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midnighthallow · 16 days
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People headcanon Astarion getting emotional/soft/weepy when you do nice things for him but may I present to you:
An Astarion who gets /mad/ about it. You wash his clothes for him while he's gone, and instead of being grateful, he asks you what you want out of it.
You bring him things you think he will like, extra loot, etc and of course he takes it and is ever so grateful... but his eyes narrow in suspicion and a frown tugs at his lips. He stares at the items, turning them over, wondering what's wrong with them.
Give me an Astarion who is always waiting 'for the other shoe to drop', who questions every kind thing you try to do, who accepts it but does not bask in your light- he winces, for it is too bright.
Give me Astarion learning how to trust your kindness with the same enthusiasm one would have going to the dentist to get a rotten tooth pulled without anesthetic.
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midnighthallow · 26 days
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Pictured: Gale rolling a nat 1 on his insight check
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midnighthallow · 2 months
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Look, I'm not a "details" person, all right?
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midnighthallow · 2 months
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but did he tho?
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midnighthallow · 2 months
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Bg3 as unhinged posts 9/?
Part 8
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midnighthallow · 2 months
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Collection of memes with mostly my tav/astarion to keep myself sane
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midnighthallow · 3 months
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Goals for current playthrough. 😅
really about to rewind 16~ hours of gameplay because minthara's NOT HERE when i specifically left her alive
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midnighthallow · 5 months
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I guess the question is who kills who.
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Inspired by this breathtaking art by Ami Thompson
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midnighthallow · 7 months
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WIP because choosing between drawing BG3 and playing BG3 is a nightmare
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midnighthallow · 2 years
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CONFESSION:
I wish people didn't mischaracterize the Dalish so poorly and remove the bad things they have done. No amount of popular fanon or novella thinkpieces is going to remove the canon status of Dalish elves leaving their magical young in the woods or many clans hating non-Dalish elves for virtue of being essentially not being Dalish ... and that's okay.
The canonical oppression of the Elvhen does not mean their group is divorced from meaningful critique on shitty things, nor does it mean that oppression is somehow deserved in-canon and these decisions are just the "evil BioWare writing team" who want to be dicks to fictional elves.
In a game that tries desperately to cling to grey morality, it means that both sides are going to do questionable and morally debatable things to give a nuanced choice - this is grey morality, like, the literal definition. It was the right move to make from a game standpoint, even if it is a bit of a barbaric decision, because it doesn't just paint the Dalish elves as "pure" who can never do wrong or perform poor actions and gives players a choice on their personal feelings
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midnighthallow · 3 years
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this. this broke me.
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midnighthallow · 3 years
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When Cole arrives at Haven to warn you about the red templars, he’s yelling “I can’t come in unless you open!”
He’s talking to the door.
And he talks to his shoelaces, and to the face cards during Wicked Grace, and Sera’s bow. Because in the Fade, these things would speak—or, they would tell him things. And they could be manipulated by his desire. It’s why spirits are confused by the real world, things are physical and demand physical interaction—something they inherently are not. Spirits are created from a feeling, not born into to a physical form as the mediator of their interactions with the world.
When you meet the Spirit of Command in Crestwood she’s upset that she can’t demand that things around her change to suit her whims, because in the Fade, they would. The whole of the Fade would rearrange according to her desires. Things are more permeable in the Fade, feelings flow into each other, objects are there because of sentiment and imagination. The objects you bring to the dreamers in Nightmare’s domain are there because they need to be, not because they are.
So, in the real world, all Cole has left is whispers of what was—of the connection things used to have.
He can hear them; he can hear the tree Sera’s bow came from. He can hear the lovers who kissed beneath its boughs—faintly. Because in the Fade, they’re connected. In the world, there are all these divisions, material and immaterial, he doesn’t quite understand.
It’s why he speaks the way he does. The words are connected by sounds, not just what the sounds signify—alliterative allusions align them. He jumps from one thought to the other based on patterns he perceives as a spirit; the divisions we perceive are simply not there for him. It makes sense to him to speak this way because feeling spreads laterally, connects memories and sensations based on patterns that are imperceptible to us.
Imagine how silent and still and maddeningly finite the world feels to a spirit.
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midnighthallow · 3 years
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“That’s what love does - turns a guy like me into a nervous wreck with something to lose and the aim to make sure he doesn’t. Nobody better hurt you, is all I’m saying.”
(+ Bonus animated version:)
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midnighthallow · 3 years
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and to think 30 years ago their people were at war
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midnighthallow · 3 years
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Marian isn’t particularly tiny (5’ 8" and healthy 65 kilos), but for Garrus she probably looks — and feels — that way. For some reason that silly little thought makes me extremely giggly.
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midnighthallow · 3 years
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How to tame your badboy turian. 
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midnighthallow · 3 years
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This has been... amusing.
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