#npcs only i care about

[moeblob]

What if I straight up didn't explain myself? What if I just said trust me on this? Would you?

[shalomniscient]

natlan 5.1 was batshit insane but i won't deny cookery when i see it. last 1/3 of the archon quest is just brilliantly done in my opinion, from writing to level design to soundtrack. just genuine excellence

[pocketgalaxies]

okay no bc i agree w you on this. there’s too much Plot happening AROUND the pcs right now that’s just the nature of where the story is at rn but it feels like they aren’t really leading the story so much as being dragged along it and being told what to do. and also we have just ended up with a party that would all rather sacrifice themselves for each other than have one (1) conversation about their real feelings. before all the ludinus stuff like properly kicked off it felt more like they were leading. but since they went to the moon idk it hasn’t really felt like much has happened bc the party was looking for it. also i miss delilah fr she could be counted on for some inter party drama fr

yes exactly!!! delilah most reliable juicy drama instigator fr. the fact that it took one (1) hour for delilah to be ostensibly neutralized for-fucking-ever is the cherry on top of the most disappointing cake ever

esp as someone who's been watching c2 at the same time it's just wild to compare. in c2 it feels like most everything is happening as a direct result of the m9's interference, and m9 is doing those things bc they want to and decided to, for their own personal reasons. this recent stretch of c3 episodes has legitimately been like 8 hours of level 20 npcs telling bh what to do and bh going "ok. thank u for telling us what we're doing next and also for letting us do something" it feels so shallow. and this is episode ONE HUNDRED AND SIX. m9 was turning the tide of the war on their own terms in like EPISODE FIFTY. *SHAKES THE NEAREST PERSON'S SHOULDERS* DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING

[gaolerdeathmetal]

i just realized i dont use this blog enough to even show my dragons so heres my draconified cotl gang 👍

[werchezdeeno]

aoughhhh argenti quest...how to be the most capable but cringefail at the same time? Hes the master at them simultaneously.

the way he rlly wanted to see wubbaboo 🥺

and i find his relationship with velite very...interesting. during the whole quest it felt like smth happened between them (?) Im not sure how to describe it. The thing abt hsr is time is only convenient to the story. Weeks will pass and the reader wont be informed. Exactly how many days were we in the sting or wtv it was? Definitely more than one day. I might have thought otherwise if velite was not part of the quest, but his behavior says more time has passed. He starts with annoyance than near the end feels affection towards Argenti. He talks as if they have gotten a lot closer over the course of the quest, which further soldified my thoughts. How much time passed from the events of the quest and Argenti's mssgs? Obviously quite a bit since Velite changed careers during this time and how Argenti helped.

Overall the quest was pretty cool, but it would've been so much better if they just added a scene like "___ days later..." or smth like that. Or "the next day". The timing kinda threw me off since it didnt take very long but felt as it should have.

But what himeko said at the end kinda made me sad for argenti. He's essentially looking for something that can't be found. Or maybe idrila can idk how aeons work.

[hellcatchvalley]

the way that if any bh member died now it wouldnt even be a "oh no im gonna miss them :(" feeling but more so a "man they didnt even really get a chance to finish anything" feeling is.

[yawpyawp]

i just read the ASD report that the guy did and he literally misinterpreted 80% of what i said to him? some of the stuff in there (like medical history and background stuff) is fully FACTUALLY INCORRECT

anyway, i'm systematically going through the report pointing out what's inaccurate, which imho is a pretty autistic response, although i may also be a psychopath bc i have a compulsion to make this poor dude bend to my will

[in-fair-verona-we-set-our-scene]

I do think Withers has a really subtle background character arc in bg3. Because at the start it is really clear he doesn't want to be here and he's being forced to clean up his mess by Helm and probably Ao. He doesn't really care either. Everything ends so nothing really matters, he'd like to go back to his paperwork now please.

Except he's stuck babysitting a bunch of traumatized dumbasses as they stumble into dealing with the most recent bad idea of his three fuck-up disappointments. So he brings them back when they die for a pittance, lets them pay for some vengeful ghosts to come back as flesh and blood to wreak bloody vengeance on the Absolute, and starts to... comment, on what's going on, as he follows them on their adventure.

Next thing you know Withers is like, doing things unprompted. He refuses to bring back Alfira (or Quil) but that's an act of compassion, keeping the poor girl from the Urge and letting her rest, his actual duty as a god of death. He tells Arabella to follow her destiny and does that thing to make her grief go away which honestly freaks me out but seems to be him trying to help her. He shows up at Moonrise and prompts us to consider why the Dead Three would want a bunch of soulless illithids that would give them no power, getting us to think of the big picture.

And by the end (especially if you do a resist!Durge playthrough) Withers is actively interfering and seems genuinely invested! He brings Durge back from the dead, free of their father! He encourages us before the final fight with the Netherbrain! He's real fucking smug that the Dead Three lost when he never seemed to care about the destruction they caused before! He throws a reunion party and many of his lines are genuinely touching or kind! Especially if a companion died permanently! He has tea with Gale's mom and Tara! He's like, socializing and shit! Yes, everything is temporary and we all die, but there's great beauty in fighting for that precious time and living it to the fullest!

Basically Wither's character arc is this meme, all because Helm made him go outside and touch grass.

[i3utterflyeffect]

OKAY SO. this is like some of the only colored art i have of them (think it's from something like 3 or 4 years ago) but this is Chaos (right, in the orange) and Carnage!! (left, in the indigo)

They were both rescued from Jenna's workplace, which had an Evil Alien Human Hybrid Clone Sector by a guy named Gordon who was just trying to play a fun video game. unfortunately he got stuck in the video game for reasons that were as of yet unclear to him (again, long story!) but he ended up adopting these two. Neither of them are really supposed to be alive-- none of the other clones had any brain activity (beyond basic brainstem stuff: breathing, heartbeat, etc) and were mostly just dissected for research.

Chaos comes off as very human, but actually is unnaturally strong and sort of has all-the-time hysteric strength activated. this isn't really good for him, but he's learned to deal with it. He lost a leg while leaving the laboratory and this got him interested in prosthetics! He also likes engineering and stuff.

Carnage is mute and generally comes off as a lot more intimidating than xyr brother! xe's very tall (around 7'2) and generally sneakier than you'd think, but xe is actually pretty friendly once you get past the quiet, intimidating impression xe gives off. Xe uses sign language to talk a lot so typically people who don't know sign language get the impression that xe's very serious because xe has very flat expressions, but xe actually jokes around a lot and is pretty playful with other people. If xe likes you xe'll typically tease you a lot.

Xe's hair works like fog sort of, and starts to take up more room when xe's stressed. Xe hides xyr hair under xyr helmet for this reason, but the helmet is also just a comfort item in general.

Xe also has fucking terrible vision. Basically blind.

They're basically inseparable, and end up meeting Hud (technically B, a different character) and Birch during college.

[racke7]

So. For some fucking reason, all of my hotbars and hotkeys and macros and HUD-layout?

They're saved on dalamud somehow.

Base game? Pure default. All of it.

[viridiave]

ahhhh calling them fic logs might be charitable actually because all I want to do when I write is complain and over-explain my own fucking logic until I stumble into an answer that makes me go 'ohhhh THAT'S why I wrote that line'

i say this every time but i write like i'm flying by the seat of my pants and it turns out I have a LOT of complaining to do

i really want to delude myself into thinking that like. I'm writing something meaningful but what this really is is just me having a lack of restraint when it comes to ideas. Like I'll start injecting an entire backstory onto that kid Miguel smacked around in Alfyn's Chapter 3 because I was like 'Saintsbridge is a little fucked up if you think about it' one day and now I'm staring down a script including Timothy and it's like 'why in the fresh HELL does this make sense actually.'

I dunno who really cares about seeing any of that unfold except for me. I throw words onto the screen and hope people care about it enough to think that it isn't a pointless diversion from the characters that 'matter'

[infiniteoreos]

lol. lmao even.

[blujayonthewing]

I'm really glad elyss came several years before melliwyk, because mel's alignment shift from chaotic neutral to chaotic good sometimes feels a little embarrassing in an 'I can't keep my own feelings to myself for the sake of committing to the bit' sort of way, but the counterpoint to that is that elyss, steadfastly true neutral, just simply Does Not Care about anyone other than her own loved ones or anything outside her own immediate interest no matter how much I sometimes wish she would

[derelictheretic]

sorry I keep forgetting about tag games and dm's etcetera I am in the not real mental state time

[ruvviks]

made the realization my vampire story would work best as a video game and now i can't stop thinking about it

[princess-serenity-now]

me watching the olympics: oi, so when the fuck is layton vickles gonna show up?