Bobby: thanks for coming with me by the way. Wasn't sure if you would be willing to pick up kitchen appliances for the new house.
Tommy: *shrugs and smiles* Don't mention it, Evan said you needed help with moving and I got a flat bed truck.
Bobby: Why do you have a flat bed truck?
Tommy: I know a guy and it helps to know a lot of folks in construction. Those fees for moving and delivering are no joke.
Appliance guy 1: Hey Nash! Good to see you again!
Bobby: Good to see you too. We all ready to go?
Appliance guy: Should be, but you gotta tell me you have more folks coming to help you out. I thought your boys were coming to help?
Bobby: Yeah, Harry and Buck are on their way, they just needed to pick up a few more people. *pats Tommy's shoulder* Meet Tommy by the way, my son-in-law, more or less.
Tommy: *in awe and staring at Bobby with his mouth open*
Appliance guy: Nice to meet you Tommy, think we can get starter on the fridge first?
Tommy: *shakes out his stupor* Yeah, yes. Let's start with the fridge
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Spare bg3 oc lore if available? 👁👁
OOOOOOOOOOOOH OF COURSE I WILL I'M ALWAYS AVAILABLE TO RAMBLE ABOUT VALEN. okay so i've been sitting on these for a while because i wasn't sure if i liked them or not, but i think i do so !!
1) Valen lost sight in their right eye (along with receiving their facial and neck scars) at a young age during their massacre of their adoptive family. Whether it was a conscious choice they made or yet another usurp of their control by Bhaal, they don't know or remember, and quite frankly, they don't want to remember. Despite not remembering, they are now certain that sight in their now solid black eye was restored as a gift from Bhaal. It isn't perfect, as things look dull and faded with that eye (it doesn't see color), but it serves its purpose regardless, so they don't complain.
2) Valen is constantly at war with themselves and their gradual development into becoming...a better person? A less-selfish person, at least. They have actual friends now, instead of people surrounding them that are a means to an end, and it feels nice. They want to see them smile. They want to see them happy. They want them to achieve whatever goals they may have—regardless of what that means for anyone else (except themselves, though, they aren't becoming that selfless; they're still at the top of their own list of priorities, second only to Astarion). And that is...weird, unsettling to them.
They come closer and closer to death's door with every risk and leap of faith they take for their friends and though their first instinct is to be annoyed with themselves for risking their neck for someone else, once they mellow out and the adrenaline wanes, they only feel...accomplished? Relieved? Happy? It's all new to them, but they wish nothing but the best for their friends, and seek to give their partner the world, something they vaguely remember only wanting for themselves and their former god.
3) Valen is an utterly devoted partner to a fault. They don't fall easily or quickly by any means, and in order for them to truly fall for a person, they have to align with them almost completely. Valen sees so much of themselves in Astarion—the selfishness, the wariness, aversion to doing what will hold no benefit to them—and it draws them to him like a moth to flame; it makes them feel comfortable around him, seen by him, understood by him, and it compels them to lower their guard sooner they would have for anyone else.
And once Valen truly falls, they want nothing short of the entire world for their partner, no matter what it takes to give it to them. If it will make him smile, laugh, make his eyes light up in that perfect way that they do, Valen will do it. Valen will give him everything. Even before Astarion was in the picture, before Orin's betrayal and their fall from grace and favor, Valen held the exact same devotion to Gortash. They were willing to throw everything away, if it meant keeping him safe and happy and free from the brutalization that Bhaal always forces them to inflict on those they love. They were willing to beg and plead and bargain with their notoriously unbending and unforgiving god to not be angry that their heart shared love and devotion with someone that was not him, pride be damned—and pride is something that Valen has in shameful abundance. In that moment, Valen did not matter, only their love.
Love will always, always, always be Valen's downfall.
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