#meanwhile I just quietly romanced Shadowheart

[morose-magnetrix]

My brother and I finished our BG3 playthrough today. He had the most interesting time with the romance lmao

His goal: woo Astarion

It doesn’t seem to be going well, but in early act 3/ late act 2, Withers tells him he has a bosom companion! Yay!

Astarion refuses to do the love test with him.

It’s Gale. He’s been assigned Gale by the game.

He sleeps with Mizora.

He sleeps with the Emperor.

He tells Gale to take a hike and go figure out the orb in his chest when we get to the end. Astarion, who has never reciprocated his feelings, runs off. And then my brother goes with Karlach to Avernus.

We have the epilogue, he talks with Astarion - the subtext is definitely reading as “I’m with Karlach now aren’t you jealous?”

Gale is still just standing there, presumably confused. But now a professor.