#she's into karlach and gideon

[cpericardium]

Question for your gf: does Harrowhark scratch the same itch as Shadowheart?

"I would say no. Shadowheart is hornier and less crazy and far more at peace with her atrocities. Shadowheart is a blorbo, Harrowhark is kind of a blob. A layer cake does not scratch the same itch as a jello. also, harrow can land a hit with HER spells. HOW is it so impossible to hit a demon with Sacred Flame, Shadowheart??????"

A BLOB? How dare you. How dare you

[chilly-weirdo-in-a-tomb]

To be clear, I will (probably) not be writing any of these fics.

[shit-zu]

I started playing bg3 and I NEED to fuck Karlach. I NEED to.

[lylahammar]

It catches me off guard whenever I see someone with a cis man character in baldur’s gate 3 romancing Karlach lmao like she is the exact same genre of character as Gideon Nav, I can’t see her as anything other than a butch lesbian

[tofu-flapjack]

my fanart pet peeve is when people take women characters who are canonically built like a brick shithouse and draw them like little elegant waifs. LET HER BE BEEFY

[navbrain]

please im obsessed with her

[irlfrogprince]

my current team : )

[renstrapp]

Shep's POV

Harrow's POV

[fallout-lou-begas]

I mean look no further than the Locked Tomb fandom, where Gideon, a character who is a nutritionally starved scrapper born on a dead world, is depicted in all fanart as lesbian Johnny Bravo. Which indicates that Karlachification predates even Karlach. I have to imagine same goes for a fair few women in the Fallout fandom, yeah?

(re:) I know absolutely nothing about TLT so I'll take your word for it. No one in Fallout comes to mind tbh but I think that's because the video game is limited by its engine to give every woman the same thin body type (and men the same athletic one) and I think you need an explicitly muscular female character to begin with for this process to take off. aw man dont' call it karlachification, she's a victim here 😭

[visenyaism]

bg3 companions ranking?

10. Halsin. I have no principles and can fully admit if it was a relentlessly horny grizzled older butch WOMAN bear druid i would be like this is the greatest video game character of all time but as it stands he just doesn’t compel me much

9. Minsc. he’s so fun but the whole thing is one singular bit no variety.

8. Karlach. Listen on paper “literally gideon nav but a tiefling” should do more for me i don’t know why it doesn’t. that being said if we were real life coworkers i WOULD want to be besties with her.

7. Shadowheart. yeah she’s alright.

6. Minthara. minthyyyyy everything she says is profoundly arrogant and ludicrously fascist she is so so funny. i love her absolute unwavering commitment to cognitive dissonance and being wrong all the time. my close friend minthara is the funniest person i know.

5. Wyll. he may be a terrible monster hunter because he just keeps forgiving and befriending and maybe falling in love with them but that’s just because he’s got a good heart. i wish the dev team liked him as much as i do. also mr. of frontiers we have got to do something about your father

4. Gale. D1 yapper just like me for real. can’t believe i ever found him annoying and disliked him simply for being a corny ass nerd because i have come all the way around on that. also i like that he has a fun earring even if it IS mystra merch.

3. Astarion. i too am an annoying homosexual shit-starter who is constantly just doing a bit. they put the most effort into his writing and character so he is really by default one of the strongest. also there’s just too damn many locks in this game to not need him nearby

2. Jaheira. love her terrible luck and gravitational force of a personality and slight weirdo mannerisms and fondness for clowns and deadbeat milf ways. wish she had been a companion earlier but she is so fun to take into baldur’s gate.

1. Lae’zel. she’s BEEN my favorite she’s in every single party i have i love her complete and total seriousness i love that she’s a weirdo and i love how much she grows and changes and develops optimism and hope. what can i say. real lae’zelheads know

[wandererorion]

So Karlach from Baldur's Gate is just demon Gideon Nav. They are the same fucking person. Like, hear me out. Big (tm). Loves a two-handed weapon. Spent her adolescence enslaved and forced to work for someone she hated. Pretty gold eyes. A little dumb. A lot reckless. Just wants to be appreciated and asked nicely for help. And if you give that to her, she would absolutely die for you.

[rage-against-the-dying-of-light]

Rules: Make a poll of your favorite female characters (no limits - as many or as little as you want) and see which your followers like the most!

Thank you @monimolimnion Madi for this idea!

*holds out hand* come like women with me

@queenychu @daddywright @bitterqueenbean @contritecactite @krisseycrystal Sorry if y’all have been tagged before come like women with me

The poll won’t let me add more, so here’s more for posterity

Maya Fey (Ace Attorney)

Susato (Great Ace Attorney)

Diana Cavendish (Little Witch Academia)

Akko Katara (LWA)

Adora Bell Dearheart (Discworld)

Polly Perkins (Discworld)

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

Harrowhark (Locked Tomb)

Ryuko Matoi (Kill La Kill)

Mako (Kill La Kill)

Luz (The Owl House)

Eda (TOH)

Amity (TOH)

Pearl (Steven Universe) (she never did a single bad thing her entire life)

[asthedeathoflight]

I could never play baldurs gate because the instant that i saw karlach doing her little fortnite dances in my friends camp i was like haha shes just like gideon nav. And the more i learn about karlach the more im like. Oh god. Shes just like gideon nav.

[sky-scribbles]

The Karlach/Gideon Nav comparisons have sunk deep into my brain at this point, so I think it's about time I laid out my Locked Tomb AU thoughts. Because there are some very fun necro & cavaliar pairings to find among the tadfools and their supporting cast:

For the Second House, we have an obvious cavalier: Lae'zel, trained for the frontlines since hatching, ready to march to war for her Emperor god-queen even if she doesn't know why. Her necromancer is harder to pin down - it could be Shadowheart for the Harrow and Gideon vibes, but I want to use Shadowheart elsewhere. Ghustil Sturnugoss could work, perhaps - until Lae'zel starts to see through the lies she's been raised on...

The Third House smacks of nobility and charm, so my gut says Wyll is our cavalier - yes, he's a spellcaster, but he's the Blade of Frontiers. He wields a rapier; he's Wyll, the protecor. He's asking to be a cavalier. As for his necromancer, the person he's bound to serve, to die for... well, I guess it has to be Mizora, who has plenty of Third charisma herself. Not all cavaliers serve willingly.

We have a much more stable duo for the Fourth: Isobel and Aylin! Isobel is a cleric, made for warding and guarding just like Isaac, and Aylin has a very Fourth House-esque tendency to, as Gideon put it 'charge in headfirst and get all crazy'.

The Fifth house are tricky. They're spirit-speakers, so Withers is the obvious choice, but who's his cavalier? An aged-up Arabella? But she feels more like a necromancer to me, so I landed on an alternative: put an actual spirit into the necromancer role, and make it Thaniel. And have his protector be Halsin, who could fill Magnus's surrogate dad role quite nicely. (Rumour has it that not only does Halsin the Fifth wield knuckle-knives, he carried two knuckles and has a tendency to chuck his rapier away and just slash at you like a bear.)

Gale 'which way to the nearest library?' Dekarios is just begging to be the necromancer of the Sixth House - he even has a House-esque surname, though we'd have to change it so he doesn't sound like he comes from some nonexistent Tenth House (Hekarios? Sextarios?) And if his cavalier is someone who'll remain at his side through thick and thin, protect him from the world and from himself... I guess I have no choice but to make Tara a tabaxi and give her a sword. She deserves it.

I confess to drawing a blank for a really fitting match for the Seventh, so for lack of a better place to put them, let's make it Jaheira and Minsc, since Minsc pretty much sees himself as her cavalier in canon anyway. I suppose if you spec Jaheira as a Spores druid, she does at least have the 'walking corpse' thing down.

The cavalier of the Eighth House is another forced into service: Astarion, serving his necromancer Cazador. He's been trained to be his necro's resource, not his equal; he exists for Cazador to draw on and suck dry. He owns nothing but his sword (and unlike Colum, he doesn't even have his honour; it was tortured out of him long ago.)

And finally, Shadowheart as the Ninth House necromancer - a young acolyte raised in an underground cloister among those who worship silence, darkness and loss; her own memory betraying her, loving her order despite the fact that it has broken her again and again. With her cavalier, Karlach, who just wants to get out of her indentured service already and to be given back her fucking longsword.

[ivypond11]

i love karlach so much because she reminds me of gideon. buff dumb women with a heart of gold

[eerna]

been really obsessed with karlach lately since bg3 came out and my friend told me based on this information to go read gideon the ninth, between this (extremely appropriate, i have found) recommendation and your posting about TLT while i've been following you, i have finally picked it up. so thank u

I LITERALLY SAID THE SAME THING Karlach is basically what Gideon would be if she wasn't severely tragic and repressed. So often Karlach says or does something that makes me go "AUUUGHHGHHGG GIDEON". Have fun~!