See Bohemienne's works <a href="https://archiveofourown.org/users/Bohemienne/pseuds/Bohemienne" target="_blank">here</a>!<br /><br />Questio
Hello sickos, I'm offering Gortash or DurgeTash fic for the Baldur's Gate 3 fandom for this year's Fandom Trumps Hate!
(Durge will likely be my take on default durge, a taciturn, inquisitive, and slightly broody murder lizard but also easily excitable and bitey good boy who's a bit of a romantic. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable writing someone else's "custom" durge, but I am open to suggestions on characterization!)
I know I'm newish around the cult of gort but if you're interested in seeing what I have to offer:
Teaser from upcoming DurgeTash hurt/comfort fic
DurgeTash fake dating? (possible trope for auction fic? hint hint)
DurgeTash Valentine's
DurgeTash marriage
Unhinged Gortash ramble
Another unhinged Gortash ramble
he's tadpoled two thousand people
sceleritas fake-ass bestie
And if you'd like to see some of my writing from other fandoms, here are some of my personal faves with themes you might enjoy:
Denial & Deception [Fire Emblem: Three Houses; Hubert/Ferdinand] (M, 83K)
Ferdibert fake dating espionage novel-length fic that a couple of you liked ig
the stone and the storm that breaks it [Genshin Impact; Zhongli/Childe] (E; 7K)
Zhongchi bdsm in which Zhongli has just one more errand for Childe he swears.
weāll see whoās laughing about outdated tumblr prose in 2029 when the average micro-influencer genre novel opens with like āfirst of;all i am not doing well And i might go away soonā
sex position: you, sitting on your throne. me, standing behind you, resting my arm on the back of your throne and sniling so sneetly at your ministers like i have any right to be there
I feel tired and nerwous of the fact that I didn't post anything on socialmedia lately, but I want to focus on finishing it as soon as possible. Stay with me please, I'm still balls deep in durgetash.
Here is fragment of my new comic I'm working on. I love them. I love Gortashs yellow eyes and teeth and I love diva make-up of Durge. Imagine that he put his eyeliner before he goes clarify the matter with Gortash.
My Patreon If you are curious how my progres go, you can support me on patreon, I put there tones of sketches, linearts and short comic ideas.
For all of my Gideon whump enjoyers out there, I figured Iād share some of the biological research I did to extrapolate ārealisticā responses to various possible inputs.
First, itās important to note that in humans on planet Earth, the Circadian rhythm is just slightly longer than 24 hours. It can vary a bit by individual, but importantly, it relies on access to environmental signals, the most important of which is sunlight. Humans cannot set their own internal clocks in a meaningful way and Iād argue itās reasonable to say the same about a half-human (presumably) fire genasi.
The generally accepted age of Gideon upon capture is around 18 due mostly to the fact that heās 38 in OUAW and he escaped the train 10 years prior to the start of campaign using the most-cited period of time the players have expressed during the campaign.
So, we can reasonably say that he had 18 years of normal Circadian rhythm using the Avantris equivalent of the sun and other signals before he was captured and locked in the train.
I know there are many interpretations of what his enslavement looked like, and I tend to think he wasnāt in the engine box every hour of every day for ten years, mostly because heās still (mostly) sane.
That said, letās explore what would happen to a person if they spent the vast majority of their time in a box thatās only lit by their own flame. That is, of course, assuming that he even had extra light to spare with the manacles pulling his elemental power from him.
First, without the sun, his Circadian rhythm would shift radically, and thatās ignoring beatings, compulsions, etc that could make it even worse.
With no sunlight, windows, clocks or calendar, humans experience this change when they spend long periods of time in caves. Researchers found that many subjects ended up in a pattern of 18-20 hours awake, and then 10-12 hours asleep.
Gideon would not have a meaningful concept of āmorningā or āday.ā
After months of this, or years, an hour could feel like days, days could feel like hours, weeks would blur together and entire months could disappear without conscious notice.
Using research on prisoners kept in solitary confinement, who have access to light, but not windows, individuals begin to lose their ability estimate how long they have been imprisoned.
If you asked Gideon how long heād been imprisoned, he genuinely might not know or be able to answer accurately. He might guess 4 years when itās been 7, or 10 years when it has been 5.
I tend to think in this situation, Gideon might use meals to count time.
He would use events to organize memory.
āThis happened before I broke that guardās arm,ā āThat was after they tried branding me,ā etc.
Upon escaping, sunlight might actually be too intense.
A prisoner in a box for ten years would likely find the light overwhelming, though I imagine Gideon wouldnāt be bothered much by the heat.
He would have a very hard time falling asleep at normal hours (sleep would already be a struggle, but I will rein in my ADHD and stay on topic). He might fall asleep during the day and be awake all night, or awake for multiple days and then crash for 2 or 3. Itās likely that he would have extremely strong emotional reactions to sunrises and sunsets, as well as changes in weather.
He would constantly be checking the sky to reorient himself, and heād be acutely aware of the seasons in a way he hadnāt been since before the train.
For a long period, he would rely on artificial schedules a lot, and he might even tend to follow the old train schedule if it was kept strict, because itās familiar and already ingrained.
With freedom would come disorientation. After his initial food binge that I have no doubt would occur, heād have trouble knowing when to eat or sleep anymore.
Importantly, Gideonās perception of the passage of time would be warped for a very long period.
He would likely be able to estimate how long he was on the train once he escaped because he aged, he listened to the guards talking (we know this because thatās why he was able to and motivated to escape), heād see management and workers come and go.
For a long time off the train, heād struggle with things like āwas that yesterday, or last week?ā
Heād sleep at odd hours, not pay attention to dates, organize memories around major events instead of calendars or trusting his own memory to correctly interpret and store when something occurred.
Now, because itās Gideon, he might not care much about that, I imagine it would depend on what kind of memories weāre talking about.
If he cared to know, he might tend to almost obsessively or compulsively ask what time it is, or what day of the week until he reacquired a normal and working rhythm after a long period of freedom.
Anyway, probably for the best that he was picked up by a gator folk who carries a pocket watch.
