I've seen a lot of people talk about how the game doesn't give you any leeway when you play The Dark Urge, how it makes it very clear that Durge was A Bad Person, but I haven't seen it pointed out that Sceleritas seems VERY well versed in gaslighting the hell out of them and steering Durge away from any doubt or guilt in regards to their actions. Makes me think that they've probably had those types of conversations before because Durge actually always had a soft spot, only it got smaller and smaller in time. I have not had the opportunity to see the Heal cutscene yet, but I've got the butler in my camp now and he had some interesting things to say, like
[Durge: Can you tell me the worst thing I ever did?
Sceleritas Fel: There was one time you gave a beggar some coin while we were en route to the Devil's Fee.
Sceleritas Fel: You didn't kick him or spot on him or anything! I was so shocked I almost fainted!
Sceleritas Fel: I still have nightmares about it to this day. But I'm sure you only did so to lower the suspicions of the Flaming Fist. Surely?]
and it struck me because tossing a coin to a beggar is a bit of a thoughtless act isn't it? You don't put much thought into it, you just see someone in need and you do it. Out of empathy, generosity, something The Murder Incarnate should not be capable of. Sceleritas' uncertainty of Durge's reasoning for it totally convinces me it was NOT intentional. A simple act of kindness that slipped out.
ALSO
[Sceleritas Fel: The only way for a Butler to die is if we are not of use to our Master. But you have always needed abundant assistance.]
They always needed abundant assistance. Why? Because they kept slipping out of Bhaal's grasp? We know they did at least once, with Gortash. Maybe it was not the first time, maybe there are more "Letters of Forgiveness" tucked away somewhere.
To me pre-tadpole Durge is just terribly mindbroken and indoctrinated person hooked onto the sense of safety, purpose and acceptance of their dark side that the cultists and their father give them. Yeah they enjoy murder, gore and all that. That's the curse of their blood, but I don't think they were ever entirely consumed by it. Morality, guilt and empathy have always been there on the edge of their mind. Losing their memories (depending on player choices I know, but bear with me) was what they needed for them to be finally brought forward.
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My BG3 durge ✨ is it a little basic to have made him a drow? Perhaps. But I don’t care, I love my little murder guy
I wanna actually make a whole painting of him, not just a headshot. This was a warm up 💕
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Thinking about Astarion's romance with each kind of run and it's like:
GoodTav: I can fix him
EvilTav: I can make him worse
GoodDurge: we can fix each other
EvilDurge: we will make each other and everything around us worse
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durge origin story conclusion (?) has me so wired i could run laps around the neighborhood
(new york voice) GERALT OF RIVIA??!?!??!?!?!? WAS MY SHITTY DAD???!??!?!?!?
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Durge and his sister !! DJDJDH the babies I love them sm!!
His adopted sister and mama were elves and raised him
Until the incident happened😨
But look at him!! Isn’t he a cutie?^^
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A Tale of Two BG 3 Astarionmance Protags
Nyreen - Bard, Chaotic Good
Sweetly offers Astarion a shoulder to lean on. Plays him silly ditties and makes up terrible rhymes about his anatomy under the stars. Annoys him whenever he becomes too depressed or maudlin.
Keres - Assassin/Warlock, The Dark Urge
Flailing mess, trying desperately to be clever, totally unable to sleep, clinging to the one person not completely (openly) turned off by her desire to devour human flesh, suggested history of necrophilia, and compulsive need to collect all the cheese wheels. Wildly slurping blood (hers? his?) off his fingers as he bites her neck every single night.
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The Dark Urge is my little meow meow that takes intrusive thoughts to the natural extreme and I love them and relate to them so much for it. Yes king fantasize about brutally murdering everyone around you then outwardly do the opposite and help the very people you wanna murder. Yes go off king about fearing your own knife hand moving on its own, me too frfr.
Dark Urge has OCD and PTSD and hella trust and abandonment issues, (my Durge has BPD because I have BPD and it gives me WILD thoughts sometimes) their intrusive thoughts have teeth and when those thoughts win there are grave consequences, they can choose to embrace the bloodlust or recoil with revulsion and fight against it with every muscle in their body. I am kissing them on the forehead as they tear out my insides, my extremely traumatized murder child.
They absolutely have PTSD from things They did in the past, due to the warring thoughts in their mind, the grain of morality reviling the bloodshed while the rest of their mind relished in it.
To be a bloodthirsty, apathetic, sadistic killing machine and then actively choose with every breath to choose kindness and gentleness and resist the Urge. The amount of violence it took for them to become this gentle.
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