#then i think of minthara and the question is forgotten. i want her.

[ambrosykim]

what if i replayed bg3........

[thenugking]

WIP Whenever

Tagged by @tacticalgrandma thank you <3

I have no drafts right now (I'm currently working on Between the Lines, my epistolary chill BG3 project, but the "chapters" are short enough that I tend to finish them in one go and get them up soon after.

So, here's a list of mostly one shot fic ideas I have floating round to potentially tackle next (mostly Kallianverse, warnings for mentions of incest and abuse). Feel free to let me know if you have questions/suggestions about any of these

Nothing Of Value Is Here - the next part of No Highly Esteemed Deed - Orin tries to move on from her grief and rebound by abusing Minthara the way she was abused. (Spoilers it doesn’t go well.)

Astarion gets triggered by Lee being Very Casual about incest - Short Act 1 one-shot. Lee explaining “family” to Lae’zel, everyone else going “ummmmm you should NOT be fucking your family members???”, Lee backtracking and pretending to be normal. Astarion having Incest Flashbacks throughout.

Lee/Wyll early relationship Act 2 adventures - Lee trying very hard to be in a normal relationship while worrying about Wyll realising she is in fact a Total Freak. Could be one-shot or multi chapter of various issues.

Trans girl Orin fic?? I'm not sure if I have enough thoughts to make a fic out of this or if it should just be a headcanon post but. Trans Girl Orin.

BG1 Skie/Shar-teel fic: Shar-teel proving men and Eldoth specifically suck by fucking Skie better than Eldoth can and perhaps also accidentally having some feelings.

Kallian/Ketheric hate sex: It's not canon to No Highly Esteemed Deed but god I want to put them and their issues in a blender

Orin/fem!Gortash fic: The Orintashers deserve more content but right now I only have vague ideas and the urge to write fucked up femmeslash. This one's also hatesex I'm not sure there's another way to write them.

Orin/Shadowheart tadpoled Orin AU: I should probably write the actual canon Kallianverse things first but I'm playing the AU right now and I have feelings about the two of them staying up all night trying to piece together their personalities from what little they remember

Doctor Who fic about Ruby remembering Poppy being the Doctor and Belinda's kid, which leads in to Poppy remembering every continuity reset and error that's ever happened. Mostly a lot of Ruby being unsettled by being a self-aware character in the mess that is the Whoniverse, not sure where to actually go from here except ig have her join Faction Paradox

Owl House, Return to Family Jewels fic. I’ve forgotten all my ideas for the Trans Blight Twins Swap Identities fic I was thinking about but I could write Eda, Raine and Perry being annoyed about whatever the fuck is going on between Odalia, Darius and Alador in the aftermath of Grom, and trying and failing to find Things We Like About Odalia so she stops defining herself by her family’s expectations. They don't help.

Tagging anyone who wants to do this

[thedragonagelesbian]

21, 29 and 56 for Yiseeril and Cyrus (any version) for the weirdly specific oc qs :]

Thank you!! Weirdly specific OC questions here!

I'll answer for Durge!Cyrus, since he is most on my mind right now.

21. What common etiquette do they disagree with? Do they still follow it?

Yiseeril- she thinks most social niceties are arbitrary and should be either used or ignored to get what she wants, depending on the circumstances; and if she has the opportunity to break etiquette and laugh at/humiliate someone, especially a (non-divine) authority figure, she'll take it in a heartbeat, even if it makes things worse (much to Minthara's noble chagrin)

Cyrus- sitting still sucks ass and if he doesn't rock a little bit/fidget/pace he'll die

29. How do they respond when someone doesn’t believe them?

Yiseeril- She has +14 persuasion/deception, it's VERY rare to meet someone who doesn't believe her lmao

Cyrus- Cyrus wears his heart on his sleeve, so someone not believing him is frustrating at best and devastating at worse, esp in situations where he needs someone to trust him for their own safety (i.e., trying to tell everyone about the Dark Urge at the beginning of the game)

56. If they’re scared, who do they want comfort from? Does this answer change depending on the type of fear?

Yiseeril- For Yiseeril, refuge from fear comes not from an person but from her own power (she and Astarion are toxic besties for a reason!). Exploded & drowned? Forsake your god and remake yourself as a warlock-paladin. Might lose her mind again once the Absolute is defeated and the parasite that was holding back unfathomable tides of divine knowledge is gone? Become a mindflayer. Still too much outside of her control? Take over the world and become a goddess!

.....But in a timeline where that impulse slips, Shadowheart. Unequivocally. Especially come Act 3, after Yiseeril has helped Shadowheart through her crisis of faith, Shadowheart wants to do the same for her, helping her work through her relationship with Oghma that she's otherwise refused to process.

Cyrus- Durge!Cyrus is so scared so much of the time but so very very rarely seeks out comfort for it from others. Compared to other versions of Cyrus, he has an easier time letting others take care of his physical form (letting Halsin tend to his wounds & help him trance, letting Astarion clean him up after battle & feed from him, letting Wyll braid & unbraid his hair) because he fucks himself up in battle precisely to try to keep himself from hurting them.

But emotional care? Everyone else has more important things to worry about, and besides, who would want to comfort a monster like him?

I think this might be starting to change for him in Act 2. Sceleritas visiting him again + the arrival at a place steeped with forgotten memories has rattled Cyrus badly, and with Astarion's confession after Araj, they're both really trying to be more honest & vulnerable with one another. Whether they're succeeding is another matter entirely, but Cyrus can't hide how terrified he is of what he might find out about himself. For all of the distance and dissonance Astarion has put between himself and the people he "killed" on Cazador's orders, it's a sentiment he can sympathize with.

Of course, we'll have to check in on Cyrus again after he tries to kill Wyll...