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#Don't ask me what her alignment was because she was dumb as hell and changed based on who she was talking too
pikaglove · 4 months
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Now that I have beaten Baulder's Gate 3, here is a list of headcanons I made up about my character and her life (also includes some in game canon events)
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Sylvia
• Half wood elf
• Druid (circle of the lands)
• Folk hero
• Cis female
• Bisexual
• Early-mid 30s
• Lover: Gale (married)
• Adopted two kids after the events of bg3 (arabella and Yenna)
• Absolute freak in the sheets
• Has demon fetish
• Canonically forgets her quests (people have died because of this)
• Lived in Baulder's Gate when she was a young girl and was going to be married off to a noble drow but got in a fight that made her "unfit for marriage" and had to be shipped away due to being an embarrassment to the family.
• Lived as a hippie in her young adulthood with other druids.
• Went around saving small towns from bandits.
• Normally peaceful but gets really hotheaded when she sees injustice
• Has gone days without eating much (Gale has had to make her eat a proper meal instead of just a few berries)
• Had a fling with Lae'zel, thought it was mid.
• Did have a pixie friend when she traveled with the other druids
• Not good friends with Astarion because she wishes he would be a better person (she was really proud when he didn't ascend)
• Shadowheart is her bff
• Loves cats
• Prefers cooler weather
• Will fight Mystra at a waffle house
• Loves raunchy ballads about herself
• Has Heterochromia (left: blue. Right: green)
• Got a flower tattoo on her neck once she left Baulder's Gate
• Got facial scars from charging up too much lightning to take down a group of harpies. (She won of course)
• Down with Bukake (Gale gets her so well)
• Half illithid (cured)
• Has blanked out when Gale goes on tangents but she's happy to let him ramble
• Canonically told Gortash to fuck off
• Disappointment to parents (canon by auntie ethiel)
• Astarion, Jaheira, and Karlach judged her for fucking the emperor
• Canonically sacrificed herself to save everyone in the iron throne along with Astarion (character growth for astarion)
• Halsin is her father figure now after he found out her dad is shit
• Canonically cucked Gale 3 times (The emperor, the drow twins, and Haarlep)
• Whenever Haarlep is using her body and she is in puplic, she and Gale absolutely go off somewhere to fuck.
• Date nights with Gale include star gazing
• Is the reason why Gale learned more ice spells (He wanted to impress her)
• Taught Gale animal handling.
• Steals books for Gale while on adventures
• Canonically goes on adventures with Gale
• Uses vines to bind Gale's wrists so she can give him the sloppy toppy without him returning the favor. (All consentual)
• Taught Arabella druid magic
• Yenna and Gale cook while in waterdeep
• Tara and Sylvia have helped Grub come out of his shell more.
• Has a good relationship with Mrs. Dekarios
• Won the heart of Tara after growing her some catnip.
• Has gotten into cheese arguments with Gale, whenever Elminster comes to visit.
• People sometimes think Yenna is her biological daughter due to similar hair and eye color.
• Father is human, mother is a wood elf
• Has a younger brother
• Her bi awakening was when she was a teen and had a crush on a tiefling classmate
• Let's Shadowheart stay at their tower when she visits waterdeep to be at the Selunite temple.
• Once got attacked by Shaarans when Shadowheart was visiting.
• Has nightmares of turning into a mind flayer due to taking that parasite
• Years after all events and our heros have passed, the wizard tower of waterdeep becomes overgrown with vines.
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thisdreamplace · 3 years
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I had a nasty fight with my former bff. This was long ago. She did the whole 'boycotting me' thing at school and afterwards had a mutual friend pass her msg to me, saying "tell her [me] to get it into her skull that she's not the center of the world, who does she think she is? Stop acting like a #" Im simplifying the words, her actual words were nastier
I got thinking today abt this fight, and her comment abt me that is still way too fresh in my mind even tho I hadn't recalled it in 2-3 yrs!, and I actually decided to use the law to revise my friendship to feel better as what happened after the fight was shameful on my part. But before I knew it, I started rmmbring my relationship with her. How I became a total victim. Got so stuck on her validation, begged her to be friends with me (after I got the degrading msg. 🤕 silly me w/o a backbone lol) and stayed her 'bestie' for way too long. Only after it's all over im noticing smth messed up abt out 'feiendship'. It wasnf that normal I think. She would get so pissed if I did anything that went against her thoughts/beliefs/way (which is why she called me a selfish # that major fight). It was so subtle the way she showed her disapproval. To her, if I did anything not aligned with her, or even makih decisions on my own which didn't involve her, it was wrong. And had consequences like her beinf distant for days etc, or getting angry if I didn't mind read her bla bla, I just had to keep her at the top 24/7 and she expected everyone else to do the same... which I thought was normal... It wasnt. And what would be even more crazy is she never realized how that meant she always wanted the attention. That she always wanted it her way! It just makes me feel... Sad.... When I look back. How couldn't I have notived it before? I used to be strong headed, opinionated before I became 'besties' with her.. That all has changed. I wonder why -_-
It may be dumb on my part but with the weak mind and insecurity I had then, I took that fight/her reaction to the heart and internalisef this stupidiy (DENY MYSELF if the other alternative was denying HER. I didn't think it was wrong. For the oldme, it really wasn't wrong smh). Aaah I'm so sorry old me :(
This fight started bcoz she asked me for smth and I refused, instead of relenting like I always would, and I see now that her reaction (to me not being an obedient # to her ig?🤢) was basically her setting rules. It was wrong of me to refuse, yes, but why did she react that way? Why did this pattern continue? That everyone was selfish if they didn't think of her ;_; like how do u deal with this? And the icing is when I too started to defend her and make excuses for her all the time. And ik I'm making her out to be so strong, don't worry... I accept the strong only rule when the weak submit. And I was weak as hell, so its understandable this whole thing. I think 😅
Idk. I seen your posts abt eyipo with other anons so i hope u can tell me figure out what this was. Its clear to me she was projecting smth about me, and mb throughout our whole friendship she was projecting me. And I would think it was her hurting me, that she was right and I was wrong or maybe I did smth wrong. Mb I thought I deserved being punished that way?!
Today I suddenly had an aha moment and I realised... this is how a victim thinks. I didn't know I was a victim when I was living that stoey aka thought I was powerless. When in fact I really wasn't?! Haha still accepting I 555% created ALL that. The law can knock you out haha
Enough old story I just want to ask, what du u think the msg she sent to me was? Did I really deserve such a reaction (did I mention she included other girls in the boycot? 🤢) just for standing up for myself? What about the whole 'fight' aka showcase of power? And the entire yrs of being friends why did I never realize I was only hurting myself so much by putting her before me? And also, with the everyone pushed out thing, how did it fit in? Like why the hell did I give her too much power in validating me by giving in after the fight in the first place?, and while I did have some fun times (saying this so anyone else who reads this doesn't think it was pure torture lol. We had some common interests tyat no one else in the class shared when we first became 'friends'), deep down I was so unhappy so why didn't this reflect on her? I mean why didn't she ever sense just how much she'd hurt me, why didn't she see how much I put on the back burner coz of her?! Was it as she saw it as her right? I'm just so confused
This is still a bitter pill to swallow tbh but I have to face this in order to move on. This person and my life with her has left me wit many scars and I got to understand how I did this so I never attract such a person in my life again. Its not even abt bejnf a victim. As I said, these victimy things were subtle and I only noted them when it was too late and I was a shell, like she getting super pissed and disapproving if I had a differing opinion and me blowijg it out of proportion and tailoring my views or not expressing them so as to not feel the disapproval...thanks boycott conditioning ig? 😭 Aaaah even talking agaunst her rn is making me uncomfortable. Which makes me think I still am scared of her subconsciously even tho she's no longer in my life. Like, what in me made me choose her? I haven't healed, obviously by this ask as u can tell, but idk what is it in my self concept that had this whole thing in my past even happen
My friend, I also want to say I think you're a beautiful soul 🥺. And im sorry for the long ask lol. And I pray you'll always have all your desires. And plz, was it hard for u at first when u learned about u creating everything? The good, the bad, and the repulsive (like this story)? How did u get over old stories? Ty ty ty 😭
To begin with you're being really harsh on yourself. Like, I know it's hard, but it's never that serious. And trust me, this is something I have to remind myself of regularly. Because there have definitely been moments in life where I look back on myself in that moment, and I feel like I was pathetic and would slap myself if I could. But the truth is, there's just no need for any of that. We always did the best we could. We always did, period. We couldn't have done anything differently and this will continue to be true our entire lives. Looking back on the past with such overwhelming feelings, is really not needed. I get looking back to learn from it, but practice coming from a place of love and acceptance instead. It will help you grow, rather than get stuck back in this cycle of self-hate and confusion. Plus, you actually never need to analyze the past to grow but that's beyond the point right now.
To me, by reading your ask, the message she sent to you was clear. You feel you deserve less in life, you feel you're not good enough, you feel like a victim to life and others, you feel like you're not empowered or the operant power of your reality. It's not about her being wrong and you being right, and I get this is one of the hardest pills to swallow. Everyone is you pushed out. Therefore, there's simply no such thing as who is right and who is wrong anymore. It was only ever you.
When it comes to everyone is you pushed out, you have to understand this person isn't this way because that's who they are. They were that way because that's who you were. Inside of you, you brought their character to life. Therefore, the same way you are not stuck to such an undesirable self concept, neither is that person. It's not that you chose her and attracted her in. You were just dealing with yourself. That's what I hope you walk away from this response understanding. Because by thinking she was outside of you, you're missing the mark. And this is such an important concept to understand when it comes to the law of assumption, because it's really at the forefront of everything. People play such a huge role in our lives, whether it's relationships, jobs, opportunities, etc etc. So understanding how everyone is you pushed out actually works is extremely important.
So instead of putting all this blame on her or even putting the blame on yourself, all these memories really do is give you a glimpse into who you were at the time. It shows you the beliefs you held about yourself. It shows you what your self concept was. That's all it's doing. So in that way, there's actually no one to blame at all. I know it feels good to put blame, even when it's on yourself, but the truth is there's no room for blame when you learn about the law. You simply take responsibility and become empowered by the power you have held this entire time. And you practice making it work in your favor.
If you want to see how something was apart of your self concept, all you have to do is pay attention to what you are thinking/feeling. Shame, not being good enough, etc etc is all just stories you once held onto. Now you don't have to hold onto those stories anymore. Now that you know the power you hold, you get to make a new decision for yourself. Rather than ruminating of the painful past, allow it to be and know how that's not your story anymore.
Was it difficult for me to accept how I created everything? Yes and no. It's been a journey. While I could accept it logically, emotionally it was still very painful. Many times I wanted to cry and lash out when I felt alone and felt upset that no one was there for me. Although, I knew deep down it appeared that way because of my own concept of self. So yeah, it's been a journey. And it's honestly not always delightful. But this is the journey we have to take for the rest of our lives, so we might as well get used to practicing and applying these concepts. Instead of continuing to hold ourselves in such painful lights. I got through old stories, and I continue to get through old stories, by feeling all the pain that came up. By allowing myself to cry and feel however I felt like during those times. And in the back of my mind I knew I was getting stronger in my power. I knew how I would keep persisting once the pain subsided. And little by little, old stories fade more and more. That persistence to continue choosing better for yourself, is truly more powerful than it may seem in a difficult moment. Have trust in how it's all working out for you regardless.
Hopefully this is helpful! Thank you for your kind words. 💖
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Hi C!!! It's meeee
Anyway I don't know why but I just kinda want to put this out in the world. You got me on Jercy (I'm not kidding I hated Jercy before you) but Percabeth is my OG ship like they started me ok fanfics and they're like my first real ship period. And I hate all the hate Annabeth gets because I really love her so I just wanted to ask you if you could go more in depth with why you aren't big on her/Percabeth please
Love you!! ❤❤
Hi my Gretch seeing your username (on any of the platforms) makes me forever and eternally happy. Okay onto this beautiful, intense ask:
First things first: I love Annabeth. Like Annabeth as a character? wonderful, incredible, unreal. She is so versatile and full of so many things that make us human and I see her character and character arc as a complex web full of intricacies and weaknesses (yes i said web on purpose).
My favourite things about her:
1. She always has a goal, whether it be long term or, I'm just trying to stay alive in this second. For people like me who kind of go through life on vibes and a vague sense of what they want it is awing to read about and meet people who have solid, planned goals that they live, breathe, and perform by.
2. She is proud of her friends. Since her fatal flaw is pride it is very easy to see the downfall but there is also an upside in that she uses that well of pride as an extension of her and it reflects on others. We know she is proud of Percy, and grover, and Thalia, and why Luke’s betrayal hit so hard for her
3. She continues to break stereotypes. Not just as the dumb blonde (which was admittedly a big thing at the time of the book’s release) but also in her being a girl who saves herself, who goes on the dangerous quests, who isn’t helpless. I never had a lack of female role models in my life but adding Annabeth to the mix only did me more good.
4. She thinks things through: I am kind of impulsive when it comes to certain aspects in my life and I have some thought process for other parts but Annabeth is not impulsive. As much as she has ADHD, in which impulsivity is fairly common, she doesn’t present with it. And it’s refreshing and exciting to see this character that thinks through plans and decisions and tries to predict the outcome, not only so she can change it if need be but also to prepare herself for what is to come. Narratives (especially at the time of those books) were full of impulse and quick decisions and always being on the spot. Hell Percy was exactly this kind of narrtator. And while I love dit because I mean what ten year old doesn't love fast-paced intense excitement? it was so truly wonderful to read about someone who thought further. It allowed you to connect to the next page, chapter, book. 
5. She is a complete badass. And I love it. I love badass women. I could never get enough of them and I think they should rule the world. And I love smart people. I love them. Smartness, intelligence, is so attractive to me. Because it means you have passion, and the ability to think beyond your surroundings. Annabeth Chase is hella smart.
What I've been having a crisis over for the last few years is Percabeth. It is summed up most accurately here but just to continue my thought:
Rick changed the percabeth dynamic so much in HOO that it became almost unrecognisable. I think in the bid to have this whole, everyone is a couple and everyone deserves someone (which boosted Leo’s narrative but was also the cause of great conflict in everyone else’s narrative expect percabeth) he forgot to make them friends. And that was the basis of percabeth. It was the reason percabeth were so godsdamn cute in PJO. Because they were friends who ended up becoming a couple. In HOO they were just a couple. And it sucked out the life of their friendship so that we could only focus on their relationship.
And unfortunately it is Annabeth’s narrative that really brings this home for multiple reasons (all of which we can blame Rick for):
1. This is the first time we got other points of view beside Percy which means everyone’s flaws were much more obvious. Annabeth’s fatal flaw specifically was really played (the entire reason she went on that Mark of Athena quest; why  they landed up in Tartarus). it made focusing on her harder especially because Percy’s Fatal flaw is loyalty so he spent a lot of his narrative focusing on others. this one is mostly my bias as I prefer to have a character’s narrative that also focuses on the happenings of others with the characters personal thoughts. Annabeth was the kind of narrator who focused on herself first. 
2. The entirety of HOO was about relationships. Rick didn’t bother to form any actual friendships with any of the characters (something he was undoubtedly great at in PJO) so when we got to percabeth scenes it was things like: Piper being jealous of them; Percy being worried about them; Annabeth being worried about Percy as a person or herself in her quest; Leo being sad that he was alone; etc. It made liking any of the couples extremely hard.
3. As you (and my other Tumblr babies) may know I don't believe Percy and Annabeth’s fatal flaws work well together. I think Percy is often the one to sacrifice himself and Annabeth sacrifices her wants (material things) and it is not the same. Percy is loyal to Annabeth. But Annabeth’s pride continues to rule her life. For example, if Percy had gotten in the way of Annabeth rebuilding Olympus I fully believe she would have attempted (at the very least) to get rid of him. I don't necessarily mean kill him I just mean he wouldn’t have been in her life. Don’t get me wrong this does not mean she did it or there was even a possibility that she could have. but the reason for that is because Percy is loyal to her. So he wouldn’t have gotten in the way of her dreams. And I think there’s something fundamentally dangerous about sacrificing yourself for someone else’s dreams. If Percy became loyal-to-a-fault towards Annabeth and she then decided to join Luke’s army he would not have stopper her. In fact it’s quite possible he would have joined her. And Annabeth has so much pride for Percy, but her pride-to-a-fault does not lie in people it lies in material things. So she would have gone after her own goals if Percy did not follow. It just seems like it’s luck that they continue to work well together. Percy sacrifices himself. Annabeth sacrifices herself. But only cause their goals align. What happens when they don't?
Please do not make the mistake of thinking I hate percabeth because I don’t. I cannot hate them when those books were the heart and soul of my life for so many years. Percabeth was such a big part of them, to hate the ship, would mean to hate the books and that is absolutely not the case. Annabeth and Percy’s friendships is so important to me. 
TL:DR I love Annabeth she is an absolute badass; I am not a fan of the percabeth dynamic especially in HOO; my bias is present in everything I do. I acknowledge it and try to work to bring all the facts together.
I hope this answered your question Gretch! And do not hesitate to ask if you want me to elaborate on a anything further.
I, of course, also welcome dispute from anyone but remember we do things nicely on this blog.
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ballisterboldheart · 3 years
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I, for one, absolutely want a wall of text filled with all your charmed thoughts and ideas
omg YES i wuld also love nothing more than to talk abt the charmed s2 that lives inside my head <3
ok ok so the basic structure would be 2a would be the demon & witch war that we got faked out of and 2b would be the shea storyline w/ both sides calling a truce to deal w/ the Bigger Threat
i was SO sad that abigael's storyline went Literally nowhere it think it would have been sick if she really WAS playing the charmed ones the entire time (especially doing it through harry? bc she thinks she has an in through him but at some Critical point underestimates how much he would choose the girls over Anyone else) and ends up betraying them and they want her BLOOD
i would have love to see her misdirecting the sisters so that they end up taking out her competition. and abigael justifying it w/ well our goals are aligned <3 why are you mad if i didn't tell you the whole truth it wouldn't have changed anything. but they KEEP falling for it and abigael stays in power
it was dumb as hell to kill all the whitelighters SO that doesn't happen and WHILE the demon & witch war is brewing someone (jada) is out convincing the whitelighters that the system they swore themselves to doesn't exist anymore & they should be free to choose if they want to continue to be subservient to witches
and most of them are like Yeah what other purpose is there because they don't really HAVE a reason to go against the elder's last wishes
ENTER the darklighter reveal and now suddenly it turns out these people were all torn apart & have to deal with that? and when the demon & witch war heats up they become glorified human shields and its like. what the Fuck. cue the whitelighters all unionizing
and it would be good to expand a bit more on what darklighters actually ARE...i think it'd be interesting if the elders Said they were all the feelings of rage, grief, and rebellion ripped out but it turns out it's not as Clean of a cut as they made it out to be
also the vera vaughs should have more witch friends. they know like?? three or four more witches by nearly the end of s3 that's bullshit i want them to have more friends that help them out <3 they form a little task force or something as the demon witch war escalates bc they can’t be everywhere at once
macy & jordan get together instead of maggie & jordan because HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT their episode together in josefina’s bag was literally one of the best they have insane chemistry and are both solid tens.
macy spends a good while upset bc you know galvin JUST died and he was her first serious boyfriend so she’s tentative abt loving someone else but then here comes jordan & he’s so sweet and always there for the sisters w no questions asked and macy slowly falls for him but then it turns out he’s CURSED to die and she’s like. ah shit. cannot believe youve done this. so she goes Through It a bit and honestly i don’t think jordan’s Curse storyline should drag out as much (especially since his ancestor who got everyone cursed was white?? literally did they consult NO ONE abt this storyline)
maggie gets to be on again off again w parker who comes back because everyone wants him to be demon overlord but he’s like Hello? i Literally gave up the source of all evil i HATE being in charge idk he can get Murdered or smthn or maybe eventually start causing some problems (it’s the white man in him)
actually it’d be so funny if maggie’s ex was the one causing trouble on the demon side and mel’s ex was the one causing trouble on the whitelighter/witch front and the woman desperately trying to peg harry was ALSO causing problems. macy’s the only one w/ an unproblematic love interest staying in his own lane <3
mel’s arc would be that everyone keeps playing her into attacking first, that she resents that she’s Unofficially the one in charge, that jada is back and Causing Problems but mel can see where she’s :/ kinda morally correct
maggie’s arc is dealing with the fact that she Kinda wants a normal life but that’s not going to happen if everyone keeps killing each other so she wants to try to find a solution that involves as little bloodshed as possible but also. everyone has insatiable bloodlust.
and macy that she unfortunately has a stake in both sides and there’s people who will Definitely be taking advantage of that (maybe even getting HER to try to be demon overlord to unite both sides under One Flag, so to speak). also, like maggie she wants something Normal i mean it was fun when it was just like. small stakes but now it’s literally Everyone counting on the vera vaughns and its like bitches help
harry’s would be that he’s kinda useless now, since he’s basically taught everything he knows, and that he’s used as a pawn by abigael, and then later the darklighter plot and that the people that Made him who he is did so by ripping everything Bad out of him and the fact that he never had a choice
anyways anyways 2a would end with the war between witches & demons officially being started, it would continue on a bit for the start of 2b with everyone on edge and stretched a bit thin and jimmy Acting Up n trying to kill the girls, and then the shea storyline would pick up
and i have Not thought that far in advance <3
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