It's Honestly A Rip Off We Don't Get Nothin From The Companions, Especially Your Lover. C'mon Larian

It's honestly a rip off we don't get nothin from the companions, especially your lover. C'mon Larian pls 🙏

I am once again lamenting how neglected resist!Durge has been for months. The final climactic scene to their arc is met with some of the most milquetoast companion reactions I've ever seen.

We literally die.

Like Durge just stops being alive. Where's the angst? The emotion? None of this half-assing shit, give us the shock and denial. Hell, give us weeping! Make it unflattering, because loss can be ugly.

I wouldn't even be opposed to Withers not showing up immediately? Maybe they have to physically drag Durge's dead body back to camp. Show us Gale using the only revival scroll he has and his face falling when it doesn't work. Shadowheart being the healer, desperately expending all her energy to bring you back to life as a last hail mary. Minthara not caring that Bhaal is a god, vowing to make him pay. Lae'zel threatening you to wake up, and the devastation that follows when she realizes you won't. Wyll thinking of bargaining his very soul to Mizora just for the chance she could bring Durge back. Astarion and Karlach praying to whatever gods they can think of even though they don't believe in them anymore.

Show the grief, the exhaustion. Then Withers appears.

As it stands, the emotional weight of what happens to Durge gets resolved so quickly, there's never a moment for any of us to really react to it.

It's an issue all across the game tbh. Why do the companions have no reaction to Kressa's reveal that she tortured Durge? Why are there no consequences to your relationships when they find out you were behind the Absolute plan? Outside of Astarion, the other romanceable companions have very little unique interactions with Durge, which is a shame because there are plenty of them who share many parallels to Durge's experience of being used by a god/higher-power.

I feel like I'm playing the world's smallest violin when I complain about the lack of resist!Durge content because good god, Wyll and Minthara are fighting for their lives over here. But man, it really sucks knowing that patch 7 is allegedly Larian's last big content patch. Like if there was ever going to be an update where this sort of thing was added, it had to be this one. But it doesn't seem like Larian has any intention of closing the content disparity gap.

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Tav, the idiot who somehow managed to be cool enough for Baldur to save

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By some miracle you end up on the same nautiloud ship as a Sharron Cleric who happens to to be carrying a gith artefact that contains Baldur himself. Baldur, who was made a mind flayer and is now calling himself the Emperor, realises there’s an incredibly powerful Bhaalspawn on the ship, and that he can use them to his advantage. The power you have will help him destroy Gortash. Of course he picks you, it makes so much sense.

On your way to Baldurs Gate you find out through an unsent letter that you used to be into Gortash. When you get to Baldurs Gate, the man you used to fuck turns out to be an absolute loser and with horror you realise he is still into you. It’s okay though, he’s very easy to kill.

You end up facing off against Orin, your niece, and kill her. Your father appears to you and offers you the chance to become his Slayer. On the high chance you turn him down, he murders you in front of your loved ones, and leaves you to rot.

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7 months ago

I've been unbanned

The Shadowheart-obsessed cod god is back

Got shadow banned on cod, guess that means I have no choice now but to spend my weekend writing (as if I didn't already want to write anyway)


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7 months ago

love Shadowheart for giving herself a warrior cats name when she was ten and deciding to stick with it for the rest of her life

7 months ago

this is the kinda dumbassery I got up to in my first playthrough like đź’€

A Baldur's Gate 3 screenshot with Shadowheart kneeling, surrounded by the party. Shadowheart says, "This must be the last step. I need to pray. Only by Lady Shar's grace did we even make it this far." The player character's highlighted response is, "Lady... Shar? You worship her...?"

Submitted for consideration: the funniest place to find out Shadowheart is a Shar worshipper?

8 months ago

WIP: Wake Me Up

18+ for sexual content and violence, this is just a snippet from a future chapter

An alternate universe fic with no tadpoles and just Shar/Selûne bs where Tav and Shadowheart happen to meet up. Stupidity and shenanigans ensue. Probably gonna be a series bc I'm obsessed with the two of them.

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When Anaya spoke, her voice was strained. “Goddess of beauty and desire, allow your most devoted servant to worship at your altar.” 

Shadowheart lifted her chin imperiously, as if looking down on Anaya. This was such a new addition to their dynamic; they'd fucked before, but Anaya had been the one in control. She had done what she pleased with Shadowheart, not allowing or asking for any reciprocation. When Shadowheart tried to touch, she was met with punishing stares and harsh words. Anaya's body was not hers, not in the way Shadowheart was Anaya's. She had relished that at the time, only feeling it was unfair afterwards, but Anaya had assured her there would be ample opportunity to make it up to her. 

She intended to tonight. A perfect idea had already begun worming its way into her brain. 

“I see no devotion,” Shadowheart said, voice thick and low. Anaya's eyes roamed her chest greedily before she spoke, but redirected to her face at the sound of her voice. “Only lust.” 

It was a dark look. One that said if Shadowheart let her, she would consume her all night. 

“Allow me to prove my devotion, great goddess."


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7 months ago

LOOK AT IT

LOVE THEM WITH ME

Thank you so much again! This made my entire day ngl ❤️

I Just Know Ayana And Shadowheart Will Haunt My Dreams Tonight

i just know ayana and shadowheart will haunt my dreams tonight

now everyone say thank you @nightingalen7 for writing THE only fanfic ever (wake me up on Ao3, trust me on this one, her Tav is a force of nature)


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7 months ago

Please God , take away Chappell Roan’s pain, double it and give it to mrbeast.

7 months ago

Angry goth + happy go lucky jesus lady = traumatized sassy girl that likes dogs

i've connected the dots

I've Connected The Dots

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