This Is The Kinda Dumbassery I Got Up To In My First Playthrough Like 💀

She'd ask me to commit crimes and I'd say how many

Shadowheart be like: KEEP UR VOICE DOWN WORSHIPPING SHAR IS PUNISHABLE BY DEATH

Also Shadowheart:

Shadowheart: How did you know I was a Sharran?

Also Shadowheart:

honestly Shadowheart is just so funny because there are so many just ridiculous details about her character. she's worships an EVIL goddess. she has a cool goth drow mother figure who's also evil. she's goth and wears evil armor for her evil goddess only. she has stigmata. she was kidnapped into an evil cult. she has amnesia. she tortures her parents for her evil cult. she is half werewolf. she's the evil chosen one. her name is fucking SHADOWHEART.

like individually those are all just like insane edgelord character creation choices that would earn most people side eye at least if they tried to put more than one of these in their character. But Shadowheart has so many of them that its just like "yes yes, of course she does this is so her, what other ridiculous nonsense is there?"

stop treating killing dragons as this act of bravery and valor. maybe ou should be kissieng and loving the dragons instead. and be more niceys

It's less garbage actually because now it's ✨gay✨

Restarted a Mass Effect fic I posted like 10 years ago on ffnet, but on AO3. First person to find it was someone who like religiously followed the original.

I hope you don't have Tumblr, whoever you are. I'm so sorry you're about to read this garbage all over again 😂💀

fucking weirdos (endearingly)

the tadfools (ft. Halsin) + text posts

wait! i know i'm late for the party, but what do you mean we have a second moon now?! how does this affect me as a selûnite? do i have to worship her too? does she have a name?

would also 100% immediately drop to my knees and worship isobel

was very triggered she wasn't a romance option until I met aylin, then I felt guilty

Ultimately, Dame Aylin is the single most relatable character in BG3, because I, too, immediately after laying eyes upon the wonder that is Isobel Thorm, would rush to divest myself of my knightly accoutrements and the divine trappings of my lofty station, only to fall to my knees in yearning supplication, eternally awed by her wisdom and beauty.

ALSO ALSO:

Shadowheart not having her concept art tattoos is the fattest L I think the bg3 community has taken

She cares about changing her appearance after abandoning Shar enough to bleach her dang hair and change the style, having those tattoos would add so much delicious *angst* I think we all need

✨this✨

I really don't hear enough people talk about the fact that Shadowheart was not only brainwashed as a child, but had her memories repeatedly wiped. This isn't just your run of the mill reeducation. Like we're talking about having your brain literally tampered with by magic on a metaphysical level which is so incredibly violating and just on a completely different level than the typical indoctrination you see an average cultist goes through.

Your memories and lived experience is fundamentally responsible for shaping the kind of person you are. We see how important memories are with Durge because once they lost their memories, they were no longer the same person and became someone entirely new. Shadowheart was frequently subjected to memory wipes since she was kidnapped as a child, forced to adopt Sharran dogma, and every time she started remembering things about her past or strayed from their teachings, they'd take her memories away again. Imagine the only memories you're allowed to keep are the ones your abusers let you, as they continue to alter your perception of reality in order for you to stay obedient to their control. This is gaslighting on a level we have literally never seen before irl.

It's no wonder Shadowheart says the things she says, and yet, somehow, against the strict doctrines and manipulation that's been hammered into her for decades, she always ends up reverting back to her true self. From Viconia's journal:

No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't erase the good in her. It's honestly impressive Shadowheart is able to fight the brainwashing to this extent. And when she's left alone for once with people who are patient with her and make her feel safe, when she's given enough time to find herself again without being reset back to square one every time she gained an inch? She thrives.