#maybe it won't show up in BG3 anymore

[loveleetoons]

Looking at stats on Steam. It looks like only 52.5% of players have made it out of Act 1 of BG3. Since the game's full release in August I've been doing everything I can to avoid spoilers. Which sucks cause I really want to see BG3 fanart and people's Tavs/Durges . But I had to stop following a few art accounts that reblog other peeps' arts cause they didn't tag spoilers nor BG3. I dunno. I'm not trying to make a grand statement. I guess Ill try to mark spoilers and I hope more peeps mark spoilers.

[rafumeika]

Omg Warlock!Yuuji with Patron!Sukuna sounds amazing, do you have any more bg3 au ideas???

Oh boy do I have more ideas, I've been thinking about a Baldur's Gate 3 AU since I finished my first playtrhough (I'm currently on my fifth)

I mainly have ideas about Yuji, Megumi, Gojo and Geto so I'm gonna share those

Yuji, as I've said, would be a warlock with Sukuna as his patron, I think that, much like in canon, he made a pact with him so that he could have the power to protect someone and he doesn't regret making the pact because it makes him able to fight and help those in need, but he definitely hates Sukuna himself

Also I know in bg3 the Flaming Fists are the city guards and it's the entire group's name, but I love the idea of having Yuji in this AU being known as the "Flaming Fist" sort of like Wyll is the "Blade of Frontiers", maybe he could start out with monk as his primary class (I've played a monk in my second playthrough and my God I loved punching everyone) and later on become a warlock because of Sukuna

For Megumi the obvious choice would be for him to be a wizard with the Ten Shadows being the various familiars he can summon through the find familiar spell, but I also love the idea of him being a druid with the Ten Shadows being his available wild shapes (and I also love the idea of him gaining access to spells like animal friendship, speak with animals and dominate beast)

Specifically, I think he should be a druid of the Circle of the Moon since they're more specialized in wild shaping and gain access to combat wild shape, which I think would suit him quite well

Gojo and Geto I have to put them together, of course I do, and they were actually the first characters I got an idea about when I started thinking about this AU

Just imagine: Satoru as a cleric of Selûne and Suguru as a cleric of Shar, both their Deities' chosen ones and destined to be enemies

They met the first time when they were fairly young and somehow ended up falling in love despite everything, meeting in secrets for years without ever telling anyone, until one day Shar finds out and takes away Suguru's memories of Satoru (sort of like how she does with Shadowheart about her parents). Satoru doesn't know at first, how could he? He only knows that Suguru stopped showing up at their usual spot to meet up, and when they do somehow end up meeting later on... Well. Suguru doesn't remember him anymore. Satoru is just another enemy in the midst of many others

I could very well envision Satoru trying everything he can to give Suguru back his memories, but every time he gets too close to getting his Suguru back Shar intervenes and renders all his attempts null. She doesn't want to risk losing her chosen one after all, especially not to a follower of her sister

Maybe they'd eventually get a happy ending, maybe they won't, I haven't thought that far out yet but they're definitely stuck in this constant loop of Satoru trying his hardest until Suguru almost gets his memories back before Shar gets in the way

I haven't thought much about other characters tbh but Maki could definitely be a battle master fighter Lae'zel-style, and maybe Panda could also be a druid but of the Circle of the Land unlike Megumi who's part of the Circle of the Moon

Also Mahito is definitely a follower/the chosen of Bhaal Orin-style, I think it'd fit him pretty well

And that's all the ideas I've had so far for this AU! Hope you liked them 🤗

[natalie-the-chimera]

Snake appreciation month: AU (Part one)

I got hooked pretty badly by Baldur's Gate 3 recently, so here is my BG3 AU (it turned out pretty big so there will be two parts)

Selik Aleantilthar was born in Evereska - a secreted elven city, hidden from the rest of the world. A sudden eclipse happened during that, and for someone it could be a bad omen but for elves it was a sign of Erevan Ilesere — a trickster god of Seldarine (elven pantheon), also known as "The Chameleon" or "The Evershifting Shapechanger". So, Selik's parents didn't pay much attention to that, thinking that their child will be cunning and good at deception or maybe become a future priest of Erevan. Well...they weren't wrong about the first part.

Strange things began to happen since his childhood. High elves carry some fae magic in them, being able to cast small spells like fire bolts or dancing lights even if they aren't mages. Selik... could do none. Nothing, no matter how loud he chanted spells or moved his hands or drew sigils. Like there wasn't any magic in him at all. His parents and everyone else were shocked, hoping that his magic is just sleeping and maybe will show up later. "Tomorrow" turned into "Next week, month, year, decade"... Until they finally gave up when Selik turned 50 which was still a very young age for an elf. He was left to train with weapons and getting into the army when all he wanted was to see the world he heard so much about from outsiders who had the permition to enter Evereska or from books he liked to read.

Then...the troubles came. First were nightmares: dreams of a giant beast, roaring and causing carnage. Then came the aggression, Selik's fighting style became more violent, savage even, leaping on his opponents like a feral beast, trying to bite them and draw blood. And finally, his eyes started turning yellow, his nails turning into claws and green scales were showing on his face and body. Of course everyone, especially Selik and his parents were scared shitless. They knew that there were no dragons or serpent folk in their family so that surely was some kind of curse. Or demons. Or, the worst of all, their child could turn out a Bhaalspawn - a living creature with blood of Bhaal, the vicious god of Murder, in their veins. So, another 50 years Selik is taken to the shrines, temples, priests, coming to Evereska, but they can't see anything related to demonic possession or Bhaal's influence.

As decades passed, Selik couldn't take it anymore. Even if everyone pretended that they won't turn away from him, he still felt like an outsider. A High elf who can't do any magic, has severe anger issues, snake eyes and a forked tongue... Maybe he really was cursed. Maybe even by Erevan himself. Why? Who knows, maybe that day the Trickster was just not in the mood. So, as soon as he turns 100, when an elf is considered an adult among their kin, Selik decides to leave the Evereska to find answers to his questions and maybe a cure to his condition. He takes a new name — "Cedric Highmight", more comfortable and easy to pronounce for non-elves, joins groups of adventurers, caravans, traiders, trying to earn gold as a mercenary, but doesn't stay long with anyone, afraid that they will turn away after finding out about his ugly secret. When he hears about Baldur's Gate — a large city on the Sword Coast, full of possibilities, he decides to move there, hoping to find a more stable job where he will use his silver tongue than sword, than risking his life killing monsters and protecting caravans, and find out more about his scaley problem. But when he was on his way to the Gate, he was abducted by mindflayers whose ship then crashed on an unknown shore. Luckly (or not), not alone.

And so his adventure in the "band of infected freaks" begins.

[apaleflame]

bg3 post epilogue slide show that exists in my imagination: [spoilers]

shadowheart and psymáre use their copious riches they collected during their adventure to buy some property in rivington, they have a house built for shadowheart’s parents and another for themselves. scratch and the owlbear cub have tons of room outside to run around and play!

funny idea popped into my head that psymáre should take over ownership of sorcerers sundries since it’s previous owner, uh, tragically died

im not sure where precisely astarion is living (maybe he also buys himself a house with all the gold we picked up) (also like, with cazador gone... who owns the szarr estate? maybe the gang pulls some legal strings so that astarion becomes the new owner, then he auctions off all of cazador's shit, and now has a ton of money. then oops the mansion burns to the ground. hooray insurance fraud!) but psymáre visits him often because they are friends. in her free time she’s researching ways for him to be able to walk in the sun again.

gale returns to waterdeep after retrieving the broken crown pieces from the river and returning them to mystra. psymáre’s roped him into her “helping astarion walk in the sun” project. she goes to visit him in waterdeep after everything at home for her has settled down and gets a grand tour of the city. they use magic skype to talk to each other when psymáre goes back to baldur's gate because they are wizard besties

wyll is in avernus, and so is karlach for the moment (a lot of players (including me) are disappointed that there's no way to give her a real happy ending, despite all the threads in act 3 that hint that there should have been a way, so... this might change pending future content updates) so unfortunately they don't see each other very much in person anymore :( but psymáre's a very smart wizard and makes magic skype work between planes so they can still catch up. i imagine she'd have a chat with barcus about potentially getting the iron hand gnomes and their new gondian allies to work on a solution to karlach's case

it seems like lae'zel and the gang permanently part ways after she returns to the astral plane, and I wish there had been a slightly longer goodbye scene with her if you had very high or exceptional approval with her. in my mind hers and psymáre's parting was a lot more like morrigan and the warden's friendship parting in da:o "i knew nothing of friendship before i met you, live well my friend, live gloriously". psymáre really didnt like lae'zel when she first met her and was surprised by how much she came to value their friendship (like... she only stole the hammer from raphael & freed orpheus because lae'zel asked her too. braving a devil's lair so you can free a guy who might just kill you when you release him for your friend is pretty ride-or-die, in my eyes). maybe they will meet again one day! i hope they will. psymáre's a high elf and still has many centuries of life left ahead of her, and in the astral plane lae'zel won't age, so who can say!

since jaheira lives in baldur's gate, that means they're neighbours and would still see each other! i dont see psymáre becoming a harper herself, but she'd be allied with them, certainly. jaheira goes home to her family and has a well deserved break from apocalyptic fuckery. also that reverse aging scroll jaheira has in her basement... psymáre's a high elf and is 370 years old, so she might expect to live another 400 years or so, whereas shadowheart... isn't going to live that long (elves live on average about 750 years, but half-elves only about between 128-180 years) ... maybe jaheira gives the scroll and her research to them, since she decided she wasnt going to use it?

(now ive made myself sad thinking about how all of astarion's friends are eventually going to die of old age :( maybe the "walking in the sun" fix will be to cure him of vamparism? this would be a good century or two into the future though, probably. give him plenty of time to decide if that what he wants or not. also plenty for psymáre to learn how to cast wish or find a scroll of true resurrection)

in halsin's romance ending he tell you that he's going to help the refugees and orphaned children start new lives in the now shadow curse-free lands, so obviously he's still gong to be doing that. i cant decide whether or not yenna goes with him or if psymáre and shadowheart adopt her lmao but i definitely think that they'd drop by and say hello whenever they're able. and im sure shadowheart would like to see moonrise towers back to its former glory!

i recruited minsc really late into act 3 so i didnt get to know him very well but i assume post-game that he's doing just fine i dont have any further thoughts on him lmao

[shinra-makonoid]

It fucking sucks tbh. I can't really explain but it feels like I'm falling into the same trap again and again and again and again and I never learn the lesson. I wish I could be frank with him, but what good would it do really. He's basically a Hikikomori except when he comes out to go to some event in which he's cosplaying or listening to Imagine Dragons concert. And love doesn't really cure extreme agoraphobia nor social phobias.

Even then, I don't think I'd be good enough.

I think it's painful for the both of us.

It's strange because the last time I went to see him and all, it was pretty chill on my side, but I think it's because I was basically guarded. Like "he won't make any effort whatsoever anyway so you don't have to feel like he cares about you." I had absolutely no expectation. It's easier that way because then there's no real love story behind anything. We're just buddies chilling watching gay TV shows together. Like I know it's dumb, but that was like this. And then I ran out of shows, said "Well if you have shows you'd like to watch we can watch them! I basically gave you all of the ones I love these days." And he answered something like "idk really." I thought "A bummer, he doesn't do any effort that I can see like usual, but it's not a big deal" and then went on my daily life.

But then.

He just comes back 3 months later, apologizes, says he got caught on cosplays for a convention and how he didn't have any social battery because so many things were happening. That he didn't like how he worded his last message to me but didn't dare to clarify. He apologizes again.

And so there, it's like "Damn he made an effort, he came to me, expressed himself to me, apologized and all." And so, it's just not buddies anymore, it's "Oh look, he's being cute" and he shows the pictures and he's still gorgeous too, very modest, and it's like all those years again. I feel like I'm good enough, that he loves and accepts me like no one else, I want to protect him and care for him. I like myself with him. I realize that I only want him, I make plans with him, watching shows, maybe play BG3, he says yes, he'll just have to make a schedule because a lot of people play with him. "Don't worry, we don't need to play if your schedule is too tight. Here there's that movie I think you'd like we could watch." I suddenly have some expectations of things being planned, of me talking with him, maybe playing with him, sharing some time with him. I hope.

Then he doesn't answer anymore. After one day, I remember the disaster and the tragedy that was our relationship before. The resentment that built from all those years where my needs were simply not met. The time I screamed at him IRL and showed him the door. The last time I saw him. The dysfunctions. The anxiety. The pain.

I wish I could just... Forget about it, forgive myself. Let go of that resentment that's still there, after all those years, of things he couldn't help. Forgive him.

I wish I could possess him as a revenge, force him to play the lost fantasy in my head, of what it should have been. My delusions. Force him to enjoy it, to smile and love me no matter what. Even if I destroyed him. I guess I haven't really forgave him. I am jealous. I would lose my shit if I learnt he had someone after me that he kissed or saw more than he saw me. Because it would hurt so much. I feel as shitty and petty as I used to, but I actually have more self-knowledge to understand that I'm just hurt.

Uuuugh processing feelings.

Maybe I'll talk about it with him, we're more grown up than were used to, and probably wiser. But it would probably unecessarily hurt him so... Who knows what I'll do. I don't want him to feel like shit because I have feelings. I just wish I could forget.

I know he's probably gonna answer after a few days, he did say he had a tight schedule after all, but it's all the dramatic feelings that are still there today. And I don't think anyone can really understand what it is like so I'm just babbling on an anonymous blog. Please ignore.

Me: *minds my own business*

The ex I was in love with for years : *comes and apologizes for not talking more with me these past months*

Me: *immediate feelings of love and flirts a tiny bit*

He showed me pictures of his cosplay of Zevran and he's literally perfect. Even after all these years my heart skips a beat and all that stuff. It's really dumb. Mind you I think I was too vague for him to understand when I told him "I'm a little bit in love" when he showed the picture of his cosplay. Or he pretends to, I guess. Ugh I hate that it hurts. It's been what??? 5 or 6 years now? Why is this still happening.