#raphael the cambion

[kawareo]

Godsbound Chapter 13 is out

bonus art under cut

They knew eachother briefly before the tadpols ;) when Raphael came to ask for the crown because, well. He can't exactly ask Gortash, can he?

[astarioffsimpmain]

THAT VOICE

✅ brown hair ✅ brown eyes ✅ CHEEKBONES ✅ hot dead stare ✅ NOSE ✅ rightfully narcissistic ✅ HANDSOME ✅ schemy ✅ GORGEOUS ✅ a literal devil w an angelic complexion™️ ✅ jawline that can cut glass ✅ eta: THAT VOICE aka Raphael is perfection

[nikjima]

Bit of a question, if you're open to it. You discovered the Wedding Chapel. What do you guess it was supposed to be used for?

The Chaphael, my font of madness. 😔

Thanks for the ask! It's hard to guess, really, but going over what I know about it:

It has the CTY prefix, not the BGO or GLO prefixes, which is what the rest of the HoH has, so I don't believe it was part of the House of Hope.

Only a small part of it is actually walkable, and parts of the wall are not 'solid', and can be walked through, so from my experience of other scene behaviours It was most likely intended for a cutscene.

The background sound when in the area is also one of the default dungeon environment sounds, not Raphael's theme or any music from the HoH.

It is very incomplete, there are gaps between the wall pieces, the floor is uneven, there are almost no 'triggers' in place, such as those for cameras or lighting, and it's very sparsely decorated, so whatever it was for seems to have been abandoned early, though there is evidence in the game files that suggest it was looked at as late on in development as patch 5.

My delulu theory is, of course, that it was made specifically for the player character to marry Raphael in, after giving him the crown and him making them his consort. I want it to be that so very badly it hurts.

What I think it's more likely to be is either:

a - a spot in the city we could visit to trade with Raphael for rare items using soul coins, as we've been told in the past that Raphael was at one point going to be a trader who we could barter with using soul coins. (as an aside, there's some info in the game files that indicates Raphael would have been able to assist us as a summoned ally, there's a spell named "Diabolical Ally" with the text "Summon the crafty devil Raphael to fight alongside you." The spell summon data contains the UUID for a character that doesn't exist, sadly, so I have no way of knowing what form he would have taken. It isn't set up the way the endgame allies for the final battles are, so maybe it'd have been attached to something you could barter from him? 'Use this ring to call upon my aid once per day' kinda deal. Fun idea) This one is unlikely if it really is a cutscene area, of course, though it could have been a case of 'enter building, cutscene begins, complete trade in cutscene, exit'.

b - a scene where we'd see some kind of cult of Raphael scenario going on, post-epilogue. (Archdevils have cults after all, so surely the Archdevil Supreme would have a real fancy one). Perhaps he chose to desecrate a wedding chapel for his cult base because doing such a thing amused him, all the pomp and ceremony of weddings would obviously appeal to him, and corrupting the location a religious ceremony would be held would be extra delicious. Maybe Hope really liked weddings so it was an extra little 'fuck you' to the cleric who denied him, too. There's an unfinished 'Raphael Punished' area, presumably where we'd witness Mephistopheles eating him, so why not have a counter version for those of us who side with him where we see the fruits of his labour?

c - Raphael actually does take the player character as his consort, binding them to him for eternity as a sort of trophy (I rule the hells and have the Hero of Faerun who slew the Absolute in my retinue, in your face dad, your dragon ain't shit), and being the ostentatious so-and-so he is, decided to have a full ceremony to announce it. It probably lasted 9 days and involved 666 different poems about how great he is. He wrote the vows, and once the player character recites all those infernal words it means they're his possession entirely.

Okay, that last one was veering wildly back into the delulu realm. Let me dream. 🥺

Thank you again for the ask, people rarely ask my thoughts on things, it was fun to go back over the Chapel again. I only spent like 4 hours poring over it this time, not 2 days. Improvement! 🙌

To have and to mould into whatever my heart desires. In your sickness and my health. Not even death shall part us, Little Mouse.

[oniishi]

Been planning to draw something with them for a long time with the vibe of the masquerade ball, I'm taking the opportunity now that I've been given it 😼

[durgetavoc]

Tav wants to fuck this cambion so bad, it makes her look stupid.

[wyvernwhiskey]

I may be super late...but DAMN!

Happy Valentines! A rose from Raphael

[wakacreations]

It has finally come time to animate this sound bite. Thank you @mephystophyles for sharing the audio clip! This wouldn't have been made otherwise.

[preciouslittle-bhaalbabe]

>:3

[wyvernwhiskey]

Baby...baby boy with big brown doe eyes...

Raphael, come home...the kids miss you.

[atomicfolklorist]

Well...I might have filled way too many pages with this guy.

[dvilsdesire]

// Raphael having a fireplace in his house... in Avernus... a hot layer of Baator. I'm sure he's got spells to make it more comfortable for mortal clients, but he's just living for the vibes. ❤️‍🔥💅

[siginari]

[ugh-my-back]

indulging

[fanfix666]

i want so badly to keep writing this. rambling below the cut

like i want raphael to keep thinking astarion has a thing for him, meanwhile astarion only keeps flirting every subsequent meeting they have because he doesn't want a jilted devil on his tail. meanwhile raphael is slowly becoming obsessed with him... like i know some cambion dnd lore and like cambions seem lonely as hell to me. not fully human, not fully devil, accepted by neither, capable of love and attraction, but no one trusts them (with good reason), etc. i want to showcase that loneliness in raphael's developing obsession with astarion all because astarion showed him an ounce of attention even though it wasn't genuine (but he doesn't know that). like sure, haarlep gives him attention, fucks him, etc. but haarlep doesn't *love* him, not really. not like he wants them to.

(i like to think haarlep loves him in their own way, but doesn't know how to meet the needs of his mortal side on that front)

aaaahhh!!! i just can't stop thinking about it. fuck

i just want to make this into a longfic so bad but i'm not confident enough in my skills as a writer ugh

might do it anyway

thinking about writing this raphstarion fic concept:

astarion asks raphael about his scars. raphael is just like "yeah sure i'll tell you what they mean, in exchange for your services"

this is where communication breaks down. astarion goes to the house of hope thinking he's about to get railed and is mentally preparing himself for that, meanwhile raphael is oblivious and just invited him over to discuss assassinating yurgir over a few glasses of blood/wine or whatever.

once they get there astarion is acting all seductive and raphael is kind of into it, but genuinely just thinks astarion has a crush on him or a devil fetish or something.

once raphael starts to discuss the terms of their deal, astarion realizes he was not in fact hired for sex, but notices that raphael is acting a bit cockier/flattered by his attentions, so he tones it down but doesn't fully stop so not to insult the devil. at the end, raphael is just like, "you know, you're welcome to the boudoir if you like. i think you'd enjoy my incubus."

raphael goes back to toril for whatever business he has, leaving astarion in a guest room for the night, and astarion does not visit the boudoir because he really isn't interested. by the time astarion gets back with the rest of the group and raphael returns to the house of hope, he goes to haarlep and is just like, "did you get the vampire's form?" all the while already undressing.

haarlep is loving the enthusiasm but is just like "what vampire?"

and then raphael is very disappointed to learn that astarion did not visit haarlep and from that point on kind of has a bit of a weird obsession with astarion.

i think that would be funny. i like to think that raphael continues to believe astarion definitely has a crush on him and never figures out why astarion didn't visit the boudoir

[nepherit]

My honored guests...dinner is served ✨✨

Go on, little mouse. Partake, enjoy your supper...

I was so disappointed when Larian dropped Patch 7 with its new evil endings, but no Raphael dinner included, so I vowed to make up for it with a dinner of my own. I was all set to color and shade, but things didn’t quite go as planned, and I had to take a little break. I picked it up again a few days ago, and here it is—finally finished.

Happy holidays!

[junorsky]

finally, a worthy opponent!

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Yes I love suddenly making fighting screens out of fandoms that have nothing to do with the fighting genre. Lawful evil against chaotic, let's go!