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amaranthsynthesis · 4 months

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WIP Wednesday

Tagged by @mightymizora and thanks for the nudge :)) do this also if you want to I won't tag anyone myself bc frankly I don't know who else to poke

I've got a handful of things that I'm working on in rotation (which is to say, inefficiently). I have chapter 2 of 'A Fine Night' outlined, about 60% of 'The Black Hand of Bane' which is about fisting and also not quite wedding vows, 80% of 'A Sacrament to be Taken Kneeling' which is exactly what it sounds like, and barely 20% of something named 'Unchain Me, Sister' which has yet to reveal itself to me in full but is about Ballard and Orin and reproductive horror. Smiles. Haven't been able to work on anything as much as I would like, as I'm back in the office for half shifts 3/4 days now, but I am noodling around in the drive.

I also actually excavated something I started writing before I went Gortash crazy, so it's either the first or the second thing I started writing for BG3 period--'Noises in the Night' is an Astarion POV from the first week of game time, adapting to traveling in a group. It needs a lot of editing, getting more comfortable with writing again means vast improvements since this was started, but I do still like a few parts of it quite a bit so I am chewing.

The morning is groggy and awkward. They’ve all been traveling together under threat of imminent tentacles for less than a week—never is it more obvious than early morning, the sun barely kissing the sky above the trees. L’aezel and Shadowheart seethe from opposite ends of the clearing, Wyll does fucking stretches, and Gale chipperly fails to make conversation with anyone but himself, frying up chopped bacon and potatoes and enough garlic that Astarion feels distinctly nauseous. Ballard is, irritatingly, serene and benevolent. He still looks like he’s never had a decent night's sleep in his life, but the drow is all grace and easy, loose movements, sorting supplies into packs and camp trunks for the day. Astarion can barely look at him. He’s not been an adolescent for over two hundred years, his brief fledgling state notwithstanding, and he dislikes intensely that he feels like a teenager who’s had his first wet dream about his tutor. “You’ve a face on you like a thunderhead,” Gale remarks cheerfully, and Astarion very valiantly does not try to stab him. “Didn’t get enough of your beauty rest, did you?” “Darling, please,” he says through gritted teeth, feigning disinterest and surveying his nails—they are, of course, atrocious. He hates the woods. “Some of us are naturally beautiful, more’s the pity for the rest of you. Perhaps I simply dislike looking at you, wizard.” “Oh, just eat the damn fry-up.” “Another poor night’s sleep?” Ballard observes, sidling up to Astarion as he strategically moves potatoes across his plate, waiting for an opportunity to fling them into the bushes. From another man, the question might be sympathetic--the drow seems archly amused, at best. The wretch. Astarion fixes him with a poisonous glare, one he has used to great effect on his siblings for the last two hundred years. “Don’t be smug,” he snaps, “It’s unattractive, my dear.”

#wip wednesday #writings #finn do you only write smut #yes next question

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lumi-lulu · 4 months

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RANDOM THINGS ABOUT LULUS QUEST I MADE UP BC IM DELULU:

I think it's so funny that I made lulu be found by tav in a sacrifical robe, like orin dressed this girl the fuck UP! before experimenting on her, orin wanted bhaal to know she was better.

The name of lulus first quest being From Ritz to Rubble not only being an AM refrence but it quite literally is her story line, she had everything, tav would find her in a well made sacrifical robe, she was clearly someone important before it was all taken.

I'd like to imagine that lulus storyline interacts a little with astarions (eg shadowheart and lae'zel, wyll and karlach) Lulu must have met astarion before they both frequented the bars of baldurs gate looking for victims and while Lulu wouldn't remember astarion would probably be glad to see a somewhat familar face even if he had heard mildly strange things about her

Lulu didn't tattoo herself, sceleritas informed her of when her father was proud and did them for her. The one across her face spells out "the first" as she is the first bhaalspawn crafted directly from bhaals gore, and "01" down her nose mostly bc I was thinking of miku with her 07, on her right arm is "bhaal" and on her left is "chosen". The three lines going down from her mouth represent the dead three bane and myrkul being shorter than bhaals line.

Lulu really struggles with understanding common sometimes, resorting to speaking infernal when things get tricky

Bhaal crafted lulu to look the way she does to make it easier for her to lure people in, however he had no control over her personality so the luring plan didn't really work.

When gortash was sold off Lulu spent months searching for him around the city and the undercity.

If lulu was a tarot card she would be the justice, supposedly representing how bhaal is the true deciding factor in the fude between myrkul and bane, also representing bhaals last line as a mortal.

Settle for the draw being the name of lulus mid point quest comes form the lyrics "well you a right it is one set of rules for her and another set for you" as bhaal let lulu get away with alot more than orin, their sibling rivalry being heavily shown

Lulus custom background story would be a puzzle that's missing pieces showing her fractured memory and also hinting at her last quest

Lulu spent all her time in the undercity or at night in the lowercity, due to this pre-tadpole she has no freckles on her face but during the course of the game she develops more freckles per act

Lulu originally only flirted with astarion to get information about her past as she was sure there was a vague connection between the two, unfortunately for the both of them by act two she had developed genuine feelings for him. To deal with this she pushed him as far away as possible by not speaking anyone but tav, however, she's too bad at sticking to this as astarion is the only one willing to sit through her deranged murder rants.

When lulu was needed she would be referred to as Gortashes chosen wizard to hide the fact she was the bhaalist leader

Lulu took over the bhaal cult at age 15, but she developed her urges at age 10. Most of the bhaal cult was not happy with some emo 15 year old girl taking over.

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