love me a bear daddy

sideblog 💚 I need a custom feed of all my favorite Halsin things! ---main: septembertuesday --- icon @silveredbark

[silveredbark]

First batch of Halsin pride icons. Had to start with these ones, obviously.

Requests welcome!

Portrait 1 with; pansexual, polyamory, bear and intersex progress pride flags

Please reblog if you use. Credit appreciated but not required.

[discountsurgery]

do you guys also have characters you ship yourselves with and it’s like the equivalent of jerking off? like you’re the same guy but also you are together. that’s this

[flowersnethorns]

i like to think that. Bc halsin has canonically said he's not a good singer that instead. He whistles really well. And sometimes with "sing" with birds in the area and do his best to mimic them without using any magic to actually speak with them

[yoggi-art]

[atleasttheresalwayshalsin]

Been thinking a lot about Halsin and the journey back to Reithwin with the orphans and the survivors of the siege on Bauldurs Gate.

And I know it’s probably a dead horse at this point but here I come with a lot to say.

First of all I love how Halsin talks about being free and how “domesticity is for the farm animal” when he’s literally shackled by his duty to the grove, his survivors guilt over what happened to the shadow cursed lands, and how between those two things he refuses to seek out meaningful romantic or physical relationships until he’s shed both which not to mention both the shadow curse and the archdruidship are deeply intertwined together anyway with one coming as the result of another but I digress.

In my heart of hearts I just know that when when the shackles were broken, the nether brain defeated, and he was shown what actual freedom looked like, what being unbound really meant, Halsin was terrified. Like being dropped in a rowboat in the middle of a vast ocean without a map or an oar.

I think when Halsin made the decision to turn back to leadership, he did so partially because that was the one thing in front of him he knew he could do. Maybe self admittedly he wasn’t sure if he’d be able to do it well, but he saw people hurting, available land that needed tending, and knew that he was the best suitable to bring those two things together.

We know how he feels about the city, and I do think he tried to be the healer he could for these people immediately during the aftermath, but eventually people stop needing healing and just need help. Houses destroyed, missing parents, money perhaps gone or taken, or maybe some had none of any of that to begin with.

So when Halsin took the initiative and decided to help these people and bring them to a place where they can rebuild, part of that was probably him desperately trying to figure out something to do that was useful and gave him some sort of a familiar direction to go in. And I’m sure there was a part of him going “here we go again” because obviously leadership is a burden, it’s one he bore for a century, but now it’s people he doesn’t know, a million orphans, and a land filled to the brim with warped corpses and still bears the scars of the curse.

And then he’s actually good at it. He loves being a Dad, not master Halsin, not wise archdruid of the emerald grove. And yes, leader of the village presumably, but on his terms god damn it. Domestic, obligated, but of his own free will now.

Anyway sorry if this is incomprehensible, I though of most of this while I was playing Mario kart (it’s very meditative for me) and I’m probably missing a bunch of lore/ dialogue from the game, it’s been a minute since I’ve been able to play in a mindful way and I don’t have his story memorized like the good little Halsin simp I pretend to be. I’m also terrified of expressing my opinion so please everyone tell me how right I am so if you have anything to add or amend just do it nicely.

If you made it this far ily

[murchellie]

⊹₊ ❀ ₊˚☘ | Halsin Silverbough | ☘₊˚❀ ₊⊹

yo Daddy Halsin is here.

The last male companion is done. Next, I'm taking a break and will continue the series in March with the ladies, Shadowheart should be first.

Wyll | Asatrion | Gale | Halsin

Lae'zel | Shadowheart | Minthara | Karlach

˚ʚ ʕ´•ᴥ•`ʔ ɞ˚

Commissions: Open

[faeriiefire]

... that's where you'll find me.

[corelle-vairel]

Bear love, bear hugs, bear..

Lovely commission for @kyasarinn19

[puwoob]

Really quick portrait of this beautiful man .. oak father’s blessings yall

[kitthenameless]

I just found something interesting:

Halsin ended up being the one in dialogue with Ketheric because he freed Aylin while my tav was still invisible, and apparently he has a unique option. Surprised me because I figured only Origins had unique lines.

This made me curious, so I looked in the dialogue files, and well, here are all of them, in case anyone else hasn't seen them.

Dark Urge: "I will reach my own crimson castle, and your corpse will pave my path."

Astarion: "I know my destiny - he's waiting in Baldur's Gate. And you're standing in my way, old man."

Lae'zel: "I am not intimidated by the likes of you. I will gain my queen's favour and ascend." // "The liberation of my people may be close at hand. And I will stop at nothing to see it done."

Shadowheart: "My place is right here - ready to strike you down in Lady Shar's name." // "My place is in Baldur's Gate. Yours is in a grave - permanently, this time."

Gale: "Funny you say that. My place is right here, and my 'bright flash' could be the last thing you see..."

Wyll: "Damned wretch. I will liberate my father from your rotten hands."

Karlach: "Neither you nor your pal Gortash know the first thing about my 'place'."

Halsin: "I am right where I need to be - ready to vanquish you and your curse, forever."

Jaheira: "I sense you ask questions only to hear yourself answer them - so by all means, tell me my place."

Minthara: "My place is standing over you, with my boot on your throat."

[tultultoltol]

To my unchanging friend

[randomgaysock]

I don’t care if I “don’t have a pussy” or “it’s not biologically possible” that bear will get me pregnant no matter the cost

[tendermiasma]

Oh Halsin, that's an awful question.

New Bitter Night comic update in full on patreon, 16 pages 🌙

[deathlywounded]

I thought about them too much today, take a couple of "retro" stylized cards of the old couple just because. 🍄🐻🍂🪹

[tultultoltol]

i just wanted to draw his bare chest

[j-l-kepler]

BG3 Comic - Druid's Dilemma

AND A BONUS:

OKAY TIME FOR THE BABILLION-WORD WRITEUP ABOUT THIS

so, in writing down my no-core-companion run, i've had a lot of fun adjusting in-game events to better suit a gameplay-less novel experience (splitting up the party, condensing/combing events to flow more naturally, etc). example, i split the party in the temple of shar in the written version to cover more ground, but also because durge's urges are calling him to do harm to briar, so he's actively putting physical space between them (he would've split off with minthara bc she's expendable but both sides needed a healer and he wanted to see what he could learn from halsin)

anyway one thing i realized is the freedom i have to explore my versions of existing characters (im new to fan fiction okay this is also so novel to me). while i was drafting the skeleton out for act 2, i was like "ahh its gonna suck for halsin when minthara joins up ahaha"

and then i stopped. "wait why the fuck would halsin let her in the party." and then i thought "hmmm why would halsin let her in the party?" but this time with intrigue. got the ball rolling in my brain bc, as briar and durge, as written thus far, WOULDN'T. they don't know or care about this lady. so what if it was halsin's choice to save her? why would he choose this? what does it mean for their relationship?

so ive been having fun looking over the many sides ive seen people point out about halsin - how he's absolutely capable of vengeance (case in point, he hunts you down if you kill the grove), clearly has some understandably complicated feelings about drow (ESPECIALLY those who perpetuate their systems), but also a well of empathy and the tendency to doubt his own judgment. so i kinda fell in love with this version of halsin, wanting to enact justice on minthara, knowing it's also an extremely personal vendetta, hating himself for letting it BE personal/selfish, and still managing to recognize her humanity because she's going through something he, as a survivor & victim of so much trauma and loss, probably understands very well. this, alongside minthara's genuine attempts to sort herself out and pull her weight (even if she's absolutely not shaken her upbringing's influence) muddies things further.

my durge deeply respects and is envies halsin, viewing him as a desirable person to be (in control, kind, gentle and authentic), so this comic was originally supposed to be durge reckoning with the more human sides of halsin he blinded himself to. but i didnt script this out and just let my stupid lil heart carry the dialogue, so it ended up focusing and centering halsin's emotions with a fun dash of "durge is as socially inept as he is eloquent". it was fun to bounce his curtness off of halsin's gentler manner of speaking, even if the two have pretty similar character voices to me.

i realized durge absolutely cannot help halsin in this department, certainly not in a little speech, but that it would also be diminishing of halsin's interiority to have durge dismiss or resolve his unease so easily. instead, he asserts his own mistrust of minthara and makes his feelings known without pushing halsin in either direction, he reasserts his faith in halsin's judgment, but unfortunately his Urge is 100% on board too and decided to make things very awkward. halsin appreciates the gesture.

ive also decided minthara calls dyven "alhoon" (al [dead] + hoon [outsider/abomination]) partly because she cant remember his name and partly because he's a little twat.

finally, since durge is REALLY hard to draw consistently, ive been using a lot of direct references from a really awesome resource i got from a user here like 2 years ago but i cant find the name so once i do imma update this to include a link bc they deserve credit for thaaaaaat

anyway this is what ive been doing between work days so yippeeeee not my worst single draft

i love you durge. all that smart doesnt help you one bit

[artschoolglasses]

I just think characters like Halsin and Blackwall should look a little more like sumo wrestlers and a lot less like shredded, 0% body fat, dehydrated Marvel superheroes.

But maybe that's just me. 🤷‍♀️

(L-R: Asakoryu, Kirishima, and Tochinoshin)

[starrforge]

I agree ehehehe