Reposting to add that the Emperor be like hmm I got this cool Sharran lady AND there's a Selûnite on board, let's cause ✨drama✨ and get them to bang
Baldurs Gate 3 is so wild when you realise how vastly different the game is depending on if you choose Tav or Dark Urge
Dark Urge Playthrough: you’re the child of Bhaal, but unlike the Bhaalspawn, you are created solely by Bhaal himself. The first true child of Bhaal. The daughter of one of your father’s previous Bhaalspawn turns on you, attacks you and tries to kill you. In your dying state, she infects you with a parasite so that you’ll die an incredibly humiliating death, and become her slave.
By some miracle you end up on the same nautiloud ship as a Sharron Cleric who happens to to be carrying a gith artefact that contains Baldur himself. Baldur, who was made a mind flayer and is now calling himself the Emperor, realises there’s an incredibly powerful Bhaalspawn on the ship, and that he can use them to his advantage. The power you have will help him destroy Gortash. Of course he picks you, it makes so much sense.
On your way to Baldurs Gate you find out through an unsent letter that you used to be into Gortash. When you get to Baldurs Gate, the man you used to fuck turns out to be an absolute loser and with horror you realise he is still into you. It’s okay though, he’s very easy to kill.
You end up facing off against Orin, your niece, and kill her. Your father appears to you and offers you the chance to become his Slayer. On the high chance you turn him down, he murders you in front of your loved ones, and leaves you to rot.
Then Jergal, the actual Lord of the End of Everything, the original God of Death, who was the very being that turned you father into a God all that time ago, who’s been in your camp for weeks pretending to be this undead scribe called Withers, appears next to your corpse and brings you back to life, basically adopts you, states that he will protect you from Bhaal, and announces that as long as he lives, you will never die. You’re essentially immortal.
Tav Playthrough: you’re a random nobody that was unlucky enough to get kidnapped by Mind Flayers. The Emperor must pick one of the many idiots on the ship to be his pawn. He sees Tav and thinks “ugh, yeah this one will do”.
my favourite part of shadowheart's personality is that she's supposed to be all mysterious and secretive but she's also just a massive fucking gossip. one of the first conversations u have with her she starts with "i couldn't help but overhear - ok, i could help, but..."
You know what? Fuck it.
Githyanki Cleric of Selune
Romance~
My love language is physical touch and i would literally never let Shadowheart leave my arms, I just want to kiss, hug and hold her 24/7.
She's tough and strong and pretty much the only character who can survive most of the game without the player unlike the others but she's also just my little princess.
I just wanna spoil her in and out of the bedroom so bad.
LOOK AT IT
LOVE THEM WITH ME
Thank you so much again! This made my entire day ngl ❤️
i just know ayana and shadowheart will haunt my dreams tonight
now everyone say thank you @nightingalen7 for writing THE only fanfic ever (wake me up on Ao3, trust me on this one, her Tav is a force of nature)
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?
Orin gives me nightmares
I think the people that are obsessed with her give me more tho 😳
How you screamed as my knife slit your skull, your brain juices sticky and sweet.
She'd ask me to commit crimes and I'd say how many
BG3 + Text posts: Shadowheart Edition
what is it with me and women with black/white hair and facial scars
Shadowheart, Cassandra: Loves smutty books, religious, can be religious leaders (and will not marry you sad), curt and no nonsense, easily annoyed
Ciri, Cassandra: Fights melee well (sorry Shadowheart), royalty/noble but rejects it, very long ass names, normie ears
Shadowheart, Ciri: were pawns for greater powers, bi/pan (book ciri was at least), brilliant green eyes, betrayed by an elf/drow, elven blood (ciri sorta does), weird about drowning (book ciri)
All three: loves smudgy, black eye shadows, softies underneath, traumatic childhoods, will backslap you like the lil bitch you are, lives in a very unsafe fantasy world, had nice male mentors
The trifecta big cvnt energy 🤌👸💃
PS. I was robbed of white hair Cassandra
obsessed with Shadowheart (she/her, 26) AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Nightingale_N7/profile
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