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Baldur's Gate 3 has me in its unrelenting grip. I am obsessed.
Especially with the problematic king himself, Enver Gortash.
I love him. I want him as a romance option for both Durge and Tav. I want my Durge to reunite with the lover she can't remember. I want Tav to drag that man kicking and screaming through his redemption arc.
Tavtash is definitely my preference out of the two. Because god forbid I just have a normal ship with an abundance of fic. No, of course not. My dumbass has to go running for a rare pair.
And on that note, I really need fic writers to remember that Durge is not Tav!! They are not the same. Durge can be evil or good. Tav can also be evil or good. But they are fundamentally different characters regardless of how you play or write them.
So, please, please please please stop using Tavtash tags for Durgetash. I keep getting so excited that there's finally another piece of Tavtash content, only to find that it's actually Durge.
I like Durge, and I like Durgetash, and I will still enjoy Durgetash content. But y'all are getting my hopes up and then crushing them. So please stop using Tavtash tags for Durgetash content.
Your average meeting of the Dead Three
I think I talked too much about just how grossly they kiss but did not make it clear enough. Right in front of Ketheric's salad, too.
who would know your husband better than his evil ex that lives in your living room?
this is a comic about a little au ive got where after the netherbrain is handled, durge finds gortash's body and resurrects him to give him another chance and "fix him" like how dying made durge a better person.
gortash has no choice but to live with some weirdo wizard and his old friend who changed so much that enver can barely recognize him.
#GortashWeek Day 2: Worship / Betrayal
Tarot Card - "The Lovers"
meaning reversed: Self-love, disharmony, imbalance, misalignment of values
Larian, you’re seriously telling me that Gortash doesn’t have time to kiss This
And you expect me to BELIEVE that?????
not now kitten daddy is too busy contemplating the minutia of death cult office politics to kiss
Little things I personally love to see in Durgetash ships (this is really just what I enjoy, not what I think needs to be there for it to be valid or anything)
Fearsexual Gortash. He’s gotta be a little worried for his life and horny about it. But also…
Conquestsexual Gortash. The idea of owning the thing he is afraid of? Very sexy to him. Definitely not indicative of…
Absolutely out of control parental issues. Leaning in heavy on his experiments with people on how far they would go for their children.
Durge having full blown religious crises over holding somebody’s hand with tenderness.
Fully taking the “I consent! But I don’t!” Meme energy into Bhaal being a constant present threat to their relationship.
Both of them having a truly monstrous streak. Even if they might be soft for each other, it never stops them being a nightmare for everybody else around them.
Both of them having complimentary but different genius, whatever that looks like. The surgeon and the engineer. The politician and the empathetic killer. The mechanic and the butcher. Whatever it is, they revel in sharing space as equally smart people.
Gortash having actual injuries from Durge. Maybe he actually needs that cane…
Durge having a really tender spot somewhere for Gortash that manifests in strange ways. What strange means can vary but I delight in a huge Dragonborn bringing him breakfast pastries as much as I delight in a cute Halfling leaving him body parts of patriars like a cat with a dead bird.
I've seen a lot of durgetash naysaying out in the wild and I just wanna say this.
Larian wouldn't have paid for Gortash to be animated two different ways in a number of his scenes if they wanted it to be ~up to interpretation~ if he and Durge were close or not.
I think that players can articulate the nature of that closeness for themselves, but make no mistake: Enver Gortash treasures the Dark Urge, and not for no reason. You were confidants. You had a cipher, just for the two of you. You knew each other for 10+ years (if the House of Wonders heist happens around the same time Karlach is sold).
Headcanon your Durge's sexual orientation however you wish. Headcanon their gender however you wish.
But closeness — even intimate, private closeness — takes many shapes. Whatever your preference, platonic or romantic or some third thing, Gortash and the Dark Urge were as close as two people can be.
And it killed them both.
Salami Bhaalivna is a simple creature