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People are sleeping on Evil!Gale x Durge.

Talk about power couples.

Usurping the Gods who did wrong by you together? Delicious. I love it

#bg3 #gale dekarios #literally this run is so much fun #i dont even care that ive failed to do a true evil durge run #they're going to be such annoying gods together #evil estryd #estryd 2.0

A quick little sketch of Estryd I did for fun

(she's a Durge, specifically this is from a playthrough I did where I headcanoned she had no amnesia)

#bg3 #durge #baldur's gate 3 #dark urge #estryd #estryd 2.0 #evil estryd #i did not feel like drawing her armor so camp clothes it is #my art

DU Questions (for the AU version please)

How does your Dark Urge feel about the city?

How does your Dark Urge feel about love?

How does your Dark Urge feel about what others think of them?

How good of a liar is your Dark Urge? How do they feel about lying?

How does your Dark Urge feel about the city?

Baldur’s Gate was home for Estryd. The Temple of Bhaal was the one safe haven she had, no matter how often she ran away they always welcomed her inevitable return. Her family, as dysfunctional as the are, were there. Estryd knew the ins and outs of Baldur’s Gate. She loved her city, even if she was known as a terror by the people living there.

That all changes when she discovers Orin tried to kill her, and now agents of Bhaal are attacking her on site. Estryd now associates Baldur’s Gate with betrayal and loss. She won’t be returning after the events of the game.

How does your Dark Urge feel about love?

Intense yearning mixed with shame. Estryd wants to be loved so much, and she feels love deeply, despite telling herself otherwise. But Bhaal has made it clear that love is not part of who she is supposed to be. She doesn’t want to be forced to kill people she loves so she tries to suppress those feelings. And she truly believes that no one can love her, monster that she is.

Gale gets a glimpse of the depth of her feelings during the Weave scene. It’s platonic at that moment, but she has this strong desire for friendship that overwhelms him. It’s his first glimpse of who she is under the Dark Urge mask. (and she is ridiculously sappy towards him once they are in a committed relationship)

How does your Dark Urge feel about what others think of them?

I think Estryd does a lot of lying to herself. She tells herself she doesn’t care, and in most cases this is true. Being a monster of the night for decades numbs you to people’s opinions. But when she starts to care about someone, she wants them to care for her just as much, and this leads to a lot of self-loathing because she feels she is someone incapable of love or being loved. So she tries to cover up her hurt by pretending not to care.

How good of a liar is your Dark Urge? How do they feel about lying?

Estryd is very good at lying (even mechanically she has a high charisma score and is good at deception)! She’s had to use lying as a survival skill for most of her life. She feels neutral about it. If lying helps turn things in her favor, she lies.

#bg3 #durge #razrogue #evil estryd #estryd 2.0

Gale's romance scenes are so pretty

#bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #i'm getting so many better screenshot opportunities this playthrough #shadowheart's scenes are beautifully written but the camera angles aren't good for couple shots #i will be forever sad about that #evil estryd #estryd 2.0

I'm realizing that if Gale's romance still played out the way it did on release this version of Estryd may have romanced him.

The version where the Weave scene is his party scene, and the awkward comparing you to his cat scene happens later as an alternate way to initiate his romance.

I really loved the awkward flirting, there is an opportunity for some really good banter in that scene. It also works better for a slow burn romance, where maybe you didnt stay up with Gale at the party but he's now started to fall for you and is being awkward about it.

This playthrough is making me realize how much i liked the release day's companion pacing. I kinda wish they hadnt changed it :(

#bg3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #honestly if i were to try to replay estryd exactly the same as i did the first time #im not even sure shed get attached to the same people in the same way #because the pacing is so different #like a big part of her relationship with shadowheart #was how they both formed this deep connection and trust with the other very fast #and confided their fears and secrets pretty early on in act 1 #whereas now with how they changed when sh reveals her shar worship #i legit do not know if they would be as close if i played good estryd again #estryd 2.0 #evil estryd

I can't tell if its a glitch or if its because I didn't get the Slayer form this time, but Jaheira...never learned that I was a Bhaalspawn this time??

I never got the cutscene where she confronts durge about it, and I never got an option to tell her (though I did get the option to tell everyone else this time).

If that's a cutscene you only get in Slayer runs I feel really bad for the majority of redemption durges. Because I know most people don't kill Isobel.

It's a great scene that really sets the tone for the durge and Jaheira dynamic!

#estryd 2.0 #evil estryd #the dynamic between these two is not great this time around #but I do wonder how this version of Estryd would have reacted to Jaheira “guarding” her #not well i think #bg3

I added onto the astral tadpole's visual effects by giving Estryd graying hair & skin, and now she looks like she's on her way to becoming the bbeg of a D&D campaign.

#bg3 #durge #i really like the vibe though #kethric's armor really adds to the whole things too #estryd 2.0 #evil estryd

for amnesia estryd: 1) What circumstances led to your Dark Urge becoming their Class/Subclass?

for both: 13) How does your Dark Urge feel about killing?

#1 was answered here!

for both: 13) How does your Dark Urge feel about killing?

Amnesiac Estryd: She enjoys killing, she’s good at it, and she knows these are terrible thoughts to have. She feels extremely guilty about killing. After the game, she focuses as much time as she can on the less violent aspects of being a bard. Relishing in the facts that she has a vocation that brings joy and not just death.

AU Estryd: Killing is a part of her nature, it’s who she is, she must do it. Killing is a mercy, the world will end soon and those she kills won’t have to face the terror of what’s to come. Killing is a form of worship, it’s how she shows her devotion to her father and his cause. Killing is a burden, it does not matter if it is someone she loves or someone who she thinks should live, she will inevitably have to kill them.

After Bhaal disowns her, killing feels like nothing, and that terrifies her.

#bg3 #durge #thedragonagelesbian #estryd #evil estryd #estryd 2.0