#durgewyll

[matchapancaekes]

You’re telling me that Wyll Ravengard knew Abdel Adrian, Gorion’s Ward?

You’re telling me that not only did he know him, his father was his second in command?

You’re telling me that, as a boy, Wyll witnessed the proof that Bhaalspawn could reject their calling and pursue a life of their own choosing?

You’re telling he was definitely there the day Abdel was killed, that a young Wyll Ravengard witnessed a Slayer running rampant in the city with his own eyes?

The reason Wyll is one of the only companions to fully believe in Durge that night in the Shadowlands, that tells them to fight, to fight with everything they have, is because he knows it can be done.

He trusts them because he trusted Abdel.

He believes in them because he believed in Abdel.

Because Abdel was Wyll’s hero, maybe his second favorite person next to his own father.

Larian, Larian, please, Wyll literally writes himself

[kiivg]

.I will complete my durge run and I will romance Wyll Ravengard.

[durgewyll]

dark urge evil ending with romanced wyll

Narrator: *A thousand thousand respiring things lie below, pointing up at you, gasping their last. But there is one who deserves the honour of your first death. The beginning of your end.*

Wyll: We were meant to save the world - not damn it. You and I. Together.

Player options:

Kill with one last kiss.

You do not want to see what is to come. Death is my reward for your service.

Run from me when we land. We will meet again at the end of days, when I shall come for you.

If the first option is picked:

Wyll: I... I forgive you.

[sadokyuban]

my roman empire..

[yaksinhats]

May I interest anyone in some tragic wyll/durge? From my durge remembers everything au

In my AU Karis (Arthur pre-amnesia) is still attacked by Orin and shipped off on the nauteloid, but wakes up on the beach with all his memories intact. He sets off with the intention of doing whatever it takes to get his cult back. He lies to his companions, telling them he's an amnesiac, but when meets dashing hero Wyll Ravengard, things get complicated. He decides to try to use the Duke's son to climb his way back into power. Things change after he encourages Wyll to kill Karlach. Having just being forced to kill Alfira and rewarded with the deathstalker mantle, Wyll's situation feels a little too uncomfortably familiar. The longer he gets to know Wyll, the more he hopes that maybe, someday, Wyll will stop him. Eventually, he gets what he wanted.

[magerightsmagefights]

I know people tend to forget Wyll a lot in this fandom (I wonder why. What Could Possibly Be Different. Can you spot the difference?/s) but I'm genuinely surprised at the lack of Durge x Wyll content. Especially if you're going Redeemed, there's that inherent flavor of "My lover cannot know the truth, I am horrible and they would hate me, they would be correct to hate me." And with Wyll it's just... so juicy, he's so pure and shining, and Durge is so filled with filth and misery that there's barely a person left underneath.

Idk, as a femme romance reader I've spent so many years reading the "love redeems" arc where a FMC plays beauty to an MMC beast, in every genre, medium, budget, etc. I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum, but beauty and the beast as a story structure has never done it for me.

until it's reversed, apparently, because Wyll as the beauty to Durge's beast needs to be injected directly into my veins like yesterday. All the other companions are good and sweet, don't get me wrong, but their reactions are coded like 'i accept you,' where Wyll to me comes off much more as 'we will heal you.' He doesn't have any funny little quips about you trying to bite him, no innuendos, no "I Will Put You Down" a la Laezel, he's just... so good, and he believes in your inherent goodness, he so easily sees "you" and "your urges" as wholly seperate entities he would step between if he could.

Speaking of which!! The coronation scene, when everyone finds out you're Bhaalspawn? I never see anyone talking about Wyll's reaction compared to other companions getting angry (even Dark Shadowheart will yell at you) because Wyll seems to be the ONLY PERSON who immediately separates you(the person he knows) from you(the person you used to be). Astarion isn't angry, he even appreciates your scheme freeing him from Cazador, but he also kinda falls into the whole "I will talk to you as if you are the exact same person who did these things, this is Your True Nature and I feel positive about it."

Wyll's reaction feels like the only one saying "You WERE that," instead of "You ARE that." It also feels like the only one that kinda-sorta acknowledges Durge's actual amnesia, because he doesn't treat this revelation like a betrayal the way the other "good" companions do. They be saying "The real evil was hiding within our ranks all along" like wym hiding? Durge didn't know either, how tf they supposed to tell you?

Wyll doesn't even blink. Once he knows what you are, his No.1 priority is reassuring YOU about it. The fact you're Bhaalspawn isn't a betrayal; it's a Horrible Burden and he's sorry you have to bear it, but there have been others like you who were good, who overcame, and your blood isn't who you are. His first instinct is to offer hope, to reassure you that there's a way out, he believes so hard that your urges are a defeatable enemy and he's ready to fight them with you.

(I also fall into the Durge And Gortash Fucked camp, and I cannot overstate the tastiness of Durge waltzing into the coronation of their ex, the Worst Man Alive, while bringing along their new boyfriend, the Best Man Alive)

Idk, I've just never engaged in a romance where I played the part of the Beast. As much as people rag on pure, princely archetypes, I don't actually see them that often. I genuinely don't remember the last time I read/saw a male lead behave like Wyll, but I've seen plenty of Astarions, Fenrises, Rhysands, etc. Romance loves a fixable MMC, but so rarely an MMC who wants to do the fixing.

Anyway. Justice for Wyll or whatever. I can only cross my fingers that future DLC will include more romance content, because we all deserve to have a Beauty for our Beast sometimes.

[grey-wardens]

[sir-sphinx]

had a rough day yesterday & needed to see Them . you know how it is

[asharaks]

maybe I'm just gay and caffeinated but god. durgewyll story of all time you are the prodigal child you love your father and he asks things of you you'll never be able to live up to.

your father loves you and he demands your life for it. you love your father and it drives you to destroy yourself. you love your father and you sell your soul for the principles he taught you. you destroy yourself and he abandons you. you sell your soul and he exiles you.

you love your father and you would forgive him anything and he will forgive you nothing; any grace you might earn evaporates at the first human failure. your father made you in his image and then he broke the mirror.

wyll lives in the shadow of his father's rejection and his mother's death, and still he quotes him, lives by his teachings, admires him, holds him up as an ideal. the dark urge tried to end the world for bhaal and he took their murder as sacrifice just as readily as any other's, and they spend most of the game desperately clawing back their memories of him - touched by his ideal, whether resisting or not, no choice in the matter.

both of you brought up to your specific purpose, both of you having that purpose snatched away and subverted before you can fulfil it. children brought up to fit in specific roles, unable to return to the fold, unable to shake it off entirely. no wonder you cling to each other.

and of course you're both doomed - except you can save yourselves, at the cost of losing your father.

[finnick002]

One Durge x Wyll dynamic that I really love is that Wyll is so incorruptible that either he's the one who fixes Durge, or their romance is doomed to have a beautifully tragic ending. Here, I want to explore the latter a bit.

[heavy BG3 late-game spoilers ahead]

If Durge chooses to accept Bhaal and become a Chosen, Wyll's immediate reaction is:

By the gone gods. It isn't the blood you've spilled or the lives you've snuffed out that horrify me most. It's the pride you take in it, as if you've done all sixteen planes a great favour. When the Absolute falls, I wager our alliance falls with it.

And when Jaheira and Minsc bring the Harpers to confront Durge, Wyll will side with the two heroes of Baldur's Gate, no matter how much Durge meant to him. (whereas Gale and Karlach will side with Durge if approval is high enough and the rest will always side with Durge)

I thought I'd saved you from Bhaal's clutches. Seems I failed, damn it all. I will mourn the person you were. But I will not accept the one you've become.

Either Durge or Wyll has to die by the other's hand.

However, if Durge loses to Orin in the duel, Wyll still stays with Durge, even though they both know one day Durge will lose the last bit of sense of themself to Bhaal's control.

You are the one villain the hero could not bring himself to kill.

That's the narrator's line when Durge comes to the epilogue party as a bloodthirsty maniac and uses their last bit of consciousness to gaze at Wyll, their former lover.

Wyll could not bring himself to kill Durge because it was not their choice. He would never think it was their fault because he knew the torment of being blamed for what you had no choice over.

But tonight, one of them has to die by the other's hand.

[inlesbianswithpixels]

my ideal durgewyll dynamic

[kiivg]

.😳.

[durgewyll]

If I had a bottle of Dragondew, I'd open it in your honour.

[sadokyuban]

wip <3 I've started a new bg3 playthrough and redesigned my durge, Rin. I also changed his class, now he's a draconic bloodline sorcerer

[githyaoi]

romancing wyll w/ durge is for the WOKE

[pro-evil-henchman8222222]

💝 kiss kiss 💝

I want to get better at drawing kissing. The genius solution I’ve come up with: live vicariously through vervaine.