Reese Adams. BG3.

Written by Penny. 18+ only. Triggering & NSFW content will be present. The Baldur’s Gate 3 version of Reese, who in turn is an amalgamation of Reese, Petra and Alice; old ocs of mine. SB to faerunfcrged

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[faerunfcrged]

Clarissa Adams; downcast maternal lineage (unbeknownst to her) & dragon-blooded on her parental side: sorcerer, servant of Shar; chaotic-neutral / chaotic-good / chaotic-evil (plot dependent) from Baldur's Gate 3; first encounter with Lae'zel on the nautiloid. @weavefcrged

[weavefcrged]

Like / reply for memes. Lmk who you’re feeling most if a multi?

[faerunfcrged]

I’m redoing Reese’s game since it was my first playthrough and I didn’t know what I was doing at all so. Like / reply to this post if you’d like a starter where she meets your character! (If Lae’zel or Shadowheart, for the second time, otherwise for the first.) On the beach or at the grove etc is most likely. Feel free to drop any specifics you have for where your character would be or anything & lmk what character(s) you’re feeling most if a multi please!

[weavefcrged]

In her 'canon', ie my write up for her as a fandomless oc, Reese's abilities included psychometry with pre/postcognition, cryokinesis, seeing the dead / talking with & touching the dead, true sight, dreamwalking & regenerative healing / immortality. I will go through her character sheet and write up a list of what spells & abilities she has in game but the base abilities are ones that she still has even if there isn't a specific spell or in game ability for them as these are all powers that are shown to be in game even if not by player characters. She had most of them from childhood after her first death (in her very, very very first incarnation many years ago when I first started writing her, she died after falling through the ice when she was about seven or eight and an ancient entity resuscitated her and left a tangent of its powers behind that awakened latent abilities - this is likely what is going to be the case in this verse as well - probably left unspecified as there is a plethora of ancient gods, powers, sentient disembodied entities from other verses etc. that exist in the background of this universe.) Additional abilities were unlocked through her sorcerer's training & then of course, brain worm abilities just further amplified what she can do.

While she is generally 'good' aligned, she's also very malleable and influenced by the people around her. Between her late adolescent years and the events of the game, she was pretty closely structured, probably paired off with someone that was her guardian (possibly lover / life partner) kind've like the Warder's in WoT with their magic users, to keep her from straying too far from the light side of her abilities, to make sure she didn't come under undue influence or get snatched up by a cult that wanted to make use of her abilities. I'm running with the general idea that whomever that was died (or she presumes died) in the Illithid crash. In verses where she's the Tav, story plot progresses as canon. In verses where she's a supporting cast member or that we go with an entirely different course of events for plot purposes than what we see 'on screen' in the game, she will have wandered away from the crash (maybe even was flung somewhere else entirely not even in the primary starting location) and ended up wandering around for a while on her own until she runs into your Tav or (in the game npc) or OC or whatever and then the story can progress from there for whatever aspects of the plot we would like to explore.

I am absolutely fine with darker themes of corruption & toxic relationships if that's a plot line you're interested in - there's a few things I won't write but are part of her history (csa & n*nc*n are things that occurred at one point or another in her past, but will not be seen on screen other than mentions of plot points if the relationship with Reese & your character reach that point, or it's seen in a mental connection etc.).

This is a very rough, just getting things out there bio post; I'll work on more specific things this weekend. Let me know if you have any questions at all & if you want to know what choices she's made etc. feel free to drop by my inbox! I am at the beginning stages of act 3 in the game so most of my stuff will take place somewhere in Act 1 & 2 - I'm up for stuff in Act 3 if you want, but I have no idea what happens & have managed to avoid most spoilers so far, so you'd have to be willing to fill me in!

[weavefcrged]

So here's the thing with Reese in general. In my playthrough of her, she leans towards chaotic neutral / chaotic good. This is because she is the one that is influencing the decisions and trying to help those around her and at her core, she desperately wants to be the kind of person that she could have trusted and should have had around as an authority figure / protector growing up to stop the Bad Things that happened to her - that she never had until she was taken in by the sorcerer that would teach her to control and train her abilities.

At the base of all her decisions, when she's making them on her own is the thought of: I don't want to be the villain in anyone else's story. This, of course, means that there are times when she is going to have to do violence and hurt people to stop them from hurting other people / people that can't protect themselves / people that she cares about, and she's (generally) okay with that. It might haunt her sometimes, but she is used to living with regret and ghosts so what's a few more?

That is Reese as the Tav, as the lead. HOWEVER. It is important to note that Reese is incredibly love starved, affection starved, touch starved (outside of sex, which she pretty much never passes up because it's a pretense of affection) and as a COMPANION she is very malleable. She latches on quickly, becomes smitten and pines from a distance with gusto and she will very quickly come to crave the approval and affection and love (toxic or not) that she sees as a potential reward for her loyalty and her helping the MC obtain whatever goal they have.

She does drift, fairly easily even, to lighter or darker sides of the moral scale without much effort. Even the smallest signs of approval and affection for making a choice that makes the MC happy and she's floating for days (or until the first perceived sign of disappointment). She may try to tilt someone who's bent on mass destruction or world domination into a less toxic and dangerous path at first, because that just doesn't seem all that !neat! to her, but it does not take long for those protests to diminish if someone is taking the darker road. On the opposite side of that, if she's in a companion role and the MC is set on saving the world at all costs, Reese is going to be the first one to step up and say it's okay, I will be the one to set off the bomb in my chest or whatever other device of mass destruction that will end her but end the Bad Guy / Threat because she would see that as the most noble sacrifice she could make for her MC and the world, and the world clearly needs pure hearts like the MC than they need a broken, damaged thing like her.

Anyways: just some thoughts.

[weavefcrged]

Also, as in her origin canon as my oc, she is an extremely talented artist & a lot of her visions have been transcribed from her mind onto canvas. Many of these are locked away in the temple vaults for their eyes only but some that are less ominous or auspicious portends have been sold to make money for the temples. The artist remains unknown to most outside of the temple but has a fair degree of a following in terms of fans, especially among those that love to indulge in conspiracy theories and love the Enigma of it all. She doesn’t see any of the income from them but doesn’t think anything about it because the temple provides her with everything she needs and she considers the paintings a work of service and devotion to her deity. She also has no idea that her work has an actual following or any renown and would be shocked to see any of her paintings on display in someone’s home or business or art museum etc.

She does absolutely do little sketches of her journey as the story (game) progresses and can usually be found curled up at camp every night adding to her (many) sketchbooks before sleep and absolutely leaves drawings of her companions tucked away in their bags / books for them to find at random. This is especially true for Astarion after the conversation about his reflection and not knowing what he looks like now or even remembering much of what he looks like at all anymore. She also provides him with a perfect rendering of the ritual scarification after that first convo about them. Also, for Wyll, after he comments that he hasn’t looked at his reflection after the demon-izing interaction. She also spends a great deal of time (especially if she is in a romantic relationship with either of them) drawing composite sketches of all the things that she loves about them that they might think are monstrous. The way Astarion’s eyes light up when he’s excited or impassioned. The soft wrinkles at the edges of his lips and mouth when he smiles, especially when he thinks no one is watching. The delicate ridges of Wyll’s horns, the way his scars and new ridges on his body cast subtle shadow over his face etc in ways that weren’t there before. Etc.

[weavefcrged]

Reese was always weave touched but it wasn’t obvious / signs didn’t begin to show until after her first death / near death experience. She was ice skating with her little brother (adopted, she was adopted into the family after her birth parents died - ostensibly out of charity, but actually to gain control of her family’s holdings and finances) when they fell through the ice. Although they were both recovered fairly quickly, he was already gone by the time he was pulled out of the water. She was seemingly dead but resuscitated without any apparent external intervention a minute or two after she came out of the lake.

The headcanon here relates to some higher power / entity (typically one with dark purpose) latched onto her and infused her with a seed of its own power, leaving it there to fester and grow until such future time as they could manipulate her to their own ends by influencing their opinions, thoughts, desires, visions etc. until such time as they can use her to their best advantage. In her original “canon” it was Darkseid but any deity or entity works just fine in this verse. (If you play one of the trio with the crown, for example, this could be your character’s deity, for example, and can use that connection to exert influence over her through the power that has grown in her over the decades.). It could also be a deity like Shar or whomever she starts out as an agent / priestess of or it could be an entirely heretofore unknown entity. I’m literally up for whatever plots with this.

She was twelve the first time she died and the power was amplified / seeded in her pattern. Every time she dies and comes back it gets a little fiercer of a hand hold. Also, there’s a certain sense of sadistic irony involved as her main offensive capabilities are fire from her draconic ancestors and ice, from the weave powers that were amplified by whatever deity brought her back all those years ago; cold and ice terrify her but given how powerful those magics are for her, they tend to be ones she uses most often even if it makes her nauseous thinking about people dying that same cold fiery death that she did when she was a child.

[the-overanalyst]

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

[whxsky-sour]

Does your brain go dead when I call you “good girl”?

[t4tloustat]

he's a fucked up, horrible, living nightmare. i desire him carnally

[peachyyykat]

‘phantom pains’, caitlin conlon // ‘what i could never confess without some bravado’, emily palermo // ‘i will’, mitski // ‘a self-portrait in letters’, anne sexton // ‘desperation sits heavy on my tongue’, @/tullipsink // ‘hunger makes me’, jess zimmerman // ‘coffee and cigarettes’, sade andria zabala

[titanofthedepths]

One trope Im a big fan of in media is when the loyalty outweighs a conflict of interest. I don’t agree with what you’re doing, but I will follow where you go no matter what. I will do anything for you even if it opposes my own morals

[ownedcisbitch]

an underrated kink is corruption. i want to make you worse. i love to coax it all out of you and make you admit how hot you really think it is. don’t worry, no one’s going to find out. no one’s going to judge you. it’s okay, you don’t have to fight it anymore. just let it get to you. you need this.

[rpmusings-galore]

                Your touch does not need to be soft. 

                                         I will not  b r e a k. 

                 Treat me as your canvas, leave your                 mark… your painter’s signature across                                          my skin. 

                The only proof that you were here. 

[sunsbleeding]

[tapmcshoe]

everyones got that homie who, within the depths of the dungeon, found a cruel facsimile of that which he desired most, and was corrupted absolutely