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"They shouldn't make Durgetash canon, it should stay vague!"

Meanwhile what we know of Durge is:

- He's wearing matching clothes with Enver (OG Deafult Sorc Robes and Enver's fancy ass grab)

- Their weapons are matching (Stillmaker and Arbalist)

The only canonically written religious text to Bhaal is defining The Cult Leader's sin as "Cannot help but admire the chosen of your sworn foe Enver Gortash", sees the future "through Gortash's brilliant plan" (wasn't the entire "created by Bhaal" thing enough to see your future purpose, Urge?) and refers to the Dead Three's cooperation as "bosom friends", before proceeding to make excuses as to why Durge needs to delay their murder. For a very important reason of... we need to take over the world I will murder anyways first!

Orin keeps referring to their interactions with Enver is downright obscene and intended to shame you. (That's a sister slandering her siblings on-again-off-again ex if I saw one) Despite the fact that she doesn't want you to remember shit! She doesn't want you to know shit!

Please stop talking about sucking and knotting, Orin.

And that's all aside from The Archduke of Baldurs Gate running down the stairs like an excited teenager to keep talking how you're his Nearest and Dearest, Dear Prince, how Brilliant you are, while exhibiting the most severe case of Boba Eyes in game, that made his entire 20-mins of screen time in game to be rerecorded completely for that one instance.

Sure, we might have multiple checks assuring us he is not lying and he is a lawful evil guy but hey, maybe he's just too good for the game itself and actually love-bombs a potentially dangerous amnesiac into (checks notes)swearing "A divine Oath in spirit and flesh" for his own safety.

And people will still come out and call it vague?

The only vague thing about them is the timeline

#i keep saying it but i do love this idea of durge's first trespass against bhaal being his affection for gortash #not in a strictly forbidden love sense #but durge falling in love and suddenly learning there are things that make him feel as happy and sated as murder #to just enjoy gortash's smile more than committing murder for example #and that maybe hes more than just the urge #maybe #just maybe #he deserves to be a person beyond the urge #which obviously gives him a fully blown life crisis and tremendous amount of guilt #there's also something really touching about this idea that he was capable of love before getting tadpoled #the suggestion here being that he was capable of caring for someone more than for bhaal even as a chosen #... also not like they HAVE TO fuck or anything just the idea that they had some sort of feelings of love for each other that were so strong #so strong they became blasphemy #is really beautiful for me somehow idk breaks my heart in such a sweet way #durgetash

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Durge saves bladder & kidney stones from their vivisections so they can toss them at Gortash’s window like they’re some kind of pernicious homicidal Romeo.

#it's kind of cute #durgetash

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modern single mom lae'zel?

#laezel

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the act two romance scene with Lae'zel is actually so funny the more cringe of a character you are

because like she's nearly fucked you to death at least once at this point and could have gotten over whatever lust had she for you if it was just lust. like she even basically tells you this is a one time (and maybe two time) thing to sate both of your desires

and like there's not a hint of anything different for the longest time. she doesn't flirt with you. she doesn't hint at wanting to sleep with you again. she doesn't make any real comments about the fact that you have. you're just going about your tasks like whatever

and then she just wakes you up in middle of the night and tells you that she's been OBSESSING over you and she can't take it anymore. like there have been NO hints of this, but apparently she's more distracted by thinking about you than she has about the tadpole in her head, her people trying to kill her, and her entire worldview falling down on her. she's literally like "I can't stop obsessing over you. I need you to beat me up right now."

and like the specific phrasing she uses to describe her obsession is WILD

so just remember every failed roll and fuck up you did between fucking Lae'zel and this moment because the whole time Lae'zel is like seeing that and like OBSESSING over it all. like your ass gets knocked down in battle and your face hit the ground and she's just seeing that like "I wish that (the ground that your face hit) was me..."

#MY LOVELY WIFE EXPERIENCING THE FEELINGS THING FOR THE FIRST TIME #she's still my favourite romance in the game #absolutely #laezel

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//BG3 Spoilers

Hey so if you destroy the SteelWatch and have Karlach with you when you confront Gortash, he puts the blame almost entirely on her and tells Tav/Durge to call her off so they can still work together

(If you show up without her he just yells at you for breaking all of his things before saying he’s going to murder you)

And now I’m stuck here thinking about how 1. He is absolutely aware of how bad having an angry Karlach in the room is for him and is surprisingly willing to forgive Tav/Durge toppling his empire of murder robots to get her off of himself

And 2. Something about him actively making excuses for a Durge because of course I’m thinking about that

Edit: Just to be clear! You still can’t actually side with him- you can tell Karlach to relax, but she’ll initiate combat regardless of dialogue choices

#MAN IS SO HOPELESS GENUINELY #DELUSIONAL AT THAT POINT #that heartbreak was heard across town the shards falling all over the Gate #the absolutely messiest breakup they've ever seen in there since ansur and balduran #such a loser jesus #durgetash

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I said I was done talking about EA Wyll but I’m not.

I MISS THAT SILLY SCENE IN THE GOBLIN CAMP WHERE THE GOBLINS ARE TALKING SHIT ABOUT THE BLADE OF FRONTIERS AND WYLL SHOWS UP AND PLAYS ALONG.

The goblins don’t recognize Wyll as The Blade of Frontiers. Wyll makes a suggestion on how to kill The Blade. Wyll asks Tav to make a suggestion on how to kill The Blade.

Then goblins as are like “ohh, those are some great ideas!” Wyll just smiles at them and says, “hey, check out my eye.”

Then the goblins are like “oh…. fuck.”

AND THAT WAS SUCH A STAND OUT MOMENT TO ME. I loved it so much and I miss it!

THIS ONE COULD STILL WORK IN FULL RELEASE! GIVE IT BACK, LARIAN! 😭

#i am somehow convinced id enjoy wyll much more in ea #regrets regrets #wyll

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Gortash In Hell

Based on this post and my love of Karlach. The Hells are beautiful this time of year.🌻

#karlach baby #karlach #sweetheart #darling #gortash

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the problem isn't just that media literacy is slowly becoming a dying art. it's that people straight up do not pay attention when they watch tv/film anymore.

#film

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• FIVE OF PENTACLES •

"You should know that all parents sell their children," he smirked, leaning back. "In my case, it was just a more literal interpretation of the phrase..."

#oh my god #my poor child #gortash

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gortash: giggling and kicking his feet twirling his hair and writing ‘mr. lord enver durge’ in his diary with little hearts and flowers

the dark urge: down SO horrendous that he’s having a religious crisis of guilt that’s about to get him disinherited and lobotomized

#durgetash

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uhh that pingus meme or whatever

#durgetash #gortash

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he cries himself to sleep about this btw

#gortash

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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.

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!

#oh those old men are disgustingly in love #durgetash #durge

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I really needed to paint him in that outfit

“Judas”

#noo dont paint him hot when you paint him hot i cant pretend not to care about him #his right is to be ugly #but youve made him so pretty T.T #gortash

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"omg my favourite assassin i've missed yo--"

#gortash #durgetash

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My cat woke me up at 3am and I woke up with this scene in my head:

Gortash beaten, tied up, his netherstone taken. Redeemed Durge standing over him refusing to kill him. Durge vows to free him from Bane’s hold. Gortash scoffs at the idea. Impossible. Durge kneels down and looks the defeated tyrant in the eye. “I was formed from Bhaal’s flesh. His blood ran in my veins. His vile thoughts infected my mind. I was his bloodied blade all my life, but I denied him. Bhaal has no hold over me anymore. If I can deny the god who created me, you can be free of the god who would enslave you.”

#i am a little shaken i wont pretend im not #so #my guilty pleasure idea of durgetash is #that they tried to use absolute as a substitute for ascension to free themselves of their respective gods and become gods themselves #so this idea of durge still wanting to carry out a part of this plan #even after everything #is so sweet #like mad #but sweet #their love is pure even if their intentions are not #durgetash #durge #gortash

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I’ve decided i don’t care what people have to say about the stupid lore-ignoring takes people have in the bg3 fandom so i’ve deleted the post lol. Sorry fellas

#astarion #this was lovely really