#companion banter

[selfpossesedghost]

Spicy Food - Lae'zel and Astarion

Transcript:

Lae'zel: But give me so much as a hungry look, and I'll drive a stake through your heart.

Astarion: Oohh, I do so very like spicy food.

Baldur's Gate 3

#bg3 funny #bg3 spoilers #bg3 #bg3 lae'zel #bgiii #bgiii spoilers #bg3 astarion #astarion #lae'zel #companion banter #party banter #baldurs gate funny #baldurs gate #baldur's gate iii #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate astarion #game clips #larian studios

[rodatirhaalo]

SHADOWHEART YOU HAVE NO RIGHT-

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #Shadowheart #wyll #companion banter #WE ARE LITERALLY ON OUR WAY TO KILL YOUR SUPERMOMMY #another reminder to take your companions out for a walk

[moontheoretist]

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #companion banter #romance responses #Youtube

[forcedhesitation]

astarion origin playthrough worth it just for all the extra moments where he does the "sad wet cat" face

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #thoughts about media #astarion #*kisses his forehead* my awful little bastard man... i love you and your big sad watery eyes. #IT'S SO FUCKING QUIET THOUGH IF YOU YOURSELF ARE PLAYING HIM GOOD LORD #I'M SO USE TO HIM COMPLAINING TO MY TAV!!!! #OR BANTERING WITH HIM OR KARLACH OR WYLL!!! #I MISS HIS THEATRICS!!!!!!! #not that it's ENTIRELY quiet. until i found karlach i was travelling with shadowheart lae'zel and gale. #and let me tell you. gale and lae'zel do NOT shut the fuck up if they are together. #they were literally having an entire tinder date while we were trecking through the woods to go get karlach. #i NEVER knew they talk so much because while i've travelled with them individually in past saves... #...i've NEVER had them in my party at the same time! #gale is actually pretty nice to lae'zel! he asks a lot of questions but doesn't condescend her as he does others sometimes. #that's probably because he's afraid of her though. I would be too were I nothing more than a wizard with 8 strength. #I do like how you can look at pretty much any two companions and get a well written and generally enjoyable dynamic! #It feels like they considered that a lot of people would want to maybe pair off the companions they didn't romance with each other! #and wanted it to be easy for really any pairing to work... if a person just paid attention to their shared interactions.

[amazinglyegg]

Nora: You remember the Cabots and that affair with Emogene we helped out with?

Danse: Uhm, no. You took Nick and left me at home staring into the middle distance. After what we've been through you didn't have to sideline me like that.

Nora: Okay we are NOT going to dig into this ancient history right now, Danse.

Danse: Was it a social anxiety thing? Did... did I smell? I mean you only took one of us at a time.

Hancock: Some sad violin music coming from somewhere...

Nora: Can we not do this right now?

#'you only took one of us at a time' because the game only lets us bring one companion 😭😭😭 #AND 'did i smell??' LMAO DANSE #god i love this so much #fallout 4 #death shroud #audio #character dialogue #sole survivor #paladin danse #john hancock #I love their banter!!!

[ride-a-dromedary]

[I thought you might care to have a drink with me.]

#BG3 Musing #Halsin #Halsin Posting #alcohol tw #finally snagged this companion banter in game - love comparing what halsin initially says to you vs what he starts revealing #if you listen and pay attention to him #halsin sweetheart that is a really eloquent way of saying i started drowning myself in alcohol #to cope with the trauma and pain the aftermath of that war caused me lol #now of course at the end he seems to be all on board to drink - because you know VERY special occasion - #but like...this is a former alcoholic who is currently sober speaking #i think halsin avoids taverns because a. he's a recovering alcoholic and b. he gets punched by drunks looking for a fight #so like it's all around a not good time for him

[tardxsblues]

#this is mister-i-don't-like-banter #i should be giffing the rest of the magician's apprentice #but i think about this scene everyday #the eye contact? #the banter? #the body language? #this scene lulled me into a false sense of security when i first watched this episode #and for that i will never forgive moffat #doctor who #dwedit #dwgifs #dw companions #twelve #twelfth doctor #clara oswald #twelveclara #whouffaldi #dws9 #episode: face the raven #peter capaldi #jenna coleman #gif warning #long post #look me in the eyes and tell me it's not flirting #married beahviour

[fandom-geek]

don't you love it when the rogue trader and pasqual get a new toy and immediately start acting like cooing idiots over the probably heretical technology

#rogue trader #rogue trader spoilers #rt spoilers #pasqal haneumann #it's a shame the companion banter is limited to one response bc i'd love to hear pasqual's indignant response lol #heinrix van calox #jae heydari #arguably this is even funnier bc my iconoclast rt is romancing heinrix so he's just constantly stressing over shit like this

[dorindameddler]

Literally never even occurred to me that someone could think wyll was purposefully making fun of astarion’s trauma with the rat diet banter until I saw astarion fans complaining about it lol. Yes even during early access when wyll was more of an asshole it was always clear to me he was just joking around and happened to hit on something real

#the rat thing is not something he’s openly telling the companions early in act 1 when this dialogue is intended to trigger lol #it’s literally wyll’s first banter with him after they find out he’s a vampire

[pancakes-with-grounded-hazelnuts]

i struggle to find the words to describe how much jingliu and yanqing’s odd little friendship means to me. they make me so happy.

i want their bond to persist and grow. i want yanqing to be the light of jingliu’s painful existence. i want their experience together to remind her that bonds were never shackles to the sword, but an integral part of it. i want her to rediscover that through training him. i want her to be reminded of her time teaching jing yuan, and how much pride and joy it gave her to watch him grow.

and i want the little things. i want to see jingliu’s playful side more. i want to see them banter. i want to see jingliu smile and laugh as she teases her grandson- i mean temporary student. i just want good things for them ssob

#i don’t know where i’m going with this #jingliu #yanqing #honkai star rail #text post #yes i played her companion quest #and watched jingliu’s keeping up with star rail #where yanqing adorably fanboys over her skills #and calls her grandmaster hhh #i hope they get to meet again #yanqing shows off how much he’s improved #and jingliu buys him a happy meal #god i loved liu’s quest but that was some heavy shit #yanqing and jingliu’s adorable banter kept me from complete despair #their friendship is my respite

[surreallyy]

can't stop thinking about Alistair dragon age

#im enjoying origins so much!! #and he is so cute #i just wanna run around and listen to all the companion banters #but alas i must go to bed #dao #da #dragon age #alistair theirin

[elissastillstands]

LIFE, DEATH, AND THE FURY

I started Hades with the goal of romancing Meg, but over the past couple months I’ve played it through the end credits, maxed out some more bonds, and started trying higher heats! I love it utterly. Here’s to many more runs.

#hades supergiant #hades game #hades fanart #megaera #zagreus #thanatos #megzag #megthanzag #digital art #i stockpiled nectars and ambrosia for meg #i literally did not try to get companions other than battie and mort and i did not update them until i maxed out meg's bond #my friend was like ''but updated companions now means more ambrosias for meg later'' no i have a clear strategic vision #but truly playing this game has been a much needed respite in a wild semester for me. #it's also that it's classically themed to the point where i was intrigued by it but also it's distant enough to not turn my work brain on #at least for these three. i have a lot of fun with them. i'm late-ish game and their banter (especially meg's in tartarus) is really sweet #and than is sticking around after i talk to him in the house #gameplay wise i'm on heat 13 and my fave weapon is the aspect of arthur sword #(extremely funny if you know my bbcm history)

[landlordevil]

If Faxon has 0 haters, it means Daeran and Nenio are no longer of this Earth

#i need to stop claiming everyone is a forever companion but daeran and nenio have sm good banter TT_TT #this really was a two hit KO though like if they did this to me i'd kms. #pwotr #daeran arendae #nenio

[wherethemagichappens]

Companion chatter in the background cracks me up!

the other day I heard Gale trying to explain parenting, not grooming soldiers, to Lae'zel, that was fun..

Now I had Minsc ask Gale to 'explain what Boo couldn't' - difference between devils and demons

The poor wizard got excited, asking if Minsc was interested in psychological, etymological or theological standpoint

"How-to-kill-ogically"

"Oh, then for your purposes, they're exactly the same", disappointment palpable...

Poor, dear, wizard is in pain (TM)

#Gale BG3 #bg3 minsc #minsc and boo #bg3 #bg3 banter #bg3 chatter #bg3 companions #bg3 lae'zel

[swordmaid]

we managed to resolve the tiefling-goblin conflict before wyll turns into a devil (we’ve even recruited karlach too) and this is what he says in the party…! interesting I think

#only reason we managed to do that is that I’m very sure there’s a huge queue with the camp scenes lol #and the Karlach/wyll confrontation got pushed back #I want to see how florrick reacts to him tho #and I’m making sure we long rest frequently too lol #anyway we’re playing with the no party limit mod so the cliques are divided by: #shri’iia/astarion and wyll #then durge/karlach/shadowheart #and then Tav who looks like jaime/gale/lae’zel #and it’s actually pretty funny you get companion banters when the little teams pass by each other #anyway I so def wanna draw my trio loool just imagining wyll having the worst time ever getting stuck with these two little shits 😭😭 #shut up about bg3. #bg3 spoilers

[something-pithy]

Heyo, glittercats and kittens! So chapters 6 and 7 of an echo, a stain are up! And starting this week, I'm going to start including story notes along with the link.

I'm a note writer lol. Part of how I even begin to keep track of all the wildness of writing something longer than a grocery list is to write about it before I start writing it, if that makes sense lol. Character sketches, ideas about why certain things are happening, backstory, setting details, etc.

I'm pretty verbal about my writing process because -- well,  I like writing about writing a lot, and also, I think it improves both the work and how I get there. Anything might end up here -- character sketches, ideas about why certain things are happening, backstory, setting details, etc. I don't really wanna be leaving like eighteen thousand words of notes on every chapter, so here we are!

Sometimes I think they might add some interesting context for readers, sometimes it's information that I think is important but it's too much for the notes section on the story itself, and sometimes it's just so I have a document of my progress for this story. So here are my notes for chapter 7! ---

Chapter 7's title is from "Come to Me" by Bjork, which is definitely one of my Astarion / Tav falling in love themes for when I'm up in these flashbacks, back before Astarion Ascended (and he still had a soul loool).

The notes from previous chapters had promised a Shadowheart & Tav conversation in this chapter. This is not the Shadowheart & Tav chapter I promised, but it is the one that continued to demand to be written until I capitulated. 

And also, honestly, the one that's going to benefit that other chapter that was supposed to be 7 and the story as a whole in the long run, so I hope you like it! 

I was getting really stuck with my original plan, and so I just started writing -- well, this. And the chapter after this. And possibly the one after that. Loooool there is a LOT going on at this point in these kids' lives.

The original plan is still 100% happening, but I think I needed to 

1. explore the foundations of who these people have become (by these people of course I mean Tav and Astarion, but also friendship is magic, so our beautiful OG friendgroup babies) 

2. what the relationships between them look like and 

3. some clues, at least, as to how they got there. 

(tl;dr we're purposefully time-jumping, and I'm having fun with it, so I hope you will, too!)

But never fear, Shadowheart and Tav will of course be chatting when we return to the story's present. And it won't be in just one chapter.

OR

hey y'all, we're gonna be doing some purposeful (and hopefully at least coherently executed) flashing back and jumping forward (or up! or laterally! OR WHATEVER) in/on/around this story's timeline!

Final note, but an important one, on Tav's identity: 

I tried to keep Tav ambiguous for the first few chapters because I know that sometimes a really detailed and specific-looking or backstoried Tav can make people disengage from the story because they don't relate to the identifying details provided. (also, it's me, I'm people, or at least one of the people lol)

But at the end of the day, as soon as I started even thinking about writing a BG3 fic, I started really digging into and developing this Tav, who does reflect the dialogue, action, and relationship choices I've made in my current playthrough of the game with her, yes. But in having spent / continuing to spend some time thinking and writing about who this Tav is.  I'm not going to lay them all out here, but I think when you want to play in a sandbox as fucking ginormous and intricately, infinitesimally detailed as Faerun / The Forgotten Realms / DnD,  a little story/character-relevant contextual frontloading can help readers have as much fun with it as the writer does. 

Also, and I'm just going to say it, Tav is a queer, first-generation Baldurian child of two immigrants. She's the Faerun / Baldur's Gate equivalent of a BIPOC, with parents who were born in places very different both from Baldur's Gate and each other's home cities / kingdoms. Also, she's mixed-heritage elf (sun, moon, sea -- yeah, I'm that guy, come at me bro loooool). All this context is key to who Tav is as a person, as a creator, as an adventurer, and just in general.

I want anyone to be able to read Tav and be able to understand who she is, if not be able to relate to some small part of her -- but in my mind, people like Tav are essential to the story of a place like Baldur's Gate, and I really enjoy exploring what that looks like.

I'm having fun with it, so I hope you will, too!

#ascended astarion #astarion fic #astarion x tav #bg3 fic #bard!tav #slow burn #redemption arc: now nontoxic! ... i think? #manipulative astarion #yandere astarion #tav's insight proficiency tho #banter #the companion gang is there too #how do i even tag this