I am becoming a firm believer that Astarion was raised/lived in Waterdeep before ever becoming a Magistrate in Baldur's Gate and being turned.
The fact that his tombstone uses Waterdeep's calendar feels like a hint towards it. Could have been an oversight from the team (it is kind of needlessly complicated) but it would be neat if it was on purpose.
Also, his first answer to the magic mirror below the blighted village hints that he misses his "real home, the one he hasn't seen in centuries." This could be a literal house, but alternatively if we interpret it as a "hometown" instead, it would mean he's not from Baldur's Gate at all.
He certainly fits the bill for a high elf who hails from Waterdeep, imo (snobby lmao) but Waterdhavians are also known to be, uh, not quite as shitty. He might have moved to Baldur's Gate because he knew he could be more successful (and corrupt) there.
Mostly I love the idea that he's from Waterdeep because it adds so much depth to his petty dislike of Gale. Of COURSE he hates Gale at first!! He is the poster boy of Waterdeep and everything a Waterdhavian should be! It's something Astarion would never be able to return to being, forever changed by centuries of slavery and torture. And it makes him bitter, because Gale reminds him of the place he used to call home.
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It’s a stunning day here on the south shore and I’m headed outside to start the annual endless task of pulling weeds in garden beds in a yard mom can no longer manage and complains about constantly yet does nothing to change so they are easier to manage like apply deep mulch or plant ground cover and this is such a metaphor for everything about her and I’m trying to hold space for who she is and where she’s at and give her grace but goddamn this is nearly every vacation for the last 30 years and I’m so very over it. Also fuck punctuation.
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i think i would have a hard time trying to rank the areas in ds3 because all of them are so good (well, except catacombs. and maybe dungeon) - but i do wholeheartedly believe that untended graves is a damn near perfect sequence. so simple and so effective
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DS3 Round 1, Match 10. Favourite Area?
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*watchmojo list upbeat voice* ten moments in fromsoft games that have the same vibes as when you first really realized you’re going to die and wanted the comfort of your mother but then realized she's going to die too and can’t do anything!
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ok, yeah. that kinda ruled.
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Drawbruary 23; Champion Gundyr of Dark Souls 3
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listening to an avett brothers album and wow shame is an extremely gerard song to me
like, here's the last half of it:
I felt so sure of everything
My love to you so well received
And I just strutted 'round your town
Knowing I didn't let you down
The truth be known, the truth be told
My heart was always fairly cold
Posing to be as warm as yours
My way of getting in your world
But now I'm out and I've had time
To look around and think
And sink into another world
That's filled with guilt and overwhelming
Shame, boatloads of shame
Day after day, more of the same
Blame, please lift it off
Please take it off, please make it stop
And everyone they have a heart
And when they break and fall apart
They need somebody's helping hand
I used to say just let 'em fall
It wouldn't bother me at all
I couldn't help then, now I can
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Because of K.K.’s ability, she cannot tell when she is wounded (and I wish I took a screenshot of that one surveillance interaction with the chief warning her about it) and now I’m just here wondering what if K.K. just returns from a mission one day, oblivious of a wound on her back until someone points it out to her and at that point, she’s already lost too much blood and, really, the only thing she can sayーcan thinkーis oh. No wonder she felt so cold and dizzy.
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