I had one funny little thought about how my current durge would be hot topic buddies with shadowheart and now can’t stop thinking about a silly little mall au so here’s where I think all of the bg3 character would work in a mall
She works at Hot Topic, the obvious but fitting choice (she could maybe work at Sephora or Starbucks, I feel like there’s some queer emo crossover there, but her working at Hot Topic is what started this all so)
He either works somewhere “basic” like Banana Republic/Abercrombie (but the nice employee not the judgy one) or he works at Spencer’s/something similar and his dads mad about it (OR he’s a shirtless model at Hollister and his dad is ashamed of that, I’m picturing this scene in fresh off the boat)
Build a Bear, 100%, she’s their best employee when she remembers not to swear in front of the kids (I could also see her working at Zumies but I really like Build a Bear for her, I also can see her having worked in hell, aka an Amazon warehouse, before escaping to the mall)
Ideally he works at some kind of B&N/book store but idk if those are really in malls so alternatively he works at the Apple Genius Bar or the Lego store (I could also see him working at a B&N near the mall and then spending an odd amount of time visiting, he realized he needed to leave the house more and talk to people besides his cat)
She’s hard cause I feel like she’d hate the mall and she’d never work anywhere she didn’t want to so I’m still not sure where to put her, best I can think of is she’s working as a very dedicated security guard or at some kind of peloton/workout store (I feel like the githyanki could be some kind of fitness cult)
He’s similar to la’zael where he definitely wouldn’t like the mall (for different reasons) but he could definitely work at some kind of earthy smoothie place or one of those kids play zones (also maybe one of those random hippie stores that pops up, but I’ve never seen one last long in a mall)
He’s the judgy Sephora employee who’s eyeliner was probably done with a knife, he could also work at one of the new/flashier designer stores (I was trying to think of some kind of night job but idk any that would fit him) I could also see him having to work at like Starbucks after quitting his really messed up job with Cazador and absolutely hating it
She works at that one old random hair salon or is a good but very done manager at a large department store who’s worked at the mall since it opened (her kids also work at the mall and no ones knows til they show up and start arguing and she has to explain that she’s not verbally harassing customers again)
He’s a staple at the malls Auntie Ann’s and Boo is his ratatouille, everyone knows about him and the blatant health code violation but the food so good that everyone’s willing to look the other way (I could also see him just randomly popping up and working at a different place every week)
She is that designer store employee who does look down on you the second you step foot in the door, a little more old money designer rather than flashy, I can see her specifically at a Neiman Marcus (and she’s definitely a manager, a bad one)
I have so many thoughts about this