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I love your metas on slow damage. I was wondering what sort of ideas you had on Rei’s endings? I feel as if it’s the games true “ignorance is bliss” ending as Towa confronts almost nothing from his past. We don’t even know what happens to the Takasato-gumi or what the other characters were doing in the background. However i dont think this is a bad thing. I feel as though unlike other routes, it’s one where Towa gets to prioritize someone else’s problems and finds happiness and healing through that.

Hi, anon! I know that this response is very much overdue, partly because I always want my responses to be completely satisfactory and not just 50% (another is because I got preoccupied). So I deeply apologize for this and I hope that you can see this reply.

Honestly, I do think that Taku and Rei's endings point to the same concept in that Towa can heal and move forward even without confronting his past. But yeah, while Taku's ending can be summed up as "the past no longer matters when there's the present and the future", Rei's ending (while also having hints of that) does really encapsualte the "ignorance is bliss" concept since his route felt the most detached from the overarching plot (besides the dropping of some hints that Sakaki isn't all that trustworthy and a certain dirty business that Towa's parents engaged in), and honestly, what you said about his route showing Towa actively acting for someone else's sake in this one, which is how he can improve as well, makes perfect sense.

I mean, Towa does this as well in Taku's route, but it's kind of balanced between helping Taku with his issues (mainly by being straightforward with Taku about his hesitation) while also digging a bit deeper into himself and his relationship with the other man. Whereas with Rei, Towa also has to be a shoulder for him to lean on and sounding board for the other (which, now that I think about it, could also be him subconsciously doing with Rei what Mei did for him. We may not know much details of their friendship, but we definitely know for sure she was one of his very few pillars of support).

But now it also makes me think that Rei's route is something of a foil to Madarame's. While Madarame himself (and his romance with Towa) is a foil to the other three with the whole "I can make him worse" thing, it's telling that while Madarame himself is a figure from Towa's past, the route doesn't exactly touch on Towa's childhood per se, and also has the "ignorance is bliss" aspect albeit with a different execution.

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ASTARION ANCUNIN BEING SASSY: 2/?

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I can't watch my body be taken over.

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free

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The thought that after Astarion ascends he’s still… in there, somewhere, screaming? That keeps me up at night

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Ah, but he is a beautiful creature 🩸🦇

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silence

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cuddling proves... challenging sometimes.

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ﾟ✧˚₊ Royal Blue ₊˚✧ ﾟ

Painted baby vamp to keep my brain sane 😪

This art will be available as a print at Toronto Comicon 2025 as well as my online store (stay tuned for the grand opening haha)

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don’t talk to me till I’ve had my morning blood

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The ghouls working hours.🩸🧟‍♀️🧟‍♂️

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Saw this and I knew what had to be done.

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A very angry frog 🐸 (sticker on redb)

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astarion my beloved i don't draw you often enough

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Ok yeah

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Baldur’s Gate 3 (dev. Larian Studios) (7/?)