Obsessively reading everything in game by and about Gortash and the dude is
On a philosophical trajectory that ends in immortality thru technology / the machine
Doesn't have an original bone in his body, but he can backwards engineer anything
Halfway to being a decent scientist but doesn't have the education and is deeply impatient
Overconfident in the veracity of his own results and conclusions
Accurately predicted that the brain would metamorphose and become more difficult to control and then did nothing about it
Outsources his propaganda / arts and humanities
Charming, but he got there in a Pavlovian way (learned from trial and error and probably doesn't consciously know how he does it)
Vindictive af (learned / reinforced)
Darwinian (in the worst way)
Sociopathic, obviously, but extremely Rationalist about it
Never asks questions he doesn't know the answer to and probably thinks this makes him sound more authoritative
Completely incompetent as a strategist (but doesn't know it)
Not nearly as narcissistic / full of himself as he pretends to be
Thinks what he wants is praise but it's never enough because it's not actually what he wants (he wants to be wanted)
Bane makes him feel wanted (conditionally)
Durge made him feel wanted (unconditionally)
Understands intellectually that Durge got ambushed, but he feels abandoned
See also: thematic parallels between Gortash and
Silouv Yali (the Adamantine Forge & the construct Grym)
Oliver (in the shadow-cursed lands)
Astarion and Gale, obviously
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Marauders and Reg group chat
Remus: who the fuck added me to the group chat?
Sirius: >:O language.
Regulus: yeah watch your fucking language.
Sirius: OKAY WHO TAUGHT REGGIE TO SAY THE FUCK WORD?!
Peter: ‘the fuck word’
James: You guys use the f word all the time??
Regulus: Merlin’s beard you don’t have to censor it.
Peter: say fuck James.
Regulus: Do it, James. Say fuck.
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if i ever get murdered PLEASE don’t tell people i “lit up the room”. promise me this. one it’s not true i have never lit up a room in my life and you know it, two it’s literally the most basic thing to say about someone who was murdered and if you really love me you’ll come up with something actually creative to say that honors me as an individual. just promise me ok
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also, okay, scar thought: so it's kind of funny that scar like, keeps on going "maybe THIS is the session i finally make friends again, maybe?" and then he gets hit with a task that makes him push everyone away EVEN HARDER. "i am trying so hard to stay hinged" says man who kind of doesn't actually want to be an unhinged loose canon but just. can't. help. it.
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