#praxas

[archduchessgortash]

WIP Wednesday/Whenever

Thank you for the tags, @litsenn, @bladesingerlily & @carnivaley!

I wanted to post an argument my gnome Durge has with Astarion, but Tumblr hates it and will not save it for some reason I can't figure out.

Instead, some Gortash and Ketheric re: Praxas.

I'll tag... @afilmnoirdetective, @optimisticgrey, @arasaka-android & @astarioffsimpmain.

“A moment, Gortash?” “Make it quick. We need to return to the city.” “A word of advice about…” he glanced in the direction Praxas had gone.  “The Dark Urge? While your concern is touching, I neither want nor need your advice about my personal relationships.” “I'm giving it anyway. Even with the Black Hand's power behind you, you're only human, a mortal man. From one who once was: complex entanglements with the offspring of gods are best avoided. You're playing with fire, and you will get burned.” Gortash laughed. “Ah, General, this is why you command the army, he spreads terror through murder, and I'm the mastermind. I might make a lot of problems, but I'm also the solution to them. With the proper equipment, handling fire is quite safe.’  “And in your hands, I suppose, a useful tool.”  “Age and wisdom don't always coincide, do they? You'd do well to remember that our alliance is the only thing keeping him from taking you apart over and over until he discovers how to kill you. If you ever refer to him as anything less than an equal in my presence again, I will help him solve the riddle of your end. Myrkul can pick a new chosen from one of your pet necromancers. A man with your experience ought to know this already, but in the face of murder incarnate, immortality is no deterrent; it's an invitation.” With that, he stalked out of the room.  “Fool,” the paladin muttered under his breath.

[archduchessgortash]

Durgetash Week

Are you a default Durge enjoyer?

Do you like your Durgetash as evil idiots in love who don't actually admit it's love and are only ever soft for each other?

Then you might like this:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It's 46K words of mostly smut with feelings, including a few backstory and foreshadowing tangents here and there. I'm still updating, but it's been slow going.

(Still a fun read imho and doesn't leave you off at a cliffhanger.)

My default Durge Praxas is a soft dom, and Gortash is a power bottom who also switches.

[If you hate epithets, you won't like this. I can't write M|M without them because the part of the brain that lets people ignore the repetition of proper names exists only in myth to me. They stick out like the sorest of thumbs.]

[archduchessgortash]

I'm of the mind that Durge was there when Gortash captured the Emperor, even though it contradicts the memory it shows us. Getting a handle on the Knights of the Shield feels like something that would need more than the Banites alone to manage. It's possible that he could have done it alone, and I do have one headcanon of a very competent, independent Gortash, but I admit to liking him not being able to accomplish much beyond making patriars begrudgingly tolerate his existence without Durge's help.

He wouldn't need brainwashing, blackmail, and terror if he had the chops to rule on his own merit.

[I will admit that my stretching of canon to accomodate this is entirely self-indulgent, based primarily on needing my default Durge Praxas to stand over the Emperor as he brandishes Bloodthirst and commands, "Abby, yoke this bitch!"]

[archduchessgortash]

I was tagged again, this time by @ultramelodysong. Ty!

Thankfully, I have 4 Durge OCs. 😁

your oc as...

Rules: Assign something to each item of the list.

Animal | Colour | Food

Drink | Movie | Character Inspo

Song | Season | [pic]

This is Praxas...

Manta Ray | Ice Blue | Cookies n cream

Spicy Bloody Mary | Hannibal | Deadpool

Tubthumper | Winter | Isn't he cute?

Manta rays look scary but they're not. I chose an adorable baby one because that is Praxas, on the inside. Ice blue fucks on him. A white chocolate-covered cookies & cream ice cream bar because he's deliciously sweet, too much for some, and a bit frozen. The spicy bloody Mary will mess you up, has a kick, and it's actually a little bit good for you. Hannibal because that's when you find out how traumatized and angry Lecter is on the inside. Deadpool is a goofy ass bisexual disaster who just wants his wife back. Praxas gets knocked down, but he gets up again. He'll eat your ankles and then you can't knock him down anymore. Winter is his season because Gortash hates the cold (then they get to stay in bed all day).

[archduchessgortash]

Durge who was so in love with Gortash that they would have done anything for him. Gortash who remembers everything BUT the love - because if he did - the knowledge of what he'd lost would have destroyed him. Durge doesn't remember either.

When they see each other again, something lurches inside them both, but they don't recognize it for what it is...

For what it's worth, I think I always liked you, too. But this is how it must be.

There is hesitation in his eye for one moment. A passing thought of all times spent together you'll never remember.

'Is that what you-'

[archduchessgortash]

I have been utterly spoiled by playing smol Durges.

I jumped back into my default Durge game (requiring an obligatory restart from the beginning due to new mods 😁) because I want to write more Praxtash and playing Praxas gets me into his headspace better, but I hadn't realized how much of his huge dragonborn body blocks my view of Gale in conversations.

I can't see my wizard's hands while he's doing his uncannily adroit with a knitting needle animation! 😭

Or almost ANY of his hand gestures because my ginormous if adorable scaly slab of beef without nipples is in the WAY!

My gnome gets SO much more Gale hands!

Criminal. Positively criminal. Still cute though.

It really doesn't help that this is his Guardian:

Gale's longer wizard bun with Lae'zel's braids is the closest I've gotten to recreating Gortash's concept art hair.

Between Gale's hair, cuteness, brains, and inability to stop yapping, Lae'zel's bossy yet die-hard sincere attitude, Shadowheart's random sad eyes and aversion to pain, Astarion's performative behavior and penchant for neck-biting, and Wyll's words of wisdom and encouragement... Praxas is constantly reminded of his peasant.

Like music from another room, he can only hear a note here and there, not enough to identify the song, but enough to make him feel something.

Karlach is the only companion who doesn't in some way remind Praxas of Gortash, yet something about her feels like... family. She was in the Hells, trapped, yet found ways to enjoy what she could under the circumstances. It wants to stir something in Praxas, but he doesn't know what or why.

I loved this shot of him from the Nautiloid so much that I had to drop Create Water on him to get a clean-faced version.

[archduchessgortash]

Imagine waking up to this face...

When you scritch him under his chin, he purrs.

If anyone sasses you, he will eat their face off.

He pants snowflakes when he gets very excited.

He will never fully submit to you.

But you don't want him to.

You'd much rather submit to him.

Gortash was a very lucky man...