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Another silver fox Gale drawing 🩶

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sigh

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pov: you gothify your roommate for the views

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By @ creamyghost on twitter/X

Feral halsin is best halsin

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EXTREMELY underrated Lae’zel trait is that she approves of you heckling Volo at the goblin camp but disapproves of you heckling the clown at the circus. funniest character growth ever

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Tarim Timberfine, once a maker of fine instruments, now an unwilling adventurer absolutely fed up with the damn worm in his head!

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the number of people i've seen give the gith egg to their fav ship without even thinking about lae'zels relationship with the egg is wild

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an adorably perplexed laezel when a butterfly lands on her nose <3 (do they have butterflies on the astral plane?)

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idont care if your durge was having crazy eroguro sex with gorty can you get them to put some pants on and tell me about their sibling relationship with orin. please.

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act 2 with a high charisma tav

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astarion’s character development is incredible to me because of the sheer amount of detail and accuracy. he doesn’t change entirely as a person after he kills cazador— he mentions himself that he keeps thinking about it, even though it’s all over. which makes sense, since 200+ years of trauma isn’t going to go away after a night.

but after killing cazador, and giving up ascension, he’s so much lighter. the usual harshness he has in his tone of voice is dulled, if not entirely absent in certain dialogues. he still has a long way to go in terms of healing, but he’s finally secure enough to start that process. he’s still him, but a weight has been taken off his shoulders, so he’s finally able to live without constant hyper-vigilance, looking over his shoulder for danger.

even the way that he refers to cazador changes: in almost every instance prior to completing his personal quest, he speaks cazador’s name with hatred. viciously. afterwards, he says his name like it’s just that. a name. someone that’s gone, and inconsequential, who can’t hurt him anymore.

i think my favorite callback is that, in the conversation you have with him after long resting, whether you romanced him or not, he thanks you for talking him out of it. now that he’s out of that hell, he’s able to see just how much continuing down that pattern of abuse would have changed and ruined him. specifically, the last line he says is “this is a gift, you know. thank you - i won’t forget it.” which is the exact same line he says after you allow him to drink your blood way back in act one.

as someone with ptsd and some pretty specific trauma, astarion means quite a lot to me as a character, so i’ll always admire just how much love was put into the way he grows over the course of the game. and, of course, this is a huge reason i can never bring myself to ascend him. he’s easily earned a spot amongst my favorite fictional characters ever and i cannot stress enough how glad i am that a story like his exists.

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Local vampire man wants his uppies

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bioware: giggling and kicking their feet like school girls while giving us the most inconsequential bulge slider and nudity toggle.

larian: you will have sex. pick a penis. there are 5. you will see it at least once. probably more. this is a threat.

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✨Multiplayer shenanigans✨

Started a campaign with my roommate and we are cruising through Act 1 already with two romances in full swing

My Tav is Cedrus, a wood elf ranger (he/him) romancing Lae’zel and my roommate’s Tav is Bronte, a tiefling sorcerer (she/her) romancing Karlach

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Gays we’re so back