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Desmond as a Mind Flayer
Submitted by @fanworldbuildingfun
few days I have been absolutely consumed by Baldur’s Gate. It has been a most excellent diversion. And thus, I come to you with an idea: after the Solar Flare, Desmond does perish in the Temple. Physically, that is. However, his mid endures – and not at all as The Reader
No, instead – Desmond comes to as a silent observer in the mind of the MC of Baldur’s Gate 3. An experience so similar to Animus that, at first, he thinks he IS stuck in an Animus. But the world, the beings in it – they fit nothing that Desmond has experienced before. And so, he tries to adapt. Trying to reach out to the person he is riding. Permitting what he perceives as a draw on his Eagle Vision (even if it comes across so odd now!). Pinging when he senses danger going on
And then, one day… He manages to actually interact with his host. In a dream. Now. To stop them from being so antagonistic to Desmond – neither of them, after all, had an option to get stuck as they are
In short: Desmond gets reborn as the Mind Flayer parasite in BG3 world. And does not realize it
Que Desmond being *the* Bleeding Effect here. And possibly working on having the other companions become potential carriers to his ancestors’ memories? But that only happens if his host opts to “connect” with the others often (which the game implies is Bad)
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Additions by teecup:
I haven’t bought Baldur’s Gate 3 yet so I am basing Desmond’s Mind Flayer capabilities on what’s wildly accepted in D&D.
First of all, we’ll make Desmond a rogue Mind Flayer that no Elder Brain can control at all. This would make him an enemy of the other Mind Flayers (although they wouldn’t necessarily attack Desmond or his host directly though) because he cannot be ‘put in his place’.
Of course, this would also mean that Desmond has no connection to the hivemind (either permanently or, if you’d like, we can make Desmond be able to access the hivemind later on but he’d mistake it for maybe the Bleeding Effects of ancestors he didn’t know about).
And Desmond always appears as Desmond Miles in the MC’s dreams. He’s just as baffled as the MC to why he can see thru their eyes and the MC might even believe that he’s a wizard or a sorcerer who had fallen into a spell of his own or some kind of magical artifact.
Desmond doesn’t believe that because he has all of Desmond Miles’ memories.
That’s when the MC would suggest “Perhaps you did come from another world and have been transformed?”
And that’s when the search for what Desmond is will begin.
Mind Flayer won’t be the first guess of the MC because Desmond doesn’t act like a usual Mind Flayer. He’s sincere and his words held no lies. Sure, he didn’t tell the MC everything about himself but that’s not surprising at all. Everyone has secrets and it was clear that Desmond’s secrets wasn’t his alone to share.
So they bonded in their dreams and Desmond starts to gain more control over the MC’s body. It’s like… the more they share what they were thinking, what’s on their mind, the more Desmond… feel more in control.
Desmond doesn’t think that’s a problem. In Desmond’s eyes, it was just similar to how more ‘invasive’ the Bleeding Effect was becoming (and that is how he and the MC had been calling it, the Bleeding Effect).
And neither of them realize that Desmond was doing what Mind Flayers were meant to do to their host from the very beginning.
The moment the MC starts to talk to Desmond about their thoughts and feelings…
Desmond had begun to eat their mind.
Unorganized Notes:
Desmond has no idea what he’s doing. He doesn’t even know what a Mind Flayer is.
I’m thinking we should make the MC magic-focused so that the actions Desmond could do while in control would synergies well enough that they won’t realize that Desmond’s affinity to magic is more on the side of the Mind Flayer’s Psionic Magic ability being on the forefront.
It’s probably going to be the Mind Flayers who would tell the MC and Desmond what Desmond truly is unless they find a character that can tell that the MC is already undergoing ceremorphosis.
You want other people to be the host of his ancestors? We can go for the D&D lore of Mind Flayers and make Desmond lay eggs which will hatch to tadpoles with memories of his ancestors.
Of course, this would mean the real reason why the Elder Brain wants him dead is because his ‘offsprings’ also do not adhere to the rest of the Mind Flayers and they do not need to stay with the Elder Brain to live and grow.
They can automatically be implanted into a host.
Which means… Desmond wasn’t just a Mind Flayer. He could potentially be a Mind Flayer with the power of an Elder Brain.
And… I just have to add this:
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every few years i redraw a picture of lana skye for @commanderfreddy who -- UNLIKE ME -- is very good at keeping records of things. and so when i sent over the new one, i was greeted with a progression of how ive been drawing this sawm picture for.....about seven years now? six? and it's interesting seeing my style change so dramatically!
i think it's fun seeing how much more loose and angular things get with time.
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First Albether week snippet!
The setting is my post-corruption AU, where Albedo "loses control" at around the time of the first Windblume Festival and ends up accompanying Aether across Teyvat afterward.
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Aether carefully sat on the edge of the bed and took Albedo’s hand. He turned it this way and that as he searched for any trace of the purple, web-like lines that had covered Albedo’s entire body just a few hours ago. Nothing.
Relief washed over him. For now, at least, Albedo was safe.
The relief was swiftly followed by exhaustion. He glanced down at the sheets, warm and soft and inviting. Whatever adeptal magic went into the bed’s creation apparently also kept it immaculately clean, with no trace of the dirt and blood that dirtied it earlier. It would be so easy to lean over, curl up beside the bed’s current occupant, and let sleep take over. The proximity might even help keep the corruption at bay.
It still probably wasn’t a good idea given Albedo’s other injuries.
The teapot spirit should have another bed prepared by morning, but for now, it was back to sleeping on the ground.
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SO I'M CAUGHT UP IN THE ARCHON QUEST
And I just named my version of the Wanderer yesterday and...
His name is now Susumu! A couple of things:
It sounds very similar to Sumeru, (Susumu = Sumeru) and also the country of origin of his Vision, and I wanted to pay homage to it.
It is of Japanese origins, which is where his country of origin is based on (Inazuma).
The meaning of his name fits who he is now and where his ambitions lie (advance, to make progress).
Here is the page that I found it on:
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