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bhaalsdeepbat · 17 days

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I accidentally set them on their worst possible outcomes together.

Gale became the God who ignores the prayers of mortals so they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps with their own ambitions.

Astarion Ascended and found that every sacrifice he made to get there was worth it. No remorse. And certainly no joy.

And they chose a life of seclusion where they can spend eternity in each other's presence rather than experiencing life in its entirety. Two mortals who know the silence of the Gods passing that same silence forward once they achieve Godhood. It's a life marked by isolation and silence.

When they hear fraught prayers like those Astarion once echoed in the dark of his tomb, those prayers will be met with the same deafening silence. but they'll be together chasing ambition for eternity.

Thank you @justabiteofspite for the screenshots AND the fucking amazing game

#bat plays bg3 #astarion's big day #bloodweave #sorry this is toxic bloodweave we didn't intend to go this way #but after the grove turned it just. went down hill and ended up being an amazing run LMAO #it was chaos to make the run refreshing #bg3 spoilers #epilogue spoilers

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midnigtartist · 6 months

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I don’t know if I’m going to finish the companion line up I’m working on but it feels like a waste not to post this very good Astarion

#also it’s Neil’s big day!! so have some astarion art #bg3 #astarion #baulders gate 3 #artist on tumblr #doobles #digital scribbles

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championsandheroes · 6 months

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Being told that my character hasn't been cleaning themselves properly in at least ten days was honestly the worst and most shocking part of the game. Gale and Lae'zel can go on about how they like your musk all they want, it doesn't matter. Ten days of wandering around and fighting? We camp next to a river? And yet???

If you are interested in your own vampire spawn to bring with you on adventures so that you can skip out on personal hygiene, contact the Szarr estate at Patreon or society6.

#champions and heroes #baldur's gate 3 #Astarion #Tav #Gale of Waterdeep #I honestly admire Astarion's self-control #poor man's starving and you're constantly rolling around in food like it's no big deal #it's bad enough that you're a walking meal #you don't have to marinate yourself in it too #you're practically mocking him #the fact that it takes days before he breaks is honestly nothing but miraculous #and no you don't get to complain #you should have thought about the possibility that the extremely pale elf with red eyes fangs and bite marks might be a vampire

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itwasabeautifulwebbing · 6 months

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baldur’s gate 3 really is the game of all time for the gays who want to celebrate both sad pathetic wet men AND women’s wrongs

#baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #minthara #minthara baenre #i am still thinking about that post i saw a couple of days ago #where OP was mad about men being categorized as babygirls and women as the only braincell havers #and OP was right that the latter girlboss-ification of women while subsequently never letting the narrative focus on them #(or having fandoms actually focus on them)#is depressing and exhausting #but that’s why!!! bg3 is so great imo!!!#the women characters in bg3 are absolutely the main appeal of this game!!#like yes astarion is extremely popular and with good reason #but he is not the only character with a delightfully feral and dedicated fan base happy to excuse all his wrongs because of his big sad eyes #/flourishes both hands @ minthara baenre will smith style #look at this sad war criminal and her big sad eyes and her arrogance and her insecurity #and her devastating sense of humour #she is hyperfixation material

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venomgaia · 8 months

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Guys that go bump in the night

(minorly inspired by @karniss-bg3 's response to this ask)

#bg3 #astarion #rhylolin/lobo (oc)#kar'niss #drider #baldurs gate 3 #driftoodles #alternative titles thst were suggested have been: the monster mash; two charlatan party crashers and their plus one #a drider a lycanthrope and a vampire walk into a bar #etc etc etc i could keep going #i imagine this would be a post bg3 plot thing . dunno what trouble theyre getting into but #whatever theyre up to someones probably gonna have to bail them out. my moneys on gale #with how ive been sketching kar'niss ive been drawing him more emaciated during bg3 bc i noticed his abdomen wrinkles at the bottom which #is a trait of dehydration in arachnids. hes probs not eating very well in moonrise lmao. but i imagine lobo heres been taking p good care #of him. also i think karniss still isnt used to being complimented so every time anyone says he looks nice he throws a fit about it #arachnophobia #but yeah so i try to draw him with rounder n softer features if im drawing him doing smthn post bg3 #anywayyys i have a big day tomorrow i wish i had more energy to put smthn neater out but. for now. woe drider #i actually planned on replying to the og ask with more refined doodles but i may do thst later shdkdnkd

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sleepy-bear-tm · 9 months

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Line up to see the biggest disaster duo in the game

#they're so fucking funny istg #like? gale don't lecture him on being an old man #and astarion pls don't egg him on he could cast some wizard spell on you and ruin your whole day #also i adore drawing astarion and his big sad eyes god just let me squish you and let you have an easy life #sorry #obligatory astarion appreciation tag #gale of waterdeep #astarion #astarion bg3 #baldurs gate astarion #baldurs gate fanart #bg3 #bg3 fanart #doodle #sketch #art #my art #digital art

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peonypyxels · 8 months

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in another life odessa turned into a big bug

#i scum saved tho bc i love those lesbians too much to kill isobel #and everyone was mAD AT ME FOR TURNING INTO THE SLAYER #and getting a cut scene with astarion is better than turning into a big bug #bg3 spoilers #bg3 durge #bg3 gameplay #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 tav #my tav #one day ill go back to sims i promise

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elminsters · 2 months

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i love coming on here and finding out everyone lost their damn mind while i slept

#why are people acting like wotc are going to come to their houses and uninstall the game from their computer LMAO #and why are people acting like larian is washing their hands of bg3 when they literally said they have additional updates planned via patch #like did we seriously expect anything other than what we've been told? why is this news #wotc is shitty sure but no more than any other big corp.#this isnt a ya dystopian movie we don't have to defeat them ahsksfjk calm down #i also don't think we need to worry about how the characters are owned by wotc i feel like it's more for merch purposes #i do not think they're going to become the new poster children of dnd #that's not really how dnd is marketed #idk i think a lot of people gaslit themselves into believing that we were getting 2 dlc and bg4: astarion boogaloo #it's giving valentines day romance patch tbh #none of this is directed at mutuals btw u guys are normal ♥️ i just think in general this fandom needs a reality check

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brekkie-e · 8 months

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My personal headcanon is that tav was concerned at first when Astarion pulled the knife on them, but once they realize how he pulled them down they were like "nvm this guy's an idiot, let's see how this goes/humor him"

I love that.

Shadowheart judging from a few feet back: wow. this one's an idiot.

Tav, completely ignoring Astarion looking back at SH: yeah, but he's OUR idiot now. i just decided. we're keeping him.

#brekkie asks #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #listen just #i love him #i know he's got a lot going on day 1 #it's a big day for him #lots to process #but i think he and petras have more in common than he likes to admit #not burdened with intelligence besties

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not-poignant · 7 months

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Baldur’s Gate 3 - 9/? - Palmarosa - Astarion/Raphael

Title: Palmarosa Rating: Explicit Pairing: Astarion/Raphael Tags: (Check AO3 for the full list) Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Deals with a devil, Contracted sexual slavery, Bad BDSM etiquette, PTSD, Communication issues, Flashbacks, Trauma recovery and Retraumatisation, Dark and disturbing themes, Blood consumption, Minor character death, Canon typical violence, Dominance/submission, Top Raphael, Bottom Astarion etc.

Summary: (Set post-game / end-game) The love of Astarion’s life has disappeared to go live in the daylight with the druids, and Astarion is stuck in the darkness once more, yearning for sunlight with every fibre of his being, while bitterly reflecting on all the things that were denied to him in the end - love, sunlight, the option to kill thousands of people and become a near-god…

Raphael knows Astarion’s desperate, and comes to him with not one, but two horrid contract offers that Astarion loathes and dreads in equal measure - but the prize at the end of both are too good to turn down, and he’s become too cynical to care about how much of a good idea it is to give his body to a devil for a month or two, because really, comparatively, how bad could it be?

Palmarosa (Baldur’s Gate 3) - Raphael/Astarion - 09 - Blood and Sulphur

In which Astarion finds himself some new clothing by, well, stealing it. And then Raphael returns with someone to feed on, and lashes out when Astarion inadvertently invites him to.

#chapter update #palmarosa #thespectaclesofthor #bg3 fanfic #bg3 fic #bg3 astarion #bg3 raphael #whump #angst #raphael x astarion #i guess sdlkfjas we see what happens when raphael goes too far #and we see astarion mentally prepared to really consider breaking that contract #on day 3 #sorry not sorry raphael you miscalculated big time

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vyncentevelyn · 7 months

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Tits out. Covered in blood. This is all I want.

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bhaalsdeepbat · 2 months

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my HC today that @justabiteofspite's tav, catha, drops random locked boxes in front of Astarion for him to lockpick when he starts to get his anxious pacing naruto-runs. It's enrichment for his enclosure. the spiritual oppsite of "he can't pick that chest." he gets a little too cranky and catha is just like...here, have another chest.

astarion hopping to his knees like oh god YES and it's in the energy of "and where does this one go? that's right! in the square slot!" except he's using one SINGLE lockpick set for every lock type imaginable, including magical ones.

gale is just frantically conjuring more and more chests full of items and locking them in more intricate ways. and he's the one going, "Oh, MYSTRA" and sobbing into the crook of his arm every time astarion is able to pick the lock.

#bat rambles #astarion's big day #also dying at the image of astarion just being IMPALED in the back by the blood of lathander #after he overhears Isobel calling shadowheart a nasty little terrier #and he turns around and asks if her little terrier nose was going to sniff out the path to victory #gale dekarios #gale #gale of waterdeep #astarion #astarion ancunin #enrichment time for the boy

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fallingbyjuleecruise · 2 months

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every day i think about the ansur plot in act 3 could've actually had emotional weight if larian studios gave a shit about wyll. damn.

#like the whole gauntlet is about expressing the type of heroism that wyll has striven for his entire life.#the way the quest is so prototypical in it's fairy tale sensibility of the honest and true hero awaking a dragon under the city and -#saving the day and he goes through this whole gauntlet that's a test of how well he ascribes to the ideals of balduran and his father -#and everything he ever clung to to validate himself to himself after being coerced into mizora's deal as a 17 year old kid and then -#he succeeds! he passes the tests! only to find that ansur (literally named answer) is an undead abomination you have to put down #like it's SO SAD. and to me a big part of his story is accepting who HE is. seeing himself outside of his deal w mizora or what his father #wanted him to be and the fact that wyll isn't allowed to have a big emotional reaction to the ansur situation is so annoying #in fact wyll doesn't EVER get to have an emotional reaction to anything bc larian studios doesn't care enough to flesh his story out -#despite giving him one of the most interesting ideas for a character in the game! like act 3 should be WYLL'S act! he's so tied into -#everyone important in that act that it's actually a crime that he's sidelined the most there and he doesn't have enough vocal fans -#that larian studios will ever care enough to patch his story or add anything like they did for karlach or astarion. it's so dumb.#and it sucks that the writers don't recognize wyll's abuse bc his abuser is a hot devil lady. what she does to him is sick. god.#anyway. whatever.#baldur's gate 3 #my posts #.txt

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tugoslovenka · 6 months

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i cannot wait for the people screeching at the top of their lungs that ascended astarion is somehow the better romance option to start confirming their delusions bc of this epilogue!! five dollars on the first person who makes an essay saying it's actually him being affectionate bc he called tav "my love" and completely blitz past the possessiveness and distain for other company!!! i am sat and ready!!!

#BIG day for annoying people indeed #mostly me #astarion #bg3 #thoughts

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invinciblerodent · 2 months

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oh sometimes i'm overcome with the realization of just how sentimental a bitch i am

like i really am straight up just playing make-believe with these characters like they're digital barbies

okay so in Iona's inventory, i've had this necklace

since very early in act 1.

it was in Aradin's chest at the Grove, and it was the first thing "we" managed to get with the "I distract them with conversation/busking and you steal everything that isn't nailed down" act/trick I had thought up for her and Astarion. I thought it'd be kinda cute for him to, at the end of this test run, present it with a ~theatrical flourish~ once just out of earshot of its original owner, and for her to ~graciously allow~ him to drape it around her neck, as a hamfisted and silly act of mock-courtship they both know is false. (it was kind of a... "we both know what this is all about and where it's headed, but wouldn't it be fun to play make-believe and pretend it's something entirely different" type of thing.)

I thought it'd be cute, if a touch bittersweet for her to keep it, just slotted away in her little "sentimental items" pouch, like.... next to the dog toy, her old wedding band, and the other useless junk she couldn't bring herself to throw away or sell.

and then today, i found this as I was selling stuff in the Glittering Gala.

it's the same design. and i like to describe Iona's eyes as "amber" when I write about them (they're kind of a reddish/yellowish, pretty medium brown). and she looks much better in golds and reds than she does in blues and silvers.

so. um.

guess who got this bloody thing "sneaked" into her inventory at the long rest.

if you think i won't 1.) exit a trading screen abruptly, 2.) switch controlled characters, 4.) buy a silly and utterly useless junk item AS that character (thought about just picking her pocket but.... we have 35k gold. why would i.), and 4.) keep it in that character's inventory until it "seems like" the PC isn't "paying attention", and then 5.) drop it into their inventory "unnoticed", all for LITERALLY NO GOOD REASON other than just to act out a silly little gesture and support the little fanfic in my head, well.

you'd be very wrong.

((and i was grinning and giggling downright embarrassingly the whole time too))

#squirrel plays bg3 #oc: iona raedir #“astarion isn't the type to do romantic gestures” false #“he does big thoughtful acts of courtship and sweeps the pc off their feet” also false #it is my belief that he isn't the type to do Big Flashy Romantic Things #and is also not the type to be vocal about them #my headcanon is that he'll do the Big Declarations and Theatrical Displays when he's taking the piss in some way #as in he'll joke and play at- and exaggerate courtship when it's all for fun and show and means nothing or very little #but when it's supposed to actually MEAN something; when it's REAL; then the ways he shows love are both small #and done without fanfare or expecting acknowledgement #not even making the slightest effort to keep hands to themselves even in public is fun of course; but the love?#that's in... a pilfered piece of that fruit she likes found randomly in her pack. a swift dagger batting aside a blade meant for her ribs #a small scratch of a pen's tip subtly marking a sweet passage in the book she “borrowed” from him #or in this case; it's something that she found among her things and put on without making a fuss about it #at least not beyond a knowing glance shared; a soft smile exchanged; and her fingers absently fiddling with the stones throughout the day #if she wasn't wearing the guidance-amulet (useful) i'd probably actually equip it on her like i did the silver one for the longest time ngl #because like i said; i'm a sentimental bitch playing make-believe with my little toys

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elvhendis · 9 months

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YES let's talk about Astarion my favourite topic, in fact there is nothing I like more than hearing Raphael talk to and about Astarion in his dulcet tones while Astarion stands about looking like this, god I love this game it is simply a feast for the eyes and ears

#I just got back from holiday and I think I'm just going a bit insane rn don't mind me #this is my first big fix after five days of withdrawal ok #i am well #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #raphael the cambion

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