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With the return of @bodycountgame, I've been in Dev mood, so I decided to draw a little wardrobe for him. :)

My favorite is hands down his day outfit.

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Sorry, I've been tagged ages ago by @asharaks and I'm only doing it now lol.

This my BG3 1st PC, Amis.

age: late 20s

gender: yes (nb)

sexuality: yes (bi)

They're a college of lore bard and used to work as a private entertainer/escort back in Baldur's Gate before they got snatched. They're very gentle and kind and are a pillar of quiet optimism in the party. They use their confidence to reassure and uplift others and are generally accepting and non-judgemental. Until you do something truly fucked up that is. While they are generous and always helpful with others, they tend to be avoidant when it comes to their own problems and struggle to be as open-minded and accepting when things are too close to home.

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me telling myself im not going to design my rook before getting into the cc -> 🤡

aurelian 'auri' de riva, crow rogue duelist, a beautiful baby tryhard 🐦‍⬛ they're going to be talon someday, they mean it, stop laughing

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Sorry, I've been tagged ages ago by @asharaks and I'm only doing it now lol.

This my BG3 1st PC, Amis.

age: late 20s

gender: yes (nb)

sexuality: yes (bi)

They're a college of lore bard and used to work as a private entertainer/escort back in Baldur's Gate before they got snatched. They're very gentle and kind and are a pillar of quiet optimism in the party. They use their confidence to reassure and uplift others and are generally accepting and non-judgemental. Until you do something truly fucked up that is. While they are generous and always helpful with others, they tend to be avoidant when it comes to their own problems and struggle to be as open-minded and accepting when things are too close to home.

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those guys have been around since at least the 70s, just so you know.

theres something abt those cunty 90s anime men thats so alluring i think it was all the estrogen they were putting in the water

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utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people

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People I want to know better

tagged by @devouring-silence thanks for thinking of me :)

tagging: @minacht @jayybirdy @pyritea

favorite color: I love most colors but I'm currently obsessed with greens

last song: Sing For Me from the Divinity: Original Sin 2 ost (needed some fantasy games ost because I was attempting to write)

currently watching: Quantum Leap and just started trying out Dragon Goes House-Hunting (I don't know if I can recommend either lol. Quantum Leap feels like comfort food to me, it's easy to watch and fun, but it has definitely aged. Dragon Goes House-Hunting is kinda cute and harmless fun so far which is good cause the bar is in hell for anime rn, but it's not ground-breaking either.)

last movie: The Fly (interesting but very gross, body horror isn't my favorite thing lol)

sweet/spicy/savory: I love all three equally

current obsession: I'm kinda between obsessions at the moment and it's kinda frustrating. I like having something to latch onto for a while but right now I just switch between different things without sticking with anything. :/

last thing i googled: Dragon's house-hunting because I couldn't remember the exact title of the show lmao

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okay i made another quiz but this time it’s which monster you’ll get to hook up with. reblog with your result!!

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Speaking of mountains, I know most people live around sea level, but still, I'm curious

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Been messing around in DAI, trying to get all the romance routes. Never really gave a ton of thought to Blackwall before but I’ve changed my mind since doing his playthrough 🥺

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counterpoint to that poll: what was your favorite assigned reading in high school??

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STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

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one thing about me. is i love wyll ravengard

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here are the mock sheets i made for some of my beloved designs in case anyone ever wants to reference them...

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a work for a wonderful bg3 zine i did in february

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some very importnat Mystra context

all right, i'm back on my forgotten realms lore bullshit again. this time about Mystra, because i see a lot of misunderstanding around her (and for good reason, there have been MULTIPLE Mystras.) but also because there's a narrative that Gale was groomed that i'd like to gently push back against.

so, very condensed history here, but the first goddess of magic was Mystryl. she was replaced by the first Mystra in like the -300s DR (BG3 takes place in 1492DR, this will come up later.) the new Mystra was goddess of magic until the Time of troubles (1358 DR, i believe), when Ao (big powerful god) got real pissy because the Dead Three stole the Tablets of Fate in order to try and take on more power. as a result, Ao forced all the gods to walk among mortals in their avatar forms. this was a huge event in forgotten realms history.

so Mystra was like "this is bullshit" and tried to go back to the heavens. Helm, serving Ao, ended up killing her to stop her from doing this.

meanwhile, there's a human mortal who calls herself Midnight who is essentially an adventurer. Midnight ended up killing Myrkul, and Ao was like "nice work, you're the new Mystra" and Midnight ascended to godhood.

when she ascended, Midnight also inherited the essences of the old Mystra AND Mystryl. (if this sounds confusing, that's because it is. forgotten realms lore gets wild.)

so Midnight, now also called Mystra, is the new goddess of magic. but in 1385DR, not even 30 years after ascending, Shar gets pissed becasue she wants to control the weave, so she tasks Cyric, another recently ascended god who used to be mortal, to go kill New Mystra. he does so, and this causes the spellplague, a 10 year long event in which a bunch of awful shit happened with magic and tons of wizards died.

but New Mystra wasn't entirely dead. her faint essence still existed. so in like 1479 DR (13 years before BG3 takes place) Elminster senses her presence. she's possessing a bear, it's all she's capable of at this time. she tasks Elminster with finding mages to be her Chosen, so that they can help her get stronger again. this is probably when Elminster was like "so i know this guy named Gale." at this point int ime, Gale would have been an adult most likely, because i think we can all agree he's in his 30s in BG3.

still, even with Elminster's help and her new Chosen, New Mystra didn't become a fully revived goddess until 1487 DR (5 years before BG3 takes place.)

and this is why the "Gale was groomed" narrative doesn't quite work for me. now, let me be clear, i'm not saying their relationship was healthy. there was an obvious power dynamic problem, and her telling him to blow himself up is objectively shitty. however, Gale would have been an adult when they met, even if he met her when she was still too weak toeven have a body beyond that of a bear.

i know there's a letter from Elminster to god Gale that says soemthing about fidning Gale as a child, but Mystra would have been essentially a wisp on the wind at this time. Elminster may have already been looking for talented wizards to help bring her back, but he dind't even have the ability to connect with her until he sensed her as a bear in 1479 DR, at which point - again - Gale was an adult.

but, moving away from that narrative, i also wanted to bring this up becuse it makes Gale's possible outcome of ascending VERY interesting, becuse the current Mystra, formerly Midnight, was also a human who ascended. however, in her case, this was bestowed on her by a very powerful god as a "reward" for killing Myrkul. (i say "reward" in quotes because it also put a target on her back with Shar and got her killed not too long after so you know....ascension ain't all that pretty.)

anyway, i thought this might be of interest to some of y'all, because reading up on Mystra lore can be confusing as hell since there have been multiple Mystras, but that context does really make her relationship with Gale way more complicated and (to me) way more interesting.

tl;dr - the Mystra that is Gale's ex is not the same Mystra who has been a god for thousands of years. she has her essence and the essence of Mystryl, the first goddess of magic, but was originally a human woman who ascended and then got murdered real bad and then came back only VERY recently thanks to Elminister.