Jan 23, 2024
Astarion and Karlach are perfect foils showing how trauma from having autonomy ripped from you, your body forcibly changed, and then used as a pawn serving a master can present wildly different, but still with that same under layer of RAGE.
#bat rambles#i'll touch back on this#but these are the two who express rage so purely#like neither of them hold it back and the narrative validates their rage towards their abusers#i am also just feeling a lot of karlach feels with having your body not only permanently altered#but in a way that guarantees death#like the horror of feeling that heat building for 10 years#just knowing#you either stay in this bloodbath and evenurally become one of the many slaughterd in a war waged by creatures who wull never even#see the battle field#or you can escape#enjoy a brief respite#she never thought she would see anything outside of Avernus again#but she kept trying to escape#and now that she has it she just wants to enjoy all aspects of life before hers ends#and like astarion is plucked out of his personal hell knowing if he plays his cards right#he'll have an eternity to catch up on what he lost in 200 years#karlach is having to make up her 10 years of hell in as short a time possible#bat muses#karlach#astarion#bg3
