Bhaal Babe

Hi I’m Lyssa, and this is my BG3 sideblog. I’ve been playing the same Durge for 2 years. Her name is Eve and she’s a vampire kisser. 🖤 My main blog is @po-tae-toes 🖤

[bhaal-bhabe]

Meet My Durge

Eve — An amnesiac survivor of the nautiloid crash, infected with a mind flayer tadpole, and haunted by something way worse.

Currently:

Tadpoled

Plagued by violent intrusive thoughts

Making questionable decisions

Emotionally entangled with a vampire

Trying to be a decent person, with a debatable success rate

More fic snippets, headcanons, and character posts to come!

🩷 Awesome character template by @spellfireburst , Eve artwork done by me 🩷

[arastir]

Long Rest Gale

My old piece for BG3 Anniversary Zine. The best mage-chef in all of Baldur’s Gate 🥘🍴✨

[kyoshichart]

tarot cards with bg3 characters

[gale-gaze]

don't forget to pay your Tressym Taxes™!

[corgiteatime]

Astarion fights back against the "sexy suave vampire" trope by being a fucked up weirdo with a poor social filter who walks into a room and says whatever off-putting commentary that pops into his head. Someone commented it as "brain to mouth waterslide" behavior and I could not agree more. His smooth brain lets those thoughts slide off faster.

[duerede]

A thing about Astarion I don't see talked about very often is that my good time boy cannot executive function. If you ask him to elaborate on any plan he goes, uh i dont knoooooow stop asking. He has been winging it since before you were born and he doesn't intend change now. Wouldn't know a step 2 if he met one. Any plan he has is just to show up and see what happens.

[ghibli]

this is my favourite thing about him. it's also why his approvals are so funny, he's like "(impulsively) FUCK that", or "yes wonderful (hasn't thought it through)" and then if you talk to him afterwards and are like actually astarion the reason I did this is due to my long term planning skills he's like oh. didn't think about that at all. forgot about plans and consequences. walking my reaction back. love and light.

[vicarfriedrich]

[generalcloudhopper]

Balder's Gate 3 characters will look at you with the biggest, wettest eyes and then ask you to let them do the worst thing imaginable.

[transparentkittenheart]

I'm obsessed with how Astation regresses once you enter Baulders Gate.

Specifically, when Tav says "I just want you to be happy." And he basically says "Ah! and letting me trick and kill my fellow spawn would make me so, so happy. You said you wanted me to be happy right? You want this to happen too. This is really for us, you want what's best for us, surly." Its sooo good. I was honestly surprised and very disappointed in him in that scene, but it made so much sense and I love it.

Hes flailing, and terrified and that's when hes his worst self. When hes scared hes ruthless, selfish, mean and manipulative. "I'm not soft, cuddly Astarion! I'm scared! I do bad things! This is how I've made it so far!" Hes back to trying to play you like a fiddle, but Tav can see through it so easily and understand him much better.

Such smart storytelling.

[kawareo]

Lae'zel is pretty fluent in Common but since she still sometimes messes up some words, I don't believe she understands a third of all the big words Gale uses casually. My headcanon is that she memorizes them during the day and then goes to demand elaborations in the evening, and Gale is very happy to have someone to teach linguistics to.

By the end of the game she can call Vlaakith an pernicious, diminutive old fuck, cut to Gale in her corner wiping away a tear of pride

[agoldengalaxy]

baldurs gate 3 companion headcanons:

- gale talks in his sleep

- astarion once made karlach laugh so hard that she sprayed fire out of her nose

- shadowheart can and will hurt anyone on purpose, but if she accidentally hits someone/steps on their foot she secretly feels REALLY bad about it

- when karlach told gale she hadn’t read a book since primary school he nearly passed out

- wyll is an emotional drunk. he has cried about the stars being beautiful and about how proud he is of his companions

- lae’zel learned her favorite trick from some of the tiefling children: sticking her tongue out at people she hates

- when she thinks everyone is asleep, jaheira sings old lullabies. minsc and wyll are the only ones who have heard, but they don’t say anything because they don’t want her to stop

- the children love to put flowers in halsin’s hair. he loves it too, and will return the favor if they ask. he once did it to an unenthusiastic astarion, who ended up secretly liking it

- minsc takes the BEST care of his nails. boo’s too, obviously. he has let yenna paint them once or twice

- everyone has a lowkey crush on wyll

- when no one is looking, astarion likes to feed and pet scratch and the owlbear, making comments about how they’re the cutest ones there (besides him) and no one gets him like they do

- karlach asked wyll for dance lessons. she never quite gets the hang of it, but she has fun, and wyll is proud of her

- astarion and shadowheart pretend to hate each other, but gossip about everyone else when they’re not looking

- everyone actually really enjoys gale’s cooking but they’d rather die than admit that

- girls night: shadowheart and lae’zel are at each other’s throats with daggers. karlach is passed out on the floor. jaheira is drinking all the ale she can find. everything’s on fire. the next day they look back on this fondly

- boys night: halsin and gale are laying on the ground to look at the stars, stoned out of their minds. wyll and astarion are pouring their hearts out to each other. minsc and boo are making dirt castles. the next day they pretend none of it happened

[serenbriar]

Give me Astarion who slowly gets more comfortable babbling away about his thoughts and feelings as he falls in love with you.

He goes from the constant "I'm fine" when you ask him how he is to "actually you know darling, I don't think the blood from that awful hook horror I bit in battle yesterday agreed with me, it was quite sour, eugh. I can't decide what was worse, that or Gale."

He is a yapper at heart after all.

[mycurrentobsessionis]

[vampirehoney]

I need her

[justporo]

Sitting between Astarion's legs must be one of your favourite spots in the whole entire world.

Knowing how that man would have scoffed and laughed just months ago at the thought of sharing this sort of familiar casual intimacy. Now he looks happily at you at the prospect. Red eyes sparkling, a soft smirk playing on his lips as he beckons you to come sit with him in the little window alcove of your joint home.

This is how and where you spend many hours now: when frost blooms from the edges of the window in the winter and a steaming mug of tea sits beside you. Or when rain of a late night's thunderstorm taps against the glass in the summer chasing away the heat of the day.

The seasons might change, as do the years eventually, but you're still sitting there, between Astarion's legs. Your back rests against his chest while his arms wrap around you, holding you gently. He loves to press light, tender kisses to your cheek, your neck.

Sometimes he places his chin gently on your shoulder, just sitting there watching whatever you are currently reading, complaining when you turn the page too quickly because he wasn't done or commenting on whatever you are momentarily doodling in your sketchbook. Other times he's pretending to just doze off and it's like you have a ginormous tomcat wrapped around your body, enjoying your warmth. His curls tickle your neck - but you wouldn't tell him to move for anything in the world.

And it's moments like these - when you hear Astarion's soft, happy sighs - that you realise how lucky you've gotten.

[cronchy-baguette]

happy late birthday to bg3!!! here's the tadpookies (and their Little Guys) in their red carpet bests!

[wetsocksinbed]

Baldurs Gate 3 is so wild when you realise how vastly different the game is depending on if you choose Tav or Dark Urge

Dark Urge Playthrough: you’re the child of Bhaal, but unlike the Bhaalspawn, you are created solely by Bhaal himself. The first true child of Bhaal. The daughter of one of your father’s previous Bhaalspawn turns on you, attacks you and tries to kill you. In your dying state, she infects you with a parasite so that you’ll die an incredibly humiliating death, and become her slave.

By some miracle you end up on the same nautiloud ship as a Sharron Cleric who happens to to be carrying a gith artefact that contains Baldur himself. Baldur, who was made a mind flayer and is now calling himself the Emperor, realises there’s an incredibly powerful Bhaalspawn on the ship, and that he can use them to his advantage. The power you have will help him destroy Gortash. Of course he picks you, it makes so much sense.

On your way to Baldurs Gate you find out through an unsent letter that you used to be into Gortash. When you get to Baldurs Gate, the man you used to fuck turns out to be an absolute loser and with horror you realise he is still into you. It’s okay though, he’s very easy to kill.

You end up facing off against Orin, your niece, and kill her. Your father appears to you and offers you the chance to become his Slayer. On the high chance you turn him down, he murders you in front of your loved ones, and leaves you to rot.

Then Jergal, the actual Lord of the End of Everything, the original God of Death, who was the very being that turned you father into a God all that time ago, who’s been in your camp for weeks pretending to be this undead scribe called Withers, appears next to your corpse and brings you back to life, basically adopts you, states that he will protect you from Bhaal, and announces that as long as he lives, you will never die. You’re essentially immortal.

Tav Playthrough: you’re a random nobody that was unlucky enough to get kidnapped by Mind Flayers. The Emperor must pick one of the many idiots on the ship to be his pawn. He sees Tav and thinks “ugh, yeah this one will do”.