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[kidheart]

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Welcome to the Baldur's Gate 3 Summer Creativity Event.

The idea is to bring the community together to create works around a summer theme!

FAQ: How does it work? Create a work (art, writing, embroidery, song, anything) based on Baldur's Gate 3 with a summer theme. This blog will share them through the summer. (June through August)

Do I have to follow certain prompts: A list of prompts is below, but fitting in one of them isn't required, as long your work is appropriately summer themes.

How will you share the works? Either @ the blog or submit your post! There will also be an AO3 collection (coming soon). Please don't just tag with a hash tag because that will be very hard to share.

Are there any ratings guide lines? Nope! Just tag appropriately please!

Who can participate? Anyone 18+ since there is not interest in policing who submits what content.

Who's running this thing? Just me, @tragedybunny

Anything else? Please share so lots of people can participate.

AO3 Collection coming soon!

Prompt list:

Ocean / waves 

Sun / Sunburn

Heat / Humidity

Beach / Sand / Sandcastles /Sea glass

Ice cream

Sunsets

Calimshan and Amn

The Sea of Fallen Stars (pirate region on forgotten realms)

Festival / County Fair

Summer flowers / night blooming flowers 

Beach Party

BBQ

Travel

Bonfire / campfire stories

Swimming/ water / first time swimming in the ocean

Fireflies

Summer storms

Fruits / summer harvest / summer refreshments

Mosquitoes

Boats / sailing

Surfing 

Snorkeling / Scuba diving

Camping (for fun this time)

Summer Love

Dividers by @ / saradika-graphics

[kidheart]

My two tavs exploring one another, as well as their own selves in a way. If they might due at any moment, then let the moments they have together count. Let them be vulnerable, comfortable, and intimate with the one they trust most in all the realms. Let them be together while they can.

#duke l'orange #duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #bg3 fanart #tav baldur's gate #tav x tav #dnd rogue #spicy #intimate #bg3 #baldurs gate fanart #tieflng #tav

[kidheart]

My two tavs, Duke and Heart, finding a chance to be intimate. Seeing her in a dress under the glow of candle light...No....dress or no, this is the woman that has had his back since day one. Her magic sparking to life from his encouraging words and comforting confidence. Her tail looping around his wrist in a playful manner, drawing him nearer as she caresses his cheek. His lips brush against the warmth of her knee, and he gazes up to meet eyes of sapphire. As well as catching sight of her blushing face. He gives a warm chuckle, before creeping closer to her, and ghosting her rose tinted cheek with his lips, until he finds hers. Before he takes her in his arms, embracing the sapphire scaled dragon, as she embraces the thief she's grown to love so very much.

#duke l'orange #duke and heart #dungeons and dragons #otp #imagine your otp #tav x tav #tav #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 tav #bg3 #bg3 fanart #baldurs gate fanart #tav baldur's gate #dnd rogue #intimate #spicy

[kidheart]

In my Saturday in person dnd game I am apparently playing Astarion's and Rose's (my tiefling tav) daughter, Star. She is a dhampir rogue, Blood Thief subclass (written by Pointy Hat). She has the noble background her father would want for her to have. She carries a moon touched rapier, and has taken to her father's roguish lifestyle.

#baldurs gate fanart #astarion x tav #tav x astarion #bg3 astarion #tiefling #dnd rogue #blood thief #bg3 fanart

[kidheart]

What catches the eye faster than even a pretty dress worn to impress? What reaches the thief's heart deeper than any curse, or even the tadpole burrowing into his own mind? What speaks volumes louder than any spoken spell?

A shy smile with eyes of sapphire offering clarity that not found anywhere else in this insane adventure. Companionship that chases away the sense of dread threatening to drown them both. A lap to rest his weary head as he holds her without even a word uttered from their lips.

Heart has cheered and sung of his bravery, where others scoffed or mocked it. When trouble finds him, she is at his side with the pace of a bolt of lightning. With that same energy charged right in her hands to unleash upon anyone that would do him harm. Likewise, he knows, despite his desire to avoid bloodshed. If one were to try and steal her away from his side, his blade would sing through shadows to defend her. To keep her beside him, and out of the claws of those that tried to break her. To keep her trust in him, and her compassion, intact.

Likewise, she knows, despite her desire for freedom. Heart would risk it all to protect the man he is. Kind to those who've never known it, or hardly seen it. As he reminds her everyday she is more than her magic, but shines with it as well. A magic deeper than any she can cast. The magic of her trust in a thief.

The thief that now holds her, caresses her skin and scales without fear. The dragon whose hands brush through his hair to ease his troubles from his mind. Even lulling the parasite in its attempt to steal away his thoughts. Her tail loops around his wrist, holding him as much as he holds her.

Loving one another beyond any words ever spoken, and showing that in every way possible.

#duke and heart #duke l'orange #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #bg3 fanart #bg3 tav #tav x tav #dnd rogue #tav baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate fanart

[kidheart]

One of my favorite bg3 moments in the game. I love how Duke is watching the beautiful sight before him, meanwhile my other tav, Heart, is watching him quite contently. I play them as a couple whether the game registers it or not. Little moments like this help though.

#duke l'orange #duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #tav #tav x tav

[kidheart]

Girls day with my tav, Heart, Karlach, and Astarion. Heart is super self conscious and wanting to impress Duke, my other tav, and needs some encouragement. She's so used to battle and fighting, that it's hard for her to relax, let alone know how to dress up. So Karlach braids her hair while Astarion helps her to pick out some clothes that are sure to catch the eye of their party's rogue.

#duke and heart #imagine your otp #dungeons and dragons #bg3 fanart #tav baldur's gate #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 astarion #bg3 karlach #tav x tav #dnd party #dnd character #dnd art

[kidheart]

The usual suspects from my BG3 party. All of them looking at their captors with mayhem in their eyes. Duke just has a smirk that says, "Ya messed up the moment ya locked this collar around my neck."

Because he senses the ozone in the air as Heart gets ready to let electricity fly. Not to mention Astarion granting Bardic Inspiration on Karlach, who is breaking her chains that very moment. Duke comfortably sitting their with allies around him, boosting his sneak attack when he goes to strike. Once he's done picking the lock he's already working on.

#duke l'orange #duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #tav baldur's gate #tav x tav #dnd rogue #bg3 fanart #bg3 astarion #bg3 #bg3 tav #bg3 karlach #baldur's gate 3

[kidheart]

My usual two from the ravenloft story. Duke holds his wife so carefully as they sleep, both of them embracing the two babes she carries within her. While Duke’s father, Trent, and brother, Mister Bump the bug bear, watch over the parents to be.

#duke l'orange #duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #ravenloft #dnd rogue #dnd cleric #bugbear #fic life #pregnant

[kidheart]

I couldn’t resist.

#dungeons and dragons #owlbear #owlbear cub #bg3 fanart #bg3 owlbear #buldars gate 3

[kidheart]

Been sketching my two from the Ravenloft story. Various moments from throughout the chapters.

#duke l'orange #duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #ravenloft #dnd rogue #dnd cleric #curse of strahd

[kidheart]

More BG3 sketches.

First being an intimate moment shared between my two tavs. With Duke having saved Heart from slavers trying to grab her off the road in hopes of selling the magic user. It meant a few more scars, but given that smile he earned from her, I'd say perhaps a few more marks are worth the cost?

The group shot was way too much fun to draw! My usual suspects are about to wreak havoc! Duke’s picking the lock to his shackles as they set their sights on their captors.

#duke l'orange #duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #tav baldur's gate #tav x tav #bg3 astarion #bg3 karlach #astarion #karlach #bg3 fanart #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 #bg3 tav #dnd rogue

[kidheart]

This was too amusing to draw. Poor Astarion dealing with my two tavs, Duke and Heart.

#duke l'orange #duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #astarion #bg3 fanart #tav x tav #bg3 astarion #bg3 #bg3 tav

[kidheart]

My go-to party in BG3. Duke (Rogue Thief), Heart (Dragon Sorcerer), Astarion (Bard of Swords), Karlach (Barbarian), and Minsc and Boo (Ranger) as my alternate.

#duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 astarion #bg3 karlach #bg3 minsc #minsc and boo #tav x tav #bg3 fanart #bg3 tav #bg3 #dnd rogue #dnd sorcerer #dnd party #bg3 spoilers #bg3 fanfiction

[kidheart]

My baldur's gate 3 crew all together around the campfire. I'm really happy with how this drawing of everyone came out.

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[kidheart]

I've decided with my second run of Baldur's Gate 3 that I am using the two tav trick. Though I know they can't in-game react romantically, it doesn't stop me from interpreting and writing a building romance between them. So I'm experimenting with a journal shared between them.

BG3 Journal Entry 7

~ Duke 

As sleep found us we would be visited once again by our self proclaimed guardians. Mine wondered why I hadn't had the parasite removed yet, to which I explained I hadn't found someone to cure us yet. I was immediately warned that until the magic of our unique tadpoles was removed, trying to extract it would kill us outright. Then she urged me to find the heart of the cult to rid Fae'run of it, and then we would be free. When asked why she would help us like this, she told me how much we were alike. How we were both infected, both adventurers, and both seeking our freedom. When I offered to find and help her, she insisted that it was far too dangerous, and shortly after had to leave in order to keep protecting us. 

A slobbery kiss from Scratch was my wake up call, as he lapped his wet tongue right over my face. Coughing out the drool as I rolled onto my side, I looked up at the four legged creature that attempted another lick while I pushed him off, all while laughing, “Alright, I'm up, I'm up!” 

Yet as I went to push myself up, I looked over diagonal from the head of my bedding to see Heart sound asleep still. So far in our adventure she'd been up before me, I vaguely realized. Though now, as I watched her quietly for a moment or so, I noticed her furrowed brow. Even in her sleep, she couldn't seem to find any sort of peace. She was curled up, as though hiding, with her head tucked down. 

I didn't want to wake her, but I also didn't want to leave her like that. This brought me to reach out to her and gently shake her shoulder, “Heart, ya alright?” 

Immediately she jolted awake, grabbing hold of my wrist out of defensive instinct. Luckily she saw it was me just before she breathed the cantrip now swallowed back down her throat. In its place she gasped, “Duke?!”

“Hey,” I greeted quietly, noting her panicked blue eyes, “It's alright, Heart. You're safe.”

She pushed herself up a bit, realizing, “I almost shocked you!”

“Ya didn't though,” I pointed out with a smirk on my face, “As fun as that might’ve

been.”

She sat up now, as Scratch now greeted her with the same morning greeting he'd given me. A bit of a giggle bubbled out from her throat as she tried in vain to push the affectionate canine off of her, “Scratch! I'm awake! Good morning to you too!”

I couldn’t help but smile as I asked, “Was that a laugh I heard?” 

She sighed, after finally getting Scratch to go play, “It happens on occasion….though it has been a long while. Being around you and the others has helped.”

Speaking of whom, they too began to stir as the sun rose. Once they did, they would quickly alert me to our shared dream experience. Including Heart, though her troubled thoughts chased away any trace of laughter that may have lingered in her. 

“I'm still not sure I trust this,” she voiced her caution, despite the eagerness of Astarion and Gale, and thus earning their agitation for the moment.

Before she handed over the collected jars she'd gathered over to the rather pale elf. Though she did this with an air of caution still breathed out, “Just be careful, alright?”

He raised a brow at her, before shrugging and saying, “Of course. Though waste not, want not after all.”

“We should be getting back to deal with the other Goblin leaders, before the Grove is put in any more danger,” I mentioned while getting my gear together. 

“I'm ready to go!” Karlach assured while resting her new hammer against her shoulder. 

“If you insist we play the hero,” Astarion teased.

“We'll follow your lead,” Heart assured, with her hand clasped over the locket I'd gifted her. 

“Are ya sure you're alright to press on?” I inquired.

I hadn't meant to spark any sort of panic in her eyes by asking this. Nonetheless, I had, as she insisted, “I'm fine. I want to see this through.” 

“I just didn't want to push ya, especially after yesterday,” I mentioned.

“I'll be alright,” she assures me.

Why was I suddenly so worried about her? So much so that I nearly requested that she stay behind at camp. Yet the words managed to stick to my throat long enough that I could swallow them back down. It was as though I knew asking this would have only hurt her, and so I refrained. Instead I gave a smile, encouraging her as I said, “Let's get goin’ then.” 

~ Heart 

As we headed back through the waypoint back to the temple entrance down in the underdark, Astarion would give pause as he caught our attention. Unease touched eyes of crimson as he searched for the right words to confess, “I'm afraid I haven't been very honest with all of you….but seeing how far we've come, I feel…like I can trust you now?”

“With what?” I inquired, concern in my own expression, “Are you alright.”

“Go ahead,” Duke prompted, encouraging the pale skinned elf. 

“Well, you see, I am actually a vampire spawn…”

“How can that be?” Duke inquired, puzzled by certain traits of note, such as, “You're able to walk in the sun?”

“It seems these worms in our brains have some impressive gifts, such as allowing me to walk in daylight again.”

He went ahead and regaled us with the tense recollection of his being turned, how he was enslaved, and then escaped via abduction. Then he assured me that he didn't feed off innocents, and usually kept to feeding off of animals such as bears. I immediately recalled the drained blood we'd found a couple nights prior. 

He then braced for us to turn away, with his trickling laughter falling nervously from his lips. That is until Duke answered, “I trust ya, Astarion. As long as ya stick to what you've told me, I won't judge ya for what was done to ya.”

“Likewise,” I assured, earning a brief look of shock from crimson eyes. 

He then cocked a smile, “Exactly, we're friends now after all!”

Before venturing back up to deal with the remaining two Goblin leaders, we took a quick look around the temple entrance. With Duke climbing up the front wall, I followed after him out of the strange growing instinct. We were both exploring the crumbled wall at this front corner, steadying our footing as well. When something lumbering towards the entrance suddenly caught our eye. My own grew wide as I recognized the minotaur about to reach the entrance! 

Just as it neared the gate, a surge of energy shot out from two enchanted spheres at either side of the center statue. The lightning quick beams flew right into the beast, engulfing it in flames with a thunderous quake traveling up to us.

“Get back!” Duke yelled out, holding his hand up towards me in warning. 

When I about lost my footing, he turned around swiftly, catching me by my shoulders to steady me. 

“Hang on!” He instructed as we braced ourselves through the lingering shaking of the ground.

I didn't even attempt a protest as I held onto him. Until at last the rocks and stone beneath us ceased in its rage, and the dust settled around our party. 

Once it was quiet, Duke looked at me, asking, “Are ya alright?”

“Yes, are you?” I asked, receiving a nod and a smile in reply. 

With the four of us we would then go on to make short work of the two Goblin leaders. A hobgoblin and a drow, who was especially itching for a fight. Duke would claim their armor to improve his own as his trophy of sorts. Then we proceeded to venture through the temple to free the captured Volo, as well as the druid we'd heard about. Halsin was impressed by our triumph, and offered to help us on our journey for a cure. He told us of Moonrise Towers, where the heart of the cult was rumored to be. According to him it was a cursed place, covered in shadows. Perhaps in our quest we will find a way to free this land as well?

Though for the time being we decided that clearing out the remaining goblins was what was needed to assure the safety of the refugees and the Grove. 

So we headed back out towards the entrance of the temple, only to be caught by guards we'd originally walked by on our way inside. Guards that caught us quite unawares as they began firing at us. We began to fight back, with arrows and spells alike. Blades were swung and attacks deflected, but they began to whittle us down. When suddenly, with the piercing of my cloth and flesh, everything went black as I collapsed to the floor gasping!

“Heart, hang on!” Duke tried to reach me in time, just as he was struck down beside me. 

~ Duke 

My strength was fading quickly, as was Astarion's behind me. Karlach was left standing, fighting back with a fury ignited within her. As I tried to hold on, I reached out to Heart. When suddenly I caught the light in her eyes growing dim, and quickly!

“Heart, no!” I couldn't reach her as I gasped in pain, I couldn’t pull her back from that cold darkness trying to steal her away. 

“I have to hold on….!” I growled at myself as I watched the light in her fade entirely.

If I could do that…then maybe I could keep her from slipping away! 

When Karlach came back, victory chiming in the hallway, to pick us back up, I scrambled to open my pack. 

“Don't go!” I pleaded, surprising myself as I felt my heart racing while I fumbled through my belongings, “Heart, please! Don't give up!”

My fingers grasped at the found scroll, its parchment glowing gold in my grip. I quickly leapt to my feet and unfurled the enchanted papyrus in my hands, focusing on the now motionless woman before me. Still, cold….No! 

The incantation flew from my lips, the magic from the scroll shot out to wrap around her form. Then I set my sights on a set spot nearby, commanding whatever I needed to in order to steal her back!

Immediately her voice called out as Heart's body took form within a burst of radiant light, “Please, I need healing!” 

It were as though she were still in the heat of battle, attempting to leap back in, despite stumbling to stand. 

Though only for as long as it took for me to rush over to her, taking her by the shoulders, “Heart!”

She attempted to conjure up words for a spell, before my voice reached her, “Heart, look at me! It's alright….” I brushed strands of vibrant rose shaded hair out of her blue eyes, “It's alright.”

“Duke?!” She gasped, as I then wrapped my arms around her as she began to realize what had just happened. As we both did. With her gasping while I held her, promising, “I've got ya, Heart! You're right here with us!” 

“I didn't know what was going to happen…with my soul….I…”

“I wasn't goin’ to leave ya to that,” I assured her, my voice soft, and yet firm at the same time to ease hers as it stammered. 

With a sigh escaping my lips, I couldn’t help but hug her tight another moment or so, “It's alright…..”

“I feel we're missing something here?” Karlach wondered aloud while watching us both.

“Yes, something about your soul?” Astarion prompted, raising a brow. 

“That's up to Heart to explain. We should finish our dealings with these goblins first, however,” I replied. 

“Fair enough,” Astarion shrugged.

“Just don't keep us in the dark, alright?” Karlach pushed just slightly.

“I…I won't,” Heart assured them.

With that we made quick work of the remaining goblins waiting outside. Though before we cleared out, Heart gave pause as something caught her eye. As I followed her gaze, I too would see the very same owlbear cub from the cave. Only now it shivered in our presence, after having been terrorized by its captors. 

“Did they….?!” Heart gasped in horror.

She then knelt down in front of it, being careful not to startle him. The tiefling woman offered a hand out to the cub, promising, “I won't hurt you.” 

It studied her hand, then watched us all closely still. Finally it darted away, leaving us to hope that it may find us again at camp. 

#duke and heart #imagine your otp #otp #dungeons and dragons #duke l'orange #tav baldur's gate #tav x tav #dnd rogue #bg3 fanart #bg3 fanfiction #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #bg3 tav

[kidheart]

I adore this moment so much. Such warm eyes, such a warm smile too. His hair looks so soft and feathery too.

#duke l'orange #dungeons and dragons #tav baldur's gate #tav bg3 #dnd rogue