#but Karlach is a badass

[sailorgundam308]

Tw for gross body stuff (puke), starvation.

So.

Another headcanon I have for Karlach in the Hells, pre-canon is how she sustained herself. There is food in the hells for those traveling or passing by, but it’s not easy to come across. Devils don’t need it. So while I believe Zariel would keep her pet fed well enough so she could fight, I wonder what would Karlach do if she had to be away from the fortress for longer and ran out of rations.

I came across fanfics and other users’ hc, and I was thinking about Karlach having to, occasionally at least, rely on eating demons or devils in order to survive and have strength enough to fight. That’s interesting but in my head I’m thinking devils and demons don’t only taste bad - like sulfur and rot -, but they are improper for consumption like this, raw and putrid even.

So, when Karlach has to make the choice to feed like this, she’d have a violent reaction to it - not only at tasting it, but after swallowing the flesh. Her body would try to reject it, and she’d vomit it all immediately.

Over the course of a decade, however, Karlach would have managed to grow used to a lot of things in order to stay alive. But no, she still throws up every time she has to gulp down demon meat - thing is, she now knows better than to let it all out. She needs to digest that shit no matter what, and it won’t get easier. So whenever she eats demons, she waits for her body to reverse and push it up her throat, to just force herself to swallow it again. She has to do this a few times until finally the urge to expel the offending meal is gone.

So yeah. To not starve and to survive, Karlach has to learn to swallow her own vomit in her mouth.

Pretty gross, huh. But who said the Hells were a nice and comfy place? Shit has to be fucked up or it makes 0 sense.

PS: also, even if Karlach is fed by Zariel some ‘normal food’ or close to it, it would taste like ash and sulfur. Everything in Avernus tastes like shit. No wonder when she comes to the Material Plan the woman wants to shove all the food into her face. Who wouldn’t!

[crapet-illu]

« Before, I was archidruid, now I’m just a dumbbell for the strongest faerûn women. »

[kelsh]

GIRLSSS NIGHTTTT *slaughters an entire camp of goblins*

[tinyrogue]

[taz-overwatch-dnd]

Why is everyone sleeping on Karlach and Lae’zel as a pairing?

Like every time Lae’zel comes up in camp conversation my girl Karlach is just so SOFT and complimentary of her. I even unlocked a dialogue line of Karlach calling Lae’zel “my Githyanki” when she was in danger. 🥺🥺🥺

I just love her enthusiasm for Lae’zel so much 😭

[octy-in-boots]

Hi, I'm Barbie!

I can't remember much of my life before now, but that's okay! I made a whole bunch of new friends, and they're here to help me find out who I am. Murdering with friends is so much fun!

I have mods and cannot be stopped. Here's my newest take on our Origin Companions:

[gealachros]

Just met Karlach for the first time in Baldurs Gate 3

I am in love

[darunyama]

My badass wife (and her pocket vampire)

[foxytonic]

Hey, hi, hello, how are y’all? I’m tired! And in pain, but that’s neither here nor there.

What I wanna know is

Who the FUCK is saying that ✨Wyll Fucking Ravengard✨ is boring?

C’mere.

I just

I just wanna talk.

[nucleqr]

have we met before...?

[transmercar]

okay but consider this: after karlach and wyll go to avernus to find a cure, they get new tattoos (perhaps matching??) karlach wants to reclaim tattoos as her own thing and not something zariel does to her, same with wyll wanting to reclaim his new devil body

[sailorgundam308]

Fooling around with procreate and screenshots, I was like “what if Karlach let’s her hair grow longer?

Then I did this doodlito.

And it ended up that’s MY hair lol. I bet hers would be slightly more wavy and certainly more messy. And with the added little braids and shit, Karlach style ❤️‍🔥

This looks like it’s after she went to the hairstylist for a blow out LOL I’m so sorry haha

I’d fix but my Apple Pencil ran out of battery so.

[cha0ticlesbian]

So… I finished Baldurs Gate 🥲

[slimy-eye]

Okay BG3 spoilers but like

Yes I am a Mindflayer romantic. Yes I got my mind totally blown. But like. Oh my god. Wyll!! Why don’t more people like Wyll??? I was just doing my thing, then we camp one night and he asks me to dance with him. At that point, Wyll and my character were just friends. Actually, I started off as a completely immoral bard that enjoyed chaos. I banged Astarion. He approved while we did evil shit. It was fun! I wasn’t even the Dark Urge. But every time I would take Wyll along, it was as if he was trying to steer my character toward redemption. He wasn’t like Astarion. He actively objected to fucked up shit. He was so kind. But anyways, up until this point, we were just friends. Wyll was a good influence on my character and my bard had really “chilled out” since Act One because of Wyll. He offers to dance, and I think it’s just a friendly, platonic fun thing so I agree!

Then… it starts to become something more. Wyll is so polite. He doesn’t rush things, he doesn’t push. He wants to be with my Bard. At first I turn him down because I was still enjoying my chaotic Bard ways. But he was so dejected! His reaction literally broke my heart. He lets you go, he doesn’t keep trying, and he doesn’t attempt to convince you or anything. He’s disappointed but he doesn’t push. He respects your choice and doesn’t bring it up again. Well… I decided, you know what?? He’s so damn sweet and compassionate. I reloaded. And now my Bard has gone from evil to neutral to… decidedly good during act 3. All thanks to Wyll.

And now… I’m wondering if I’ll even be able to make it through a Dark Urge playthrough.

[5mcsinatrenchcoat]

Keep seeing takes on how Karlach "loves adventures and fighting anyway" (usually in regards to the Avernus ending and such), which, yes she does

But I feel like some of us really miss out on the fact that this isn't the only life she wants, actually. Hell, I think she herself misses out on that fact. By design.

Karlach as we know her tries to cramp as many living experiences and emotions as she can in whatever little time she has left. She also just spent 10 years in a war zone - and some years before that as a fighter and a bodyguard. The former wasn't her choice at all, and the latter seems to be largely motivated by desire to give her parents a better life (and she successfully did move them out of the Outer City before they died).

When romancing her and talking about a theoretical future, twice you get an option to suggest a quieter one, peaceful one, settled down one. And while she reacts to those less enthusiastically than to adventuring ones, she doesn't reject them either. She sounds less confident, that's true. That's not something she considered (that's not something she's used to after all those years of fighting, that's not something she feels is meant for someone like her, that's something that involves more time than she has, that's something that hurts worse when you realize you can't have it).

When answering the nymph's love quiz, she approves of you saying that her perfect date is killing baddies and having hot sex, yet when she actually decides she wants a date with you she chooses THE romantic classic of a restaurant date (well, and hot sex, if you're down, yes).

There's a party banter (although, granted, the video I saw it in might've had cut conversations mixed in, I've yet to hear it in-game) after said date, where Astarion pokes fun at her for 'being normal' and 'getting soft', to which she replies: "Maybe I am [getting soft]! *heavy sigh* Finally." She sounds almost relieved. Or perhaps wistful.

When playing as her and romancing Shadowheart, she can share that she also had a quiet place to hide away in Avernus.

In the weave scene with Gale one of her definitions of harmony is her parents dancing in the kitchen.

Yes, Karlach is a fighter and a barbarian who definitely takes joy in taking on fun big foes, but after that many years of war and pain and loneliness there's a longing deep inside of her for 'normal' and soft and simple, I think. She can and will take 'going out in a blaze of glory' as her end, if it comes to it, and I doubt she could ever fully settle down and sit still.

But constant thrill and fighting isn't really the peak of it all for her, whatever she says. She just tries really hard not to look that fact in the face, 'cause it hurts. Peace is what happens to 'normal' people, other people, not to her. Especially not when she has but a few weeks left - better fill them with stories to tell and all matters of feelings to feel. And try really hard not to think about what the future might've been (who you might've been if they didn't take your heart away and glue your hands to an axe).