#if karlach is gideon shadowheart is harrow

[ivypond11]

i love karlach so much because she reminds me of gideon. buff dumb women with a heart of gold

[kosalus]

combining the two things im obsessed with bc the brainworms are real bad

[lucklessrat]

At last….they are complete

The logical conclusion of my decision to play bg3 and re-read gideon the ninth at the same time.

Included closeups without face paint because i was very sad to cover up karlach’s cute little freckle

[pi-seas]

Harrow the Ninth and Shadowheart would be besties, I think.

In that same vein, Gideon and Karlach would demolish a building together.

[chilly-weirdo-in-a-tomb]

To be clear, I will (probably) not be writing any of these fics.

[facsimile-tech]

i know it's not a perfect comparison but i would like to crowdsource some affirmations that karlach and shadowheart are, as individuals, not in terms of canon relationships, gideon and harrow analogs

this is the only way i will convince my wife (gay, would kill and die for tragic lesbians) to play baldur's gate and our adopted grown-up child (also gay, so deeply into shadowheart that on VK her tav is understood to be shart's canon girlfriend) to read tlt or at the very least listen to audiobooks

please help me save my family from themselves

[cpericardium]

Question for your gf: does Harrowhark scratch the same itch as Shadowheart?

"I would say no. Shadowheart is hornier and less crazy and far more at peace with her atrocities. Shadowheart is a blorbo, Harrowhark is kind of a blob. A layer cake does not scratch the same itch as a jello. also, harrow can land a hit with HER spells. HOW is it so impossible to hit a demon with Sacred Flame, Shadowheart??????"

A BLOB? How dare you. How dare you

[zevranunderstander]

making that last post i realized how well you can read gideon / ianthe dialogue in karlach's and astarions voice respectively

[gideonstinylegs]

omg ianthe is astarian

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[net-banshee]

has anyone made Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus as Karlach and Shadowheart yet. cuz I think Gideon deserves an axe and Harrow deserves a weird little D20.

[sky-scribbles]

The Karlach/Gideon Nav comparisons have sunk deep into my brain at this point, so I think it's about time I laid out my Locked Tomb AU thoughts. Because there are some very fun necro & cavaliar pairings to find among the tadfools and their supporting cast:

For the Second House, we have an obvious cavalier: Lae'zel, trained for the frontlines since hatching, ready to march to war for her Emperor god-queen even if she doesn't know why. Her necromancer is harder to pin down - it could be Shadowheart for the Harrow and Gideon vibes, but I want to use Shadowheart elsewhere. Ghustil Sturnugoss could work, perhaps - until Lae'zel starts to see through the lies she's been raised on...

The Third House smacks of nobility and charm, so my gut says Wyll is our cavalier - yes, he's a spellcaster, but he's the Blade of Frontiers. He wields a rapier; he's Wyll, the protecor. He's asking to be a cavalier. As for his necromancer, the person he's bound to serve, to die for... well, I guess it has to be Mizora, who has plenty of Third charisma herself. Not all cavaliers serve willingly.

We have a much more stable duo for the Fourth: Isobel and Aylin! Isobel is a cleric, made for warding and guarding just like Isaac, and Aylin has a very Fourth House-esque tendency to, as Gideon put it 'charge in headfirst and get all crazy'.

The Fifth house are tricky. They're spirit-speakers, so Withers is the obvious choice, but who's his cavalier? An aged-up Arabella? But she feels more like a necromancer to me, so I landed on an alternative: put an actual spirit into the necromancer role, and make it Thaniel. And have his protector be Halsin, who could fill Magnus's surrogate dad role quite nicely. (Rumour has it that not only does Halsin the Fifth wield knuckle-knives, he carried two knuckles and has a tendency to chuck his rapier away and just slash at you like a bear.)

Gale 'which way to the nearest library?' Dekarios is just begging to be the necromancer of the Sixth House - he even has a House-esque surname, though we'd have to change it so he doesn't sound like he comes from some nonexistent Tenth House (Hekarios? Sextarios?) And if his cavalier is someone who'll remain at his side through thick and thin, protect him from the world and from himself... I guess I have no choice but to make Tara a tabaxi and give her a sword. She deserves it.

I confess to drawing a blank for a really fitting match for the Seventh, so for lack of a better place to put them, let's make it Jaheira and Minsc, since Minsc pretty much sees himself as her cavalier in canon anyway. I suppose if you spec Jaheira as a Spores druid, she does at least have the 'walking corpse' thing down.

The cavalier of the Eighth House is another forced into service: Astarion, serving his necromancer Cazador. He's been trained to be his necro's resource, not his equal; he exists for Cazador to draw on and suck dry. He owns nothing but his sword (and unlike Colum, he doesn't even have his honour; it was tortured out of him long ago.)

And finally, Shadowheart as the Ninth House necromancer - a young acolyte raised in an underground cloister among those who worship silence, darkness and loss; her own memory betraying her, loving her order despite the fact that it has broken her again and again. With her cavalier, Karlach, who just wants to get out of her indentured service already and to be given back her fucking longsword.

[phemiec]

karlach/shadowheart = gideon/harrow the vibes are identical

[dwarfsized]

people I want to know better ❤️

1. Favorite Ships

Karlach/Shadowheart/Wyll (bg3)

Astarion/Wyll (bg3)

Jester/Caleb (critical role)

Gideon/Harrow (the locked tomb)

2. First Ship

I think. maybe this was Luke/Lorelai in Gilmore Girls?

3. Last Song

spotify says it was Ends of the Earth by Lord Huron but Ive had Hot to Go stuck in my head for days

4. Last Movie

Midsommar movie date 💕

5. Currently Reading

I'm rereading Gideon the Ninth!

6. Currently Watching

Theoretically I'm watching Black Sails. In that I keep saying to myself, Leetle, we are watching Black Sails. in practical terms I think I'm watching Father Brown or something because that's what's usually on the living room TV while I'm sewing

7. Currently Craving

I had a pimento cheese and bacon sandwich on tomato basil bread recently and it was soooo good and I want to have one again immediately.

Tagged by the wonderful @aevallare so I will tag @starrycereal and @again-please and @kittenintheden

[angelumcaedis]

I think Gideon from TLT and Karlach from BG3 would get along well. They can have a push-up contest with their respective goth gfs (Harrow and Shadowheart) judging.

[gidianthe]

karlach is gideon coded and shadowheart is harrow coded and this is why the game should let me romance both of them

[chilly-weirdo-in-a-tomb]

So I’ve seen Harrow as Shadowheart fanart, but I don’t think I’ve seen any Gideon as Karlach art and I’d like to rectify that. Could anyone point me in that general direction?