#snuurps bg3 au

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introduction to the WORMS IN MY BRAIN jk this is a modern fantasy au for baldurs gate 3 plain text and more info under the cut

intro to the au, forewarning i haven't done much research, and my first playthrough of the game isn't done yet (I AM in act three tho I swear 2/3rds of the three guys r dealt with and so is cazador.) keep in mind i have no idea what i'm doing.

the mindflayer stuff is like. an experimental implant they all dubiously agreed to without all the info. extra enhancements (like the other tadpoles in game) are like drugs, and they appear once weekly at everyone's doors whether they want it or not. initial implant stabilizes Karlach's engine, helps with Astarion's vampire stuff, etc. etc. and the extras just feel good to use, it's addictive.

all of them are in a support group together meant to encourage them to stay clean from the extra tadpoles. time they've spent with the group varies.

there WILL be more detailed posts for them later, i have a lot of thoughts on Karlach and Wyll especially. implied/possible shadowzel and wyllstarion. my tav will be present, this is very self indulgent and i am in lesbians with Karlach.

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KARLACH

6'11" - 7'

construction worker.

her first job was disastrous.

foreman Goretash pushed her into dangerous situations that she felt pressured to be in because she was the newbie.

things went wrong with the electrical on the job site, landing her in the hospital with a near-fatal heart problem.

but good* news! avernus co. offered her a mechanical heart for the low, low price of a ten year work contract! (strings attached.)

she's out of the contract now, and avernus co. is refusing to maintain her heart (and the other "upgrades" they gave her without consent.)

still in construction, unionized and a loud advocate for workers rights.

can't do caffeine. her coffee order is a creamy chocolate chill from TImothy Horthingtons.

favourite board game is ticket to ride or uno, surprisingly mean and competitive in games.

SHADOWHEART

5'6"

works at hot topic (emo)

just got out of the commune, full swing edgy phase and does NOT know how un-niche her music is yet (please don't tell her)(she might cry)

"adopted" by Shar's cult when she was little, doesn't remember much before or after that beyond what other members told her.

dissecting her faith.

roommates with Lae'zel. (they hate each other)

"roommates" with Lae'zel also. (they still hate each other) (kinda)

rps her fursona COOL CAT CHARACTER DO NOT STEAL online.

very afraid of wolves which does include sparkledogs and makes rp super difficult.

her favourite board game is catan or any ttrpg.

if asked, her coffee order is "black, like my tortured soul" but she actually gets a vanilla latte with extra syrup and sweet foam. (oat milk because regular makes her tummy hurt)

LAE'ZEL

5'7" and gods does she ever hold that extra inch over Shadowheart.

works as a personal trainer, her clients are scared of her which makes her VERY effective for the right people.

insults clients, perfectionist.

mommy issues x100

the creche has a very community/it takes a village style of raising but they do a really bad job.

she wants to be the BEST of her siblings, doesn't take failure well.

loves competitive solo sports, hiking, marathons, bouldering, boxing, etc. etc.

delights in pushing Shadowheart's buttons.

she doesn't drink coffee, her order is a smoothie.

willingly drinks the ones with kale like a CRAZY PERSON.

favourite board game is chess and while she is good at it she is a SORE loser.

WYLL

6'1"

used to work for avernus co. and now works a much quieter, mostly Mizora-free job at an elementary school.

the students favourite gym teacher.

estranged from his dad after a huge, explosive misunderstanding re: the very un-HR Mizora incident(s)

likes Go Fish and cribbage, but he's happy playing any board game the others suggest.

generally just happy to be here.

coffee of choice is an americano with a shot of apple cinnamon syrup.

loves knitting.

definitely not crushing on Astarion whaaat crazyyyy.....

his watch is from his dad. he looks at it when he misses him.

misses him a lot.

ASTARION

5'9"

former troubled teen kicked out by his rich parents.

Cazador was a "pastor" that took him under his wing and adopted him into his group home (for a price)

in debt to him now and can't outrun it.

has two jobs.

works at Olive Garden, HATES IT.

works at (insert coffee shop chain here) ALSO HATES IT.

somehow has a very popular aesthetic tumblr blog in the year of our lord 20XX

coffee order is an iced caramel latte (sometimes gets strawberry/cherry/raspberry syrup to make his pictures cooler)

his favourite board game is monopoly (he steals from the bank) but he DESPISES cheaters edition because that "takes all the fun out of it"

Wyll's feelings are mutual and he knows about them but he's too insecure to talk to Wyll about it (nerd)

GALE

5'11"

unemployed, formerly university librarian/professor.

is not over his ex, will not be over his ex for the foreseeable future.

eventually goes to a new university to teach tho.

zero rizz, this man uses mage hand to play wizard wonderwall while concentrating very hard and that makes him look constipated sorry Gale likers.

has a part time job at a Barnabus and Noblemans before going to the new university.

commissioned Wyll to make his sweater vest in affront-to-the-gods purple.

wrote some very prolific papers in the wizard community.

coffee order is matcha or a mocha

favourite board game is clue. he gets really into it.

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if Wyll ordered something different i think Astarion would weep (while drinking the coffee because he refuses to waste it)

its finally done!!!!!!! apologies for the delays, i uh. i got a pc and have been playing bg3 for the first time out of multiplayer. and with mods now. shout out to @oozingcool for installing those and also editing this ur amazing. more info/whatever else i think of under the cut again.

Astarion works at fantasy Starbucks (and Ye Olde Olive Garden) towards the start of the timeline and eventually quits both jobs to work at Halsins diner (name suggestions appreciated) (please) he's the backbone of fantasy Starbucks and no matter how abysmal he lets his customer service get (he only really cares about the Ye Olde Olive Garden tips) they won't fire him.

i was so excited about using fun colours in this one that i forgot i can't write dialogue to save my life lol. i'm gonna start future comics with scripts instead of storyboards.

i KNOW Gale won the poll but if i don't draw a beautiful woman i might shrivel up and die so we're getting Karlach content and we're all gonna like it okay. Gale will be here as soon as i learn how to draw guitars.

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ever-so-slightly later than promised but babys first comic is done!!!! i am a Corpse. i will return to drawing immediately. more under the cut again

valuable lesson for all but uh. 50 layers on a 4k by 10k canvas is BAD for importing everywhere my files are 60mb each now.

this is Fennel's intro to the group!! Karlach is tied for the longest attending member at 8 months with Wyll. Fennel is spineless and absolutely will continue to attend just to see Karlach and absorb zero other information (for now).

i'm considering making a Wyllstarion one next. the worms require it of me. follow if you wanna see some men being in love :)

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a Karlach that i'm claiming is part of my modern au :) with her little drink that she already ate the whipped cream out of

ill shove headcanons under the cut again :)))

she's drinking a chocolate chill like i mentioned her enjoying in her intro card (in my profile under snuurps bg3 au) except my town is small and the nearest tim hortons is a half hour drive to the next town so i cannot remember what they look like lol

also hand scars!!! i'm projecting hard bc this is a thing i do but every time she gets a scrape or cut on her hands she CANNOT stop picking at it, especially if she has to stay still for any reason. i get tons of scrapes from work and i. literally just do retail and stocking stuff so i'd imagine construction/mechanic (that's just a hobby) stuff is a little worse for that. i am madly in love with her.

learning the hard lesson that i need to make my canvases smaller but i have CLAWED my way from art block and the siren song of minecraft (and bg3) (i made a durge but i'm banning myself from it until i finish act 2 on my normal one) so here's my first finished thing with csp 3.0! (its basically the same as 1.9 but i'm dramatic) i'm trying to get into a habit of watermarking my stuff again just for cohesion so hopefully i can remember :) Gale likers i promise i have not forgotten about drawing him i just need to get motivated again you'll see ur swagless wife play guitar badly soon

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full mildly inaccurate lineup for comparison purposes! and more info under the cut again because i am Unwell about this and i need to store this somewhere other than discord.

firstly please ignore that Karlach isn't. actually 7' in that i swear i drew her that tall initially but uh. she was so big in comparison to the others that it looked ridiculous. the rot in my skull didn't think it through 😔 she's still 7' just not here.

the story i have (loosely) planned is going to mainly follow unconnected shenanigans of the support group for now but it might get further as i dig this hole deeper. Halsin and Jaheira are present, they run the group :)

groups/locations and various info about them:

avernus co. is a megacorporation doing... megacorp things. unclear. they're a big company, they cover a lot of bases. dabbles in prosthetics/organ replacements and other medical jazz, but it's very experimental and predatory. Wyll worked in an office type section, Karlach was doing construction/blue collar work.

Mystra is the founder/major sponsor of a very prestigious university. she sucks. we don't like her or her university.

Shar's cult is kinda evangelical in nature, and there's a HIGH chance i'll take inspiration from pentecostal systems because that's what i was raised in. they have a commune or two, and maybe also a yellow deli type situation?

Cazador runs a home for foster kids. heavy on the religious inspiration here too, of course. no one stays with him for free, and kids are pressured into signing contracts that land them in massive debt with him. he is still a vampire and still turns the spawn, it's like a religious indoctrination thing.

the creche is a tight knit very questionable community, a bit removed from society. competition is encouraged in unhealthy ways.

i have tav info too, but that's going somewhere separate so it doesn't like. interfere with main cast stuff. this is still a magical setting, nobody is human who wasn't before unless i. forgot character details which happens a lot, adhd and nkt being able to visualize a single thing definitely does that.

send asks if there's stuff you want to know about the characters!!! especially the ones i don't think about much, because it forces me to think about them. so. so send asks for everyone who isn't Karlach but also send asks for Karlach because i am in love with her.

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the long awaited result of my poll!! he's madly in love and fully convinced that he's seducing you, the viewer, successfully. with wonderwall. i don't even know what i'm putting under the read more lol its just a habit now

okay i lied i do know what i'm putting under here: to anyone reading this i swear under oath ill make a NICE DRAWING of him playing the guitar like a normal person at some point i just need a ref so send in ur best hozier playing the guitar pics that u have. he's the best reference for the rizzard of waterdeep.

hope all you gale likers enjoy!! i'm so sorry unfortunately i am chronically and terminally a lesbian and all i know about what makes men hot is 1. swagless and 2. respects women

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i made more of them whoops. six wasn't enough apparently.

also i don't normally draw fluffy dogs or long face dogs because both of mine are short haired BRICKS so any advice is appreciated :) i love Scratch so much. more info and plain text under the cut again

i will draw Halsin and Jaheira eventually i swear. the diner doesn't have a name yet either, but it WILL. one day. i kinda want Astarion to work there in the future, his cafe job is a different, worse one. Halsin lovers i need your feedback because i do not know much at all about this man.

and thank you for the support on my first post!! i've never gotten this many notes before lol

sidenote: Fennel is a drow. she's just got that dragonsblood sorcerer thing going on and also i like horns. (she IS lolthsworn in game, i'm still debating how to include that here. is three characters with religious trauma too many??)

FENNEL

5'9"

works at Halsin's coffee shop/diner as a line cook.

first stable job she's had in ages because she has no tolerance for rude customers and kept saying things that got her fired.

adopted Scratch after his owner passed away, does everything to improve herself for his sake.

met Jaheira through the diner as well, who recommended the support group to her.

this was 90% because Jaheira likes collecting these nonfunctional gay losers to watch the drama unfold in ways better than any sitcom, but she (probably) actually cares at least a little.

hates the idea of going until something (or someone) suddenly motivates her ooOOOo what could it beeeeee........

coffee order is a plain americano until she gets introduced to sweet drinks and realizes life is worth living.

it's hot chocolate now, caffeine doesn't do anything for her anyway.

favourite board game is phase ten, but she never wins. just happy 2 be there.

absolute beast in mario kart tho, matches Karlach's competitive streak.

SCRATCH

best boy!!!!!!

used to be a drug sniffing dog, VERY task oriented. Fennel has to hide things for him to search for daily or he gets antsy.

he's shockingly intelligent, knows more than a dog should.

misses his previous owner a lot. has to be walked to the cemetary weekly for visits.

likes all foods, but LOVES fruit a weird amount.

blueberries are his high-value treat.

calm in thunderstorms but can't handle fireworks. howls at sirens because that's the noise that took his best friend away :(

his previous owner was a handler for a different dog. he knew Scratch wouldn't hurt without a good reason, so when Scratch attacked a TSA agent, he took Scratch with him and left the job.

this saved Scratch and he knew it, was extremely loyal. the other dog got moved to a new handler, no harm done.

very protective little guy, he loves the gang. sees them all as his responsibility.

those losers are HIS sheeps, and he is a VERY GOOD GUARDIAN.

can his sheeps stop being sad please. also stop having "jobs". walk him instead.

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got 80 notes on the au intro post, thank you all so much!! as thanks i offer a vote on what stuff im prioritizing after the wyllstarion comic sitting in my csp drafts.

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it is with great shame that i must announce to my two and a half possibly three followers that while i may have promoted this blog on business cards for potentially being slightly more professional, you'll have to find me on instagram under the same name for any semblance of that. sorry the worms got me theres a bg3 modern fantasy au in the works brace urselves for some babys first comics

also send me asks about the au!!! if you're interested in it and wanna know more!! asks will give me a chance to think about things i haven't considered yet for it and i would LOVE more chances to flesh things out. i love all of the characters equally unless they are wyll and karlach whom i love a little more equally than the rest

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if i post this im more motivated to do it but there is a comic on the way. maybe. hopefully it'll be posted before 9pm pacific time but no guarantees lol ive never done comics before this is hard.

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wyllstarion comic is taking so long because it is full colour with backgrounds i didn't trace from a stock image. and i am dying this is my second time ever drawing both of these men itll be here SOON i prommy. so so soon. im using the poll post as my official update thread now sorry. have a bad photo of my favorite panel so far

got 80 notes on the au intro post, thank you all so much!! as thanks i offer a vote on what stuff im prioritizing after the wyllstarion comic sitting in my csp drafts.