#spawn siblings

[kittenintheden]

spawn

Dalyria is brilliant and bold. Then she is a cadaver.

Aurelia is thoughtful and kind. Then she is worthless.

Violet is cunning and vicious. Then she is weak.

Yousen is faithful and inventive. Then he is faithless.

Petras is simple and safe. Then he is pathetic.

Leon is ambitious and protective. Then he is brutal.

Astarion is covetous and passionate. Then he is cruel.

Their sire shredded them raw, used their bodies, crushed their souls to dust.

They are all so, so, so very alone.

But they don’t have to be.

Not anymore.

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I am having a lot of really big vampire sibling feels today okay don't look at me

[mossy-rossy]

Wanna talk about Bloodweave and the spawn siblings, specifically how Astarions siblings would interact with Gale in that ending where they settle down in the under dark (and gale starts a vampire book club 🤓)

(DISCLAIMER Since don't know too much about Astarions siblings (more so than others) , alot of this is just me having fun and assigning character traits to them according to how I imagine my game went)

Starting with these two!

Dalyria:

I think these two would get along incredibly well! I can see them talking for hours about their respective (sometimes morally dubious) research, boring absolutely anyone within earshot. I think they could bond over some questionable decisions they've made (gale with the orb And Dal with trying to cure her vampirism with Victoria.) and find comfort in one another . Especially since I HC gayle saves Victoria in game but more on that in Leon's section. Out of all the siblings, Dal is the only one Astarion trusts to leave gale alone with.

Also think Dals research leads to gale finding a way for astarion and the others to walk in the sun again. I don't think she joins the book club tho bc Leon is often there and well... Y'know awkward... But gale does leave a book on her desk from time to time.

Petras:

ahh the spawn I love thinking about post game the most bc I think Petras develops a big crush on Gale. I see it being pretty gradual tbh, He doesn't like Gale at first because he's Astarions and Petras has made it a habit to dislike everything about his "older brother" thank you very much (even though I think petras entire coping mechanism is to badly copy everything about astarion bc he subconsciously thinks it was the only way to survive his enslavement, hence they way he talks and Astarions fucking EA outfit, he stole it from Astarions trunk when he disappeared I just know it) .

So yeah I think it's a few months of Petras being huffy around this handsome annoying wizard while Gale continues to be nice to him. One day Gale offers to teach petras magic (he's a teacher by heart!) much like the canon weave scene and it ends with Gale genuinely but naively exclaiming "You're a natural! Why, you've picked it even faster than Astarion did!"

This is cataclysmic.

It's the first fucking time Petras has been better than Astarion in anything. Petras is immediately heart eyes and obnoxiously smug. Astarion is murderous. Leon and Dal stop a murder. Gale is sent to sleep on the couch.

Any potential brotherly reconcilation is destroyed by Astarion overhearing Petras telling Dal that when Astarion fucks this up then Petras will swoop in and marry Gale. Violet begins to cackle as all of her siblings hold Astarion ,whose now willing to lose an arm, back from dragging Petras to the surface

Petras joins the book club just bc Gale's leading it. He does not read anything but pesters Yousen for answers so he can look smart in front of Gale.

Doing the others next time!

[thebalancedangel]

Aurelia: Hello, handsome!

Petras: Hello to you too, beautiful!

Aurelia: ...*mortified*

Abdirak: ...*smirking*

Astarion: *facetious* She was talking to me, obviously.

Petras: *taking Astarion at face value* No, she was talking to Abdirak.

Petras: *to Aurelia* I was joking!

Aurelia: *to Abdirak* ...This is why I don't do anything romantic in public, by the way.

Abdirak: *amused*...Understandable.

[butnodamage]

cazador: how do i look

spawn: eyeliner on fleek, master

Normal vampire lord behavior.

[nottragic-stilltoothsome]

Everything I found in Szarr's palace, for all your fanfiction-writting needs. I haven't found any other post like this one, so i hope i m not copying anyone. Posting it here, because editing the official wiki feels intimidating. Feel welcome to add anything I missed.

Astarion's siblings (the other spawn):

Petras - one of the two you meet in the Flophouse.

Dalyria - the other one from the two you meet in the flophouse. Her diary can be found in the "guest room". Before Cazador turned her, she was a doctor, a "Physician General to the Parliament of Baldur's Gate". She thinks vampirism is a disease and plans on curing herself of it by drinking blood of someone young and healthy - other spawn's daughter, Victoria.

Leon Onufrio - before Cazador turned him, Leon was a sorcerer. He is the one whose daughter's (Victoria's) body is found, cursed, in the room where with the Kozakuran dictionary.

Leon put a protective counter-curse on her, to discourage other spawns from attacking her. Despite his efforts, Dalyria bit her, hoping it'd cure her vampirism. Needless to say, it didn't and Victoria died @easterlingwanderer found out that if you use "speak with the dead" on the body, it turns out that it was a random urchin and Leon did get Victoria out of the city on time. After removing the curse inflicting you with necrotic demage, you can loot a letter of her body from her father instructing Victoria to read said dictionary, so she can freely move around the castle.

In the favoured spawn room, you can learn that Leon was the one usualy occupying it (along with his daughter). His diary reveals that he put extra effort to be Cazador's best hunter, so he can keep Victoria away from others and that he came up with a plan with Figaro to disguise and sneak Victoria out of the palace.

He also notes that he doesnt like the way Violet looks at Victoria and Cazador's wicked smile, when Leon asked him what his master was planning to do with his daughter.

Violet - you can find her Diary in the Dormitory of Spawn. She notes that she put garlic in Yousen bed as a prank.

Aurelia - a tiefling

Yousen - @neophytepagan noticed he is a gnome

Other:

The chamberlain of Cazador was Antwun Dufay. In his diary, which can be found under his bed in his room after a successful passive perception check, it says that he had a lover Lurianna (a werewolf, who can be found dead by walking through fake north wall of chamberlain's office, or through another fake wall in Chamberlain's private room). He knew about Cazador's Black Mass enough to fake his death in order to avoid the threat of taking Astarion's place. Unfortunately for him, it seems he confused the actual death potion and fake death potion, and really died. His lover drank the other potion, which melted her guts. The actual fake-death elixir can be found in his desk, which puts the player in 10-turn coma. He ordered the elixir from Bonecloaks', where he also ordered most of the things the palace needed to function (like bloodstain remover, candles and food for "guests").

Godey - Cazador's right hand. Astarion says that while Cazador was the master of the palace, the kennels (the room where the spawn d be tortured, when they did something Cazador didnt approve of) was the domain of Godey. Godey tortured the spawn when Cazador didnt feel like it. Cazador trusted Godey with the key to the sealed ballroom for the duration of the ritual.

Through the palace, fanatic-servants cleaning the palace: Syrin - human, Greenfern - wood half-elf, Vilhelm - human, Varderola - also human. All of them are servants, who Astarion said are devoted to Cazador and came to the palace of their own will, beggining Cazador to turn them into vampires. Vilhelm is most noteable, as you can talk to him and he asks Astarion why isn't he downstairs, that he is late and the ballroom is already locked. If pressed, he informs that Godey has a key and that the Cazador is going to punish Astarion for missing the ritual (and from his expression, he seems to quite like the thought).

Chamberlain Dufay wrote a blooddonnors ledger, instructing the Spawn to favourite the lower class as prey, as too many missing patriars may drow too much attention.

The language Cazador uses is Kozakuran, from a distant land of Kara-Tur. Astarion notes that they were strictly forbidden from learning it. From Cazador's Journal you can learn that Astarion was not an unreliable narrator when he said Cazador liked torturing him the most: Cazador paid the most attention to him in the journal.

In the favoured spawn room, there is a ledger with the list of spawns who have been favoured (its only Leon and one time Violet).

Amanita Szarr - on her 13th birthsday, invited by her Uncle Cazador. She was invited to the ballroom. She became a vampire, but was not happy about it. She rejected her family name Szarr and named herself Lady Incognita. She claims she stays in the attic and writes stories. One of the books written by her can be found on Cazador's desk.

Mrel Alkam - vampire mastress from Athkatla that Cazador wrote a letter to.

[abbybubbls]

Shadow's gettin EXTRA clingy cuz of all this movie attention

[coreene]

Astarion's siblings reactions post-Cazador fight

I'm not sure how to trigger these dialogues but this is the explanation on top of them

Aurelia

Dalyria

Leon

Violet

Yousen

Pale Petras

[spookberry]

Makes a silly little au of my OCs where everyones alive and fine and human still and nothing goes bad ever and also its set in a daycare i guess

[astarions-wife]

Okay but the “kennel” where the vampire spawn were tortured, is literally next to the hallway where the regular room was. Meaning all the spawn who weren’t currently being tortured, were most likely being haunted by the screams of those who were—a constant reminder of what would happen if they stepped out of line.

[kittenintheden]

hey what if I made you feel kind of bad for Petras this morning what then

[solarsleepless]

becky + protecting wendy (even when it means putting herself through hell.)

(Plain text: becky + protecting wendy (even when it means putting herself through hell.)

Sweet Tooth S3E3 / "How The Light Gets In" by Becks_Rylynn / Sweet Tooth S3E4 / hexsta (link) / Sweet Tooth S3E5

[mossy-rossy]

First spawn. Older sister.

[tragedybunny]

Do you all think there were like times that Caz and the Spawn pretended to be a big, happy family. (TW: Abuse talk)

Like, hear me out. In real life (and before anyone comes for me for comparing a video game to real life, mind you this about my own real life as well) an abusive situation is rarely awful every day. There's good times mixed in there. Highs mixed with the lows that are so high you think everything is getting better, that today is surely they day they've changed.

I wonder if there were times like this. Times Caz would have all the Spawn fitted for new clothes and let them eat live rodents for once. Or times he'd compliment them and tell them soon they would exceed the rest of their "siblings" - need to keep them competing with each other.

There has to be a reason Aurelia and Leon would fall for the line about the ritual. A reason Dal considers Petras and Astarion her brothers.

I think despite the horrors, there were times that were alright, most likely engineered by Caz to keep his hold over the Spawn for sure, but they were there.

Maybe there were nights he didn't send anyone out to hunt and disappeared into his study and the Spawn got to pretend to be normal for a night and just hangout. Maybe Astarion beat everyone's ass at cards because he's a cheat. And then Caz would compel them so spill any info they learned about each other.

Idk, this is rambling, just some thoughts.

[the-meme-monarch]

i love video games. absolutely zero interest in ever actually playing one with my own two hands though. I’m not good at them and i don’t really care to be. i prefer to watch a video game Be Played and also to draw. why would i play video games when i have siblings to do that for me and i can watch and read the dialogue out loud

[vynnyal]

Now that's one cool-looking dog

[svtskneecaps]

ok among my favorite parts of qsmp is the fact that charlie slimecicle can only hold the act of being mad at mariana when mariana isn't in the room. like he successfully rp'd being mad at his deadbeat puta esposa for months while mariana wasn't logging on, like he complained about mariana at the wedding, during the election, in subsequent appearances, and then he's messaging mariana in the chat during purgatory and he's still holding it

and then they're both at spawn like as close to face to face as they get. and bro CANNOT hold the act it drops so fast lmfao he was like "yea cellbit i'm gonna kill mariana" and instead they have a genuinely heartfelt conversation and then rp sexo in the fountain

and i know i'm brainrotting purgatory rn but i'm actually thinking about this bc i saw a clip of mariana and slime talking during the awards show and literally. slime's face goes from 😡🤬 MARIANA'S HERE, SAY SOMETHING PUTA ESPOSA to 😄😁 the second mariana shows up on the screen

like he's still pretending to be mad but dude is grinning like absolute crazy and i love that