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Durge came to his dearest and nearest to help dealing with his episode. Gortash was happy to give a hand, not for free though.

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I worked on this so long that I hate it now but anyways here is my first time drawing penetrative intercourse. Yipee.

Full version on twitter: https://x.com/trashcanmeat/status/1784006251464016165?s=46

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I think some people forget that some literature and some media is meant to be deeply uncomfortable and unsettling. It's meant to make you have a very visceral reaction to it. If you genuinely can't handle these stories then you are under no obligation to consume them but acting as if they have no purpose or as if people don't have a right to tell these stories, stories that often relate to the darkest or most disturbing parts of life, then you should do some introspection.

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Gortash: *gets punched in the face during a tavern brawl* Mind the face, dammit!

Durge: *throws someone over the bar so they can check on Gortash* NOBODY TOUCH HIS BEAUTIFUL FACE OR I’LL GUT YOU

Gortash: *blushes* ahem… you think I’m beautiful? 🥹

Durge: Oh shit. Did I say beautiful? I meant bigot…full

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✅Backstory HC Achieved!

Based on a comment (turned art) left on this post

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Do you think Gortash was always a little shit? His mom said something that made me get the feeling before she sold him she thought he was a little shit and evil. Before that, I believed he became the way he is now after everything he went through as he in wanted to climb the ranks so nobody could take advantage or hurt him ever again. What do you think?

Two things can be true: The Flymm’s changed the narrative over time to justify their actions AND Gortash was a boy who was a little shit and did bad things.

I do not believe children can be evil. I do think, however, that they can live in circumstances that make them resort to behaviors that get them what they are not getting enough of.

We know the Flymms were starving. We know his parents weren’t the loving family a child needs. Maybe on top of the physical neglect there was emotional neglect too? Picture a little boy, hungry, too smart for his own good, constricted to the cobbler’s shop, not getting the attention or love he needs. Maybe little Enver stole. Maybe little Enver was a bully. Everything he does is so that his needs are met: attention, food, safety.

His parents though, they see him act out and they feel justified in ignoring him, not wanting to deal with him (easier to blame it on him than to say “we can’t put enough food on our boy’s table”), maybe they even send him to bed hungry because he needs a punishment, no?

And what does little Enver do? Not having learned healthy forms of self-regulation? He acts out worse than before. Sharp tongue cuts his parents, lays their failures and shortcomings bare. His mother starts calling him evil. The cycle spirals.

He probably was a smug child, and he might have done bad things. Evil? Ugh. Neglecting parents bullshit.

The answer will certainly change if you believe children to be capable of evil. From my view kids are still learning how the world works and how their bodies work and who they are. That, to me, means they don’t even have the emotional or mental capacity to be evil. Bad? Yes. But it’s their caretakers job to guide them.

And then here comes Raphael. Gods, can you imagine what a number that did on Enver? Morally? Emotionally?

Of course he learned that everyone is out for themselves, that control and absolute power is the only way to be safe. To survive.

Still… the fact that he never grew out of that. Never reflected. Never changed. That’s on him. He’s making the choice every day to be bad. To be cruel, dangerous, selfish. That is on him.

A self-fulfilling prophecy. A tragedy.

Both things can be true.

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🖤 Gortash:

Gortash's entire persona is about Raphael: Part 1 (his title and plot) and Part 2 (outfit)

Gortash and Karlach, and how he loathes her for reminding him of the goodness in him

Gortash is a Cyric worshipper, actually

Gortash's age and when he got out of the HoH

Why Gortash doesn't look like his parents

Gortash’s height

On whether Gortash was evil as a child

How Gortash would react to being revived by Tav

How Gortash escaped the HoH and on Hope's role

On Gortash tadpoling his parents personally

Gortash being trained artistically by Raphael

Grey morality of Gortash

Him planning to steal the Orphic Hammer

How he got good at sex

🖤 Raphael:

Raphael's visitors in the House of Hope and immortality

Raphael is the fox, not the cat

How Raphael feels about his looks, especially in relation to Haarlep

Grey morality of Raphael

Raphael's relationship to Haarlep

On who created the Astral Prism

🖤 Halsin (all of those summer '23 character state, so outdated a bit):

On Halsin's leadership

Theory on Shadow Druids

On Halsin's romance, specifically in relation to the Drow scene

🖤 Other:

On Wyll's storyline and his reception

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I don't care if it would hurt, I want to grind against Gortash’s boots while he degrades me for being a needy slut.

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blame @ferindencadash who planted in my mind an image of gort wearing these...

also a silly bonus feat. velen:

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I think I forgot to post this here, Professor Gortash hehe

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“I should know you, shouldn’t I?”

“You’ve been out here traveling for months? Gods, what happened to you?”

“I don’t remember… I think something hit my head. I woke up on a crashing ship, but all before is a blur.”

“And you remember nothing?”

“No, nothing besides a name. Does it matter?”

“No.”

I love to play with the idea of Gortash being the one to be loBhaaltomized and tadpoled, and how that dynamic shift would change everything… so here’s a snip from a little role reversal AU for him and my durge Damrys.

Sidenote it’s been forever since I’ve posted any of my art here, and I’m not really sure how often/how much I will in the future but I find tons of good BG3 stuff here so I thought I’d share!

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Lets talk about Stillmaker, Durge’s other canon blade

Okay, so we already know that Durge had the Bloodthirst dagger which was created from Bhaal’s own blood and carried by his chosen.

But there is another dagger in the game you can find that also canonically belonged to Durge, Stillmaker.

We see Stillmaker portrayed in Dark Urge’s official artwork, and it’s also Durge’s blade in Idle Champions, as you can see.

I’ve noticed that Stillmaker matches Bloodthirst in design, but it is conspicuously green, as opposed to every other Bhaalian weapon I’ve seen which are red.

You know who else’s canon weapon has the same green coloring? Gortash. And who is the color green associated with? Bane.

I posit then, that being close to one another as they were, Gortash either made or commissioned Stillmaker to match with Bloodthirst and gifted it to Durge. It’s far more his style in looks, and I feel it’s something he would have done as he describes Durge as his nearest and dearest, and we know they worked very closely together and admired one another.

It truly makes my Durgetash heart flutter!

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putting a tyrant in his place

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Found family is my absolute favorite trope, especially if it happens to be a dysfunctional chosen family of antagonists. It's clearly not what the (un)holy trinity is in the game, but hey, delululand is lovely this time of year

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He is Judas

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The evil Sailor Senshi coming to Baldurs gate near you!