tell me more about rana and toxic yuri 👀

oh god this is probably gonna ruin actual lore because i genuinely get so confused looking things up so sorry to everyone who knows actual dnd lore and is about to read a mess i made up from playing this game..... ill put it all under a cut!!!

to make an incredibly long story short, Nine-Fingers Keene A.K.A Astele and Rana were childhood friends :) Rana didn't have a good home life under her father so she spent most of her time in the streets doing dumb kid things and eventually meets Astele and they become really good friends being petty thieves. They're both pretty young but they're inseparable and by the time Rana's around 13 she gets arrested and... well Keene kinda doesn't bail her out and Rana's father is like well im not gonna bother either.

Flashforward a month in jail, Rana escapes and leaves Baldur's Gate until the events of the game. Throughout her travels she kinda runs into Keene intermittently at various Thieve's Guild things. They've definitely got that One That Got Away energy and their reunion is filled with hate and lost chances so they definitely make not great decisions together but Keene's betrayal hurts more than Rana is capable of loving at the time and they always end up fighting and going their separate ways (usual with a knife to one another's necks) only to end up within reach again. Keene even offers her a place in the Thieve's Guild in Baldur's Gate once she's at the top but Rana denies with a big fight and they don't really talk until Act 3 a few years laer.

Of course, the Zhentarim are a threat to the Thieve's Guild so Miss Rana if you really don't care abt Keene or the Thieve's Guild why are you tracking them so closely... HMM!!!

all in all they're very much a toxic mess. I think they're on decent enough terms by the end of the game (keene is not happy abt Rana helping against the attack but she keeps her ego at bay). Rana's pretty much done with thieves guild stuff post game and so they're amicable and unlikely allies but nothing more.

Wyll is very much unaware until a very uncomfortable awkward conversation on Rana's part after that whole thing where she has to spell things out for him LMFAOOO