#if nobody else got dirge i know u got dirge ✊💯

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2. Is your OC a loner or a social butterfly? Are they satisfied with how they come across to other people?

in his pre tadpole days dirge THOUGHT he was a loner (and successfully came off as such) but he rly craves connection. he needs a small group of people to regularly interact with or else he starts experiencing shrimp color mental illness symptoms. but he rly rly is NOT a social butterfly because if he has to talk to more than 7 people in a day hes just going to start killing mfs. unfortunately his charisma score is stacked and hes quite good at casual meaningless interaction with an endless slew of NPCs so most people tend to perceive post tadpole dirge as one even if it makes him want to invent new warcrimes.

3. What is your OC's financial status? Are they just scraping by, making enough to live comfortably, or wealthy? Has there ever been a drastic change in their status? If so, what happened?

Dirge starts off stably impoverished with his adopted parents, before having a brief homeless stint with Sceleritas post The Incident, and then gets roped into Nepo Baby status once Sarevok dumps all his bank accounts into Dirges name so he doesnt have to manage payroll anymore. A good chunk of his life involved him being TECHNICALLY wealthy, but youd just never know it based on how he lives. Hes fairly comfortable with the scavenging nomadic lifestyle the party has to adapt for the plot of BG3 (and quite good at it if my never ending camp supplies has anything to say for it), but those temple bank accounts ARE still open in his name so hes technically still loaded? By the epilogue, where disability related circumstances force Minthara into making arrangements to settle into Baldur's Gate properly, hes still Upper City rich but only now has the housing to reflect it, since you know ms baenre is NOT settling for anything less than a manor as befitting her status and properly honors her partners position as a godspawn. Dirge rarely makes use of this except to source exotic alchemical reagents and to help stock an evil necromancy basement to import biological material to create chimerical abominations since Jaheira very nicely asked for him to not pull that serial killer shit in her city while shes still around. also itd make karlach sad.

overall he basically just lives like hes still paycheck to paycheck despite both him and minthara having access to stupid amounts of cash due to inheritance and excellent financial skills (casual reminder he does taxes), and is fairly resistant to changes in financial status because he just isnt that materialistic

5. Does your OC have a signature weapon and/or attack? How long did they train to master it?

Dirge USED to be a dual daggers main, using Stillmaker and Bloodthirst, and that skillset was built up alongside his general assassin repetoire during his younger years being indoctrinated into the cult, so in addition to a general proficiency with small arms combat, dirge took around a decade or so to really hit his stride with the daggers thatd become his trademark (definitely longer than orin took to reach a similar point in skill).

Post tadpole, in game he uses mostly staves alongside magic but hes actually more of a hand to hand kind of person. His signature is a closerange eldritch blast, usually as part of a combo and typically against a surface like a wall or pillar so that the rebound bounces you back into range. Essentially a punch is accentuated by an eldritch blast as it connects, with the knockback being exploited to slam targets into a surface hard enough to bounce them back into range, since as any warlock main knows you can start nailing them with 3,4,5 hits in a turn.

When the Urge overwhelms him, he goes fully feral and foregoes weapons entirely, opting to instead use natures gifts and utilize his claws and teeth on opponents instead, and thats all instintive bhaalspawn behavior for him, no training necessary. He typically aims for easily punctured vitals, but if both hands are occupied hes not above using his teeth to tear or crunch as necessary. Anyone present for the siege at moonrise was treated to a lovely view of dirge sinking his claws into the mortared stone to haul ass up to the rafters to tear archers limb from limb before pouncing from on high to rend a cultist into a fine red paste before lunging into the adjacent room on all fours like some kind of hellhound. In game he got the highest killcount out of all four party members AND jaheira so he isnt really leaving any leftovers for others to pick off (astarion got second. lmao)