#aeryn and gortash

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here we are again. (my highly specific interpretation of) durgetash as peep show momence!!

now featuring Orin!

#the last few of these kinda strayed from being aeryn specific so i really dialled it back up with this one. #some of these will not be relatable to anyone’s durges but mine. #aeryn and gortash #your daily dose of idiocy #durgetash #bg3

[archduke-enver-gortash]

just realised the idea of zeke without the dark urge is just. completely incomprehensible. it’s just something that he wholly embodies in my mind. i guess my question is, is that something you’ve thought about? zeke if he rejected bhaal? what that could possibly look like, because i have no clue. in my mind there would just be nothing left for Withers to resurrect, he’d just cease to exist. (which would probably be a happy ending in comparison to what actually happens)

i guess this isn’t really an “ask”, just my stream of consciousness as i realise that Zeke is by far the best Durge ever created and all of us should just pack it in cos our ocs will never be on his level (lighthearted)

to parrot what i said in the first ask i sent you, with renowned emphasis: i sincerely love the way your brain works, and i hope you never stop posting about your fucked up little guys because they bring me so much joy.

thank you so much but also. noooooooo. don’t say that he’s just a roach!!! there are so many great durges (aeryn definitely up there as well of course :3)

but yes to your question… you’re absolutely right about zeke and the urge being one and the same being of course, but the only way i could imagine it in some form is honestly. hm. i think at least in my canon zeke is the wild given shape by bhaal honestly almost accidentally (complicated we do not need to get into it, but the giving shape part was obviously not an accident more the it being the fucking wild itself part lmao) so the ability to genuinely control him as you would a dog is one that no one (yes i am including gortash in that! gortash’s goal is to conquer & destroy zeke above all else after all) has in the end—i mentioned before how when sceleritas brought zeke into the temple for the first time that people quickly realised that the he is far too unpredictable/volatile and especially dangerous be around the cult or even to walk free on most days, until they unleash him onto the city of course. a move which is honestly partially rooted in ‘yes he’s gonna murder’ and ‘get this fucking time bomb out of my house’ basically lmao. so anyways what i’m thinking is zeke just fully severs their link in some way perhaps? perhaps it’s gortash and/or what he does to him. what he did before bhaal ever even gave shape to zeke. idk! lots of new things to consider as i’m doing my replay at a snail’s pace lmao

#bhaal may have given shape to zeke but zeke is still gortash’s flesh & blood. it’s extremely complicated #and i am TIRED

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anyway here’s (my highly specific interpretation of) durgetash as moments from peep show

canon aeryn and gortash interactions. by the way.

#i’ve noticed there seems to be aroace durgetash enjoyers. and to you i say: watch peep show. #that show is so aromantic it’s not even funny. #you know what they’re doing in that piss yourself scene? hiding from marks fiancé. on the day of their wedding. at the church. #aeryn and gortash #oc aeryn #gortash #enver gortash #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #your daily dose of idiocy

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my (highly specific interpretation of) durgetash as moments from peep show, part TWO!!!

part one

#sucky fucky is NOT a long term plan. #sorry it’s out of sync idk how to fix that. also the editing being awkward at times where i cut out the unnecessary stuff #it was getting too long for tumblr to handle #in all honesty i don’t think this one is as good as the first but. i made it. so i’m posting it #gortash #aeryn and gortash #durgetash #enver gortash #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #your daily dose of idiocy

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My (highly specific interpretation of) Durgetash as… some random clips from Archer, Peep Show and Withnail and I :)

part one | part two

#grill me a cheese. #your daily dose of idiocy #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gortash #enver gortash #aeryn and gortash #durge #durgetash

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uh. yeah

#sorry having the gort as the sea insanity again you know how it is #we get it Tae you’re a pisces 🙄 #your daily dose of idiocy #aeryn and gortash #oc aeryn #gortash

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CW: really fucked up incest jokes

hello. my highly specific interpretation of durgetash as some random videos and tv show clips.

#your daily dose of idiocy #durgetash #aeryn and gortash #bg3 #gortash #enver gortash

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Aeryn and Gortash moodboard….🫀

#your daily dose of idiocy #aeryn and gortash #oc aeryn #gortash #durgetash #<- sure why not.

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Durge casually makes a comment about if they had machine parts, or had their whole brain in one, they could be even deadlier. Gortash sees spots from how rapidly hard he gets at the idea

YEAH.

ough the whole concept is so crunchy. durge going from being bhaal’s killing machine to gort’s killing machine 👍 durge being the test bunny for a lot of his weird contraptions (it’s how they have sex) getting body mods and experimental weapons for free :)))

#bg3 #your daily dose of idiocy #gortash #enver gortash #asks #durgetash #aeryn and gortash

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anyway here’s the aeryn/gortash dynamic explanation.

nsfw shit under the cut. CW for. i mean so much. but specifically CNC

because it is all consensual, despite the atrocities. although it’s worth mentioning that that does not make it healthy and there’s definitely a lot of manipulation going on so like. is it. its dubious that’s for fucking sure.

So. their dynamic is really just me taking “psychosexual warfare” and seeing how far i can possibly take it. That’s it in a nutshell. also exploration of how a sexual “relationship” between a hypersexual and grey-sexual would work.

Aeryn’s hypersexuality is a real point of interest to Gortash, and is his main angle when trying to pick apart his psyche, the way his behaviour changes depending on how long he’s gone without, how it seems intrinsically linked to his Urges, “whoever decided to call it bloodlust was a fucking genius” [real aeryn quote]

That fascination really hits its pique when, somewhere a between a year and two into their partnership, gort wakes up in the middle of the night to aeryn just straight up jerkin it. staring at him. (wether he was already there because aeryn stayed over after them being awake for 50 hours plotting and doing medical malpractice or he just walked all the way there from the undercity to break in and wack it to gort’s sleeping body, i don’t know. but it’s important to me that you know that with aeryn, while the former is more likely, the latter is entirely plausible. he’s a creep.) obviously this brings up a lot of question in his head. “did he want to be caught?” (most definitely.) “has he done this before without me noticing?” (you can bet on it, mate.)

Sad thing is, I can’t t for the life of me figure out what gort would actually do in the moment here, but it’s when he realises that if he wants to manipulate Bhaal’s favourite child, to claim, to conquer, he’s going to have to speak his language. so the next morning he very nonchalantly brings up the incident that Aeryn is eagerly pretending didn’t happen, and offers his help. puts himself in this caring, almost therapeutic role. bullshit, of course. he has no intention of fixing just yet. only after he’s been broken can he be fixed, remade in his perfect image. and aeryn, to his credit, does know that it’s bullshit. he just underestimates the depth of it. See, he knows that Gortash wants to break him. he knows that gortash is a manipulative, domineering control freak. but he kind of just. thinks it’s a weird sex thing. his reaction to gort’s proposal is basically “you’re even weirder than i thought. okay fine. i’ll play your game. i’ll win in the end.”

That’s another key part of their dynamic: mutual misunderstanding. Aeryn thinks it’s a game, Gortash thinks it’s war. Gortash thinks he’s breaking Aeryn, but Aeryn’s loving it.

Gortash’s “therapy” is anything but, of course. Aeryn doesn’t become less of a sex pest, he just finds it increasingly difficult to enjoy himself with anyone but Gortash, who knows him, what he likes and doesn’t like, inside and out. (all part of the plan, the possessive cunt) which pisses Aeryn off to no end because the man Just Won’t Fuck Him in the way he wants. oh, they’re doing weird “stabbing as a metaphor for penetration”, sexually charged medical malpractice, voyeurism, full on bdsm shit all the time, but there’s very little genital touching. Gortash just gets off way more on denying Aeryn what he wants while slowly driving him insane with desperation than he ever would if they just. had sex. This isn’t to say they never do, but we’re talking years down the line here, and only under very specific conditions. (more on that in a bit.) If aeryn was right about one thing, it’s Gortash being a weird sexual control freak.

anyway here’s some things their warfare includes:

Gortash bringing some noble up to his chambers to seduce them, notices the window he left closed is open, a chair in the corner’s cushion being smushed down by an invisible weight, and thinking “ah, i’m performing for two tonight.”

gortash just straight up asking if he’s the one aeryn thinks about when he masturbates. aeryn makes the mistake of thinking the right answer is no and gets whipped :)

Aeryn waking up after Gortash spikes him in increasingly awkward positions over the years (this happens a lot. like, a lot.) the first time he wakes up bound, gagged and blindfolded in gort’s basement. “i just wanted to see how long it would take you unti you freed yourself. 2 minutes and 31 seconds if you were wondering. i’m impressed :)” eventually he gets used to that routine and he just ends up laying under gort’s desk for a few hours, listening to him work, Gortash occasionally talking to him like you do to a pet. this is probably the closest they get to domesticity. A few years down the line, Aeryn wakes up naked, covered in bruises and black handprints, aching between his thighs.

Knowing it happened, but with no memory? If I had to pinpoint the closest Gortash ever got to winning the war, it was there.

(it is such a shame that i’m too squeamish about about the violent gory stuff to really have thought about the more fucked up shit they get up to, but. i just can’t, it’s not for me. It’s definitely happening, don’t get me wrong, but i’m not gonna force myself to think about it if i don’t want to just to list off examples of their weird game.)

Oh. And they only kiss once. Right before Aeryn’s lobotomy, as well, it’s a whole thing. I might make that into a separate post. or you can send an ask. that’d be nice :)

edit: here it is

#they’re insane :) #aeryn and gortash #uh. yeah. yknow what. fuck it. i’ll put this in the main tags what the fuck have i got to lose #durgetash #gortash #enver gortash #bg3 #your daily dose of idiocy

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anyway to wash out the taste of the silly peep show-esque fic here’s a little bit from a wip i abandoned a while ago that i still like 👍

​i think gortash would get off a little bit on being a called a dirty old pervert. i can’t explain it but i know it to be true.

#worlds most normal aroace #your daily dose of idiocy #aeryn and gortash #gortash #enver gortash #durgetash #yes he’s stepping on Tae. yes there’s boot humping. #my writing

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what do we think of “i’ve been emotionally empty for so long but since i met my soulmate, i’ve started feeling things again. (the feelings are sadism, megalomania, possessive obsession and sick, twisted, conquestsexual lust)” as a horror trope

aka: we complete each other (oh god. oh fuck.)

#this is about gortae. of course #being ‘loved’ or whatever word he would use by gortash is inherently horror. to me #gortash’s feelings toward aeryn are only getting more weird and convoluted and creepy and i love it #emotional. naive. burdened with love and empathy and a moral compass but no backbone to use it. #you are weakness personified and you disgust me. and i annihilate the weak. #you were born the day my heart died which can only mean you stole it. (no i DON’T want it back) #you are my heart and that makes you an extension of me. my vanity won’t let me destroy you #brother you need to leave people’s hearts alone they’re NOT YOURS. oh gortash/aeryn/karlach heart motif we’re really in it now #your daily dose of idiocy #aeryn and gortash #durgetash

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Gortash being a highly intense person but with eerie, almost inhuman levels of self control is so interesting to me. and by interesting I mean terrifying. Like i think his genuine smile or - God Forbid - his genuine laugh would provoke a visceral fear response in the average person.

I think Aeryn sees his real smile several times but the laugh only once, when Gortash is carving his name into Aeryn’s neck. Like i think that whole thing is. maybe not a religious experience for Gortash but it’s pretty close. makes him feel emotions indescribable and with an intensity he’s never felt before and doesn’t again (until Aeryn carves out his - his - heart and hands it to him before they die in each others arms in the Astral Prism :))

but yeah just thinking about that whole scene like. goddd i WISH i had the brainpower to write it but it would be so difficult cos Aeryn’s Fully Brainwashed by Gortash at that point so it’s. weird. and i don’t know how to start lmao. so lemme just say it’s the first time Aeryn feels Gortash shake against him. maybe his voice even wavers. not from nervousness, just pure adrenaline.

which i think is why i’m so hesitant to make that the first (and if i did, the only, knowing my lack of energy) fic i write about them because they’re e both being so out-of-character in it? like i don’t want that to be the main association people have with them. i don’t know.

#this post kinda ran away from me #i also kinda see it as gortash feeling like. Genuine Physical Desire for Aeryn for the first time ever. becuase weird greysexuality #like i think his physical attraction levels to people in general is completely at 0% and his physical attraction toward Aeryn fluctuates #usually between 5 and 20% so it’s still very minimal. and i think this is the only time it spikes up to about 60 #which is still low to an allosexual but for him it’s genuinely kind of overwhelming. #i guess this technically makes him a little bit demisexual in a way? can you tell gortash sexuality is really fascinating to me. lol. lmao #i wanna write it so bad. #your daily dose of idiocy #aeryn and gortash #oc aeryn #gortash

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does electroshock therapy exist in bg3. because either way Gortash is the one who invents it.

#‘does he use it on-‘ yes. he uses it on aeryn. heart <3 #are we at the stage where it’s okay to sexualise electroshock therapy yet. #aeryn with burn marks on his temples <3 #once again i am making myself sick to my stomach thinking about this so i’m stopping now. #your daily dose of idiocy #gortash #aeryn and gortash

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I don’t really believe in Astrology but just for fun I looked up the compatibility of my headcanoned signs for Aeryn and Gortash and the results are um. well.

if i had any doubts about them being those signs they’re out the window now.

(also credit where credit is due: Leo Gortash is @archduke-enver-gortash’s headcanon (number one gortash understander) but like. It Is Objectively Correct)

also i think Gortash is actually on the Leo/Virgo cusp personally- OH MY GOD.

JUST LIKE TRIXIE MATTEL….

#now i need to go watch the unhhhh astrology episodes #anyway it really narrows his birthday to august 20-25 so that’s something. i vote 22. 22 is a gortash number to me (i’m insane) #aeryn and gortash #oc aeryn #gortash #uh sure. main tags. #enver gortash #durgetash #your daily dose of idiocy

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one of the main reasons Gortash and Aeryn “work” is they’re both such highly delusional people with just enough wisdom to recognise that the other is delusional but simply not care and actively fan the flames of the other’s delusions until they themselves also believe it. which is deeply funny to me

Gortash: I am literally God and my machines are the answer to all the world’s failures and also I am going to eat the sun.

Aeryn: Oh, this is what gets you off? Okay I can work with this. I can be your most loyal disciple if you want… 👀 (gets brainwashed)

Aeryn: I am a fallen angel sent to ease all suffering with my blades, I am Mercy itself, I have never done anything wrong, ever, in my life. (is literally The Dark Urge)

Gortash: I know this, and I adore you. Now hold still so I can clip your wings.

#where’s that twitter post that’s like. me (insane) comforting my insane friend: you’re not insane. and neither am i. #that’s them #idk where the ’eat the sun’ thing came from it just feels fells like something he’d say #your daily dose of idiocy #aeryn and gortash #durgetash