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Guys he's so pretty..

[what-is-it-to-be-pk-esque]

Omg the love triangle/breakup dynamics in BG3 kill me

Astarion offering to have a sordid affair down the road if you romance Wyll is amazing - and you can agree to that lmaooo. Honestly his retorts and jokes about Wyll if you pick Astarion might be the funniest in the bunch, love that he calls you a scoundrel if you agree hahaha

Karlach's got some really kind and funny things to say about Astarion as long as you get his act 2 scene before you sleep with her (the throwing his pomade into the river comment, joking about sharpening stakes, saying he's not one whose heart you should play with, etc). If it's the other way around you def feel like a piece of shit for picking him and she is right to make you feel that way lol. Also let her be the one to end things, don't tell her you're ending things first unless you want to cry, holy shiiiiiit 😭😭😭 I swear she makes me wanna cry more than anyone else this whole game (such good acting!)

Shadowheart, she also has some really insightful things to say about Astarion if that's your love triangle, but I think you can't really do an act 2 scene with her until the end of Act 2 / early Act 3? So in early act 2 she only gets one breakup option instead of 2 like the others, which only happens from Shadowheart initiating the breakup after you get the other person's act 2 scene. Regardless she & Wyll seem to take a breakup best imo

Meanwhile from what I can tell Gale does not take it well if you pick someone else no matter which order you do the love triangle. He's either super hurt or pissed no matter what I did even though I didn't even kiss him in the weave in my game!! I had no way to tell him let’s just be friends before anything with Astarion happened, although to his credit he does have one or two okay responses of wanting you to be happy as long as you let him down gently in the convo before his act 2 scene. He's just clearly very hurt and down bad though, I felt awful the whole time lol, almost as bad as with Karlach

When I've tried to make the love triangle happen with Lae'zel, she was just ultra salty no matter what I did & Astarion only had like one non-generic line 🤷‍♀️ might also be bugged cause when I tried to pick her after getting his Act 2 scene she said nothing and all I could choose was leave/breakup. Felt like they didn't add as many options for her? You can tell it def affects her though cause even though she's pissed she says your "bruises will scar" :( so... still a bummer

Similarly for Wyll if you choose someone else over him, his comments are mostly generic about writing your story and honestly he’s pretty mature about it, but you don't even get to tell him you wanna date both, which is where they can say some pretty emotional/funny stuff, so again, doesn't seem like a lot of variations were put in for him

I find it interesting that you seem to only get the "you chose me instead of X?" dialogue with Astarion if you break it off with Shadowheart or Karlach, where you can tell him you're "dead serious" about the relationship. Unless I missed it, he didn't have anything to say when I talked to him after breaking up with Gale or Wyll or Lae'zel, which is when that dialogue pops up with the other two.

He seems to have the "i hear you have a new lover / what, why?" speech with everyone though. If you choose someone else over him before his act 2 scene he has the same various replies of "lucky you, you'll think of me / i'll think of everything we did / having you once was enough" etc, but if it's after his act 2 scene it's all "I didn't think / you were a mistake" :( and you'll feel terrible about yourself

ALSO while I'm talking about it, idk if this happened to anyone else, but the "I hear you have a new lover" speech was bugged for me for Gale/Wyll/Lae'zel, so he skipped saying the 1st shady unique line for them, BUT I could see it in the journal. Karlach's seemed to work fine though. Adding pics for reference minus Shadowheart

UPDATE ok it is a known bug and Shadowheart def has variations too, adding the youtube link for these. Also I had NO idea about the act 3 versions, omg these are SAVAGE towards Wyll and Gale ahhahaha

[iron-hearts-ablaze]

What made you pick up this character?

canon questionnaire.

// Karlach intrigued me from the beginning! In my first playthrough, she was a breath of fresh air. In that run, I somehow managed to completely miss Wyll at the grove aside his cutscene (I'm an idiot, I know) - so everyone I had picked up at this point were pretty damn mean or off-putting to me (Astarion, Shadowheart and Lae'zel) or sketchy and I just didn't trust (Gale - I thought he was a con-man XD) - ANYWAY! Here comes Karlach. She's blunt, she tells me the truth from the beginning and is open to questions and telling me more.

// I loved her design. Her body tells her story before she even speaks. And...well, red is my favourite colour. Her personality clicked with me instantly and reminded me a lot of myself and people I love to hang out with. She made me smile every time I spoke to her and as the story went on she quickly became my favourite as well as the one that made me cry by the time we got to Act 3.

// I hesitated on making this blog initially. I worried I wouldn't be able to portray her correctly. Fun fact; but at first I had an Astarion blog. But never did anything with it and it just sat here while I decided. But my friends said I that I could pull her off - both in RP and a cosplay - since I'm the 'Karlach of our group', according to them.

// So yeah! I chose her because she was relatable, interesting, layered and made my first playthrough - and every run since - an absolute joy.

[savingthrcw]

I'm at the end of act 2 in BG3 and I'm suffering because I want to rp but I don't want to spoiler myself everything that happens next, do you see my pain??? I'm using the mod so the entire party is with me and I have all the convos and ugh

me losing it over shadowheart and astarion below

there is so much FUN that can be explored in rp like. honestly after the nightsong Lex and Shadowheart's friendship is ruined, which is so painful because she'd actually likes her more now but also she'll never fully trust Shadowheart again? because she had to basically bow her head and tell her 'I'm not okay with you killing the Nightsong but I can't lose you so I'll let you' and THEN Shadowheart made the right choice but it still meant Lex had to accept something like that to avoid having to kill her? (because I need a cleric), because she didn't trust her to make that decision from the beginning without interfering and initially it made Shadow more determined to kill the Nightsong? but how could Lex not intervene in the hope that Shadow wouldn't sacrifice someone held prisoner for her goddess if the ENTIRE TIME Shadow was saying that she'd do whatever Shar wanted even if she had to fight Lex? DAMN IT.

especially because like I said before Shadow lost ALL of her trust when Lex woke up at night to find out she put a knife on Lae'zel's throat while Lae slept and told her she'd claim she had started changing into a Mindflyer, like they are both obsessed with their beliefs but that moment alone told me Shadow would do anything to complete her mission. and now even if she feels lost shadow is starting to think more for herself instead of doing what her god, who took her memories of why she's doing things, demands her to do, and Lex LIKES that person but it's too late gkjlsgdjfgd

hell Lae'zell took not going after the creche better. but also ASTARION WHAT THE HELL kind of relationship did I end up writing. Lex threatened her ONCE because she knew Lae would like it and she was RIGHT.

but also ASTARION WHAT THE HELL kind of relationship did I end up writing, I'd love to ship them in rp even more than in the game tbh because there are more dialogue choices when we are free (let aside that my 'canon' ship is Wyll because it happened naturally since their interests align) but the 'we banter and bicker all the time but I'd do you' is one of my faves especially with the bonus 'if anyone tries to force him into anything I'll go feral', and Astarion is always so touched that Lex will give him a choice about pretty much anything despite shooting down his 'let's be evil' ideas and not letting anywhere near her neck lol

Gale is breaking my heart, HE BETTER NOT DIE. Karlach is my bro but also needs the damn hug but the guy who could have helped died at the last light inn so uhm

[awellboiledicicle]

Lud's eyes are Like That because of Mora and Nocturnal fighting over her. Ok more specifically it's Mora after all those damn books when the cult was after her that one time.

No, not that cult, the other-- the dragon one.

She's literally only not in nightengale armor bc a mod for that hasn't been uploaded. In universe of the fic she can just. manifest it from the shadows, so rn she's just slumming it in travel leathers.

Shadowheart thinks she's worshipping Shar when she makes little alters in camp and burns inscense. Lud very calmly explains that Shar isn't a very good goddess of night if you know jack and shit about her. This lead to a vaguely tense but enlightening conversation about aspects of darkness and how they focus on the different ones.

Gale and Wyll are in the background wondering if they signed up with a cultist.

Then Lud tries to understand the planer system and gets a headache. Because listen, she went to the College. She did her studies so she'd understand the shit that could help her in battle and in thieving. But the finer academic points were not her strong suit. She can cast fuck you beam, doesn't really understand how the magic gets from extraplanar sources to her outside of "Magus does it". She does hate the idea of working with Mystra, though. Not even for anything gale related at first, she just hates the idea of asking permission to do what comes innately.

She also accidentally Fus's Gale into the lake by their camp because he insisted he could speak dragon without clarifying he meant draconic, not... whatever the fuck she does.

Wyll's whole warlock deal just strikes her as daedra worship with paperwork. Which she kinda just nods and says she gets it, because yeah. A bit confused why he sold his soul to NOT the biggest baddest player, but she assumes he had a reason.

Speaking of Mizora and by extension Raphael.... they don't know what to actually offer that would be like. fair. for her soul. Because she's a dragon. And while fair isn't usually what they go for, when a divine being is what you're aiming at, you try to get the legalese straight and make it semi-equitable if only so if they get mad at you, their godly relations don't get pissed. Because they don't know how far a god from another plane can reach, but time is not a domain you fuck with. So rules lawyering to get what they want becomes infinitely more tricky. Add in that she knows how to pick through contracts with a fine toothed comb, and Raphy boy is sweating through his doublet during the initial meeting. Mora writhing behind her eyes doesn't help either.

Lud is not really aware of this little fidget happening, because she's principally just generally against sharing out even more of her soul level. Because she's got, technically, spares. Which she hordes. Because if you didn't listen to Paarthy, your soul and skull got to be housed in her manor. And she's very protective of her horde.

Lae'zel reminds her of the Companions. This is both good, because she liked Kodlak, and bad because the rushing in headlong to fight is exhausting. There's tactics, sure, but managing where she is makes Lud tired. Mostly because if they HAVE to be killing people, at least do so swiftly. Lae'zel is, by dint of the size of her weapon and her armor weight, going to move slower than her. Which means not getting too far or too close to her. It's a thing. Learning how young she is turns it into "oooh, murder child" "I am no child." "Relatively, you are child."

Astarion meanwhile has to deal with her peering over his shoulder while he's practicing his lock picking to be as fast as she is at it. She's doing it to learn how they do it in Faerun, since the locks are designed differently. She's just very good at learning fast, so it looks like she doesn't have to learn. She's going to fuck up a trap disarm and have to deal with him laughing at her, followed by him being loomed over by a very on fire nord that informs him she doesn't appreciate being laughed at.

A fun thing is i'm delighted imagining the boar scene because i can imagine her commenting that vampires don't generally do well eating animals, in her experience. Prompting a "what" from the group, and Astarion to recalculate how he's going to word things. She gestures to the neck of the boar. "Back home, you meet a vampire in woods, it will try to drain you. You meet a vampire in their den, you will find a larder of human bodies. Thralls tending fireplaces. Armed." A frown as she toed the carcass. "Only vampire I have seen eat mostly animal? She does not waste the flesh. I can only assume it was scared off before it could properly finish." "Then we can't waste time getting out of here, can we?" Astarion tucked the idea that she was friendly enough with a vampire to have a present tense explanation of her diet into a corner for now. Because either he was safer than expected, or wildly more unsafe. Lud huffed through her nose and regarded him for a moment with those inky eyes. Like she was knowing something about him in that moment. And he hated it. "What?" With a dismissive wave, her expression eased back into the relaxed smile they'd all gotten used to from her. "We will see what comes. Now, let us find more goblins to kill, yes? If they reach the grove again we will have nowhere to go drinking after."

Karlach is a delight to her, if only because then she can fire breath without worrying about actually hurting the person running out ahead of her. She's also very very quick to catch onto the kind of person Lud is and is wary for about as long as it takes to find Halsin. Because she reminds her of Gortash. The difference, of course, being that Lud is also genuinely cordial until you fuck with her.

I just. [waves hands] having fun

Making a skyrim/bg3 au entirely to make Astarion not know what to do with an equally morally dubious nord that deeply doesn't take anyone's shit.

She is also 40. Because she gets yote to Faerun on one of her "let's go make sure the mages aren't breaking time again" runs post saving things and posturing at the Thalmor.

Shes also a nightingale.

Her name is Lud and she is good