#my current durge is closest to Halsin

[murdasblog]

Feeling the urge (heh) to talk about my Durge playthrough in BG3. It's my current playthrough and I'm feeling very attached to her.

This is Amelia. She's a high elf wild magic sorcerer. She is resisting the Urge and is becoming very attached to her people.

Shadowheart is the person she considers her closest friend of the group. She feels a kinship with relation to the whole missing memories thing and Shadowheart was the first to stick with her after the Nautiloid.

She's romancing Gale. It's still early, they just met Elminster, but she's been head over heels for the wizard since pretty early. She likes his intelligence, drive, and humor. He was the first person she trusted enough to tell about her urges. She looked to him in the beginning to help nudge her moral compass in the right direction.

She is very fond of all the others as well. Astarion was very cold with her to start but now she enjoys teasing him and they get along well. She respects Lae'zel and admires her resolve and strength. She admires Wyll's ability to know what is right and his drive to fight to help whomever he can. Karlach was the last to join the group but Amelia really enjoys her positivity and is also coming to rely on her moral compass. Karlach eventually starts calling her Meli and eventually the whole group does as well.

Halsin hasn't been with them too long, but she respects him and really appreciates his perspective with regards to her urges.

She is enjoying having Scratch and the Owlbear Cub around camp.

So far her favorite place was the mountain pass, I mean, look at that view! She was less enthralled by the locals. But the view was worth it!

Favorite wild magic surge was when the whole party were turned into dogs, except for Gale who was a cat😂

We're finishing up things in the Underdark, so that's about where she is for now. Thanks if you made it this far!

[crossdressingdeath]

*cracks knuckles* alright, character development asks for your boy: 6, 8, 11, 19, 29, 30. -@veilkeeper

(The character development asks)

6: What companion are you platonically close with? In my first run Kyvir was closest to Gale (I don't know what I did with him, but his approval skyrocketed so fast) but I'm currently going back and forth between him and Wyll in terms of story. The dynamic of the monster and the monster hunter is sososososo good, and the idea of Kyvir's closest friend learning he's Bhaalspawn and responding with "Well, that explains a lot" and everything after refusing Bhaal where Wyll's just incredibly proud of you... good shit. Also, daddy issues gang. But also the angst of Kyvir's best friend learning what he did in the past and barely being able to look at him, Gale's dialogue at the inauguration is so much... I genuinely haven't decided, I'm gonna go through their dialogue more carefully this run. Maybe it starts as Gale and then switches to Wyll in act 3 just from Gale taking the whole Absolutist thing so incredibly badly and then getting kidnapped before they can hash that out...? I don't know, much to think about. (I also considered Karlach but the whole Gortash thing was just. too much angst. tone it down like 5%.)

8: Who are they suspicious of? I don't know if suspicious is the right word, but he's the most distrustful of Wyll at first. Both because he can't believe anyone is as perfect as Wyll appears to be and because for some reason monster hunters get his hackles up. It would've been Astarion or Lae'zel if it wasn't for Astarion failing so hard at pretending he's not a vampire that Kyvir didn't even notice he was trying to hide it (he fully just thought Astarion was sensitive about it and so didn't bring it up) and both him and Lae'zel being really quite up-front about how they're not the greatest people. Shadowheart a little bit because she's so obviously lying her ass off before admitting she worships Shar, but also she's really obvious so he's not that worried. He's also suspicious of Jaheira when she first joins up because the Urge doesn't like her and this is a little before he realizes what's actually going on with that; he would have been distrustful of Minsc too, but Jaheira vouched for him and by that point Kyvir trusted her to at least not stab him in the back for no reason, so that was fine.

11: Weapon of choice? In this run mostly warhammers (specifically Faithbreaker and Ketheric's warhammer), and Nyrulna in act 3 (glowing trident go brrrrrrrrr), but since I intend to reclass him as a bard he won't be able to do that anymore. So that kind of remains to be seen. (Definitely giving him Orin's sword in act 3, though.)

19: How do you think they'll meet they're end? I remain convinced that redeemed Durge is fully immortal because Jergal won't let them die, so... what end? More seriously, if he does die it'll be in a dramatic battle against a grand force, the sort of fight that the bards will sing of for a thousand years! ...Or possibly he'll get stabbed in a back alley because he can't not be a little shit even when he really, really shouldn't. But probably Astarion and Halsin won't let that happen.

29: Does your Tav want to utilize the tadpole powers or not? Kyvir's head is quite messed up enough as it is, thank you very much. He is not touching the tadpole powers. Also, even aside from the "Hey, I don't need more brain damage" situation the Emperor's non-illithid disguise is juuuuuuuuust off-model enough (thanks to all the brain damage keeping the Emperor from getting a good look in his head) that it sets off some alarm bells for him so he was never going to trust the guy enough to start messing with the tadpoles anyway.

30: What's your favorite thing about your Tav? ...Hm. My favourite thing? Well, it's a bit basic, but I love the "pretending to care while not caring at all can get you far in life, but watch out" thing he's got going on. Enough of his life pre-amnesia stuck with him that he doesn't want to get near anyone, but his companions are all such messes that he can't not. In general I'm having a lot of fun playing with Kyvir's memories and how much he remembers the lessons they taught him even with the memories themselves gone, but mostly my favourite thing right now is the "defrosting ice king but no one realizes because he's really good at pretending to be super friendly" bit he's pulling off throughout most of the story by virtue of being one of the only members of this party with decent charisma, at least in act one. ...Also all the Durgetash posting he's inspiring but that's only partially related to him.

[abyssalaerlocke]

Frogs

So not on the current aquatic poll are Jaheira, Minsc & Boo.

I'm thinking gold Grung for Jaheira. Grung are small frog humanoids that secrete poison. The gold ones are leaders, and their poison specifically can charm — which is closest to Jaheira's truth wine.

Minsc, I kinda like Sahuagin, cause they're cool, and I don't have any planned. They're normally evil, but maybe Minsc has too much head trauma for that kind of malevolence? There's also a four-armed variant 🤔

Boo, I want to make a miniature version of a giant animal (since miniature giant space hamsters were made with magic, and it's theorised that shrinking them is what causes their increased intelligence). Something naturally small, cute, innocuous. I'm waffling between seahorse and frog.

If I do frog, they have a relationship with bullywugs, who can communicate with frog species. So then I'm considering making Minsc a Bullywug and just having the 3 in a froggy family portrait (funny, but lame). Although typically evil, those that stray from the group, and explore and live among other races are known to become neutral or good.

My biggest issue is in terms of relevance. I abandoned the writing and just plan on drawing the character designs. And these wouldn't meaningfully be recognisable as their characters anymore. You could just look at existing art of the races and ta-da, that's them! 🙃

The other less human ones are Tav as a squidling — but Tav doesn't have a defined look to recognise in the first place. It's just a fun — hey, here's this silly little cute monster, Astarion's unexpected buddy, both fish out of water, getting up to mischief together.

Durge as a lizardfolk, but he'll be albino, and recognisable as the default dragonborn.

And shark Halsin — but it's mostly about Shadowheart being scared of sharks. Also, considering making him a wereshark, which have hybrid forms 🤔 I dunno, feels weird to draw

I also like him having a dolphin form, but still in addition to the shark form (which is relevant especially in that pic). Weredolphin would suit him better, but just wild shaping into a shark as a druid.