#tav: australis

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Genuinely unsure if I'll ever recover.

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Wyll forgetting that his gf/wife is undead had endless opportunies for fun.

She's his personal taste tester, since she's immune to poison. It started as a joke between them but when she said "wait actually hold up don't eat this" he's halfway to calling for a medic before she reminds him the reason she does this is because it doesn't effect her.

Australis will sometimes tap in time to his heartbeat on his back when they're laying together. He tries to do the same, but spends a long awkward time trying to feel a pulse or anything to follow, forgetting that her heart hasn't beat for 35 years.

In the summer months theyre all tangled up in eachother (Austri is like if "I hope both sides of your pillow are cool" was ur gf) but in winter she's Freezing to the touch and is sometimes asked to sleep on top of the blankets so she stops slipping her tail up Wyll's shirt in the night.

There's more bouncing around in my brain

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Hey so I'm losing my mind and have a ton of BG3 fics I want to write but I haven't the foggiest where to start. SO please vote. Synopses under the cut!

No bald option I just need direction

Origin (Australis) - an introduction to my Tav, Australis, and her life prior to her stint on the Nautiloid. All the worst she's done, and the blood on her hand she's hoping to hide.

Quest : Save Mayrina - in the Hag's Lair, Australis makes a cruel decision and finds herself justifying it to a horrified Wyll, and reveals one of her secrets to him.

Not Alone Beyond The Grave - Astarion tries to feed on Australis, and it does *not* go well.

To See Yourself - Australis saves Arabella, and has an uncomfortable moment of reflection in her discussion with the girl and her parents.

A Moment of Respite - Austri sneaks away from the party with Wyll, and have a discussion about heroism.

Epilogue - What happens to Australis and co after the events of the game, following her search for a cure to Astsrion's vampirism and a way out of her pact, once and for all. 2 parts.

Companion Quest - Australis' companion quest, with alternate endings. Might fuck around and make it in one of those little choose your own adventure game makers, for the roleplay potential

I'm normal about this, can you tell.

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Australis Ionos

The Gem of the Mountains

I'm so so proud of her, as a character. Genuinely one of my favorites to have played and written. So, to celebrate my first completed playthrough (132 hours), have some screenshots!

She is far and away my most beloved character, and after decades of exhaustion, preying on wizards and those gifted with arcane knowledge, her next quest is simple - find a way to cure Astarion's vampirism, and find a way out of her pact without her body crumbling to dust.

Spoiler alert but Austri breaks her pact bringing Astarion back to life, killing her and binding her soul to her demilich patron. With a magical ring and a little guidance from a very, very old camp mate, Astarion is able to wish Australis back. And he's freed her. Freed of the infernal magic that had twisted her into a tiefling, freed her of the pact that had bound her and freed her of her decades of undeath. She's back, as she would have been had nothing bad ever happened to her.

Being resurrected like that, truly resurrected into a new body is excruciating for her, having gone so long without the hammering of a heartbeat and a chest expanding with each necessary breath. And while she's initially beyond pissed off that Astarion dragged her back from her sacrifice for him, she can't find the words to express what this new chance at life might mean for her.

^ shes so unbothered by Ansur possessing her her patron does this all the time sometimes she just falls back and her eyes start glowing and the gang are like ah shit here she goes again. She's normal about being given orders too, if you believe it/j

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Dancing Lights

I'm so normal about them. Two warlocks really making life worth *living*, as a person and not just a concept, someone else's puppet.

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I'm up to the final battle on my first tav and guys.... I'm gonna CRY she's come so far. Gonna have to post her screenshot album when I'm done.

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Guys the parallels between Australis and Astarion are fun HOWEVERRRRR the fact that the whole Profane Ascension thing is sourced by Mephistopheles, who's worshippers were the root of pretty much all the worst parts of her life, means that not only us she terrified of repercussions once Raphael name drops her Least Favorite Archdevil, but there's no way in the nine hells she's letting Cazador ascend. Hell no. (She might consider letting Astarion do it in another playthrough, but no one she loves is fucking around with Mephistopheles.)

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I guess you could say I love them a normal amount

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Turning a sketchbook into Australis' Book of Shadows ♡♡♡

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Wyll wasting a Revifivy on Australis after she tried to solo a nest of giant spiders, only for Lae'zel to immediately hit on her while she's still shaking and covered in bug goo and the remnants of a stink cloud is NOT how I thought the last 5 minutes would have gone.

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Posting the full Austri Album tonight but the level of cunt she's serving is CATASTROPHIC

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(For your ocs)

What is everyone's alignment?

(Did you finish Australis' book/sketchbook that you were making? Cause I REALLLY want to see it!! If you posted it, I missed it :( )

Who's most likely to have a secret (or not) stuffed animal/special blanket?

How old are they?

If they could have a pet or animal companion, what would it be?

(I'll think of more but I'm super sleepy ((ha lol)) )

THANKYOU I ADORE YOUUUUU I'll answer the first one, then put the rest under the cut ♡

Okay so alignments!

Australis is Chaotic Neutral. Laws have meant nothing to her for quite some time and, while she wants you to think she spends her free time kicking dogs and making babies cry, she has quite the stubborn good streak she spends an inordinate time trying to hide.

Boreal is Neutral Evil - he is the cause of almost every almost-disaster that strikes the tiny town of Clicking Heels, and he's always miraculously around to save the day and cure wounds and make everything better. His desperation to prove himself to be good, to be a hero, has resulted in him being a person who does everything to the letter in order to cause enough problems to paint himself the small town hero.

Daphne is Lawful Good, and is both a people pleaser to the highest order and terrified of upsetting anyone ever. Having been raised in a way that convinced her that her magic was unruly, dangerous and in need of full time restraint, she makes very very sure no one else has reason to hate her. She also just has a huge heart and is consistently putting others above herself.

It could be argued that Belladonna is default Chaotic Evil, as the Dark Urge, but she's fighting these violent, cruel instincts as best she can. So I'm labelling her Chaotic Neutral, too.

Lividia is Lawful Neutral. As a Fist, her job is to follow orders. She's got a horrible jealous streak, so she's willing to do almost anything to boost her station without breaking rules, even if that means playing dirty.

As for secret comfort items, Australis has been carrying around a ratty stuffed owlbearntoy since visiting the House of Healing in act 2. It doesn't have a name, or anything, but Austrinwill sit up all night just looking at it, turning and tracing seams and squishing it in her hands. It reminds her of a stuffed animal she had some 50 years ago, before her corruption, before her pact. It's almost a tie back to the childhood she lost. Of course she'd rather die again than admit that she kept the old thing stuffed away in her pack.

As for the IRL Book of Shadows, it's still a work in progress!! The fact you remembered I was making it has made me so excited so here's some dodgy pics of where I'm at!

Thankyou so so much for the ask!! ♡♡♡♡♡

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Having adventured to cure Astarion of Vampirism and breaking Australis' pact and bringing her back to life, properly, I am tearing up at the thought of the companions all getting back together to celebrate Astarion and Australis' "5th" birthday all together again. Gale makes a cake. They're all alive and happy, really alive. Don't touch me.

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Idk guys do we think Australis has game?

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Australis finally finding the closest thing to acceptance from a community from the tieflings she helped in the Grove will surely not negatively impact her in the future. Right.

Right.

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Sometimes a family is The Blade of Frontiers, his freaky undead wife, a great hulking owlbear, a geriatric dog and the tiefling orphan they take care of (I don't give a shit how many times you call her "apprentice" that is your daughter now Australis)