#out of context baldurs gate

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[khadgarbignaturals]

celibacy win! you have been trampled by oxen

[forkingbrusselsprout]

[trappedinafantasy37]

"Minthara is so abusive to the player" *INCORRECT BUZZER NOISE*

Minthara would literally go to fucking hell for the opportunity to personally beat the absolute shit out of the person who actually did abuse you. She will throw hands with gods and devils just to avenge you.

And you will not be able to convince her not to.

[durgewyll]

wyll asks the dark urge what's it like to be back in baldur's gate, to which you can reply:

"I don't remember it. But I'm afraid of who might remember me."

and he says this:

your honour, i'm in love with him

[moghedien]

You know, it’s an extremely likely possibility that if you romance Lae’zel, the first people she’s exposed to for a significant amount of time that are in a romantic relationship (other than her and you) would be Isobel and Aylin

Which just leads to an increasing amount of hilarity because by the end of her Act 2 romance arc, Lae’zel is like actually acknowledging that she’s in a romantic relationship and happy about it and she’s probably gotten to the point where she’s at least a lot more comfortable showing affection in front of people before Isobel and Aylin join you, but she’s still likely extremely unsure about how your whole relationship works

So like, I could totally see Lae’zel just like silently noting that Isobel and Aylin have a “flesh-bond” and absolutely not commenting on it at all but spending the next several days very closely watching them and like furiously taking notes

OR I could see her being just comfortable enough with showing public affection that she’s like “we must not allow them to appear to have the stronger flesh-bond. We must show that we are stronger” but then utterly panicking if you try to take her up on that in any way

either way Lae’zel is seeing Aylin loudly proclaim every emotion she has and is sitting there writing down everything and underlining the word “loud” several times OR she’s trying to match Aylin who is again loudly proclaiming every single thing she and Isobel does or thinks and telling you to begone every three seconds so that she can stare at Isobel and fuck her

But most likely it would be Lae’zel trying some combination of these two things so it’s just chaos

[cambion-companion]

[hyakunana]

Sacrificing my free time of the evening to see how Tav the Dracomonk and her squad look like in my (sketchy) style

[tenderpreyy]

​I’m thinking again about Astarions sexuality and how I've seen some people (to be fair, just a few) talk about it. Mainly, people pointing out his flamboyant behavior, and that us as players are learning more about his past male lovers than female ones and basically all these things for some people pointing to him being gay or at least not interested in women in the same way he is in men. And him only being a romance option regardless of gender, because, well, all companions are and he is therefore just "playersexual", only showing interest in female player characters because he has to, because of the game mechanics.

I think what really rubs me the wrong way about this topic is that it echoes the kind of things bi/pan people (speaking as a bisexual woman myself) find themselves dealing with irl. Whether through some form of internalized biphobia or from the outside through other people's comments. Of course this is about a fictional character so it’s not like he has any feelings that could be hurt. But when i see people tallying up how often he mentions men vs. how often he mentions women it really reminds me of a way of thinking I sometimes fall into in regards to my own sexuality. This is definitely just an internalized response and not something I actually believe when I truly think about it for a second, but I know these patterns of thought very well. Of observing my own behavior. How often do I find which gender attractive? Am I attracted "enough" to women? Do I talk about men's attractiveness too often? Is it the other way around? Am I only saying this woman is attractive to prove something to myself? I literally have a girlfriend and my attitude towards mine or other's sexual orientation is generally a huge big "whatever, I don't care". And I still have a passing thought like that from time to time.

So seeing people talk about a fictional character in this way really sends home how many people (whether consciously or unconsciously) see attraction as some sort of equation, you can solve, where in the end you get a result of either gay or straight.

[invinciblerodent]

Bonus:

Baldur's Gate 3 + outofcontextdnd

because why not

[preciouslittle-bhaalbabe]

Astarion is very me when it comes to tiddies loi

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[nobigneil]

Dinosaur. Kasra Drama. Downed noises. Neil is "not against" sex with a Mindflayer.

[anotherdarkiboi]

He... he did the thing. The first time you meet (with a knife to your throat).

[box-dwelling]

With all love in the world to fic writers, and this isn't a set criticism just a trend, being a British person and seeing what colloquialism people have Wyll use will absolutely take me out of a fic at points. Like this is difficult and I'm not gonna hold it against any writer who does this but I very much do notice it. I don't even have advice because so much of it is a weird feel thing of the type of age of the people who use certain slang.

Wyll talks with pretty archaic British slang. It's not too ancient. It's still like stuff you might hear an older guy say, but it gives a certain feel to him speech of it being kinda old fashioned.

But sometimes people either don't get this or, honestly more common in what I see because most of the fics I read are from people who do understand him, people who, fairly because they aren't from here so wouldn't know, use slang that feels a little too modern and it just reads like Astarion just called someone bro.

But I don't know how to explain that lad singular is a word he does use in canon and makes sense, but lads plural feels so fundamentally wrong.

[galedekarios]

the thrilling sequel to gale killing himself is right ending actually: why doesn't wyll enjoy being treated like a dog by a sexy demon lady