#tav the mouse

[taneysha-pictures]

Oh. I forgot I originally drew Raphael with a smile on his beautiful face ✨

[barfville]

he's innocent your honour

[cherriesandsulphur]

I'm still not over this look Raphael gives Tav after she says "I don't think he knows." while discussing the infernal script of a contract at Last Light Inn.

[a2zillustration]

We made it to the end of Act 2! Is it really a d&d campaign if someone isn't having an emotional breakdown in the middle of a group hug?

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[molinaesque]

"You went against your word and defied our contract! In doing so, you brought the chaos of your world into mine! I will not abide it!" - Raphael (Baldur's Gate, 2023)

[eliteseven]

A thought:

Shadowheart calling her baby her “little mouse” bc mice are apparently her favorite animals?? 😭💕

[6hellish6rebuke6]

GUYSSS! The time has finally come to meet Andrew and myself in the House of Hope!

I've just uploaded my Interview with Andrew Wincott on my YouTube Channel! 🎉

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[devils-little-mouse]

𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔡𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔴𝔰

[red-dead-sakharine]

Little mouse...

more below 👇

requested by anon

[optiwashere]

This seemed fun, so why not do this for my babies? Portraits taken from art in this post.

Some elaborations under the cut...

Stats

Ages are at the end of BG3. Shadowheart is at least late 40s in canon, but I always had her as 50 in my mind. She has her birthday in my fic canon during the post-Absolute Crisis rebuilding while Asheera's won't be for another few months.

Asheera is ~201cm tall, Shadowheart is ~170cm tall. Roughly 31cm height difference!

Ship Parameters

Shadowheart and Asheera both enjoy being the big spoon and little spoon, but Shadowheart prefers being nestled in Asheera's embrace. Doesn't mean for a bit that the roles aren't reversed now and again, though.

Shadowheart wears Asheera's clothes all the time. Constantly. They are, of course, comically oversized on her.

They both use pet names for one another, but Asheera fancies herself a bit of a romantic so she likes to come up with melodramatic ones ("my Heart") while Shadowheart prefers "love" and "my love." Shadowheart also calls Asheera "my Lady paladin" a lot in the fics, but IDK if you consider that a pet name or not?

Shadowheart is undoubtedly far, far, far more introverted than Asheera. In fact, Asheera is pretty extroverted in general. The extrovert/introvert ship dynamic is my catnip, how could you tell?

So, the affection one I took to mean what they prefer. Shadowheart likes quality time and affirmations while Asheera likes acts of service and quality time. However, if you imagined it as what they do then their placements would be flipped.

Shadowheart confesses love first. Affection and attraction, that's technically Asheera.

Neither of them really panic about bugs. Asheera has a bad habit of killing the little creatures though, and she has serious thoughts about her own oaths when she does it.

Horse riding... Listen, all I'm saying is Asheera riding a horse with Shadowheart behind her? Yeah. But, like, if we're literally talking about driving a car then Shadowheart can drive but if anyone else offers to drive then she's going to take the opportunity to sit in the passenger seat, curate the music, and fall asleep.

Shadowheart knows how to cook because she's an adult, but she's just terrible at it. I'm sorry, she is a horrible cook to me. Her taste buds are all fucked up from decades of sampling/testing poisons, venoms, and paralytics as a Sharran. Asheera's not much better, she just knows that if Shadowheart cooks it'll be a disaster for everyone.

Shadowheart prefers discretion and Asheera loves giving her wife big, showy kisses for all to see. They have an understanding.

Despite the jealousy levels, Asheera is prone to overprotectiveness. After everything that Shadowheart went through in her life, after everything that Asheera saw in her memories and in the events of BG3, there's no way she doesn't immediately come to Shadowheart's defense at pretty much any perceived slight. Shadowheart finds it very sweet, but unnecessary. She can defend herself just fine. Doesn't mean she hates it though.

Shadowheart has the age on Asheera by a margin, and she spent decades in a Sharran cloister. Calling them "relationships" is probably a bit much to be fair, though. This doesn't mean Asheera is some naïve virgin! She's actually more experienced with long-term relationships than Shadowheart.

Levels

They're both extremely horny, especially for one another, but Shadowheart wins out on this one by sheer excitement to try out anything and everything that she thinks Asheera would want to try. Asheera isn't a prude by any stretch of the imagination.

Shadowheart is awkward in that "sheltered in a cult commune" kinda way. She says the wildest shit sometimes and expects people to just move on from it. Someone who quotes erotica with their friend in public is going to cause others to feel awkward. Asheera on the other hand? She makes things awkward by either being way too serious about a situation or cracking bad jokes about it; there is no in-between, and nobody is sure what to expect.

Asheera doesn't get jealous. Shadowheart is jealous of things that aren't really related to their relationship. I don't think either of them gets jealous over that sorta thing. Shadowheart just has to manage her feelings about family given that Asheera has one that loves her and she was able to experience a childhood and such. That triggers jealousy which Asheera finds normal and reasonable and completely understandable. It's one of those aspects of Shadowheart's specific trauma that isn't really something you "get over" and Asheera, while finding it hurtful and hard to deal with sometimes, relies on her training and oaths as a paladin to manage that specific hurdle in their relationship.

[ninitenebrae]

Mousey wants uppies from her Devil.

[taneysha-pictures]

hi, since i saw you asking for requests, could you, pretty, pretty please, draw The Lion King screenshot that you shared (the one with Scar and the mouse) but with Raphael and the cute mouse from your drawing of Raphael with his crown?

I'm glad to try. I think Raphael could have turned Tav into a mouse (before killing the hero, of course) if Tav hadn't given the crown to the Devil.

[kirstinetheartist]

*watches The VVitch for the 1000th time*

me: what if I redo the final scene, but with my Warlock and Raphael--

[cherriesandsulphur]

-at the Elfsong Tavern- "Excuse me, but I believe he asked for extra cherries on his dessert."

To me, Raphael's stance here feels like a man who asks his partner to make a complaint in a restaurant, then stands behind her like this to watch it all play out.

[theswedishpajas]

This is how you show someone you love them, right?

[zozoparsnips]

to dull a sharpened blade [ao3]

It was rare for Artemis to be stumped by another.

His performance was clear as day, but his motivations lay hidden. There was something different, something off about him, but for the life of her, Artemis simply could not place what it was.

And that irritated her most of all, if not more than the pompous elf himself. She was not accustomed to being unable to decipher someone’s true intentions. It left her feeling off balance, almost sick with the need to figure him out, to discern what he really wanted from her.

She blamed the damn tadpole, the damn woods, and her damn exhaustion on why she couldn’t put the pieces of the intricate puzzle that was Astarion together.

She just needed time; time comprehend his nature and dissect his character. Time to play him like a violin and to work him like fine putty beneath her calloused hands. She’d always liked a challenge, and Astarion was just that: a challenge, a game, a mark.

Let the games begin, high elf.