#YES this is durgetash

[basket-of-cats-and-witches]

Eternity

We were not meant to be partnered in this life.

I stand here with your blood dripping from my blade, watching the light fade from your eyes.

You reach for me.

Of course you do.

It is not Karlach you look at in your final moments, for all she wishes she had been the one to take your life.

If it were anyone else, I would have let her.

I wish you were anyone else.

You smile at me, and you think it is your last moment.

“I'm glad it was you,” you whisper, and slip away.

It is not the end.

Although there are other battles we will partake in, other paths to walk upon, mine shines clear before me.

We were not meant to be together. Not in this life.

The next, however, is unknown.

Bane cannot have you. I know what he wishes. You were sworn to him first, but you are mine.

I will chase you into the endless beyond, and make your soul eternal.

Gale has set the path, all I need do is follow.

He shall take the crown.

I shall take my father's head.

I will wrest you from Bane, and find you again, and again, and again.

We were not meant to be with each other in this time.

But I shall love you the same.

As a Grand Duke.

As a farmer boy.

As a baker.

As a mercenary.

As a teacher.

No matter the form, the gender, it was you who tangled your life so effortlessly with mine, and in doing so, became the stardust that spirals throughout my universe.

We were meant to be together.

Before there were Three, there were two.

And so we shall be again.

[doraingrid]

I am mentally unwell. . . . FULL IMAGE ON LINK tumblr doesnt want me to have this here :<

[gravedigg]

Enver and Virgil

(Dante and Virgil by William-Adolph’s Bouguereau, 1850)

[the0verboss]

Even Gort is sitting by waiting for more Patch notes.

Achaia says fuck your busy schedule and minutia he needs to kiss.

[wild-magic-oops]

Gortash, trying to think of a way to spend more time with Durge: Hey uhh your ancestral torture racks are on display in the city. Do you want to go steal them together? 👉👈

And the best part is that this first date went well, according to the Butler's Morning checklist

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[kawareo]

Do you think they ever cared about eachother

Trauma bond or whatever else, do you think there were ever times when they got along? I'm imagining they'd do things for eachother and never acknowledge them, little things done in silence so that they can pretend they're not committing a sin by showing care for a fellow Bhaalspawn they'll have to murder one day.

Durge helps Orin braid her hair, Orin fixes a detail on his robes before a ritual. Nothing big. Nothing that could be called caring. Just silence and gestures neither of them thinks about.

[troutberryspoon]

*Unwashed* Baldurian public

*Tastelessly* presented

Durge is a snob, pass it on

[feniksido]

In the name of Balls or whatever

[shaykai]

But every time you say it, it sounds that much more appealing

[chronurgy]

Okay I know it's just because they're machines and it's Not That Deep ™ but I'm thinking. Chewing on the fact that the steel watch are weak to lightning damage and default Durge is a storm sorcerer. Lightning is your whole thing. They're weak to you. Gortash's perfect creations are weak. To you.

[itsafreetrialofdeath]

*archduke voice* “Excuse me. He asked for no pickles”

[crossdressingdeath]

No thoughts. Head empty. Gortash being the only person in the world to love and care for Durge both as Bhaal's Chosen and as an amnesiac hero only.

[diantha]

"...two people who love each other very much, and accept their lot in life to torture each other to death."

Thank you so much to @drathe for this amazing commission of my girl Amara and her evil husband Gortash <3 I am so so happy with it

[royalpurplehuskies]

Bane and Bhaal put the two worst people in the world, young, attractive, and crazy – each of them only person in the world who could possibly sympathize with the other – in a room together and told them to spend monthsyears working in close quarters on a project that would see the two of them become essentially monarchs of Baldur’s Gate. What the fuck did they think was going to happen?

[kawaiiocelot]

I love the coronation because I get to do this immediately after. 🖤

[asteria49]

Yes, yes, enemies to lovers is a great trope.

But have you considered lovers to enemies? Have you considered the pure devastation of knowing their enemy better than themselves and vice versa? Have you considered the star-crossed tragedy that their fate is to be undone by the other? The pure pain of watching their world crumble.