i want That One (points at unromancable NPC)

baldur's gate's bastard men have bewitched me body and true soul (main blog is delsinsfire)

[kryenna]

no I swear he doesn't bite he's nice :3

[eye-of-yelough]

fave Gortash line [and devnote] ever btw. this specific side of him is just so. chefs kiss to me.

the mock-friendliness. the threat. the sadism. the twisted, almost immature sense of humour.

the terrifyingly intelligent tyrant in his late forties with a black hole where his heart should be. with the emotional intelligence of a ten year old.

[wildflowers-and-poison]

If Durge romances Astarion, they fell in love with a man who escaped slavery twice.

If Durge romances Gale, they fell in love with a man with ambitions of godhood twice.

If Durge romances Karlach, they fell in love with someone who was betrayed by the people they trusted and sold to a devil twice.

If Durge romances Shadowheart, they fell in love with someone bound to an evil god twice.

If Durge romances Wyll, they fell in love with a man whose family abandoned him and became bound to a devil twice.

If Durge romances Lae’zel, they fell in love with someone who grew up in a brutal environment and every day was a struggle to survive twice.

[royalpurplehuskies]

Bane and Bhaal put the two worst people in the world, young, attractive, and crazy – each of them only person in the world who could possibly sympathize with the other – in a room together and told them to spend monthsyears working in close quarters on a project that would see the two of them become essentially monarchs of Baldur’s Gate. What the fuck did they think was going to happen?

[frizzypom]

hi have this

[velinxi]

"...You wish to share?"

[unknowntropicalbird-deactivated]

Headcanon:

Gortash didn't get Durge to feel actual Feelings towards him through that haze of murder by being just as brutal as the rest of Durge's life.

Gortash was different. Calm. He was the eye of the storm. He had a way of making Durge's inclinations feel rational. Reasonable. It stabilised them.

When their mind was a tornado of blood and hurt and murder he was right there to casually explain why Durge wasn't some mindless, feral thing acting on impulse; they were merely efficient at what they did.

And yes he was an enabler because he was also a horrible person, but in a way his guiding light kept Durge from falling completely off the edge.

Gortash says Durge was always better at controlling themselves, but that was only because of him.

[daemon-in-my-head]

Idk exactly how you trigger it anymore, but Gortash has that one line where he's essentially like "idc what happens, you're already a god, we just need to get the world to see it" to Durge. And. Boy.

By the grace of having a godly parent, all Bhaalspawn, strictly speaking, are quasi deities. The only difference between 'normal' Bhaalspawn and Durge is that the others are Demigods while Durge is a titan. Yet all Bhaalspawn have a divine spark and are technically deities. But nobody ever really pays any attention to it nor mentions it.

Except for fucking Gortash. Who's determined to make sure Durge is seen as the deity they are. It's common knowledge what Bhaalspawn are. They are feared by everyone. Even Minthara knows of them and she spend the last centuries below ground. And yet Gortash is the only one who really, fully acknowledges what Durge is and wants the world to see it too.

Only the one person who really shouldn't do that as the chosen of tyranny.

[kirkwallers]

The Chosen of Bane | Enver Gortash — [ 5 / ∞ ]

[flymmsy]

Please, Larian.

[flymmsy]

Bonus:

[darkurgediaries]

He gives me cute aggression 🙂

[thywheelof-fate]

what if our hands accidentally brushed against each other during our weekly evil meeting and I act cool but then later I crawl back to my sewers and vomit out of anxiety and scrape my knees bloody as I pray against the altar of my father and swear, I swear, I don't love you, I don't even like you, and that my last actions on this planet will be to ensure that we die by the same blade, in the same motion, only after everyone else

and then I go back to you the next day and I'm like "hey :) feeling totally normal :) I only want to kill you the normal amount :)"

[daemon-in-my-head]

Everyone looks better covered in blood.

[say-lene-deactivated20251029]

i'm very normal about this inexplicably attractive man

[baba-fett]

when people are disturbed by the fact that Durge may have canonically been with Gortash it's so funny because Durge did some truly atrocious shit pre-amnesia but to some people Gortash was the worst thing they did

[daemon-in-my-head]

I love how with durgetash its just like, whatever flavour you choose, it just works.

Soft durgetash? Sign me up.

Tragic lovers durgetash? Sign me up.

Unhinged psychopaths durgetash? Sign me up.

Kinky bdsm couple that would make even Abdirak look twice? Sign me up.

King and his Knight durgetash? Sign me up.

Domestic durgetash? Sign me up.

Forbidden love durgetash? Sign me up.

Platonic be(a)sties durgetash? Sign me up.

Common enemy (Ketheric) durgetash? Sign me up.

I can keep going for days.

[web-spinning]

Imagine your parents never loved you, and you were abused by a devil for the first couple of years of your life, never had anyone that looked out for you, had to fought your own freedom, all your issues made you an awful person, one you could call a tyrant.

Then you meet a person even more deranged than you. But that doesn't matter, because they care. They're the first person in your life who shows you love. They're the first person in your life who look into your eyes and instead of disgust they feel love.

Then they dissapear. The only person that was able to love you, even when your own family couldn't.

The next thing you know you see them again. But they don't remember you. And they've already found a new partner in their new travelling party.

You were replaced, again. No one will ever be able to love you.

No one.