#Minthara appreciates the mind of the author

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Answer to twitter`s "if your tav/durge had to draw their party members, how would they draw them ?"

#they make memes with Shadowheart together #Astarion doesn't quite like how Crel`iir portrays him #so he doesnt look #Jaheira once riffled through it and said “Very pretty.” 🧝🏼 #Minthara appreciates the mind of the author #but is not interested into art itself. #Lae`zel though...she sometimes “steals” the sketchbook when no one looks and sits with it for hours #but she would tell you that pffff #Oh and Gale... Its not like he's banned #but to his disappointment he finds portraits of himself only every 10 or so pages #so when he noticed Cre`liir sketching always shouts “DRAW ME THIS TIME” #And always has LOOOONG story connected to something in there #bg3 #bg3 tav #bg3 durge #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate #nukbody sketch dump

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BG3 Fic Rec: A Halsin & Minthara Character Study

For anyone who might be interested in an exceedingly thoughtful work that explores both Minthara and Halsin as the complex and wonderful characters they are, and how they might slowly, begrudgingly come to an understanding with one another, I cannot recommended @tavtime's Something Wicked This Way Comes highly enough.

The prose is beautiful and artful both, with some of the lines still stuck in my mind weeks on. The story is written entirely in Halsin's perspective, and, in my opinion, the author has captured the essence of him in a truly masterful way. His level of consideration, his thoughtfulness, the way he thinks through his actions and his intentions over leaping to a response. The rhythm of him is just perfect.

Minthara too is treated with all due complexity, as well as a surfeit of care and consideration for the things that drive her, how she connects to others, and what her story might look like as she progresses throughout canon and beyond. This work was a big part of what really made me appreciate these two as characters together, rather than as fundamentally opposed beings who might never find a common ground between them.

Summary:

There was a particular turn of phrase that came to him, considering her. He would wake with it on the tip of his tongue, although he dared not utter it in her presence. To speak it aloud would have been to acknowledge the silence between them, and what had beget it. But he thought it. Alone in the night with the hum of her, her cyclone-eye stilled fury and the ring of her blade in the dark, he thought it: Bad blood. ------ Halsin doesn't like Minthara. But he thinks maybe he understands her, which is arguably worse. (Character study for Halsin & Minthara's odd, combative relationship and the ways in which they are far more alike than different. To the constant annoyance of them both.)

#voidling speaks #bg3 #bg3 fic #fic rec #bg3 fic recs #halsin #bg3 halsin #minthara #bg3 minthara #image from @unreadpoppy - tysm!