Whelp. It’s official. I’m writing a proper fic about Atavia and her story. I don’t really know what else to say or how to “promote” it so I’ll just leave the link and say that I’m enjoying writing about my girl and her interactions with Astarion(canon and non canon).

In future the fic will include the canon throuple(Astarion, Atavia, and Halsin) but at the moment it’s mostly just Astarion and Atavia with background appearances by Gale and Shadowheart. I’m debating wether I’ll include the post game stuff in this fic or make a separate one but eventually the complete Tavi-Cule(Astarion, Atavia, Halsin, and Gale) will end up in a fic. Just might not be this one.

Behold! Atavia and her Boys™️ at the end of the game! I shared these screenshots, or some of them at least, earlier but I wanted to highlight the Tavi-cule(previously the Tav-cule but I’m making it more obvious it’s about my specific Tav now) because I’m just so happy with the hugs. They’re all so cute and tender and I love it. I also love Astarion watching her in the bed, he’s such a sweet heart if you’re willing to support him while he heals and works on himself.

My favorite thing about Atavia is that she wears makeup. Like with my other Tavs/Durges I used the makeup to like. Give them dark under eyes or more natural(to me) looking lip colors and decided in canon that they don’t wear makeup they just look like that. And then there’s Atavia with full fucking Smokey eyeshadow, probably fills in her brows, wouldn’t be shocked if she wears some form of lip tint too.

Just imagining Astarion coming by her tent to feed and finding her without makeup for the first time because she had to wash off all the gore for the day and he goes “what the fuck” internally because she contours so she looks like a different person a little bit

Recently imagined what would happen if my BG3 player characters met each other. So have some goofy head canons!

I wish I could include Ta’mis my dragon born but like. I still don’t really have a solid grasp on them as a character. I’ve barely started act 1 with them so it’s gonna be a bit before I figure them out.

Aliah and Atavia would see Arista and her fucked up Durge Trauama™️ and be like “oh you poor thing” and just instantly pack bond. They’d both see someone who was trying to overcome their nature/past and do better despite not being sure if they even deserve a second chance and they’d be like “you’re doing great sweetie!”

They’d all do the “same hat” bit but with romancing Astarion. Just standing in a circle like the Spider-Man pointing meme and going “SAME BOYFRIEND!”

When Ali and Ari learned about the Tavi-Cule they’d be like “woah Atavia! How come the Player lets you have 3 boyfriends?!” Aliah would mostly just be surprised about Gale, and Arista would just be confused in general. Poor kid is so convinced she’s a monster that the idea of multiple people choosing to be with her seems impossible.

They woukd all Gush about their bears together. So much animal companion/familiar chatting. Giant bear cuddle pile. Just rangers being rangers

Aliah is the youngest and it quickly becomes clear they have a bit of a thing about being so young. They feel the need to be perfect and an over achiever. Arista would just kinda try and convince them to not try to single handedly fix the world, whereas Atavia would pull Aliah’s Astarion aside and be like “here’s a list of tactics you can use to trick them into taking breaks and not beating themselves up if they aren’t always perfect”

The three Astarions compare notes on their chaos rangers. Atavia’s Astarion is super grateful that he has Halsin and Gale to help him with Atavia. She is nowhere near as traumatized/damaged as the other two but is very hard headed. Aliah’s Astarion is a bit shocked that all three rangers pursued him first. It’s a bit of an ego boost. Arista’s Astarion is happy to see his Durge ranger making friends.

Atavia would absolutely adopt the other two into her “collection of strays.” She just wants to help everyone always. Basically creates her own version of The Guild but it’s all her various companions/people she befriended on her journey. She’s got the teiflings and the deep gnomes and the druids and the Harper’s and so on. What’s two more?

The Tripple A’s(that’s their group name I’ve decided) are just generally “gal pals” (gender neutral) and get along super well. They’re silly and friendly and love sharing stories. If they could meet up often they would. In general I think they’d all just support each other and do goofy ranger things together.

One of my fave ranger specific dialogue options in BG3 happens in the epilogue. If you didn’t romance Gale and he gives the crown to mystra(I fucking despise her but Gale deserves to be free of the orb) and he asks if you’d like to come give a guest lecture, you can say something to the effect of “I will teach these magic scholars how not to die of exposure or pissing off a moose, you wizards are really bad at basic survival skills” and like. I love that so much.

All of my poor long suffering rangers just look at this classroom full of essentially magical stem kids and they have a realization of like “oh they literally know nothing about wilderness survival. I can’t even teach them how to build emergency shelters yet because I need to first teach them how to be aware of their surroundings so they don’t die running over to look at a cool plant because they didn’t notice the fucking wolf right in front of them” and one guest lecture turns into them having to be a consultant for a “basic survival skills 101” course at black staff. Showing up between adventures to desperately beg the wizards to not touch strange and unfamiliar crystals/plants/rocks/balls of energy/etc and to actually properly investigate the thing and its surroundings to see if it’s a trap or if maybe there are like 20 skeletons around indicating it’s deadly.

Anyways what I’m trying to say is Atavia ends up becoming a full blown professor of please don’t die entirely by accident and is just constantly trying not to be visibly horrified by the questions her students ask.

We did it gang! Tavi officially beat the game! I think I may try to re do the final fight tho, it was all kinds of fucky and weird plus the patch dropped like. Just after I finished her playthrough lol. Tavi managed to fully dominate the brain(with the use of all her inspiration of course) and it felt so fuckin good. Anyways expect some cute epilogue screenshots of my beloved robin-hood girl boss murder queen ranger babe.

Some bonus little head canons below the cut 🖤

Karlach’s engine gives out before Astarion starts to burn. I refuse to believe Tavi doesn’t run after her beloved and set up an emergency shade shelter for him. She puts her ranger skills to use! She has her bears guard the entrance and stays inside with Astarion. Checks to see if the burns need treatment, and if they don’t just focused on trying to keep him from panicking. She blames herself because she should have prepared for this before hand.

Although she spends the night with Astarion, she gives him a moment alone to process his own feelings and takes the time to speak with Halsin. She’s mostly planning on telling Halsin that she still deeply loves him but she needs to stay with Astarion and try to find a cure/way for him to walk in the sun for now. Then Halsin is all like “I have so many orphaned kids to take care of and I need to go basically build a new community at moonrise” so it just kinda. Works out? Eventually she and Halsin head back to her room and explain everything to Astarion and are like “we’re not ending anything but we are acknowledging that things are gonna be weird and we’re going to be separate physically”

Atavia sleeps basically 24 hours straight after everything. I’m a firm believer in the “elves don’t need to sleep but they can if they’re super fucking exhausted or if they choose to” so I imagine she just. Conks out. Astarion is kinda stressed at first and panics and wakes her up. Once he realizes she’s just very tired he chills out. They end up properly “sleeping together” for the first time since they met. Astarion makes so many jokes about it.

Tavi talks to Gale about her and Astarion maybe staying with him in Waterdeep until they can get a lead on something to help Astarion and offers to help him search for the crown. Gale is like “of course you can stay, but I must find the crown on my own” and has Tara welcome them in and help them get settled. When Gale finds the crown and is freed of the orb he surprises the two by arriving and preparing a massive feast. Tavi is so happy for him she starts crying and kisses him and then the whole Tav-cule officially begins.

Atavia feels the need to fix all the problems/save all her fiends and so takes all the various infernal metals they collected(stole) on their journey to Damon so he can study them and work towards a solution. She eventually gets a way to get in contact with Wyll and Karlach so they know what progress is being made outside of the hells

Time for more BG3 Tav talk

Standard spoiler warnings apply, as this is more post game head canons for my girl Atavia and her collection of strays friends

Ok so notes for how some side quests resolved for Tavi. Biggest one is that I saved all the gondians! And I mean ALL of them! Even the ones in the basement of the forge who have a tendency to stand right next to the watchers right as they explode. Barcus is now head of the ironhands and they are working with the gondians. Saved Valeria and as many of the Bhaal targets as possible. Got rid of the abusive postal service kennel master. Saved the spawn and sent them to the under dark. Cal and Lia moved in with Rolan post Lorokan. Saved lady Janeth and her husband, also freed the zombies by killing the mummy lord whose name I’ve forgotten. Saved all possible hag victims(including the little girl) and killed ethyl. Saved the people at the fish market from the saughines(spelling?)

Basically. Just about everyone in the lower city either was saved/helped by Atavia or knows someone who was. So when she eventually turns back up in the city for whatever reason, she’s super confused as to why everything seems so cheap. Because the people of the gate know she values her privacy(she bribed just about everyone possible to ensure no statues/monuments/paintings/murals/etc went up that depicted her appearance until after she was dead) they all just treat her like any random traveler but secretly give her insane discounts. When she realizes what’s going on she starts leaving “gifts” and “tips” to counteract the discounts because she doesn’t need the money and doesn’t want it either. Astarion whines about it but also leaves tips and gifts of his own because he’s always been a softy at heart.

Whenever Tavi makes appearances as “the hero” she intentionally changes her appearance without casting disguise self. Learned how to make convincing fake scars and tattoos, she has a wig, she wears makeup, has a specific “hero wardrobe” of clothes she’d never wear that have padding to slightly change her silhouette, the whole nine yards. This is mostly so that any nobles/government people she meets won’t be able to identify her in plain clothes/her adventuring gear. If she used a spell it would be obvious, enough information about her appearance is common knowledge that she can’t disguise self as a different race, but she can altar things like her hair length/color or her number of scars etc. so she does. This also serves the double purpose of allowing her to take down/steal from corrupt nobles/officials without being implicated because the only nobles/officials who know what she really looks like are the Ravenguards, Florian, and a handful of Flaming Fists.

Animals. Tavi makes so many animal friends throughout the game, and I assume basically every where she goes she does the same. Tara is one of the only creatures that doesn’t instantly bond with Tavi. Tressyms aren’t exactly standard animals tho so it’s not entirely surprising. Tavi and Shadowheart swap animal stories every time they get together. I also choose to believe that scratch went to live with Shadowheart post game because they should live together.

The Harpers often get “anonymous tips” about various goings on from Tavi. She doesn’t ever officially join their ranks but she knows how to spot them and also knows that they’ll back her up in a fight if she needs them to. Jaheira teases her about it constantly.

Ok so time for more Atavia posting because I love her

So Atavia is a relative young elf. I imagine she’s somewhere in the early 100s, no older than 150 by the start of the game. I think she doesn’t 100% know how old she is because 1) orphan who grew up on the streets and 2) after growing up physically went off to the woods with minimal contact with people for an unknown period of time. But that means she’s got A LOT of time ahead of her. And she’s married to Gale. Who is human.

Anyways discussion of major character death below. Also vague/surface level discussion of grieving

Just sitting and thinking about this, how her and Astarion and Halsin all barely age in the time it takes for Gale to grow old and die. How would she process that? Obviously she’d grieve, and I know she wouldn’t resort to necromancy or anything, but would she try to extend his life or prevent his death while he was still alive? I think she would try to do something, mostly because she can’t imagine living without Gale after EVERYTHING they went through together. At some point he does die. Of old age I think. And I imagine Atavia commissions a memorial of him to be built in Waterdeep. She visits it constantly, usually in some form of disguise because she still values her privacy, and cares for the statue. She collects the offerings left for him and either burns them in a ceremony once a year on the anniversary of his death or(if the items can’t be burned/it’s gold) finds a place to donate them that would make Gale happy. Astarion only starts to visit the memorial/Gale’s grave about a decade after He’s gone because it’s too overwhelming.

I imagine at some point before Gale died they found a way to cure Astarion of his vampirism, so he’s mortal. Knowing that at least he won’t remain forever young while all his lovers age and die because of Gale helps him come to term with the comparatively short time he had with his beloved wizard.

Eventually a while after Gale is gone, Tavi and Astarion move to moonrise to be with Halsin, and they create a shrine/memorial for all their companions that eventually becomes a bit of a tourist destination. They still make time to visit waterdeep and Gale’s grave/memorial every year.

Atavia is insistent that any statues of her that are made before she is gone must be simple and not accurately represent her appearance. Only after she dies are statues of her true likeness allowed to be displayed. Within days of her passing a statue of her is added to Gale’s memorial in waterdeep. It turns out Gale knew she would likely commission something like that for him when he passed, so he managed to set up a deal where whoever sculpted his memorial statue would be commissioned to make a matching one of Atavia(and Astarion) to be added to his memorial after they joined him in the afterlife.

I imagine the various children of the Tavi-Cule would continue visiting and tending to the memorials and graves.

Speaking of the afterlife, I like to imagine that withers sets up a “reunion party” for all of the adventurers souls. Once everyone has passed they find themselves in a strange ethereal replica of the reunion camp. Withers says some fancy skeleton version of “before your souls reach their final resting places, have one last celebration. Learn what your friends did with their lives that you couldn’t be there for.” Atavia is so happy to see everyone together one last time that she fully breaks down and they end up having to have a giant cuddle pile for like an hour.

When everyone has had their chance to catch up and reminisce and everything, they all go their separate ways. Wherever Gale ends up, Atavia and Astarion follow him. Even if they aren’t going to be consciously aware or sentient or whatever, if Gale is going to a specific realm or afterlife Atavia and Astarion are going with him. So that even in death the three will always be together.

Centuries or possibly even millennia after they have all died, when the Heroes of Baldur’s Gate are remembered as legends and none alive know the sounds of their voices, a child takes shelter from a storm at a memorial for the group. They have heard tales of the magnificent heroes. Who fought a nether brain and won, who killed a vampire lord and freed his spawn, who found the cure for vampirism, who defeated the chosen of the Dead Three, who saved so many lives even when it put their own at risk. The child looks up at the towering statues which have survived surprisingly well, clearly aged and damaged but still lovingly tended to, and sees a large black shape perched atop the head of the elven ranger. The large raven takes off and swoops past the child before flying out of sight.

Alright gamers time for the Atavia End Game Screenshot Dump!

Tavi likes giving hugs. If she could hug all her companions at the party she would.

Also my god Astarion’s grinch face is so amazing. I love this grumpy little rogue so much. Gonna replay the ending as my Durge Arista so she can have some lovely cute time with him.

Welcome to my blog!

Here’s a proper intro post to 1) prove that I’m not a bot and 2) show off my ponysona because I adore them. Now for the basic info.

You can call me Ani! My pronouns are they/them/theirs.

I’m not a huge fan of terms like princess/queen/ma’am/sir/king being used to describe me but I’m chill with being called dude or bro. I’m an adult(won’t share exact age because privacy but as of posting it’s between 21-30years old) and I had tumblr for years before deleting it a while back. When I learned Tumblr Live was gone I decided to come back.

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Now obviously don’t feel like you have to, but unless you’re drawing them being murdered or something along those lines I will always be happy to receive surprise art of the various characters I make.

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This is Animal Instinct! They go by Ani for short. Their talent is animal care/zoo-keeping/animal education. Given that zoos aren’t really like. A thing??? In the pony world? I imagine them running essentially a reserve where they house and care for different animals. Kinda like Fluttershy but specifically to educate folks about the various animals in their care. Ani received their cutie mark while presenting a school project about the favorite animal, the painted wolf! Painted wolf is another name for the African painted dog btw.