#xan love

[novaeverse]

Trick-or-Treat!

Lae’zel and Shadowheart take Xan go go trick-or-treating in Waterdeep! They visit Gale and Zinmaris too.

Gale is a cat tressym. Tara is a wizard. Zinmaris is a pirate. Shadowheart is a werewolf. Lae’zel is a red dragon. Xan is Orpheus.

[flowers-in-my-eye]

Inej and Kaz r like the angel and devil between ur shoulders appearing every time when u think whether or not u should make a bad decision

[vikdec4i]

more lackadaisy textposts!!!

alt version with viktor bc i think they'd have funny interactions lowkey

[sovonight]

keep close

[somehowmags]

here's the thing alright wyll is perfect for a single parent romance novel. like him and lily aurora ravengard are absolutely destroying at the daddy daughter dance. he's showing up to the pta bake sale with the best brownies in town. they're having tea parties together with all of her stuffed animals. it's great they're adorable. the problem is absolutely fucking nobody else in this party is ready to be not the stepparent but the parent who stepped up. karlach? would love being a cool auntie. astarion? weird uncle. shadowheart? rediscovering life post shar. lae'zel? maybe if she was raising xan but also she's busy doing hot girl shit like killing vlaakith. gale? malewifing it up but ultimately just happy to be here. halsin? cool uncle. minthara? double income no kids bisexual aunt who shows up on candlenights to unleash the gift reckoning. do you see my fucking problem. how am i supposed to romance novel in these conditions.

[acerikus]

Organic blind playthroughs of undertale untainted by backseating are one of the most magical things to come out of it tbh. Yesssss, you go and kill that monster bc you don't know the mechanics yet. Wooooo, you're excited that you levelled up hell yeah! Awesome, you're shocked and devastated that you killed Toriel after she was so nice and didn't know a way around it.

The joy on people's faces when they redo the game later for pacifist is so so good. So many interactions they didn't see! So many different ways things could've gone - but in a positive way! Neutral is such an awesome introduction to undertale if you started with neutral we shall have a summer wedding

[dreaminawaymylife]

A bottle of vodka and xanax.

A true love story.

[irlnorthshaw]

how it started:

how its going:

i fear we don't talk about them enough. after rookie season it actually made me so happy to see how well klaus and shakes got along right off the bat. their chemistry is undeniable and call it a hot take idc but to me, THEY are the striker duo.

plus, shakes have been the only one that has faith in klaus. during times everyone turns their back, it was shakes that remained on his side 😭😭

"man in the iron tank mask" is probably my favorite episode of them

BONUS !! LOOK AT THEM

[onegroovyrose]

Save me mage trio dragonfable save me….

[benzodolli3]

[veryaren]

Hi (throws the shittiest wip in your face ever)

spiritfox/philemon's altar . og under tha cut

[vikdec4i]

my take on viktor and elsa (that nobody asked for)

i truly think, from the bottom of my heart, they were nothing more than just really really great friends. or at least, two people who understood each other beyond surface level

when i said previously a couple posts back that i don’t see viktor as a romance guy, i truly mean it!! and i believe it to be the same with elsa

if i were to see people speculating they had a romantic background, an angel lost its wings 😭

maybe in the near future they confirm such speculations whatever?? but i think we all need to dial back and understand individuals beyond gender and sexuality— because yes

MEN AND WOMEN CAN BE FRIENDS!!! SURPRISE!!!!!

in volume 2 when ivy brought rocky to elsa to get treated for his massive wounds, i hc that elsa saw a lot of her and viktor in ivy and rocky— WALK WITH ME FOR SECOND

you have the person who grew up in violence (ivy and viktor) and another person trying to keep their head up high amongst all the melancholy (elsa and rocky)

viktor and elsa knew each other from way back during the war and to the business they had with lackadaisy. until well… atlas’ passing, which changed everything

i think there’s such a meaningful bond between two people who’s clearly suffering from PTSD (which is a hell of a torture alone) and wanting to escape all the noise… but they just never can. because it’s all they’ve known their whole lives

but anyways....

IM ON MY KNEES PRAYING THAT THEY DON’T RUIN THEIR ALREADY DEEP CONNECTION W ONE ANOTHER WITH CHEESY ROMANCE JUST TO ALIGN WITH HETERONORMATIVE SOCIETAL STANDARDS

[sovonight]

for a moment, carefree

[bloodydifficult]

this frame is ridiculous they're so stupid i love them

[iicaru2]

potentially unpopular opinion, but my favorite ending for lae’zel (romanced or not) is asking her to stay in faerûn. the first ending i ever got for her was the sick ass dragon ending, but i didn’t feel good about it when i got to the epilogue. i kept thinking about that scene she has in act 3 (post-vlaakith showing up in camp to yell at her like an abusive mother) where you can ask her about her own needs and wants vs. her pledging herself to different people’s causes. vlaakith, then orpheus.

she approves when you ask, and says something along the lines of “there will come a time when i can think of myself beyond the lich-queen (...) but that time won’t come until the prince of the comet is set free.” she’s been living her entire life following orders and dedicating every bit of herself to the cause she believes in. lae’zel does just about everything in the name of someone else, because that’s what she was taught. she was raised a loyal soldier, and she doesn’t quite know what she is without that purpose in her life. she’s a lot like shadowheart in this regard.

but if you convince her to stay in faerûn after defeating the netherbrain— i know this quote because i saved it as i love it very much— she says: “mother gith battled for liberty - but it was only here, with you, that i learned what it meant to be free. yes - i will stay. my destiny is for neither vlaakith nor orpheus to decree. it is mine.”

and orpheus acts like everything he did was for nothing after that, which is kind of dumb. voss is obviously still going to fight for githyanki liberation (he has a letter about this in the epilogue), and you can see several of them taking to the skies afterwards. the githyanki people will be liberated, but it doesn’t have to be lae’zel who spends the rest of her life doing it for him. she’s found friends here. family.

she’s made a life of her own, and it’s unfair to ask her to throw that away for a war she didn’t start. like, for fuck’s sake, she’s twenty-two. she’s the youngest of the origins, and honestly, after seeing so much content of her throughout my several campaigns, it makes sense. lae’zel is the way she is because not only is she very young, she was also raised a soldier in a cutthroat environment. she’s never known any different, not until the pc and the tadfools party comes along to turn her worldview upsidedown.

if you ask her to stay, she seems so happy in the epilogue. plus, if you happened to steal an egg from the crèche and have exceptional approval with her, you can ask if the egg has hatched yet, and it leads to my favorite line of hers in the game: “so it has. i call him Xan. ‘freedom.’ tonight, he is safe among people i proudly call friends. what a wonder he is. he will be a fine warrior, if he chooses. or a poet, or an explorer, or a scholar. i was afforded a destiny of my own choosing. when he comes of age, it is only right i give Xan the same.”

she’s happy, and free, having adventures of her own all over faerûn with people she trusts. she’s raising her adoptive son and giving him the childhood she was never allowed to have. it’s such a great ending for her and i love her so fucking much.

[awordlybeing]

not xander being dubbed (indirectly) as grayson's favorite sibling and now he has two xanders in his life ☹️