For the emoji ask game: ❤️ for family headcanons for zevlor and dammon? This can be for either past family in Elturel or what the future holds for these two sweet boys c:
Thank you for the ask!!
Zevlor:
Back in Elturel he always put his work ahead of personal matters. Sure, he had a fling here or there but that man was absolutely married to his job.
His fellow Hellriders were his family unit. I don't think he has any blood relatives, and likely grew up as an orphan. He has some uniquely infernal features, so it's possible he's actually a first generation tiefling (one parent being a Cambion and the other a mortal). This doesn't really impact anything, it's just a fun detail I like to think about 😊
Anyway, that's why the Hellriders became so important to him- they were his whole world for so long. Their sudden betrayal and rejection once Elturel was returned from the Hells was completely devastating.
Post game, once he's settled back in Rivington/Baldur's Gate I think he'd be much the same way. If he does end up reestablishing the Hellriders and focusing on training the next batch of heroes then he'd consider that group his new family.
Buuuut if a certain wizard named Tav happened to wriggle her way into his life then he'd end up with an extended family including all of the tadpoled gang and maybe a tiefling baby or two. (Okay, there would ABSOLUTELY be a baby or two.)
He definitely loves kids, from how fiercely he defends them and how furious he is at Anders for putting them in danger back at the grove.
He might worry and fret that he's too old to be a father, but tieflings have a slightly longer than human lifespan so he'd for sure live long enough to raise his children with love and enjoy a gaggle of grandbabies too.
He weeps the first time his baby kicks btw, and when he holds them for the first time, when they laugh for the first time, when they use the toilet for the first time....just imagine him going into full snot bubbling sobbing every time they do anything for the first time, alright? He loves them all so much and he can't believe he actually gets to experience so much joy.
Dammon:
Dammon doesn't mention having any family back in Elturel. As far as I can tell, the only things he mentions about that place is that he was a tinsmith before it fell and then he studied infernal machinery while captured in the Hells to survive. He doesn't seem to mention losing any family members in the fall, so I assume he didn't have any to lose.
In my headcanon, he only had one tiefling parent (his mom) and his dad was a regular human and this is why he doesn't have the black sclera of the other tieflings. I also think he was an only child and raised solely by his tiefling mother. I dunno, that man drinks alot of Respects Women Juice and being raised by a single mother fits that pretty well, you know?
Anyway, his mother died when he was young, probably when he was only 12 or 13. Instead of being sent to an orphanage, he was old enough to be accepted on as an apprentice by the local tinsmith and that's where he stayed until Elturel fell.
Now, post game: Dammon screams breeding kink. I don't know why, I don't know how, but to me that is his vibe. He will have an entire brood of tiefling babies with his chosen partner. If they can be pregnant, he'll make sure they are. If they're infertile or are AMAB then he'll just really really really enjoy creampies, and they'll adopt a bunch of kids instead.
Either way, this man has a huge family in Baldur's Gate.
He'll wait until his blacksmith business is firmly established first, though. He's known what it's like to lose a parent young, and he wants to make sure he has enough free time to really enjoy raising his children and making precious memories that they can carry with them for the rest of their lives.
Can I request headcanons for Dammon, Rolan, and Zevlor react to his gn crush accidentally confessing to him?
Dammon, Rolan and Zevlor If Their Gender Neutral Crush Accidentally Confesses To Him Headcanons
Note(s) : The reader isn't Tav or durge they're just sort of a random person, I don't think the race is ever specified (correct me if I'm wrong) and neither are any described features or their class.
I'm not too knowledgeable of Dammon, Zevlor and Rolan's character in BG3 and I'm so sorry if the characters are wrong.
This is a mix of random general relationship headcanons as well as the random confession.
Dammon
He's all about outwardly caring for those he loves and he understands that love can come in many ways, he had a strong love for you before you had even confessed aloud, a mix of platonic and romantic feelings that he would showcase by doing tasks for you.
Whether he gained his crush first or you did doesn't matter in his eyes. What matters to him is that he doesn't know if you liked him back for quite a while, not until you had confessed that is. Dammon's not the type of man to make wild guesses about romance, even if you're more affectionate he doesn't think anything of it because some people are just like that with their friends and he thinks that it'd be presumptuous to assume.
He decides to eventually try and court you by making you small items or helping you as much as he could with his blacksmith job, things like necklaces, bracelets, maybe even armour, whatever you prefer, really.
Dammon isn't a fan of the typical Tiefling courting rituals, they're the same as humans but with violent and sarcastic speech, along with playful teasing and pushing their object of affection around. Of course, he won't judge if you do that to him, he can take teasing, but he much prefers to show his love through affectionate actions and words.
When you confess to him he gets more excited than embarrassed or flirty, he adores you and to know that you feel the same way as he does gets him a little giddy. He won't even realise that this could be embarrassing to you or even uncomfortable, straight away asking if you'd like to go on a date or be a couple. He does apologise after he realises how forward he's being though.
Rolan
In a relationship Dammon is very much someone who shows his love through acts of service, he'll craft things for you, help you with your job(s) and even just random tasks you might not want to or be able to do by yourself.
Sometimes he'll make random pieces of jewellery, he says that it doesn't matter if you want to wear them all the time, just as long as you like them. He accepts any gifts even if they're not something he likes, he can find a way to make it practical.
Dammon loves to tease you about your shy confession, in public and private. Unless you directly tell him you don't like it he'll randomly bring it up during conversation, when you're being cocky or teasing him it's an easy and fairly cute memory he can use to make fun of you.
Cooking is something that's interesting for the both of you, I don't think that he'd be too good at cooking or baking, not so horrible that he'll burn down a house, but not really good enough that you'd be able to have a lot of his food. Don't get him wrong, he'd love to learn, but he does prefer to have you cook while he gets ingredients and helps with any part of it that doesn't require anything that requires experience or talent in cooking.
His cuddles are very shifty, I don't think he likes to stay still for long and so you'll constantly be switching positions and he'll tend to play with your hair or hands if you let him. He might roll you around so you're laying on top of him, he's on top of you, you're sideways and hugging him, or he's hugging you, it generally just depends on how fidgety he feels on that day.
His kisses are short, he likes to give a small peck to your lips every few moments. Whether you're busy with your work or he is with his blacksmith work, then boom, kiss out of nowhere on your cheek or neck, he loves to catch you off guard and laughs whenever you get surprised by them.
Rolan personally doesn't do the typical tiefling courting strategy, of course he's sarcastic, but he's not going to be spewing out any violent speech when it's supposed to be a romantic hint to his feelings toward you.
His reaction would mostly depend on how it happened, and I can mainly see it going a few ways. Either A, you accidentally blurt it out during a conversation directly to him, or B, he overhears you talking about your love for him in some way, maybe going over a confession you're planning with a friend or you're just ranting about how much you like him.
If you blurt it out during conversation he's certainly surprised, but he is wondering if it's some sort of joke even if you're not that type of person. He will absolutely ask if Lyla or Cal put you up to this. Whereas if he overhears you he's much more likely to believe it's genuine, and he won't strut over while the other person is still there, he'll wait until you're done with the conversation and then strut over.
Whatever the way it happens, he will a hundred percent tease you about it. Nothing too heavy and it's mainly a ploy to confirm that you do in fact like him, just so he can make sure the situation is correct and he's not just assuming. He'll just outwardly say things like 'So, you have feelings for me?', 'a birdie seems to have told me about your feelings.', etc.
When you confirm you do in fact have romantic feelings for him he's over the moon, of course he won't outwardly show it and attempts to act suave, he's failing miserably and stumbles over one or two words at first, with false cocky arrogance and deepening his voice to try and make you more embarrassed than he is. Although, if you look down at his feet you can see that his tail is swishing back and forth.
In a relationship he's a mix between awkward and suave, he loves to tease you but if you tease back he gets huffy and storms off, not because he's angry, but because he's just so embarrassed. Especially if you do it around his siblings, Cal and Lia will help you make fun of him but he won't forgive you, unless you give him a kiss or gift him a new book and then it's history.
Rolan will sometimes remind you of how you so forwardly and awkwardly confessed to him to try and make you embarrassed, whether or not if you actually bite back or not doesn't matter, but he loves to do it when you flirt with him first. Oh, you think you've caught him off guard? Well, here's his ultimate trap card! Unless you're not embarrassed by it, then he's stuck trying to remember some other event that could make you embarrassed.
Zevlor
He's not too great at cooking but he can absolutely try for you, he's better at baking because of the strict step by step instructions, but for cooking where it mainly relies on taste and altering recipes he can struggle a little. Rolan does that cute thing if you like to cook or bake where he wraps his arms around you from behind and gives you a lil' kiss.
His cuddles are very 'bear hug' like, when you're spooning him he always asks you to wrap your arms around his waist and push yourself against him fully, he adores the closeness and comfort of it. When he's spooning you he does the same, arms around your waist, his face buries in your neck, making sure to position his horns away from your face. He prefers cuddling in bed and laying down rather than sitting up or on the sofa, the sofas smaller so it makes it harder to get comfortable in his opinion.
Rolan's kisses are always short and sweet, gentle and usually he'll give two or three pecks in a row because he can't get enough of you. Sometimes he'll kiss you for longer or more passionately, usually if one of you is upset or had a long day and just needs one another to relax.
So, Zevlor's not exactly the most confident or well sought after in the romance department. His age shows on his face and many people seem to be turned off by it, of course there's the whole issue with his past that many tieflings dislike him over, which they make painfully clear.
Although of course, one man's trash is another's treasure, that's where you come in. You both express interest in one another, if you don't catch on due to differences in culture, a general misunderstanding or complete obliviousness, that's up to you. But Zevlor does try to court you.
Regardless of the fact that he's single and has been for a while, he still values romance to some part. Even though it's not to the point that he actively wishes for a relationship or is miserable outside of one.
Overall, Tiefling courting rituals are similar to human courting rituals, but with a lot more grim gallows humor they use to cope with being shunned in most societies that you might not be comfortable with. In Tiefling spaces a common dark joke is 'The fastest way to a man's heart is to either make it laugh it up, or cut it out of him.' If you are a Tiefling, or perhaps from a culture or a specific race that has similar courting rituals to a Tiefling, then he will most likely just stick with what he'd normally say. Nothing too intense, but definitely things that would make a stranger unaware of these traditions to raise a brow.
If you're a non Tiefling he might try to dial back what he would typically do to court one of his own race, in his years he understands that many races or cultures will show love through kind actions, but for Tieflings, courting is all about sarcasm and being a bit more 'violent' verbally. But, if a Tiefling didn't like you then they wouldn't pick on you.
Many Tieflings in the grove are already, painfully so, aware of your little crush on the old Tiefling man. Whether it's because you've talked to them about it or because you're just so obvious, gossip can spread like a wild hellfire, everybody will know even if only one person does.
He most likely had one or two flings in his time, but to hear someone so suddenly admit that they have feelings for him is rather new, and, let me just say, I think he would have some clue before you even said it out loud. Zevlor would never outright think 'they love me', but perhaps would be under the impression that you admire him in some way, especially with how many tieflings try to hint to him that you do love him.
I don't think he would even attempt to court you if he didn't think you'd be at least a little interested.
Obviously if you're reading this you most likely want Zevlor to reciprocate your feelings and accept your confession, which he does, his confession back isn't blunt per se but he definitely gets his feelings across without mincing any words.
In a relationship he's a little awkward at first, but definitely not shy. It's mostly because it's been a while since his last lover but he also wants to make it work with you, but after a few weeks he really does begin to settle in. He'll suggest activities to strengthen your bond, like cooking meals for each other and the other tieflings, training with weapons or fighting styles either one of you might not be perfect with or against, and sometimes just taking a stroll around to admire nature.
Zevlor will adore it if you bite back with equal sarcasm, he is never outright rude, especially if he knows you can't handle it, but he does love a good playful back and forth.
I don't think Zevlor would ever tease you about your awkward and sudden confession in public, maybe with a few close friends of yours or his, but it's mainly when you two are alone and it's usually just if you tease him first. It's a fun little inside joke between you two that you can always find humor in.
Zevlor's great at cooking that can give you energy and also taste good with minimal ingredients, it's nothing spectacular that you can eat thousands of plates full of, but they're always able to give a pep in your step. He, however, isn't too good at baking, and so if you like to bake then he appreciates some lessons when either of you have the time.
I think he'd be rather awkward and stiff if you ever cuddle for the first few times, after a while he does learn what you both like and how to position himself to be comfortable for each other, but he feels very cumbersome especially if you're laying down. Zevlor prefers to cuddle on the sofa just sitting next to each other one arm around another's waist style.
His kisses are passionate and like the movies, that's the best way I can describe them. He wants you to know how much he loves kissing you and so he takes your breath away every time, if either of you are busy or in a rush he will give a small peck to your cheek as to not make you dawdle.
If any of my tiefling's ever got head damage bad enough to crack or chip a horn, the first thing they would do after heading back to town is to find Dammon.
Dammon would fix it.
Dammon would make the coolest Kintsugi horn repairs.
He'd make you a whole new one if you needed.
If metal is not your thing, he definitely knows someone that works in a medium you'd be happy with. Little druid wants a glass horn with their favorite flowers inlaid? He knows a guy.
And anyone Dammon co-signs is a Master.
I would trust no one else for horn repairs or prosthetics.
Dammon x Tav dynamic where you live together and in the evenings you have to physically drag Dammon from the forge by the tail to make him rest cause otherwise he'd stay up all night, but in the mornings he's the one who coaxes you out of bed with kisses and breakfast and coffee-
Oooh I love these! I couldn't decide whether to share a headcanon about them that is happy, or to share a headcanon about how they react when they're happy so I decided to include both😁
Zevlor:
My headcanon that is happy: He starts up his own Hellriders-esque group in Rivington/Baldur's Gate post game. (Listen, I know I included this in my Zevlor x Tav fic but I think it's true even outside of the fic universe).
In the druid grove he mentions wanting to settle down and that his soldiering days are over, but I don't think he really wants or means that. He's been rejected from his home, his paladin oath is broken, and his entire way of life has been ripped out from under his feet, so of course he pivots and latches onto the direct opposite path in desperation.
However, after he saves Baldur's Gate and finds his purpose again, he'll want to share his knowledge and train the next generation of protectors to one day stand in his place. Having people relying on him, respecting him, and ultimately supporting him in return would help him heal and is the perfect ending for him.
And hey, if a cute wizard named Tav happens to fall madly in love with him and he happens to fall madly in love back, then great! An even better ending for him 😉
My headcanon about happy Zevlor: I think Zevlor isn't the type to go around grinning from ear to ear when he's happy. He'll give a small smile, and the tip of his tail will curl like a cat's, but that's the most he'll allow. However! If you catch him off-guard with the right joke he will toss his head back and give the loudest, longest, belly laugh you've ever heard. When he's done, he'll wipe the tears of laughter from his eyes, shake his head, and waggle his finger at you while saying, "Oh, that was a good one."
He will then immediately sober and go along his way as though nothing just happened.
Dammon:
My headcanon that is happy: He finally accepts a blacksmith apprentice and his life becomes 100% better.
Dammon isn't the type to let himself relax if work needs to be done. If I'm remembering right, his home in Baldur's Gate even has a diary in it mentioning that his hands can barely hold a pen after working the forge all day, which is pretty clear he's pushing himself beyond healthy limits. But his new blacksmith business is just getting off the ground and there's a sudden high demand for weapons and armour with the Absolute army on its way so of course he can't take a day off or shorten his working hours. Poor guy doesn't even have time to read that ✨️interesting✨️book of his! (We love smut readers in this house 💖)
So, when someone shows up on his doorstep one day begging to take them on as his apprentice, he agrees. It doesn't matter who the apprentice is, but I think it would be super nice if it's one of the refugee tiefling kids. Anyway, he figures at worst he'll have someone around to talk to while he works and at best he can maybe finish his workday a little earlier with an extra set of hands around the place.
Turns out, having an apprentice is the exact thing he needed.
He could ignore his own empty belly and work through lunch, but he can't do that to some poor kid so he ends up taking the time to actually cook and eat proper meals again. He didn't mind working into the night, but he can't send some kid home in the dark- that'd be dangerous! So he ends their workday at a more reasonable time. He doesn't have to spend hours preparing supplies, because his apprentice can do that instead. He doesn't have to take time away from his forge to tend to the till because his apprentice can handle the customer's instead.
He finally has a work/life balance, his apprentice is getting a great education from a highly skilled blacksmith, the townspeople are very happy with his products, and Dammon finally gets to read his smutty book on his days off 💕
My headcanon about happy Dammon: He whistles and sings when he's happy. This is pretty cute and all, but he's also entirely tone deaf. This makes for some truly terrible torture for anyone within earshot.
When he finally has enough free time to actually go out and start dating again, the whole neighbourhood can tell a date went well by the awful caterwauling coming from the forge the next day.
Thank you for sending the ask and I hope you enjoyed my rambling! The Dammon one kinda got out of control from me there, I didn't mean to write that much about him but I couldn't help myself 😅💕
Quirks: He needs to sleep with a candle/lantern lit.
Unlike the other tieflings, he doesn't actually have darkvision. I'd like to take this one step further and say that he not only doesn't have special tiefling night vision, but he doesn't even have regular human night vision either. To me, he is ✨️ night-blind ✨️
He's also a paladin who's seen plenty of battle before and a survivor of the Hells, so I feel like trauma nightmares are a pretty standard thing for him. Waking up from a night terror to pitch blackness would be disorienting, so he likes to have a little bit of light to help with that.
Plus, on the more silly side of my headcanon: there's that stereotype about older men having to get up and pee a bunch of times in the middle of the night, so having a light to find his way to the toilet/watercloset would be extremely helpful for that poor night-blind old man👍
Hobbies:
Reading. He is an absolute bookworm and specifically loves biographies and non-fiction. His room in the Druid's Grove has a few loose books laying around, and a couple of them are just travel guides but there a few that he seems to be reading for pleasure. All 3 of them are biographies or histories.
One of those books is 'Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir' and the description of it is "An insightful reflection on becoming someone new." Sure, maybe he's just reading it to help him come to terms with needing to find a new identity after his Elturel Hellrider life was ripped away from him, but maybe he picked out that one in particular because it was written by his favourite actor.
One of his other hobbies is watching live theatre and you cannot convince me otherwise. He doesn't like the musical plays, though. He's mainly just a huge fan of whatever the Faerun-version-of-Shakespeare is.
Dammon:
Quirks: I already mentioned his tone-deafness here, but in my brain this man absolutely cannot hold a tune at all yet still sings and whistles when he's happy (to the misfortune of anyone within earshot).
Hobbies: This guy is definitely a heavy reader of romance novels. There's that smutty one we find in his room as proof, and who knows how many more are tucked around his house?
He also seems to be very artistically inclined. The way he discusses and handles his blacksmithing sounds like someone who not only enjoys the work, but also (rightfully) considers it an artform. When he's not making armour and weapons, I think that he really enjoys making metal sculptures and embellishments and fancy little bits of filigree to spice up his home.
I think he enjoys sketching and drawing, too. It fits his creative personality very well and it's super easy to picture him absentmindedly sketching his partner and the local stray cats in the margins of his metalworking blueprints. His journal in Baldur's Gate mentions him barely being able to hold a pen after working the forge all day, so I don't think he'd be able to indulge in this particular hobby very often at first.
Once he gets an apprentice to help around the forge and he finally has more free time away from the anvil, then he'd start to get back into this style of art again.
Astarion and Karlach realizing you and Dammon are gonna keep turning aound each other forever at this rate so they take it upon themselves to be your wingman/woman.
After ending your fling with Astarion saying he rather needs a friend, he is now your biggest supporter but he's also so done with you lmao. EVERYONE can see you both have a thing for the other. What in the Hells are you waiting for, you pining idiot? You didn’t seem to have that kind of reservations with me. What do you MEAN he's too good for you? If anything it's the opposite- Astarion being overprotective of his bff Tav without realizing he's doing it
Karlach can tell by the way Dammon's tail moves when he's talking to you en tête à tête that he's got it bad and if you're not a tiefling yourself she teases Dammon endlessly about it.
Dammon doesn't dare to make a move because he doesn't want to be pushy, you guys only ever had a client/seller relationship til now. And he's been "out of the game" for a while to the point he forgot how to flirt.
You don't make a move because you think he's too good for you and deserves someone better. And that every kindness he's ever shown you is just him being professional. That doesn't stop you from getting lost into his eyes every time you two talk though.
If you keep bringing Dammon metals from the Grymforge he eventually says "I knew I smelled something."
And it immediately made me think of a romance where he would have crafted for Tav a special, unique weapon, that he could recognize from smell and therefore he always knows when you're arriving and he greets you with a smile on his face.
He can also tell when you're nearby and that would reassure him if he lost sight of you for some reason, like you got up in the middle of the night and your side of the bed is empty...
