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it genuinely upsets me when I think about how the Dark Urge can choose to defy their father, sacrifice their life for the safety of their friends and lover, rejecting who and what they are, and accept that maybe the world is better off without them and they'd rather die a hero than continue to live as a villain...
only for your companions, who have been with you this entire time, encouraging you not to kill people... to basically have no reaction at all.
which is why I regularly fantasize about how Gortash would fucking never.
If he was there, he would've been so fucking proud.
You never needed Bhaal to be powerful. You don't have to be his Chosen to be my equal.
I am honored to remain by your side, as your ally, and I admire you even more now. My fearless friend.
You bow to no one. Not to me, and not even to gods.
The Dark Urge and Gortash kill their first victim together and the Dark Urge is blushing and bashful and smiling awkwardly as they try to process their first crush and they blurt out, "That was fun. We should do this again."
and Gortash hasn't had so much fun with someone in a long time, maybe ever, and he then clumsily replies, "Yeah, I'll definitely find someone. I'll call you."
And then they both turn away from each other, mortified.
Lets talk about Stillmaker, Durge’s other canon blade
Okay, so we already know that Durge had the Bloodthirst dagger which was created from Bhaal’s own blood and carried by his chosen.
But there is another dagger in the game you can find that also canonically belonged to Durge, Stillmaker.
We see Stillmaker portrayed in Dark Urge’s official artwork, and it’s also Durge’s blade in Idle Champions, as you can see.
I’ve noticed that Stillmaker matches Bloodthirst in design, but it is conspicuously green, as opposed to every other Bhaalian weapon I’ve seen which are red.
You know who else’s canon weapon has the same green coloring? Gortash. And who is the color green associated with? Bane. Stillmaker looks like it was made in the same design to Gortash’s crossbow.
I posit then, that being close to one another as they were, Gortash either made or commissioned Stillmaker to match with Bloodthirst and gifted it to Durge. It’s far more his style in looks, and I feel it’s something he would have done as he describes Durge as his nearest and dearest, and we know they worked very closely together and admired one another.
It truly makes my Durgetash heart flutter!
EDIT: Here is a close up of the weapons together in game!
EDIT #2: We were discussing on discord yesterday, Orin would have of course kept the Bloodthirst blade after dispatching Durge because it’s made of Bhaal’s blood and carried by his Chosen, but she would not have wanted some sugary gift from her sibling’s Ex and probably tossed it away and Dolor ended up with it, and that’s how it ended up in his stash.
EDIT #3: @arikandkade made an EXCELLENT addition to this theory and I’m adding it because it’s just such great information, thank you so much for this info!
I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground