#we'll haunt this world together / re: astarion.

[swordpact]

oriax tell us about your relationship with astarion - how did it start? where do you see it going? also, what does / did it feel like to meet other tieflings?

" it's -- well, i mean. it happened just the same as any of us coming together with mildly more threatening with daggers. "

he laughs, like the memory of astarion putting a knife to his throat is something fond to remember.

" he's -- i won't say he's outright kind, but he's. . .i want him here. i want to see him succeed, whatever that means, and i want to see him start to heal. i hope i'm pushing him to be kinder, just as he's pushing me to be bolder. "

the second question breaks the shy silence oriax has, a broad smile brightening his face.

" it was wonderful! i wasn't expecting to meet so many in such a circumstance, but meeting them was -- it's so nice to be around people who are like you. i want to help them. more than anything, i want them to be safe. "

relationship questions.

[swordpact]

Who is Oriax gonna romance? Do you have any headcanons about them? I am making grabby hands I want to know everything.

he's currently romancing astarion in his game........im a sucker for oriax and vampires i can't help it. but i also love love love him with karlach -- there's something about the three of them all being from baldur's gate but being from vastly different walks of life and all seeing the city in different ways.

with astarion and oriax, it's a case of 'i can make him better while he makes me worse' for a long time. oriax pulls astarion onto this side of good alignment while they feedback loop on each other for the possibility of gaining great power from the mindflayer tadpoles. there's a bond there of 'i have my freedom now and no one will take it from me again' and astarion is one that shows oriax that living in a golden cage is still living in a cage. they really are kind of a whirlwind when they finally get close enough to start sharing feelings with one another, and astarion is one of the few who get to see past oriax's facade of trying to keep it together.

karlach, on the other hand, brings out a mischievous joy in oriax that's hard to get anywhere else. he doesn't care as much about his noble exterior around her -- she's rough and tumble and covered in blood most of the time, and she makes going into battle fun as all hell. he's happy to run alongside her and dive headlong into the things that make her happy because she's got an infectious kind of joy at being out of the hells and into the world again. and when they get to baldur's gate, she shows him all the places she remembers, places a noble like oriax would never go on his own.

relationship asks.