I had asked @yellomagoo about what their BG3 OC Zhevani eats for breakfast here and I was inspired to make an ask list because I thought how a character eats, especially in an adventure setting like DnD/BG3, is an underrated way to tell us exactly who they are as a person.
So here we go:
What does your OC have for breakfast?
Is your OC a snacker or a full meal person? If snacks, what do they prefer to have?
Does your OC remember to eat? If not, do they suffer the consequences?
Does your OC have a regular beverage with their meals?
Does your OC have a sweet tooth?
Does your OC do midnight snacks?
Does your OC talk during mealtime or are they a solo diner?
What does your OC bring to the potluck?
Does your OC have (or lack) table manners?
Is your OC good at cooking? How did they learn?
Does your OC have diet restrictions? By nature or by choice?
On the road, does your OC hunt for food? If so, how?
What pet peeves does your OC have about food? (Flavor/texture preferences)
For a group adventure, where does your OC sit during dinner?
Finally for the author, do YOU think your OC is eating enough?
Tagged by @unovafarm! Thank you for tagging me once again! I'll try to answer the best I can.
My answers are under the cut! (Contains Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3)
🩸 What's a small BG3 detail that you always notice and love?
I absolutely love the amount of writing everywhere in BG3. It's completely unnecessary but it adds so much to the world outside of the adventure and hints at so much lore as we progress the game. An absolute flex from Larian.
🩸 What's one piece of reference material you're currently obsessed with?
Portrait of Anna Roslund (1917) by Gabriele Münter is one of my biggest inspirations for making Meekah Duskfate. The painting depicts the subject breaking early 20th-century gender norms, capturing the spirit of the confident, independent "new woman", smoking a pipe, which is traditionally a masculine symbol. So I thought it would be cool if Meekah had one. I also just love Expressionist art. My favorite painter of all time is probably Francis Bacon.
🩸 Share a snippet or visual from your current project that you're quietly proud of.
It was cold inside the pod.
In between states of lucidity Mina could hear the slithering of tentacles, the flapping of wings, and the chittering of… imps? The worm that had crawled inside her brain squeals as if answering her thoughts, rattling her skull.
Then, it was hot inside the pod.
A hiss settles outside the pod. Mina could feel the breath of wind on her face as she wakes up. Her pod had opened on its own, surrounded by wreckage.
The neighboring pod has broken out of. Somebody must have woken up alongside her.
🩸 What's something you're looking forward to creating or finishing soon?
@sootycrowbait asked me to develop a bigger project of the Kindness Girls. Because I originally did individual scenes to see if I can introduce the characters without backstory or lore dumps as a writing exercise, but that didn't come through as legible, I might try to do a longer fic. No promises though.
🩸What's a fun or silly tradition you have with your OCs/Tavs?
I buy a billion water jugs to clean the blood off before talking to an NPC or getting into a cutscene because I want to screenshot them CLEAN LOL.
🩸 What's a BG3 NPC you'd love to see in a completely different outfit or setting?
I feel like Shadowheart should have different campwear depending on which ending we get, because Selûnite Shadowheart with the original dark campwear is kind of weird, you know?
🩸 What is a BG3 collab project that you would want to do?
I just want people to crossover with the KGs! Could literally be with anyone but I don't know how that's going to happen yet.
🩸 What's a tiny headcanon or detail you've added to your Tav/OC that brings you joy?
Huska Duskfate volunteers at an animal shelter after Mina Minos told her to go find a hobby outside of Selûne.
🩸 What is something you want your followers to know about you?
I went to film school. I have friends who just graduated too and are looking for people to make art for! Check out @retrotenn if you're into Vocaloid and anime related art!
No Pressure Tags: @sootycrowbait @swanbrother @theblacktulip9 @galacticsparkles
Alrighty everyone, I'm deadset sick of seeing bots rule our comment section so I'm starting a tag called #bg3dizzy , where we all get drunk and help out our fellow bg3 OCers.
Get drunk, comment like fuck on your fellow Oc tags (#bg3oc #bg3tav #bg3 durge) and raise up your mates!
Welcome @wyfyoyo and her OC Mina to the fandom. Check out her awesome lore about her family and get to know her better!
On Saturdays, I'm coming for you Bg3 OC fandom. Tah to akiimikiku@Deviantart for their f2u emote pack.
(Its a long weegend here in Canada so I'm day off!) Come be a drunkcunt with me and raise up your fandom! Comment! Comment! Comment!
Thank you for the tag @unovafarm! At first I thought you wanted me to draw them for real and I nearly soiled myself in fear but then I found out it was a picrew game! Imagine my relief! Now, because there's not a lot of option for my OCs in the games, just pretend it's a modern AU or something.
Mina Minos and Shadowheart
Click here for this Picrew game!
Gale and Hestia Balfour (I guess modern AU)
Click here for this Picrew game!
I don't know who else has done this tag yet so I'll just (gently gently) tag whoever: @galacticsparkles @met-in-a-tavern @bardic-perdita @grotesquethegargoyle
Hi People! I've made a Discord Server for people to share about their Tavs/Durges!
(Brand NEW Server! Still a WIP with first time server creation)
Come join the Tannery Tearoom! 🫖
Check out the The Tannery Tearoom community on Discord - hang out with 9 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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We are a server specialized in building a community for fellow Baldur's Gate/DnD/Forgotten Realms lovers to gather and share their OCs/Tavs/Durges with each other. This is a place to share your characters, workshop your writing and art, and receive feedback from people who are also too emotionally invested in their made-up medieval individuals. DnD lore is welcome as long as it's relative to the Forgotten Realms meta.
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What we're about:
✰ Sharing and workshopping BG3/DnD OCs
✰ Improving writing and art for Tumblr and beyond
✰ Building a supportive creative community
✰ Taking our characters very seriously and also not seriously at all (but seriously)
✰ Argue constructively about whether your OC would actually survive that *pulls up wikipedia*
✰ Receive unhinged enthusiasm about the details you thought no one would notice
Pull up a chair. The tea's hot and the fire is warm. 🏕️
✨ Moody Moodboards Monday (On a Tuesday/Wednesday!) ✨
Thank you for the tag @unovafarm! I've never done a moodboard ever in my life, I think, so this was the first time I dabbled in this and also Canva.
Let us see your moodboards! Your OC, your OC and their Love Interest, a theme, a song, a quote - anything!
I couldn't decide who to do so I thought why not just do all of them? Two hours later this was it (you can see me progressively getting used to the app):
Thank you for the tag @unovafarm! I love how jam-packed on themes Nienna's name is from the Tolkien homage to the Norse pantheon of her surname. Now for my OCs' names which in comparison seem to be running on pure vibes (buckle up because this is gonna be LONG):
Mina Minos
Fun fact, I did not come up with the last name Minos in Baldur's Gate, but in Wildermyth, which is another fantasy RPG game that has drained out months of my life. I was simply pressing random generate when coming up with my character's name and I rolled Minos as the last name and I went "that goes HARD", and came up with Mia Minos, who in Wildermyth had a daughter named Martha Minos. Martha, in the canon of BG3, is Mina's mom. The name Mina came later from me MISREMEMBERING the name MIA because I originally wanted to do a whole dynasty of Minos for each playthrough but ended up just liking Mina as my first and only Minos I played as simply because the name slaps.
Her full name Wilhelmina Eurydice Minos came much much later because the thought occured to me that Mina as a name might not be period accurate, so I looked up what Mina is short for and turns out Wilhelmina is a perfectly fine noble name, and Eurydice was simply completing the gravitas of Mina's last name Minos as per the king Minos of Greek myth about the Minotaur. While I was playing BG3, I just came up with the entire noble house lore in between commuting from quest to quest.
Meekah Duskfate
I came up with Meekah after completing Mina's run because I wanted to try out this drow thing everyone's talking about. Her name was actually inspired by Wyll because it was Will with a "y" and I thought "I too can misspell people's names" so I came up with Mika because I thought it was really great name for a rogue and just bastardized it into Meekah.
Duskfate as her surname also came after beating the game simply because I wanted to come up with a mutual surname for the drow sisters. Having learned a little more about DnD lore and how half-elves name themselves vs drow, I thought it would be thematic that Meekah and Huska Duskfate would have distinctively half-elf sounding names for two drow to show that they are adopted. At a very young age, even.
For Meekah's birth name Lhylari Baenre, I literally did zero effort on it. Firstly, Lhylari was just from a random drow name generator online and the loosest translation I could get from it was "Llt (iron, west, western)" + "lara (cynic, death, end, victim)" so just nonsense. I learned that lesson after doing Huska though. Secondly, I chose Meekah to be born a Baenre because I only knew House Baenre back then because of Minthara (I did not know who Drizzt Do'Urden was as a complete DnD noob). HOWEVER, DOES MEEKAH NOT HAVE THE BAENRE LIPS?
Helina
Helina was simply named the Dark Urge because it's symbolic, it's funny when she just calls herself the Dark Urge and nobody cares, and I absolutely knew that I could change her name before Act 3 (I didn't). After the whole ordeal of fighting Orin, getting killed, then being revived, Withers said "the sole way to atone for thine actions is to do better, in a new dawn. That dawn is here." And I thought it would be a great thematic gesture for her to christen herself a new name, that being Helina which was again a bastardized (or Wylled) version of Helena, meaning "shining light", tied to helios, the Greek word for the sun. Dawn would have been too cute and too on the nose for her.
Hestia Balfour
Hestia Balfour is quite literally the most vibe based name of the roster (second only to Huska) because I was just lying in my living room couch while thinking up a bard name before I even pressed new game. I wanted to play Bard class after the heaviness of Helina's Durge run and I was just going "I'm (bard name) darling~" trying to think of "what's the most pretentious bard name I could come up with" and Hestia Balfour just rolls out the tongue. It's fancy sounding, it's FAKE sounding, and it's definitely the chosen stage name of Outer City born Ellifain Nimesin who wanted to rub shoulders in the music circles and chose Hestia Balfour.
Huska Duskfate
(SHE ALSO HAS THE BAENRE LIPS)
I was lying on the couch again making random sounds to myself and then I said "Hús", like (hoos like goose) the Old Norse noun that translates to "house", "building," or "household". Then I just said "Huska" a bunch of times and then it became "Hus-ka", Hus like Bus.
That was IT.
Now Huska's birthname Yaseari Baenre on the other hand was just going back to the drow name table and going "Yas/Yaz" (riddle, spinning, thread, web) + "eari/erd" (giver, god, patron). So Yaseari, the most stoic, straightforward, stoic person has the name "riddle god". LOL. LMAO even. Never doing drow name tables again.
Also fun fact, turns out Huska is a real word. As a surname, Huska, (often spelled Húska) is of Slovak, Rusyn, and Ukrainian origin. It derives from the Slovak word húska, which translates to "little goose".
SHE'S THE GOOSE 🪿
TLDR: I just had a lot of spare time and just went "how can I make a name that sounds HARD"
No Pressure Tags: @met-in-a-tavern @bardic-perdita @galacticsparkles @weirdest-wyrd @grotesquethegargoyle @eliwyntorleth @grumpybugs
Huska Duskfate: age 25, drow, female, gray skin, long side-swept bangs, natural white hair bleached gray and blonde by the sun, dark brown eyes, hulking, muscular, tall, navy blue plate armor, wields greatsword called Moonrise, ornate jewelled circlet enchanted for smite power instead of helmet,cute round face, soft calm voice, 201cm
Class: Paladin
Personality: stoic to strangers, warm, compassionate, loyal, resilient
Background:
- Younger sister of Meekah Duskfate
- Paladin of Selûne
- Greatsword given to her by the temple inherited from a retired paladin.
- Adopted with Meekah by Selûnite half-elves Kalvar and Lariel in Rivington.
- Born from House Baenre as Yaseari Baenre, Meekah was abandoned to the surface at age 5 alongside Huska, who was a newborn.
- Adopted parents are old but alive, living in a cottage in Rivington
- Pet orange cat named Mooch who lives with her parents in Rivington.
- Speaks formally with little to no contractions. Manner of speech born from social awkwardness and nerdiness, disguised as stoic and formal speech.
