#also i don't personally care about the D&D setting or their official lore at all

[dare-to-dm]

Hi Dare,

I saw your recent posts about Baldur's Gate 3 (which I also love but I haven't had nearly the playtime in yet!). I have only dabbled in Baldur's Gate 2 though but frankly it is a very VERY different game. And at this point extraordinarily dated.

However, Larian's other big property: Divinity Original Sin and especially Divinity Original Sin 2 are much more in keeping with how BG3 flows both narratively and mechanically. The only issue is it's not a D&D world and it's not the story of Baldur's Gate you may be looking for. But I highly highly recommend trying the Divinity Original Sin games if you like BG3 and after you've given BG1-2 a chance (I look forward to hearing how you like them!)

I tried playing Divinity Original Sin once and had a strong visceral reaction of hatred, lol.

I played through the tutorial, which featured stilted combat and clunky UI. But the turning point for me came immediately when I got out of the first cave and found myself in front of some town guards. At which point my two characters got into an argument about what to do. One of my characters (the one I was currently controlling) wanted to go with the guardsmen to talk to the wizard.  The other wanted to kill the guardsmen for being kind of annoying. 

So mechanically what happened was that my two characters played Rock Paper Scissors and I fucking lost (to myself? technically?) so we ended up doing what the Other Character wanted and murdering the guys. 

Then the characters had a conversation and apparently decided that that was Pretty Fucked Up and Not Really Necessary.  Immediately following that dialogue, the words “+1 compassion” flashed over both character’s heads."  

Like, I got no time for an RPG that presents you with decisions and then doesn't even let you make them. And then acts like the decisions you didn't even choose had meaningful consequences in the most asinine way possible.

[deffonotsimping]

hii! i just the the playable reader au thing and i love the concept it’s so cool!

can i request scara , zhongli and kazuha with the playable reader au? if you don’t mind of course!

bet! I love this au so much :))

characters: Scaramouche + Zhongli + Kazuha

-> Masterlist

content!! minor spoilers for the archon quest, gn reader, fluff

Scaramouche

Oh boy. Whilst you two haven't actually met in the game yet, your personalities (or how much the players have already seen of them anyway) fit together so well!!

"ScaraDer (Scaramouche x Reader) supremacy" - "they haven't even met? 🤨"

We don't care, you two are (would be??) cute together.

There's this one fanfiction of you two that is widely known among the fans, both shippers and non shippers, might I add!

It's about you getting introduced as a replacement for Signora (Reader on their villain arc, love to see it) and getting the place of the 8th harbinger.

Along with Childe you had to try to find Scaramouche in Inazuma after he had taken the gnosis of the raiden shogun. You and Childe had decided to split off, everyone going their own way and even making it a little game on who would find him first.

Well.

You won and the scene from the fanfiction is what even got your ship THAT popular!!

"You're insufferable, trying to hunt me down like this. Who do you think you are, huh? You really think you could take me in a fight?" - "What a pity, not only do I think that, I know so, Balladeer."

Watch "I know so, Balladeer" get trending on Twitter smh.

Zhongli

Please. This is set when you're already a playable character and/or if your voice lines already got leaked!

Canonically knowing many characters because you're a traveler that has been to many places in this AU, you're bound to run into the very Geo Archon himself at least once, right?

Right.

He doesn't have a voice line about you yet (at least the players can't listen to it yet because it's important to some lore stuff that will happen only a little while later). BUT you do have a voice line about him.

And oh my God, let me tell you!! You admire the archons so much and it's so adorable I can't.

"What I think of the Geo Archon? What makes you think I even know him? Haha! Didn't he die or something.. I mean! There's no suspicious activity here! What's an Archon, anyway?"

blinks.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN "SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY"?? 🤨

There's also official art of you two, meaning that you do canonically know him. The fans went wild, trust me. He also looks at you with a gentle smile on his face in it, how can they not ship you two?!

Kazuha

We love em anemo boys, do we not?

For this one, it was mainly because of the people that shipped you with Gorou and because of the people that shipped you with Scaramouche. They decided to make it a poly ship and then some of them changed their opinion to just Reader x Kazuha!

(I do accept Reader in a poly relationship with characters requests btw so.. 👍)

You sadly don't have many shippers because you haven't met in game yet and KazuDer (Kazuha x Reader) originally started existing because of two other ships, but the people that do ship you are loyal af!!

"Admit that KazuDer (Kazuha x Reader) will never be canon or die. 🔫" - "[death noises]"

... kind of concerning but they can't help it when you two would just be so cute together!!

The little crumbs of content you two have among fans is wonderful, though!! The fanart? immaculate. Cosplays? So much talent, I'll puke. FANFICTIONS?? ARE THESE PROFESSIONAL AUTHORS BEHIND THE SCREENS? 🤨🤨

You may not have many shippers, but they're all very talented with what they post, it's amazing!

All in all, you two are an amazing comfort ship, the dynamic between you is so soft, singles be crying just at the thought of seeing you ever interact ingame!

I really do be writing like it's the last thing I'll do.. That's fine tho!! God, I love them so much, this was fun! :D