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Casteel, Kieran and Poppy - From Blood and Ash

Artist: @raye_illustrations

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Gortashposting

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little tyrant

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Cursed fic idea that I need to share (because I'll never write it and I need you all to suffer with me): Gortash and Dark Urge arranged marriage.

Where Bhaal is very proud of his daughters' murdering prowess but would still like some grandchildren (bhaalspawn are not easy to make), and Bane is happy to offer his Chosen in exchange for being able to direct where Bhaal's cultists will strike next (and have them help further his plans, rather than ruin them)

Of course, both Durge and Gortash are less than pleased at the plan. Durge, because she's a strong independent woman who wants to keep slaughtering people and leading her father's temple, not playing house with a bloody banite, and certainly not having him tell her who she can, or cannot, kill. Gortash because the marriage is just another thing he has no control over and is instead forced upon him (he can see the value of the alliance but chaffes at being used as a bargaining chip yet again)

Featuring:

- Enemies to allies to lovers (to enemies again if we follow the game timeline)

- Instead of super kinky sex, they start their relationship with super boring, detached, and perfunctory sex because they both assume the other doesn't know how to fuck and want the whole deal over with

- Bridezilla Gortash

- Sceleritas Fel & Orin ducking it out for the Maid of Honor spot

- They start to care for each other, but are afraid to show it because their whole alliance is mandated by their Gods (plus they both have the emotional maturity of a rock), so the sex goes from boring, to nasty, to kinky with feelings

- like, they are allowed to look and touch, but they cannot feel, so they show affection in small ways, a soft touch here, a shared look there, some joint slaughter over there...

- Them being evil and domestic, like the true villain power couple they are

- Ketheric hates them and their married antics *so much*

- Durge being introduced to the Gate's patriars as Lord Gortash's wife and having to behave in public. There's a fancy ball at some point, with dancing, UST, sex and murder

(if the game plot happens, Gortash greets Durge as "my beloved wife", the whole party starts to seriously question their choice in leadership, and Karlach has an aneurysm. Astarion just loves the drama)

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A normal sane person: you're kinda crazy, for even trying to court a bhaalspawn.

Enver Gortash, not normal: skill issue.

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here is a little face reveal/shadowheart halloween costume reveal 🫶

i made all of her accessories with sculpting wire and clay!

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Durgetash has two flavors in this fandom.

1) They have the nastiest fucking sex in the history of nasty sex like they're on that freak shit, they're breaking Geneva conventions in the bedroom and the bathroom and the mausoleum, they are disturbing the dead with their raunchy ass wound fucking, heart licking, innards intercourse.

And

2) the dark urge has a psychological meltdown and existential crisis of faith after Gortash lightly trails his fingers along their knuckles this one time with a knowing look on his face.

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It's stupid that you as the dark urge don't get a private scene with Gortash where you can ask him what you were like before, like...wouldn't you be interested???

Here is the only man who both recognizes you and LIKES YOU.

He of all people would know you enough to tell you stuff. You have spent the entire game not knowing what you were like before, and you've mostly been told in pieces and chunks that you were awful.

Here is a man who seemed to actually care about/like you...and you can't ask him to elaborate.

Stupid.

Also it should be a sex scene.

Anyway-

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Consider: Gortash having a portrait of Durge somewhere where the party ends up seeing it, because he managed to coax, bribe or coerce them into sitting for it at some point and there's no point going to all that trouble and expense for a portrait if no one is ever going to see it and also he likes looking at it so sue him. It fulfills both my desire for the party to get a glimpse of pre-amnesia Durge that isn't just Evil Murdery Bhaalspawn and my desire for Gortash dragging Durge kicking and screaming into at least some parts of Respectable Noble Society!

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It's a shame you can't cut off Raphael's head and present it to Gortash like a proud cat dropping a dead rat in your bed.

I'd actually kill to see him react to you murdering Raphael in general, tbh.

Why can't you tell him?

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Huevember day 6 with Mizora! Would you take her deal? 😈

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Perhaps, a lifetime ago, we were soulmates. I feel it in my bones, every time I look at you. But my heart longs for another. Imagine my surprise at myself, a bhaalspawn who fell in love— not once, but twice. Everything about the feeling, even now, is so foreign, so wrong. I know it’s not what I was made to be.

Even though I’m not the person I was before I lost my memories, and maybe the passion between us has changed— you cannot deny that I care about you, and for you.

You cannot say that I’ve never done anything for you.

I’ve defied my very reason for existing for you.

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random thought i had that i needed to write down… the “mad love” quote from astarion that you get as durge if you lose the duel with orin is so durgetash coded to me… like. how is that not exactly how gortash would feel upon realizing that his lover has forgotten him!! especially as a resisting durge.. he would weep for his mad love, wondering where they went and thinking of all that could be

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resisting durge x spawn astarion i think is the most fulfilling relationship you can have in the game… however … any form of durge x gortash is truly the peak relationship and it kills me that i can only experience it In My Mind

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No thoughts. Head empty. Gortash being the only person in the world to love and care for Durge both as Bhaal's Chosen and as an amnesiac hero only.

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the idea that currently has me in a chokehold:

The chosen of Bane and Bhaal succeeded, taking the netherstones and the netherbrain for themselves. The chosen of Bhaal understands that he must ruin, that he must maim and kill and murder until he has destroyed the entire world with his faith — his loyalty. It was the only purpose he had, the only reason for his very existence. But first… first he would rule. Rule with the chosen of Bane, rule from the castle roost, watching in awe as his nearest and dearest painted a canvas of domination across the stars. From Baldur’s Gate to Waterdeep, the entirety of Faerûn will feel the tyrants black hand push down on their backs. It would be glorious. And when his partner, his confidante, his, reached the end of his paltry human lifespan, the Dark Urge will send them both to his lord-fathers domain. Together, until the very end.

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They should be his, forever. The precious little bhaalspawn that he fell in love with all those years ago. The only person in all of faerûn that he would share his power with.

And yet, they squander it.

Maybe it’s not entirely their fault— Orin destroyed their memories and broke their mind.

But that didn’t make it hurt any less. The one person in the world that he loved, would do anything for— kill anyone for— didn’t return his affection.

He was just collateral damage.