#HIS SOUL WAS ASCENDING

[eff-plays]

I do think that Evil Durge and Ascended Astarion is fucking hilarious though. Like yaas bitches, flush your character development down the toilet! Have insane power struggles! Make each other worse! Kill each other!

It's literally so funny.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #two things i will never play but like to think about/see others do cuz it's hilarious #two edgelords just trying to out-joker each other #ascended astarion: you will sit in my lap and be my little bitch #durge: actually i will flay you alive for my own amusement #BONUS POINTS if you decide to rule via tadpole and enslave ascended astarion #that is fucking BRILLIANT #uno reverse card his ass #all of that ... 7000 souls ... just to become brainwashed by a bhaalspawn #he really is a fucking girlfailure isn't he #i love it #ascended astarion is so good when he's either dead or being bullied by someone more powerful than him

[jcniper-backup]

One thing I think that's super interesting to explore is how Astarion would probably end up selling his soul to Mephistopheles anyway if he's unsupervised as the Vampire Ascendant in Canon. Or making some kind of deal. I could see Tav/Durge leaving him (or it's unromanced route) and he's super paranoid because now the person who spent all this time protecting him is no longer there and what do you mean everyone's treating him like a monster now? Why isn't everything better for him? Why is he hated and why do people want him dead?

Maybe he asks for more power or safety, or perhaps he does still feel emotions of some kind and wants them out of him so deals away the last good part of his soul. Either way, even if Larian is like oh its Canon he didn't sell his soul (wish they didn't do that yall should leave shit up to interpretation. Also bugs me because mechanics of the ritual not made clear but that's a different thought), I'm pretty sure he'd end up selling his soul post game at some point.

#shitposting astarion thoughts #this is my OPINION YOU DO NOT HAVE TO AGREE: I dont think its interesting to not have his soul sold #there needs to be some repercussion to Astarion himself for killing 7k people #just like theres repercussions for shads killing night song and becoming shars chosen #sorry i am thinking aboht this a lot as i try to plot my ascendant fic #fic tag: vicious #just to be clear not every post in this tag is an aspect of fic this is just thoughts

[spookieloop]

Torturing myself with thoughts of Durge potentially having a very unintended experience the first time she goes on that little weave date with Gale.

.

What if she intends to kiss him in the weave, but her fractured mind conjures up the image of Gortash instead after she pulls away.

It's who she really wants, she just doesn't remember.

Gale is none the wiser, until the weave slips away to reveal a panicked Durge...

Trying to explain what she saw?

Trying to brush it off?

Who is that man burned into what's left of her brain matter? Who was he to her that the weave would pull him forth when she made the decision to pursue Gale?

And laying eyes on him again for real, at Moonrise...

Maybe she finds the Prayer for Forgiveness, and her hands are shaking as she reads, knowing that she penned this.

To her father.

Her God.

To Bhaal.

Scelaritas's words suddenly make sense.

"He would forget his god for you, but you won't for him. Of that I know."

She did forget her god once, it seems.

For Gortash.

After that, she goes to Wyrm's Rock to meet him alone, because she has one burning, inescapable question.

"Who are you to me?"

#durgetash #GOREtash #The Dark Urge #DurgeGale #Good GOD I am in deep #My fully Evil Durge run is with Ascended Astarion - tragic romance #E!Durge realizing her lover no longer sees her as an equal...but GORTASH on the other hand... #E!Durge ascended Astarion because she gave zero shits about 7000 souls and felt that Astarion deserved to have that power #When he actually EXERTED that power over HER she was quite taken aback #Somewhere inside she remembered the height of her power and someone to share godhood with; she was blindsided by Astarion #But she made her bed. She still cared for him; so she chose to lie in that bed #But Gortash still had a hold over her now-undead heart #Astarion is callous about it when Gortash meets his unceremonious end by the Brain and E!Durge (Hiraeth) takes this personally #She reclaims her power by taking dominion for Bhaal; subjugating everyone - Astarion included - to bring about her father's dead world. #Because really; the only thing that ever held her back from fulfilling her purpose was her admiration for Gortash. #RESISTENT DURGE ON THE OTHER HAND is romancing Gale lol #AND THE WHOLE 'HE WOULD FORGET HIS GOD FOR YOU' LINE REALLY STRUCK A CHORD WITH THE PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS

[ruthlesslistener]

Found your Twitter/hollow knight art doing research for a thing and thought it was really good. I like your art, outlook, and creativity. Know you have a fan.

(P.S. any ideas on the "reproduction" of Unn and the Radiance?)

HA now THAT'S not how I expected that side of my art to be discovered! Hope you had fun though, because I certainly had a blast coming up with those designs. I really need to get back to drawing in general- maybe refreshing those old refs would be a good start. They could use a little sprucing up

Unn has the standard land slug reproductive anatomy (though I have thought of going with leopard slug weirdness), in that she can inseminate or be fertilized via penis fencing, and has those 'love darts' to shank other gods in order to get them to carry more of her eggs. Been a long while since she's used them, though, because she's very very old and no longer has any interest in reproduction, either sexually or asexually. She's phasing into that 'ancient god dying via slowly becoming one with their element and ceasing to be an entity as we know it' part of the Higher Being's life cycle that not many get to, and she's sticking with it rather than being busy sticking others

Radi, however, I see as sexless by choice, simply because she doesn't want any aspect of her creations to be ruled by other gods (and also because she just has no desire to try sexual reproduction). May Higher Beings stick with sexual reproduction post-ascension because even if their bodies are no longer tethered to the material plane, their new forms still tend to follow the same concepts as their old selves, so sexual reproduction still amounts to merging traits with another in order to create recombinant offspring- it's just that the genetic material is now made of Soul or Essence instead of nucleic acids (creating young by mingling two souls is also possible, but sex is fun so hey, why not?). Radi wants none of that- if she creates or reproduces, then she wants it to be 100% her creation, with no outsider influence. So she's essentially sexless. This works out well for her because her and Grimm were formed by abstract constructs manifesting into reality rather than a godling metamorphising into a Higher Being, so she has no memories of bodily urges to sway her, but even if she did, she'd get rid of them. She doesn't like the idea of bodily needs swaying what she consciously wants, which routine hormone cycles would do to her (which is one of the few traits she shares with the Pale King, not that either would ever admit to it)

#the difference is that pk was born a larval godling and grew up to metamorphise into an ascendant #so he already knows of the needs of the flesh and was dependent on their rituals- hence his new body mirroring it even though its soul #bookwyrmonastring #reply #hk headcanons

[syn0vial]

on a lighter note: if astarion ascends and makes you his spawn, but then you seize control of the netherbrain and become the absolute, who mind-controls whom? is there a psychic battle for dominance? are you both in a constant state of flux between master and thrall? do both your brains explode? much to consider.

#also: that would make one HELL of a bad-end!fic #like astarion ascends but then tav becomes the absolute #so he sacrifices 7007 lives along with his own soul to ascend and STILL ends up as someone else's thrall #the tragic potential there! #clenches fist!!! #astarion #baldur's gate 3

[impmansloot]

the more i learn about the ascension route the more i think what an absolute piece of shit a!astarion is like holy shit, just saw a clip of him trying to bite karlach to turn her into a spawn and failing miserably and pathetically cause dumbass just caught on fire as you'd expect--and he has the audacity to blame her for that and call her defective and broken. glad you can say "go fuck yourself, you absolute prick" to him but wish there was an option to kick him in the balls in this specific dialogue (too)

#and then people dare to say that ascended astarion is not that bad?? wake up!!! #the man lost his soul AND his brain #you see i love astarion but i will kick the ascended one with no hesitation #txttag #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #karlach

[lesfir]

Oh, how I love this

#astarion #ascended astarion #lord astarion #villain fuckers rise up #And these delulu-absurdities: lost himself- lost his soul Cazador 2.0 becomes Delulu-Absurd with a capital letter #Because then he's not himself the whole game - he's soulless the whole game and he's Cazador2 the whole game or half Cazador mini Cazador #No. That's the evil part of him. And evil is gorgeous #Evil Ending #Villain #bg3

[theperrylleluniverse]

Poor Hamilton...

+ Bonus: Live Della Reaction

#hamilton burger #perry mason #tcot wrongful writ #I dont know why Della is making such a bitchy face in the background LOL #you can literally see Hamilton's soul leaving his body in the second to last gif #like he fully has ascended to a new plane of having to put up with Perry's shit #also Perry's little smile in the second gif is so cute #hes like hehe hamilton what you miss me?? #then immediately does something incredibly annoying #iconic

[2hoothoots]

first of all i just rly wanted to say i LOVE ur psychonauts pride headcanons, especially the raz one!! i love that so many people in the fandom are like *points at raz* he has so much transgender and autism swag fr. second of all, as a followup, i was wondering if u had any like, supplemental little headcanons about it? (like i feel like the top surgery recovery for raz would be so boring for him since he'd have to sit still so much)

SO TRUE SO TRUE. his transmasc swag is off the charts

yeah he'd definitely find the recovery period very dull lol. i think he's a very restless patient when he gets laid up for anything, and in particular he'd find the restricted range of motion for the first few months really tough. lili has to keep spraying him with water any time he tries to lift his arms above his head

my fave hc is that whenever someone doesn't clock them as top scars and asks how he got them he just tells the most outrageous made-up stories

(transcript in alt)

#most of my headcanons aren't super interesting they're just me having fun writing a transmasc character lol #but i'm very happy to ramble about them anyway if people want to hear!! #he's on nebido just because it's more practical to have a longer spacing between the shots #he self-injects and he doesn't really like needles but he is SO brave about it. everybody clap for how brave he is #(as a quick programming note you should generally not self-inject nebido because it's kind of a tricky one to do but telekinesis helps) #he tries packing like. ONCE but it is NOT practical with his range of motion and it just ends up wedged halfway down his trouser leg #naturally he was in full-blown theatrics about that as well #'oh god somebody call an ambulance!! my dick just fell off!!!' #he's a silly guy :) #OH OH one time when he's like seventeen. truman sits him down and has a Very Serious Conversation About Your Relationship With My Daughter #and is like 'i know what kids your age get up to but i need to impress upon you the importance of taking the proper precautions.' #'uh. m-meaning?' #and truman gives him this dead serious stare and says '...contraceptives.' #raz dies. he dies. his soul leaves his body and ascends to a higher plane #future superstar agents au #follow for more niche trans humour #ask

[basurachan]

Lord, prepare me

For the shadows

For the sparrows

At my window

#pillar of truth by lucy dacus is now a takaeishi song #can't stop won't stop appropriating sad gay girl music for the birdmen agenda #one day i will make fanart for these 2 i swear #birdmen #takaeishi #takayama sou #karasuma eishi #i the anchor i'm slowly sinking into darkness yet unknown #but the fading light around me is full of faces who carry my name???? #oh i tried to be a second coming and if i was nobody knew #IF MY THROAT CAN'T SING THEN MY SOUL SCREAMS OUT TO YOU #honestly in my head this is takayama's pov on eishi #like sou is so isolated and is drifting further away ready to relinquish himself to his cosmic destiny #but eishi is the only one who tries to keep him #the only one with the guts to express how much he values takayama as a real person and as a friend #while takayama seems more likable and popular it's really eishi who overshadows him as a leader and strong voice #and takayama's always had full trust in eishi he'd be down for anything he'd decide like that's his pillar of truth fr #and now this song got me angsty thinking about the possibility of sou outliving eishi in his ascendence to the cosmic divine #kinda like twilight sparkle outliving the rest of the mane 6 after also becoming a god #birdmen is just like mlp: friendship is magic fr

[nogitsunbae]

Yeah yeah yeah the ascension is his bad ending but from a story telling standpoint it opens so much up. It’s like Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader. Give me Astarion getting so caught up in his fear he becomes the thing he feared the most and doesn’t realize it, he loses everything he was afraid of losing and doesn’t realize it, and then after when it’s too late he realizes that he doesn’t have anything left to fight for because he himself is even gone. He rules with an iron fist, bringing horror everywhere he steps foot, for decades, not caring about the people he hurts because they’re beneath him, until a group that he should remember but doesn’t quite shows up at his door, ready to fight and try to bring Astarion back by any means necessary.

#astarion #I like both endings tbh but lean more towards spawn #BUT ascended is fun and opens the door for some wonderful storytelling #and that’s what’s so great about this game #you can see the ending and decide for yourself where it goes from there #and since we don’t know much about ascension who’s to say there’s not a cure? #who’s to say we can’t give him his soul back AND let him keep the power to walk in the sun? #its up to you my dudes

[intrenalcrisisnerd]

Summoning Raziel

Valentine: oh great and powerful, please grant ....

*gets smited*

Simon: yo motherfucker! Heres how this is gonna work...

Raziel: him. Him I like

#simon lewis #valentine #valentine morgenstern #and then he ascended #the shadowhunter chronicles #city of glass #city of lost souls #raziel #you cant tell me im wrong #he has his favourites #and its simon #simon lovelace #tmi series #meanwhile #malec and izzy are just wondering how hes still alive

[beeapocalypse]

DOWNRIGHT APALLING. WHAT THE HELL

#funger screenshots #saw stretchy pocketcat while looking at assets and didnt know where it showed up. now i do i guess #the way pocketcat plays so strongly into daans fears and intrusive thoughts is AWFUL its such a horror fest having this genuinely-- #--disgusting creature asserting that he and daan are one in the same and his thoughts are both pocketcats own AND a thing he takes perverse #--joy in #it isnt that daan is somehow Meant to become pocketcat down to his very soul he is a malleable and moldable thing #WAITTTTTTT WAIT. PER'KELE SPEAKING OF THE TERMINA FESTIVALS AS THE MANIFESTATION OF RHERS JEALOUSY (KILLING HUMANITY IN RANDOM-- #--BURSTS OF VIOLENCE TO CUT OFF THEIR POTENTIAL OR SMTH. IDK) AND THE FACT THAT DAANS FATHER IN LAW AND FIANCE BOTH ARE NOW THINGS OF-- #--SULFUR. POCKETCAT TRYING TO GET U TO SELL HIM THE GIRL (CHILD WITH THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME AN ASCENDED GOD) ON RHERS ORDERS. IS HIS-- #--TARGETING OF DAAN A SIMILAR SORT OF TACTICAL THING???

[bellamontwasright]

Where other HoKs spend years mourning Martin's death and are driven to the isles in part because of their grief, Joanelle's reaction boils down to "Sad! Well, there are other guys."

#tes iv: oblivion #Martin septim #Hero of kvatch #She's so caught up in her own bullshit ala every billionaire on social media #Her genuine response to i love you is to ask who doesn't #She watched Martin ascend and thought him the best emperor by the brevity of his reign #Sheogorath threatened to wear her face and she told him to enjoy the grey march #the strange and terrible power of an irate Prince is nothing compared to the soul searing dread of total irrelevance

[biohazard-inevitable]

“I could fix him”

Well I could make him worse cause actually, hes got a point

#astarion #baldurs gate 3 #look all im saying is that he deserves it #yes im going to help him become vampire ascendant #no i dont care if thats considered his ‘bad’ end #just the same as shadowheart is a dark justiciar #death flows like water in our wake #blood spills with the ease of a pitcher #my soul is far past damned whats a few more steps #i dont care if this makes me evil #its worth it to see him happy #no spoilers please

[masterskywalkers]

Was going to write a whole meta post about how the new Ascended Astarion kiss scene is meant to make the player feel uncomfortable and reflect on the tragedy and the horror of him deciding to ascend and not glorify the choice --

-- but instead after seeing yesterday's video, I can't take it seriously because it's just too much. Too cheesy, makes me think of Fifty Shades.

#astarion ancunin #like by all means make a dominating and possessive kiss scene for the character who literally gives his soul away for power #but i think it would have worked better if it was just a 'i will grab you and force you to look at me' thing rather than the 'on your knees #like i can't remember which kiss scene it was that people were modding but the one where there are gifs of astarion moving tav's face almos #forcefully works a lot better to me? #idk. then again i've very much come to learn that my take on ascended astarion is more born from the classic gothic romanticism and #horror genre than what larian / most of the fanbase is going for. #i'm going to wait for the patch to actually drop but i *do* like that we get more variation in kisses via characters and personalities #misc: personal