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tfw ur motivation is still at all time low and ur just wanting to scream bc you can't get yourself to fucking write

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BG3 x RE8

The fifth angel statue hidden in Castle Dimitrescu, from which you can acquire the Mask of Pain.

"For nearly two centuries I stalked the streets like a ghost while the person I was lay here, dead and buried."

-Astarion Ancunín

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i wonder what it's like for Astarion, after ascension, to feel his lover die and wake up cold next to him, even if he can share the ability to walk in the sun and never lose their reflection, what it's like to touch them and feel the lack of warmth in their skin, to no longer hear their heartbeat when they're near, to smell the same death on them that he hides with perfumes, and to know he's killed them. he's killed them. he's killed them.

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The most evil mentally ill men you'll ever meet in your life two seconds after meeting Louis de Pointe du Lac.

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characters that claim they have no heart but actually possess the greatest capacity to love but just never had the chance to give or receive it make me feral

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Can you imagine tearing someone apart?

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Hot take but Cazador is one of the best and most interesting villains in the game (at least of the more "personal" ones) because he's a "regressed" version of one of the main characters. He's Astarion if he was never freed of his bonds by the parasite. He's Astarion if he never met Tav/Durge or any of the other origin companions. He's Astarion if he never realized cruelty wasn't the only way to protect yourself. You can directly compare Ascended Astarion to how Vampire Lord Cazador acts, but even spawn Cazador was pretty much in the same boat as Astarion was during their respective periods of slavery.

Also the quote "what is family, if not the monsters we are obliged to love?" is just an incredibly raw line about abusive families.

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My redesign hot take is that if you’re aiming to “desexualize” a female character, don’t make her boobs smaller. You’re implying a lot here.

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to be a successful English major, you need to know how to bullshit papers 👏👏👏👏

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test

edit: DO NOT VOTE BASED ON THE VIBES OF THE FLUIDS 😭

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Happy Lizard Fashion Day to those who celebrate.

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Heyy we saw you from across the room and really hate your vibe. Can we kill you?

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I can fix him [drill sound] [screaming] [chainsaw revving]

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Some of ya'll severely underestimate just how much Minthara loves Karlach. Out of all the companions, Karlach is the only one that Minthara has no negative opinions about. She doesn't have a mean or cruel thing to say about or to Karlach. Now, she's pretty kind to Shadow and Lae'zel, but she can still be an asshole to them from time to time. Most of Minthara's comments about Karlach is praise and approval.

If you do the Karlach origin and you have romanced her, she will urge Karlach to return to Avernus. If Karlach chooses not to, Minthara will cry. This is the only scene in the game where Minthara cries and shows that level of emotional vulnerability. Lol, she didn't even cry when she was being tortured in Moonrise and thought she was gonna die! She tries to persuade Karlach by basically saying, "I'm going to personally throw hands with Zariel regardless on whether or not you're with me, so you may as well come with me." That vengence paladin in her is really shining through. And Minthara is a paladin of her word. Even if Karlach does choose not to return and dies, and enraged and heartbroken Minthara will walk right into Hell and invent a new flame so hot not even Zariel can resist the heat.

If you do the Karlach origin in which you go to Avernus but do not romance Minthara, she will be excited to see Karlach at the reunion party alive and happy. She also says that once she reclaims her house, she has every intention of joining Karlach in Avernus and she does this completely unprompted! Karlach does not even ask and Minthara is just offering her an army once she has one, and she will provide it free of charge. Karlach can ask Minthara why she's doing all of this. Minthara kind of not so subtly admits that she's in love with Karlach, but, of course, won't use the words "love" and she dances around it.

Romanced or not, Minthara is willing to go head first into Avernus on Karlachs behalf to demolish Zariel. Do you have any idea how huge that is? Minthara has been nothing but power hungry the entire game and is constantly clawing to get more. But in this moment, she is putting all desire for power on furlough just for Karlach. She is going to wage a war against Zarial and all of Avernus for the life of just one person, a person who might still die in the end. If Karlach does not romance Minthara, she is still putting her own ambition and desire for power on hold to help Karlach in which she'd gain no benefit other than Karlach being alive.

You cannot convince me that Minthara isn't canonically in love with Karlach.

PS: even the VA for Minthara, Emma Gregory, ships these two. In almost every interview Emma Gregory has done, she specifically mentions the romance with Karlach and its impact for Minthara's overall character arc.

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Okay it's been enough time now and I have to get this off my chest

I hate

Astarions

Starter armor.

His default outfit? I hate it. It's so unflattering on him. The shape is terrible, the colors don't suit him, the patterns are gaudy, I am 0% into it. And I mean his day clothes you meet him in, not his camp outfit.

Hate it. Ugly. 0/10 if that's the clothing he was buried in then I say it's evidence that no one liked him when he was alive

I said what I said and I stand by it

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Head in hands. Astarion says he feels at home in house of hope. Astarion and Gortash parallels. Gortash basing his public persona on Raphael. Astarion wanting to replace Cazador.

You may hate the monster your house shaped you into but you are still crawling back there.