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#roscore #ros

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while i did a gifset to showcase an armour set, i was also intrigued by just how different the animation is for the wizard class vs gale's unique animation:

wizard class animation

gale's unique animation

it's amazing to see not only just how quickly gale performs the somatic component of the spell, but also his efficiency of movement compared to the standard wizard animation.

there's a world of difference here, the difference between a wizard vs a prodigy, an archwizard and chosen.

#habdkfjasdfk;ajsdf #Gale #prodigy fr we love him

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Hey Alexa play Danny Don't You Know by NSP

(Alexa has my Gale playlist on repeat....his eyes be poppin' and don't worry good boy Gale will make the occasional appearance yes he's wearing my Tavs earring don't @ me)

#sluuuuuuurp #Gale

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I'll take my Indiana Jones/Professor Gale over God!Gale any day thank you very much

#I'm so glad it's not just me #Gale

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My specific Wyll related pet peeve is that the camera settings for him are clearly prioritized to always show his horns so he has less natural framing than the other camp members and it steps on Theo's performance & the general animation. On top of that, those fully dark tiefling eye options are not animated with the same expression and range as more standard eye options. Wyll already has a sending stone eye. They could've made his eye red or glowing in a way that didn't limit expression entirely from his eyes. Karlach and Astarion both get that range. Karlach isn't limited to "look, the monstrous detail" shots when you engage with her and she has horns! Aah!

I think Wyll could use two additional cut scene moments in general & think they really dropped the ball on giving Duke Ravengard any consequence for being a shitty father (& really fail to frame that conditional love from a parent to a teen is inexcusable) but I do think a lot of what feels missing for Wyll really comes down to the above choices. They put so many obstacles around connecting to/humanizing him.

#wyll

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@theletteraesc replying to this post about Wyll

I appreciate when a game makes me make a hard choice/gives me no good choice to drive home its themes. I wish anything around Duke Ravengard felt like that.

Having Florrick meet you at camp one time, seeing Karlach talk with Wyll about looking like what some consider a beast, things like this would've added a complexity to both Wyll's daddy issues and beauty/beast complex perfectly in the lead up to making a decision about freeing Wyll vs saving his father.

Even if we never got that, I wish Wyll ever hit a breaking point. We see Shadowheart try to be perfect for Shar at the cost of her humanity. We see Lae'zel frame herself as the potential for violence instead of a person. We see Gale grapple with what is or isn't ambition or fear or love or a calling. We NEVER see Wyll confront what his father is or isn't. We never see him question on his own terms what the Blade of Frontiers is or isn't.

And I think that, sadly, in a game with such incredible nuance and narrative consistency with trauma it falls into the horrible trap of thinking parental abuse/neglect is somehow different than it coming from a stranger. The narrative leaves the tapestry of that relationship private, just as our social norms encourage abused kids to keep family issues private.

I acknowledge that Wyll's story suffered from being recast and rewritten but even in that there's a clear refusal to consider that Ulder Ravengard did significant harm and so no exploration of where it is or isn't justified, where it is or isn't a tragedy.

#you're so right for this #Wyll #Ulder it's on sight I'm sorry

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Playing around with a child design for Ros. You can probably see the Samantha Parkington influence lol but it doesn't quite fit into the aesthetics of BG3 costuming, so it'll probably take another pass

#Ros #my art

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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

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pspspspsspspspspspps LGBTs come get y'all lesbians

#art #Isobel #Aylin

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@hrgnm "I love she her list of things to do after two hundred years was 'kill that dude' and 'my girlfriend'"

#aylin #art

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#Ros

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#Steph oh my god look

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bg3 companions + text posts (but just gale this time) 2/x

1/x

#Gale

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Victor Nizovtsev

#ros

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Been workin' on an Astarion cosplay and testing out some hair and makeup details, and this is the latest round! Still some bits to hammer out but we're gettin' there!

#s tier cosplay as usual #astarion

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Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"

#Ros

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Treating myself with a little Gale doodle.. I'll get back to work now :D

#this man and his nose boops #art #Gale #love how you captured his sass