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mind your business withers

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uhhuhwhatsthebestwaytoputthis... a vampire ehUh :)

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i am so normal about this game

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"You can't slay The Absolute if you can't absolutely slay." - Tav

Companions in the Wavemother's Robe BALDUR'S GATE 3 (2023) dev. Larian Studios

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i am NOT normal about this man AT ALL YO

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WWDITS / BG3 crossover

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I surely can't be the only one in this

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Fucking FASCINATED by Astarion’s Test of Love with the nymph at the circus.

When she asks

1. When he’s happiest

2. What he wants most

3. What his biggest fear is

You gain approval for responding with the very surface level things that are a little true but not really the real answer.

1. Elbow deep in gore

2. Revenge

3. Breaking a nail

But getting the answers right and truly passing the test means gaining disapproval, because he is both upset that you are saying the quiet parts about himself out loud, and that you are revealing the deepest truest parts of himself to a stranger (the nymph testing you.)

1. Astarion has never been truly happy

2. Freedom

3. Being enslaved

There are so many ways to interpret this, so many ways to play the test out based on your character and your relationship dynamic, and it’s brilliant writing on Larian’s part in that way.

Personally, the way I interpret it is as a parlell to the mirror scene in Act 1.

Astarion is thrilled at what he admits is “shallow praise” because the shallowest parts of his appearance make him feel beautiful.

But, if, when “being reflected through someone else’s eyes” he is instead met with objectively true and more unique qualities of his, like laugh lines and the way his hair curls around his ears, he becomes distressed and begs to just be told he’s beautiful.

Astarion puts a LOT of work into performing his outer persona just as he wants it, he puts a lot of work into controlling how he is perceived.

When in the mirror scene and the Test of Love someone sees past that immediately, seemingly with little effort, he doesn’t know how to handle it.

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That looks terribly heavy. Why don't you let me carry it for you....

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statistics from the opening weekend for bg3

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my character: *perception successful*

me irl trying to find wtf they found:

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I had this idea rotating in my head for a couple days so

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Wind Tribe Claude doodle~

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Shadowheart, my darling emo babygirl from baldur's gate 3

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There was a light rumble in his chest, the sensation sweet enough to make his eyelashes flutter. His chest danced, and he wanted nothing more to lean into her, lean on top of her, be so ungodly selfish with all of her. Thoughts that he’d never had before, about how much he cared for her, his worries, all of them crashing into him like a tidal wave. If he wasn’t careful, he’d spill all of it. He attempted to cover up the rumble with a cough, and divert his body from it’s automatic lean into her.

Stelle blinked at him. “…Dan Heng.”

“Mmn?”

“Did you just purr?”

“No.”

He might’ve said it too fast, because her bewildered face turned smug.

“…Oh my Aeons you purr.”

“I do not.”

“You do! I heard it!”

“You’re hallucinating.”

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My new fluff fic, Warmth of the Waves, is now up!! Fully equipped with fluff, dragon Dan Heng, fluff, some internal crisis from Stelle, and some more fluff~!

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