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arctophyllax · 6 months

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*clears throat* why I think Larian should let us recruit Zevlor:

More people are desperate for Zevlor than I thought at first. We all want to see him happy. We all want him to get all that he deserves and more. He just has SO much potential, he’s such a well written character just for his story to get cut off so suddenly? Thinking about how badly his story was neglected by Larian after they made us so attached breaks my heart. Of all side characters we met along the acts he is undeniably one of the most important and memorable ones; we fought for him, we saved him, we helped him, hells we even get the option to reject his payment for us for helping him and his people.

We practically got nothing out of helping him, especially the ones who reject his payments and i find myself rejecting the payment every single playthrough because i can’t find it in my heart to take something away from people who have nothing left already. If you betray the tieflings you get Minthara- and yes that may cost you certain companions too, but wouldn’t it be fair to be able to have Zevlor at camp if we save his people? At least after we save him in act 2? That way it would still be optional but god I need him so badly, I need to see him happy, I need Larian to let me look after him and take care of him and make sure that he doesn’t drown in sorrow and I know everyone who reads this feels exactly the same.

He went through so much, and every time his hope returned it got shattered to bits again. And it just feels like we’re forced to “give up” on him after we let him wander away in act 2. It doesn’t feel right. It will never feel right. We saw how miserable he was in that pod, how distressed and in pain he was. Common sense would have told us to take him with us. Make sure he fucking survives the night without doing anything stupid. Clean him off the blood and clean him off his worries, all that self hatred.

God, do I so hate to see him in such distress. And while a tiny part of me believes that death might have actually been a small mercy for him I was and will never be ready to give up on him.

Every time I see him on that damned screen, every time he speaks and every time I witness him interact with someone I DON’T see an oathbreaker who failed his people and had to be saved from being consumed by the Absolute. All I see is a competent leader who carries a burden not meant to be carried by one person alone.

This has nothing to do with him being weak. This has nothing to to with him being incompetent or not careful enough. This has nothing to do with any lost faith or broken oath. This has to do with the fact that he is so selfless that he wouldn’t allow himself to share this burden with anyone.

Yes he has (had?) his fellow tieflings, he has Tilses right beside him all of the time. But did he ever open up to her? Does he ever accept any help from his own people while he knows that they are already suffering? Would he EVER allow ANY of these people to carry even a SLIVER of his burden?

No. He would not. He would NEVER let them bear any of those duties, he has seen them in way too much pain already, seen them suffer far too often.

He is the type who gives and gives and gives and he never takes. He doesn’t know how to take, take anything positive.

His past, his comrades, his Hellriders- yes he had them. They gave him as much as he gave them. But they got torn away from him, cruelly and mercilessly.

His people, the refugees, family- he had them. And they gave him the respect and admiration he deserved. But they got torn away from him. Cruelly. Mercilessly.

His saviour, us, Tav- he had us. But we left him. Because we had no choice. We watched him walk of as though it was nothing. Cruelly. Because we could do nothing else.

And yes, I will always see red at that. Because we SHOULD be able to do better. We shouldn’t be just another loss for him.

And I will personally fistfight Larian if it meant hope for just a single chance at giving Zevlor what he never allowed himself to have: stability, encouragement. Someone he can rely on and share his burden with. A rest. Peace.

(Larian do you hear me I am under your bed we are going to fight)

(Scratch would like him to stay at camp, too)

(And what Scratch wants, Scratch gets. Right?)

(No because when you talk to Scratch the second time at camp during the tiefling party he actually says that he wouldn’t mind if you kept the tieflings at camp… trust me, Scratch, i wouldn’t mind either)

…I’d honestly die for him who’s with me

#bg3 zevlor #zevlor #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #larian pls #he deserves to be happy #he deserves the world but the world doesn’t deserve him #larian please let me romance that man #larian studios #I love larian but for this I spite them

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animentality · 2 months

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“I wish you could fuck him in Raphael's little restoration pool!!! Gortash would love that too.”

Gods… the images will never get out of my head now 😭 they would never leave, their skin not only all water-wrinkly but probably just falling off, the more time goes by. IT BEING A RESTORATION POOL would mean they would UP the nasty to the usually impossible levels of unspeakable-gruesome-vomit inducing ✨intimacy✨ idk cutting/biting off limbs and eating eachother alive: all-you-can-eat-growing-back-into-existence-buffet while staring at eachother like some lovesick first-crush teens or days just them holding one another tightly to make up the 6-months of lost time?

The “cat-seeing-x-mas-tree-for-the-1st-time”loving eyes Durge would make, after understanding that they can do ANYTHING to Gortash now… all the years of pent up energy of holding back the “want-to but can’t” actually kill him (lovingly)? Gortash giddily running away laughing (triggering some Bhaalspawn-Hunter instinct) from Durge, both covered in each other’s blood, Gortash slipping in the corridors, while Durge slowly drags him back, by the legs to the pool and Whoretash has the wildest Cheshire cat grin on his face, even tho his head bumps up and down some stairs?

THEY. CAN. FINALLY. MARRY. IN ✨BHAALIAN TRADITION✨ AND ENJOY A (never-ending) HONEYMOON AFTERWARDS AHHHHHHHHHHHHH *larian sniper starts shooting at me*

EVERY DEVIL in the hells would never even step a foot near the HoH ever again (devil’s and other, just leaving Avernus altogether thus even ending the war cuz they cannot with the far traveling screams and moaning anymore)

Zariel filing complaints to mephistopheles? (happened all bc of your stupid brat of a kid)

apologies, feel free to ignore, the reminder of the pool just flooded my brain idk 😪

I- I was just thinking what better spite, than to fuck the man's incubus in his BED and then fuck your wife in his POOL?

But honestly.

It didn't even occur to me how DISGUSTING they could turn that water.

And now I'm mulling on the utter depravity that they could conduct in the devil's boudoir and now I have rabies.

#enver gortash #dark urge #durgetash

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optiwashere · 5 months

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Yes companion/origin run and then talking to another player in MP. They have lines for that romance, didn't expect it.

Larian giveth in bounty. I love that that's in the game, because it would feel... really hollow if the companions didn't at least mention it.

I already loved Larian for Divinity, and in spite of some nitpicks all this post-release BG3 stuff has only made me love them all so much more.

Especially the writers. But I would say that, wouldn't I?

Which, if people are curious, many of the Senior Writers for BG3 (John Corcoran, Kevin VanOrd, and Stephen Rooney) as well as both of the Principal Writers (Jan Van Dosselaer and Sarah Baylus) all worked on Divinity: Original Sin II and you can really feel it in BG3. Many of the stories feel like more matured, complex ideas that could have only come from some of the same folks that gave the heart to D:OS2.

I cannot wait to see how that team matures even further with whatever comes next.

#hey you can ask me things!#bg3 #genuinely some of the stories in dos2 are incredibly touching #and seeing those lead writers transition to leadership roles and create bg3 is like a dream come true #tons of fresh faces in the junior writing roles as well! can't wait to see what they all get up to

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