#party companions

[magicmalcolm]

Malaclypse the Trickster

A magician, a jester, and a vagabond.

[ellie-writes-games]

Spite Wants To Set A Flame

Lucanis (and by extension, Spite) have been helping Bellara with her romance novel. Flowery language and smut metaphors lead Spite to some surprising conclusions.

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As someone on the autism spectrum, I remember struggling with interpreting metaphor as a young person A LOT. As soon as it was introduced in Veilguard that Bellara was writing some smutty fanfiction, the first thoughts I had were "Oh, the neurospicy gang is gonna struggle." (Mainly Taash and Spite.)

This is fanfiction written by me, @ellie-writes-games. These are NOT actual screenshots from the game. Peace, love, and mad props to the DA writers.

[be-an-echo]

✨ girl dad Joel ✨

made for @kokureno

[shadowthehedgehog1]

Astarion has some competition in the sassy insult department it seems

[fiannans]

No, Bioware, you don't get to try to be cute and make jokes in-game about Rook eavesdropping on the companions' conversations when you're the ones who made the (debatable) creative decision not to let us actually have a proper conversation with our companions and get to know them by asking them questions like we were able to in every previous game.

"Hahaha, Taash just called you out on eavesdropping. Look how witty and meta we are." Okay, but how else are we supposed to learn anything about our companions?

[snarkspawn]

some floating heads of my boy Asher, his guardian and his favourite people to go adventuring with ♥

[babacontainsmultitudes]

In sum

"Of this episode or of the season in general?" Yes.

[albaharu]

3 dwarves and a mage walk into a hole full of darkspawn

[finnick002]

Echoing @hamartia-grander

Some BG3 players: "Wyll is useless in combat!"

Skill issue.

[trappedinafantasy37]

Minthara's Underdark ending, although far from her worst ending, is quite the tragic one. And I'm talking about when she goes to the Underdark by herself and this is considered her "default" ending.

The entire game, when she speaks of home, it's with heavy grief and sadness. She says she will miss home until the day she dies, accepting that she will never go back. To return is to beget death as she would be returning as a traitor to Lolth. And as a former paladin of Lolth, she knows better than anyone what is in store for her. She knows she will be hunted down and has a target on her back.

So it is especially tragic that when left to herself, she goes back to the Underdark anyway. Danger and treachery is all she has ever known, but her dialogue at the party almost hints that she isn't enjoying it this time around.

In her Baldur's Gate ending, she seems so much happier. Ruling the city from the shadows isn't without its dangers, but it most certainly is not as dangerous as the Underdark is. If you romance her, this is what she actually wants to do. She wants to stay on the surface with you and slowly but surely take over Baldur's Gate. She only returns to the Underdark because you propose it. If you never mention it, she embraces and welcomes the biggest change of her life and learns to live on the surface, something she had never once considered before in her life. Your presence gives her the courage to do things she has never done before and embrace change.

But without you, she returns to the only thing she has ever known because she is too afraid to embrace the change, too afraid to walk a different path. Where staying on the surface is so much more terrifying than returning to the Underdark where she will constantly be looking over her shoulder. Shunned by Lolth, she feels lost and doesn't know what to do with herself. Up until 6 months ago, she had a purpose, destroy the Absolute. Then that quickly changed to claim the Absolute. The idea of claiming the Absolute, she saw a future that already fit her world view and details everything she needed to do because it wasn't so different that what she would of otherwise done. She already imagined a world of conquest, and she preemptively gave herself a long term purpose.

Without the Absolute, without you, she has no purpose, and no real reason to stay on the surface, and does not know what else to do with herself. At least in the Underdark she has a purpose and it's the same one that any noble female drow would have: kill mom and become matron. But I don't know if Minthara has really thought of what to do beyond that because she's not particularly good at straying from preset courses on her own. There is this potential risk of regression here. Of turning back into that prideful woman that the Absolute was able to easily lure into a trap. To return to the person who was lost in blood and madness, and Minthara already sees herself as being mad for even returning to the Underdark to begin with. Even though she has every intent to piss off Lolth, I can't help but wonder if Minthara who is left completely alone and lost would return to Lolth if she made Minthara a sweet sweet promise, throwing Minthara into the same damned cycle all over again.

[julls]

so i'm playing Dragon Age Veilguard right now and ho boy i'm in danger

[magicmalcolm]

Colbjorn

His family lost, his clan turned against him, Colbjorn has travelled south in search of meaning...

[ellie-writes-games]

Spite, Love, and Limes

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I know. I know. I know I know I know. The fandom REALLY likes the idea of Spite being...uh, active, in Rookanis. Here's the rub: the pure, delicious, indulgent fan-made stuff is out there and it is KILLER.

But that's kind of not my goal. The fun and the challenge of writing this kind of content, for me anyway, is playing within the limits of what the game gave us. Making it as close to some of the wonderful dynamics that are already there with the cast of Veilguard, and just playing. I'm also a game writer. Not for Bioware, no, but I do this kind of stuff for a living. I have mad respect for the folks who have shaped this world and the characters we all know and love. This is one of those weird personal lines where I don't want to step too far out of the canon with a set of characters that you can spend literally over a hundred hours with in a single playthrough. I think that gives us a pretty clear idea of what they were going for, whether or not it's your personal headcanon. Some wickedly talented folks poured a lot of time into fleshing out this found family and their delightful little interpersonal dynamics, and I want to try and honor that. I apologize to the Church of Spite and it's many devoted followers. I wish you all the spiciest of fics. Just know that's not where this is going. ✌😘

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[abyssal-ilk]

it is very important to me that vivienne does not give a personal fuck about celene if you allow her to be assassinated. she doesn't have any approval change no matter the outcome– she doesn't have any approval change period throughout the entire mission. no matter the outcome of the ball she is emotionally completely unaffected either way, and we know this because of banter between her and cole. there isn't any "hurt" for cole to latch onto, and he admits that it confuses him to vivienne. which makes sense why he would be confused! vivienne had known celene for twenty years at that point!! but the only time we see any sort of feeling between vivienne and celene is vivienne's bitter feelings of being replaced by morrigan and then dorian teasing her a bit when, in the case of celene surviving, vivienne puts on the fake polite game mask and says she was thankful to have a part in saving her.

vivienne has a lot of very deep connections with other people but despite knowing her for twenty years, celene is NOT one of them. and i think about it a lot

[lokh]

also i think if roleswap laios and canon laios met theyd immediately start fighting.

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.