Ramblingss

[letsnotandsaywewantedto]

[morimorikei]

For reference, this is the original:

[lavendarr00]

My favorite armor for Wyll 🗡️🤍

[doraingrid]

The Chosen

[vonspe]

I saw in another ask that Ssz'intra is a career criminal. What kind of crime can he do? Can he procure… objects? Asking for a wizard. 👉👈🧙‍♀️

Getting stuff for the wizard is his top priority!

his proficiencies are stealing, cheating, murdering and malewife-ing

[vonspe]

fuckin aced it, good work kid

[sha-brytols]

gale straight up being literally suicidal did fuck me up my first run i will not lie to you

[sha-brytols]

i think like literally all the bg3 characters (except halsin. sorry.) have really shockingly raw and hard hitting depictions of trauma and mental illness actually. is this a cringe opinion

[sha-brytols]

gale's whole thing with self-image and self-worth being completely reliant on how other people perceive him which feeds into his obsession with making sure he is the Most Talented And Brilliant Guy In The Room and when that is threatened he spirals into a suicidal depressive state

shadowheart being so completely deprived of genuine affection in her life that she has a very warped concept of empathy and attachment that can literally only be expressed through pain and your only method of getting her out of that mentality is to either step aside and trust her own judgment for like the literal first time ever in her life or help rip her away from the source of that conditioning in the first place

wyll with that whole element of his story being how he associates those romanticized tales of heroism with his father and how that means he's essentially desperately trying to Literally Become His Father in some kind of self-flagellating attempt at atonement for all his perceived failures with this kind of misguided notion that if he can become this archetypal hero that his father was he'll be reaccepted and then every single time that doesn't work out he internalizes it and takes that as further evidence that he's doing something wrong

fucking. astarion and that whole narrative of self-perpetuating abuse cycles being dependent on resentment and fear of your abuser as well as festering self-contempt that inevitably lead you to seek out a target you believe you can exercise power over and exert the same abuses you went through in order to reclaim some semblance of control

i know bg3 has a reputation for its actually bananas fandom and even more bananas dev team but like this is still overwhelmingly true right. im not crazy. i can name the amount of aaa games that actually make these plot beats Hit on maybe one single hand

[may12324]

The Main six Baldur's Gate Companions

[baldursgateconceptart]

Selûne and Shar

Art for Baldur's Gate 3

Art by Maxime Ponslet

[lunian]

made a couple of posts about Astarion being hilarious gremlin but never made a collection of Gale's silly talks?? I should've fixed it

[thesonofgaytan]

The Companions: After killing my abuser, I just feel hollow. I thought revenge would fulfil me. But really, it’s left me with more complicated feelings.

Rolan: BITCH!! NO SPINE HAVING ASS BITCH!! YOUR HOUSE IS MINE NOW!!

[chaoswritesthemultiverse]

…do you think, during his year of isolation, that Tara ever sat on Gale's chest while he was asleep and purred to try to heal the orb because it's like an ingrained biological cat type behaviour?

[calolily-deactivated20260327]

Had a patreon request for Gale cuddling Tara, so I had to make it angsty with this post in mind.

[nerdepic]

wyll week day 1: blade

[starlightweave]

Baldur's Gate 3 Dialogue You've Never Heard: Masterpost

Gale 💜🔮

Gale’s Unnecessarily Sexy "Gods, don’t tempt me."

"Ah~, I have you! Just a shame I don’t want you."

"Hells! I have better things to do than seek out unsettling little children."

Hidden Dialogue: Gale's Got Pondering to Do

Early Access: "The Waterdhavian Dictionary of the Common Tongue of Faerûn" + "I just can’t help being quite insufferable."

"Whatever oils your leather..." Bugged Romance Dialogue

Morning After the Drow Twins

"Cephalopodian banishment spells / My savior! / So much to explore!" Gale's Recruitment

"Who gives a fig?"

"My, this Sovereign likes to delegate."

Orin-Gale's Cut Romance Dialogue

Cheating on Gale 😭

"Right here in my breadbasket!" (and how to actually trigger this elusive line)

"I'll always have you, Karlach." + "I've never wanted to kiss you more than I do now."

"I'm too long in the tooth to play the sacrificial lamb." / "Sometimes I wish I were a more selfish man." Gale Refuses to Die / Is Convinced to Die at the Brain Stem

Weave Lesson: How Many Boots Has Gale Eaten

Weave Lesson: Magic & Religious Class Dialogue

Weave Lesson: Sorcerer Exclusive Dialogue

Early Access: Gale's Deal with Raphael

"Time to indulge our curiosity" Cat-like Mischief with Astarion

Early Access: "Tanks, but no tanks."

Early Access: "I may never look at a pickle jar the same again."

"My bladder control is exemplary, I'm afraid."

"The mind is strong, but the knees..." / "Keeping your greatest weapon in reserve, eh?" Making Space for a New Companion

"You aren't here to hear me ramble." / "That was over far too soon. I was rather enjoying that~" Hidden Mystery Dialogue

"I still prefer my odds if I don't turn myself into a crater the size of the Lower City." Convincing god-Path Gale to Blow Himself Up (or Not) Pt 1

Astarion ❤️🦇

Astarion Tries to Flirt with Gale funny devnotes

Astarion: "Warning: nymphs bathing nearby"

Astarion "But what if we did though" Cat-like Mischief with Gale

Astarion: Early Access: "What curiously grotesque things..."

Astarion: "This circus is all yours, my friend." Making Space for a New Companion

Companions + Tav/Durge

Companions + Tav: Finding Oliver in Hide & Seek

Companions + Tav: Failing to Find Oliver in Hide & Seek

Durge Hates Naaber

Halsin: Making Space for a New Companion

Jaheira: Making Space for a New Companion

Karlach: Making Space for a New Companion

Shadowheart: Early Access: "A brain. No thanks, I already have one."

Shovel Loves Draconic Sorcerers

Minthara VS Origin Wyll: Epilogue she does not like his ass 😂

Minthara: Making Space for a New Companion

Minsc: "Boo? Where!

Minsc: Hidden Dialogue: Making Space for a New Companion

Wyll: Early Access: "How many brains do they need!?

Wyll: Making Space for a New Companion

Requests are always welcome!

[gribbo]

would have killed for a conversation between isobel and wyll about their fathers. ketheric thorm and ulder ravengard are interesting foils

[gribbo]

ulder sacrifices his beloved child in order to (as he understands the situation) do his duty and protect the people of baldur's gate. wyll understands his father's guiding principles and respects him for them despite the ways in which they've betrayed him personally—and he inherits his father's dedication to defending those who can't defend themselves. on the other hand ketheric thorm sacrifices his duty and his principles and dooms his own people + countless others to the most hideous fate imaginable in order to "protect" his beloved child—which of course disgusts and horrifies isobel because in his obsessed devotion to her he perverts and tortures and destroys everything and everyone she ever cared about including himself

[agoodflyting]

One of my favorite things about BG3 is how many of the core companions/playable characters have backgrounds as -- essentially -- one of the mook npcs you might have to kill in another story. Every one of them was made to have their tragic backstory revealed in a note you loot from their corpse after hitting them with a fireball.

Shadowheart is a servant of an evil goddess. Her cult spends its time spreading darkness and misery. The only thing that separates her from the Sharrans you can kill at their temple is that she's the one who was sent on the mission to get the Astral Prism.

Lae'zel is a Githyanki warrior, bred for battle. As with Shadowheart, the only reason she's your companion instead of an npc that you kill and loot at the Temple of Lathander is that she's the one who got tadpoled and survived.

Karlach is Zariel's champion with an engine for a heart. She even says she's the best at it. How many times has she been the mini-boss some adventurer failed to defeat, in their quest in the Hells?

Astarion is the spawn of a vampire lord. How many times, in all those years, have adventurers broken into Cazador's mansion, and his spawn have been compelled to fight them? In another universe, the Mindflayers grab Dalyria instead, and its Astarion you have to fight to defend her.

Wyll sees himself as a hero, but we find out that Mizora has been manipulating him into hunting targets who might have been innocent victims the whole time. He even starts as just another bounty hunter in Karlach's story. How many times has he been the monstrous stalker to someone who crossed the Hells?

Gale is a wizard who dabbled in forbidden power and became something dark and dangerous. In another game, there would be a mission where you'd have to raid his tower and stop him from potentially ending humanity by messing with the Karsite Weave.

I just kinda love this, and I love how the game brought all these characters together and basically said: look how in the right circumstances, anyone can be a hero.

[perfectcleavage]

we need more content of wyll acting 24 years old. I need him to make slightly out of touch references that fall flat with both old and young people. I need random gaps of knowledge to appear at the most inconvenient times. I need him to not understand his alcohol limit fully yet. I need him to embarrassingly mispronounce words he learned by reading. for him to be kind of flustered by brothels but also act like he’s been to one before. I need him to make very loud faces behind someone speaking to mock them. 24 year old things.