it was sweet but my contingency plan was gale annnnd-

6) Gale. I'll admit having an Ex saying kys was like enrageing for me. I was mad, even when Gale wasn't, I was mad cause Gale wasn't. And I held that anger. I think I picked too many 'tell Mystar to fuck herself' options cause that turned quickly into "I want to be a God too" and like, NO Gale. You are a good human, and Gods are NOT people. I like him as people, I would want him or Astarion on a power trip, I like them as they are. So it was upsetting to see Gale continue to be sure he'd take the known for himself. I passed a DC 30 check to try and conive him not to do the thing, only for him on the docks to be like "I'm going fishing for the crown, and I'm disappointed you don't support me" I didn't change my mind.... ((to be fair I've been dressing him in drow camp wear and this

most of act 3.... so I was dressing him for the evil God job he wants the whole time)) I'm the most unhappy about this ending honestly.

yha I could scum save and try to alter it, but I've been trying not to, and this is where I'm at. But now weirdly I'm looking back at Gale and liking him less because of it. He was so helpful in fights and just a joy, but now it feels weirdly like betrayal, like he was pulling an Astarion all along.

I know he wasn't but that's how it feels he feel bad now in a weird way.

that's Mt thoughts firt play through time for a durge run so I can take some more Spoiler tags off lol.

[mintglacier]

Finally finished my first playthrough

Thoughts below

Spoilers ahoy

WOW what a great game like holy fuck. The amount of content and things to do is insane and it's all incredible?? I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it.

Now for the spoilery bits

I didn't go too in depth with a few companion quests and straight out skipped shadowheart's (as in I didn't even put her in my party OR camp) so I think that didn't help with my somewhat lackluster feelings on what happens in act 3. I didn't finish or do astarion's or gale's either, whatever tho

I feel like Orin and gortash were way too easy?? To fight. Like I dunno it wasn't so difficult and I thought it was such a meh fight so when I defeated them there wasn't much feeling of accomplishment.

I HATED that the choice I went with to turn karlach into a mindflayer is basically her good ending, and I get why they made that decision but it just SUCKS there wasn't any other way to save her unless we wanted her to go back to avernus.

I loved freeing Orpheus for laezel's quest but I feel like there could have been a bit more to it when she leaves with him to free her people? I would have loved more intimate dialogue with her or have the option to hug her or her say something to you because she looks so sad as she gets on her dragon ;w;

Wyll's resolution I loved. Literally no complaints to his story or how it ends. He got his closure and reconciled with his father and now will work to rebuild baldurs gate!

And look I love halsin to death but he is such a flat character. I enjoy having him with me but he really doesn't have much to him.

Oh I don't like how u don't really see what happens to ur allies after the fight or what people have to say? When you save the world. It seems like an oversight imo cuz I'd have loved to talk to those u recruit in helping u with the final boss. And I only say it's an oversight because of how meticulous the rest of the game is.

I dunno. Act 3 just didn't hit like act 1 or 2? It feels lackluster. Again, I didn't do EVERYTHING there was to do which ofc is impossible on a first playthrough but somehow...it just didn't feel climactic or rewarding for all the effort you put into killing the netherbrain.

Act 2 by far was the best part, and ketheric thorm was beyond a much more challenging fight with 2 phases to him.

Raphael's fight was good. Challenging but really good and worth the headache.

I think my biggest disappointment is certainly karlach's character tho. It's real sad how dirty they did her and I see why so many people don't like it. Next time I won't turn her into a mindflayer or free Orpheus so we'll see what happens.

Speaking of disappointments tho, the whole thing with the emperor was so BLUH. maybe I just didn't explore enough or learn more about him but the way he immediately goes against you when you free orpheus is so stupid. And orpheus didn't even stop blocking out the absolute's influence when you freed him so the emperor was full of shit. I know it's something about dnd lore where mindflayers are simply evil so it makes sense but gosh damn it why lol

Overall however the game is fan fucking tastic. I'm gonna try and recruit everyone on the next playthrough and take my time in certain areas, especially in act 3 and ofc make different choices.

[sorcerous-caress]

Pallylock anon here again, thanks!! Think the build will come online pretty late but I can always use my beloved punching bag Raphael to see how much damage I can do with crit and vulnerable lol.

Whats your fav class? And do you change the companion's classes in each playthrough?

Oo what's your highest crit so far? It's vanilla base right?

And yes I do! I like making Shadowheart a monk, Karlach a paladin, Astarion the meta doomranger assassin fighter build.

I keep Wyll a warlock, they're just too good to pass on. Laezel stays the same since I can't imagine a world where she isn't wielding a comicly larger than life greatsword.

Gale gets multiclassed into cleric sometimes, i try to keep the wizard ascept. Astarion gets the bard class when I'm not looking for meta.

Druids suck ass- but I didn't have the heart to respec Halsin. I tried, I made him a beefy paladin once but it felt so weird so I immediately changed him back.

I did make Jaheira a cleric of nature tho, I needed a healer.

Minsc was respeced into fighter/barbarian since rangers on their own don't function well

For the class I prefer. If you asked me before playing the game I would've said paladin. I was awestruck in love with the paladin class and concept, would die on the hill that I'd never want to be any other class.

But early acess didn't have paladin at the time, so I picked a random class.

It happened to be Sorcerer. I haven't switched back since.

I wasn't even aware Sorcerers are a class! What have I been missing out on! This is like wizard but much cooler bc the magic is in my blood holy shit that is so sick omfg, a dragon heart? A touch of the fey? A shadow affinity? This class is basically the main character you can't change my mind.

I like magic but I like the concept of you being the magic and not your books or scrolls. Also the idea of being born with something so powerful and being forced to learn to control it or die trying, since at the end of the day its magic who chose the Sorcerer. It sucks to have a predetermined fate and I love that angst.

What about you, anon? Was making a deal with the heavens and hells always your favourite combo? And which classes do you respec the companions to?

[kimmkitsuragi]

okay my comments:

firstly FUCK MIZORA i really thought this would be a more important moment....... and we couldnt even save wyll's father lmao really a flop mission for wyll, but at least i dont feel too guilty for not having him w me 😭 i didnt knowwww you cant go to camp after that point lmao

i hope mol is alive, and where tf did zevlor go????? i saved him and now he's not at moonrise...

ketheric thorm is SUCH a great villain damn!!!!!!!! the voice acting obv adds a lot but his backstory and relationship with isobel and aylin is soooooo fun

also, i totally understand now why u guys are crazy over enver gortash LMAO he looks like such a fun character :) i really enjoyed him in that cut scene

gale did NOT blow himself up yayyyy and after the fight, he wanted to talk. so i assumed he wanted to talk about This. but nooooo he was like i have PLANS i have ideas let's get this incredibly powerful thing and learn how to control it- 💀 i mean... my bro is going thru a manic episode after nearly killing himself fr... and bro like... we literally just went thru 2 boss fights back to back we were nearly dying.... WE KILLED A GOD.... chill for a minute please (said endearingly btw he's the funniest character for doing all that)

talking about gods, my party is now enemies with 3 gods :) this is fine surely. we cant fail whatever the hell is waiting for us :)

aylin and isobel goddddd i get it i get it you guys have the most epic romance of all time. damn. i loved that story as well!!!! soooo cool so fun so tragic and sweet... i wonder if we will keep seeing these characters in later game too because i really like them

but, my girl aylin couldnt help me much when we were fighting a god 💀 girl why did u dieeeee i even tried saving her but then she died again lmao i was really counting on her because like 💀 we are fighting a GOD i mean it's a god avatar but it's a GOD so like. what can i even do. at first, i even thought this was not gonna be a whole combat (ie there will be a cutscene after some point) because are u kidding meeee im just a mere ranger why am i fighting the god of death or whatever???? dang. but miraculously, i beat both of these bosses in my first try lmao. lots and lots of potions lost tho rip

ALSO halsin was at the moonrise too and honest to god i FORGOR that this was his mission too lmaooo i was like bro why are u here???? it was really like a big season finale where every character meets at the same goal lmaooo and he was coming onto me STRONGLY i mean bro is now the time??? also im a taken man pls 💀 im genuinely crying because my mood was generally like "bro why is everyone on my throat rn i just went through a traumatic fight what the hell" when i was in moonrise after the fight lmao. maybe that's the 4am effect too but i was shakennn i was REALLY into roleplaying at that moment

btw I've seen some people say that act 2 is the weakest and honestly??? i had so much more fun than act 1 i think. the story slaps way more harder, all the characters are so EPIC, all the settings and designs go offfffff, we can recruit jaheira!!!! etc etc it was really crazy. i would say everything after the nightsong reveal has been the highlight of my game so far!

now i still have the dialogues to go thru at the camp, and i dont know if act 2 will officially end after this, but im so exciteddddd to see where this will go. before venturing forth, i gotta resupply stuff and sort my equipments because i got GOOD STUFF but i didnt have the opportunity to really organize who will get what lol. so get my mess of a party together before venturing forth etc etc. WE DONT EVEN HAVE COORDINATED CLOTHING ANYMORE. the agony. the embarrassment. this is so important to me guys you dont even know. also wanna leave shart for a while if she doesn't have any important stuff immediately, i wanna take back karlachhhhhhh :((( also wyll too at some point! but also laezel too lmao i miss them all

that's all i can think of rn hope i didnt forgor many things because so many important things happened back to back lmao

ps. it was so funny to leave astarion at camp for this i was like. may i get a goodbye and good luck kiss 🥺 jsjehdhhff

GOD it's 4.30am and this was such a SEASON FINALE of a gaming session WHAT THE FUCK?????? i absolutely adored thisssss and i have many many comments but. it's 4.30am. lol. hopefully i wont forget them all in the morning

[sorcerous-caress]

would astarion dare to bite were!shart? if he did manage to bite her how would her blood taste?

I remember reading something before about how Vampires can't drink the blood of other supernatural creatures since it gives them no nourishment. It sits like poison in their stomachs and they have to force themselves to throw it up.

Also about how Vampire bites can be toxic to Werewolves.

I like going with the first one since it puts emphasis on the fact, it's not just blood that Vampires feed from, but the force of life itself. Non supernatural creatures are life in its purest forms, that's why other creatures are after their blood/souls/names/eyes etc.

I think it would be the equivalent to fast food for us, it tastes like food but it's empty calories that will never fill you up. So Astarion would enjoy the taste of Shadowheart's blood but at the end of the day he'll just be as weak and thirsty.

Would Shadowheart let him bite her? Probably not. And that's normal Shadowheart, werewolf Shadowheart would be much more aggressive and against the idea.

If honestly pushed to their limits, I think only Gale, Wyll, Halsin and Karlach would let him bite them out of the "kindness" of their own heart.

Shadowheart, Laezel and Minthara are far too cautious and skeptical to do it.