#my oc: ry’lrr

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Short Playlists for Tavs

I’m in the zone so for further context have some songs:

Rook

all fired up - interpol

the people person of this ragtag band. sees every social interaction as a game; how do i get what i want and we all still have fun. it works, mostly. and if not, they’re a bard with a sword and that’s a truly terrifying thing to see early game.

we appreciate power - grimes, HANA

this is essentially the mindset they were in as they started consuming parasites like it was their job. it’s fine! it’s not a problem! they’re just helping. and that’s how they became half illithid. it’s the tragic story of a half elf who knew they couldn’t help the way that they wanted to, and turned to power outside of their control because they do care, it’s just hard to see.

good grief - cleopatrick

is vaguely insecure as the bard! can’t do anything their companions can do, and it absolutely upsets them, yes, but when someone tries to talk down to them? all hell breaks loose. and this song is absolutely a tribute to that.

parasite eve - bring me the horizon

mainly because they’re a drum bard, and i love the idea of this being the song they play in the upper city with other bards just before the final battle. they know they’ve all done right and wrong, but there’s a time and place to unpack that. also the idea of them scaring the place with this song?? but rallying everyone? immaculate.

fun fact: headcanoning the fem and masc voice that joins in for chorus as shadowheart and gale, who were rook’s ride or dies.

Ry’lrr

black wave - k.flay

i just need you to know the lyrics ‘I swear to god you don’t wanna test me’ are said with an air of desperation that ry’lyrr embodies. she awakes knowing that she has the urge. she lives with it every day. it’s chaotic and painful and difficult to understand. and yet she prevails.

the moon will sing - the crane wives

i need you to consider for a moment what it’s like to have a dark urge tav who sees lae’zel as the sun. literally the only light she’s ever known. i am sobbing, crying, foaming at the mouth.

did you hear the rain - george ezra

this is deeply orin and ry’lrr coded in ways i cannot explain without an essay. sworn rivals, sisters who one of them doesn’t remember the other. the ry’lrr before dark urge was something else. orin lost her great rival and it’s actually very sad to me.

map of the problematique - muse

ry’lyrr cannot bear the idea of losing any of her companions. she knows that in another life, it would be none of them. now it’s all of them, and she goes to battle for them, not for the world, but for them.

honourable mention: obey by bring me the horizon and yungblud was so very orin and ry’lrr before…. everything happened.

Elys

get into it (yuh) - doja cat

let her have her moment. this is the noble that people knew in the upper city, betrothed, fucking around and finding out, seemingly untouchable. absolutely her opening song.

hurricane drunk - florence + the machine

where elys starts. traumatic breakup, has turned to self destruction. it helps that she’s a draconic lightning sorcerer realistically. so she went out! For weeks! …and was picked up by mindflayers.

money - lisa

i’m not going to lie, elys and astarion are besties for this reason: she spends the entire tadpole era dropping money wherever she can. morally grey and banked up. she’s a bad bitch. we allow it. her fellow tav hates it.

little girl gone - chinchilla

the emperor came to elys as essentially a full copy of their ex. and elys was struggling so was okay with it. but with a healthy love, she goes into battle now not trusting the emperor, a manipulator, and an actually terrifying sorcerer that her draconic ancestry would be proud of. she leaves him on the battlefield as he tries to fight her, which is the closure she’d never get otherwise. wyll is very proud and a little smug.

fun fact: the cave by mumford and sons is THE wyll/elys song

Haven

Haven requires essays so we unpack that later. There’s also a whole Spotify playlist so lmk if you want it.

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Meet the Tavs!

Because this piccrew is god tier.

ROOK MAGUIRE

half wood elf. folk hero. bard. late twenties early thirties. they/them.

rook was living a completely normal life fucking around in taverns around baldur’s gate trying to make it big as a bard, when the nautiloid caught them. an asshole in the sense of ‘will be an asshole if someone is rude to them’ but largely has always tried to do the right thing. typical party was karlach, astarion, switching between gale and shadowheart. ended up besties with gale and shadowheart. some dialogue is really funny because as an enby tav it was like ‘shadowheart, plz, I beg, I’m trying not to deadname you but you have to tell me.’ panicked early game realising they couldn’t protect their party after a few deaths, started eating the forbidden gummi worms, was half-ilithid a lot of the game. ended the game in the underdark, because they kind of like the folk hero gig and their vampire man needs a daylight ring or a wish spell.

romanced: astarion, gale tried it but they honestly got a cute third act arc and in retrospect if rook wasn’t already a human capri-sun they could’ve been a thing.

would they have been lured to cazador: without a shadow of a doubt, yes they would.

RI’LRR THE BLOODY

seldarine drow. haunted one. rogue. mid-twenties. she/her. dark urge.

my original dark urge; she woke up with no memory and proceeded to be super weird, because nothing says ‘cohesive party’ like ‘is it normal to want to pluck out your eyeballs and eat them? gale? gale???’ throws every fight she gets into because she’s scared of going too far. typical party is lae’zel, karlach and shadowheart. this is the girlypop crew. ri’lyrr struggles to make friends but she saved shadowheart when lae��zel was yelling at her so the girl gang has her back at all times. does the right thing! just EXCEEDINGLY violent. resisting but im not sure if itll last and if it does it’ll be because she loves her squad so much.

romanced: lae’zel and they are the cutest couple on this earth. ri’lyrr has gone from ‘man who was absolutely too old for her and was definitely a poor choice’ to ‘githyanki warrior who will end lives for her and actually doesn’t like seeing her in pain.’ fun fact, this was meant to be a wyll run, but they just worked SO well. bae’zel and ri’lyrr are at this point essentially married.

would she have been lured to cazador: honestly at that point i think it would’ve been cazador’s problem.

HAVEN [REDACTED] GRIGORE

human. sage. wild magic sorcerer. mid-thirties. she/they.

my little brainrot blorbo: without saying her entire backstory she’s sheltered for a reason. they grew up in rivington raised by their grandmother, and have a connection to the monastery of lythander that may irreparably change the course of their life. switches parties depending on need. sends out scouts. my most technically competent tav. she just has a desperate need to be liked so she can stay alive long enough to get back to be rivington, so compulsively helps everyone she sees and then lies about why. also her dad is a pirate. this will become relevant but it’s more if I start using pirate imagery that’s why. the idea of haven in the pirate hat has sent me FERAL.

romanced: if you can call whatever toxic nonsense that they have with astarion right now romance, sure. i could ship them with lae’zel, wyll or astarion, which is the route the fic is going for. karlach is firmly besties, shadowheart just doesn’t like her much at all, gale and haven would be boring! there, i said it.

would she have been lured to cazador: not an ice cube’s chance in hell.

ELYS AKTA SMOKEHARBOUR.

mephistopheles tiefling. noble. draconic bloodline sorcerer. in human standards, late-thirties. all pronouns.

ELYS THE MENACE. has spent the entire time with a tadpole in her brain rizzing up the camp. an objectively ‘good but not nice’ character. was literally described in co-op as ‘oh I get it, she’s going to save every tiefling here she’s just an arsehole.’ Had a problem with Asmodean Tieflings (it was on sight) up until she met the kids at the Tiefling camp. is here for a good time not a long time. wants to get back to the upper city and be a big deal again, death is not something they were planning for. keeps her camp mates up gossiping about ‘why is wyll 10 times hotter as a literal devil’ or ‘i think gale ate my good heels, i will pay someone 50 gold to retrieve them.’ co-op, so plays with a halfling cleric peddling gummi worms that elys won’t touch but everyone else probably will. the rest of the team comp changes depending on vibes.

romanced: has managed to romance everyone to some degree except halsin and that’s because you can’t do that yet where i am. however: it’s 99% going to be wyll. he will make elys into a better person. elys will make him do shit for himself. they’re going to have like six kids and elys will complain the whole time, i’m so ready for it.

would she have been lured to cazador: she wouldn’t run in the same circles but potentially, yes. wouldve criticised astarion’s repair work and taken him in as a sugar baby. i’m not even joking.

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