I write BG3 fanfic about having a bad time and learning to carry on anyway! It's good fun! And also devastating!
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Going to be a slight delay on the next chapter, I'm afraid- I'd had something of a light headache the past few days that's made it difficult to focus on things, and I haven't been sleeping too well, so I'm aiming for the 30th of this month instead- hopefully, I should feel better by then.
And, hopefully, there shouldn't be egregious delays moving forward- after the next chapter we will be moving firmly out of the set-up period and into the proper meat, which should, fingers crossed, excite me enough to write to power through any body pain distractions.
i write for myself not for comments but dear god getting comments does so remind me of the joy of writing and sharing something
I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human
Breaking news! Fic author starts writing a fic thinking it will be short and it turns out to be long! It is not the first time nor will it be the last!
As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.
do u ever get a comment on a fic thats just so sweet that ur like Maybe slaving over 24k of fanfiction was worth it for user SprinkleTrashcan2012 to leave a three paragraph comment
Does Eats Chairs... eat chairs, perchance?
How could you tell?
Unfortunately options for chair-eating are limited in-game but I had to let my girl get her enrichment somehow so I went around smashing every chair I could and pretending that counted (they should give dragonborns a bite ability, those chompers could so some damage if they wanted to), which is how I, quite happily, stumbled across the Club of Hill Giant Strength which I then let her use for the rest of the game because of course.
LOOK AT HER, SHE'S SO PRETTY, SHE'S SO CUTE. I'd let her eat every chair in my house, and so should you-
She's a blue dragonborn so she can spew lightning as well, which is objectively the coolest breath weapon to have. This blue colouration, with the little highlights of gold looks so good to me- it kind of reminds me of the giant adra statue in Pillars of Eternity, if people know what that is. And the mellow fruit dye on her armour, she's just *chef's kiss*. I am never not thinking of her.
Her run was started mostly from me wanting to see what all this Durge stuff was about, and also wanting to romance Gale because his nerdy charms had bewitched me, so my profile picture is actually from a screencap of her the moment after she finished very happily stabbing Gale to death!
^ pictured- someone whose save is about to be reloaded, because I wasn't going to leave it like that. She and Gale are very happy together in Waterdeep with no-one doing any ascending to godhood or accepting godhood or anything of that sort.
^ pictured- someone who is about to smooch that tiny little wizard to within an inch of his life.
I do love that in the epilogue when astarion is like “so it turns out killing people is actually fine as long as you’re doing it in the name of hero-ing” you can be like “yeah bro I tried to tell you that” and he’s like “yeah but I don’t listen to you when you talk”
Character Designs For Wings Outstretched - Part 3
First one here!
Second one here!
This (final!) part is for Priqrin, introduced in chapter 5.
No mods used this time, it's all base game stuff including dyes. I love love love the way dragonborns look in this game, I could spend the whole day just creating different dragonborns and then just staring at them. (Someone ask my about my other Tav, Eats Chairs, sometime - I want an excuse to show pictures of her she looks great.)
Priqrin -
We haven't been over his backstory much yet, but he's a draconic sorcerer (white) on top of being a dragonborn, so he's the most dragon someone can be without being an actual dragon. His main class is wizard though, because he preferred to learn magic through researching and understanding it rather than relying on instinct, like a total scholar nerd - though his wizard robes are still in black and white, to honor that draconic heritage.
I also gave him a tail, just to enhance that dragon connection. He's very proud of being so dragon-like, and having multiple types of dragon in his blood.
So his colouration is black, and then, uh, black again (the white ones didn't look right, so I used a black one that had a border of white - it counts as white, okay? I mean Rilice doesn't even use green for her scales, she's got a variation of silver because it looked better, it's fine, no-one's scales are actually using the colour they're meant to be, it's fine!) There's a hint of red there, too, around the back of his head flaps which I think looks nice and cute and sinister.
His surname he uses briefly was just from me getting the Draconic words for black and white from the fan wiki and then smooshing them together - but that's mostly because I don't think he actually has a surname in an official capacity either, he's just used to people expecting to hear them, so he throws that in now. (But then Wyll introduced him and Turmeric by first name only, because he's a sweet boy who realised she might feel awkward being the only one without, so Priqrin just had to be like, "oh, okay, I guess I'm the weird one here.")
Not that much else to say about him, because we haven't learned all that much about him yet. I'm sure I'll think of more to add when the story unfolds a little more, but, at the very least, there are no more people to introduce from now on! Our cast (the original characters at least) are all here now!
Apolocheese if this is a question you've already answered, but I was wondering, if Tumeric was a companion in bg3 rather than the player-character, what would her story be like throughout Act 1, 2 & 3? Her personal quests etc? Would it follow the same beats as Graveyards? And how could a Tav influence the outcome? I hope this question makes sense lol - and no pressure to answer!!
(P.s. adore your writing btw, and loving all the new characters popping up in Wings/Talons)
Oh, no bother at all - thank you so much, I very much appreciate the chance to ramble about my disaster girl - and what a long ramble it has become, I'm going to have to add a read more in there.
Turmeric's arc as a companion probably wouldn't really start until Act 2, I think. Before then, she might talk about Klear as the person who got her into being a bard if you had high approval and pushed her a little, but other than that she wouldn't be sharing anything. To compensate for the lack of information in that regard, she'd encourage whoever the player character was to talk about themselves instead (which would probably mean a multiple choice backstory for custom Tavs), which she would hope would also have the rather convenient side effect of getting them to trust her more, if it worked.
That aloof but friendly image would start to break a little in Act 2, especially if you brought her to areas like the House of Healing, or if she was there when you saw Isobel for the first time - giving you a chance to jump in and ask her if there's something wrong. You'd have a few chances at perception/insight and then persuasion checks depending on where you took her too. If you had high approval she might come to you herself in a long rest and tell you she's... familiar with the area, if she thinks sharing her knowledge of the place might help - but I think if you played it right, and missed/failed all of those checks and then played it right, it would be entirely possible to get through the whole game with her without ever learning a single thing about her past.
If you passed those checks, she'd admit her past as a nurse in the House of Healing to you, but she wouldn't go beyond that. Knowing about her past would change her comments around the Shadow-cursed Lands, though- she'd openly talk about what it used it be like there/people she used to know/parts of it she didn't know about/how things have changed.
The conclusion of her Act 2 arc would depend on whether you knew about her past/whether you brought her to final confrontation in Moonrise. If you knew about her past but didn't bring her, she'd just stay back at camp and talk to you about what happened later. If you didn't know and didn't bring her, she'd just turn up by herself anyway because the pressure of keeping it all to herself would drive her to confront Ketheric anyway.
Either way, if she's turned up by herself, or if you chose to bring her along, she'll get kidnapped by Ketheric when he takes Aylin as well (like in More Graves to Dig, but she wouldn't have the prism with her, so they'd just teleport straight there as he normally does with Aylin, no need to complicate things) and what happens in the confrontation in the mindflayer colony will depend on whether you know about her past.
If you know, it's up to you - you do all the talking, and if you manage to talk Ketheric into the pit she'll run away from him and rejoin the group, if you don't and you're just fighting Ketheric, she'll start the fight prone and on a fixed low initiative as Ketheric throws her to the ground and out of the way - he might attack her, but he'll only aim to knock her and not kill her- he still needs her for his little plan, after all.
If you don't know - she'll do the talking, manage to convince Ketheric into the pit, and then immediately let herself get killed by Myrkul.
Unlike the fic, you'd then get a chance from Withers after the fight to go into the fugue plane waiting room and talk to her, if you want to (you can just choose to leave her dead and not bother if you'd rather) - finally having a definite chance to learn about her past even if you failed all the checks before. You get a chance to convince her you want her alive even if she's a bit of a liar, easier depending on how high your approval is with her, and if you succeed she'd promise to tell you the rest of it, and then you get a dramatic cutscene of her coming back to life in your arms like a disney princess that people would use for romantic model swaps all the time.
If you fail to convince her, she'd stay dead, and you'd get a shot of her corpse in the cutscene when you left the shadow-cursed lands - grim if you didn't break the curse, a touch hopeful if you did- flowers blooming around her, new life, that sort of thing.
At the start of Act 3, if she was alive, she'd tell you about the rest of her history- like Exhuming the Past- though probably using the tadpole connection for some visuals so that her just talking wouldn't bore the player to death. You could really easily get her approval from Neutral 0 to Exceptional 100 right here just by accepting her and comforting her at regular intervals, which would help later- I think I'd put it just after killing either Orin or Gortash, whoever you went with first- when you'd get a cutscene with her where you could talk about your player characters plans for the future after you defeat the Absolute, and you'd get your chance to romance her here - yeah, you wouldn't even get a chance to start a romance with her until Act 3 (you could try to flirt before, but she'd laugh it of or deflect and it wouldn't really go anywhere). But, she's polyamorous - so you could romance someone in the meantime if they're chill with polyamory, which would merge very nicely with Halsin's romance if you're otherwise only dating him (undoubtedly leading to some of the horniest party banter you've ever heard between them).
OR, in a way round learning about her past at all - in a cheaty/meta-y/safeguard way - if she was already dead for whatever reason before you went to Moonrise and you only resurrected her with Withers after the fight with Myrkul was over, that part of the quest just wouldn't trigger and you could skip over it without her getting kidnapped, or learning about her past. This would effectively end the quest and skip the rest of her storyline as well (including the chance to romance her), as it would be too late for her to consider talking about her past now, so up until the epilogue all you would really know about her is she's just some bard from Baldur's Gate, which is kinda funny.
Hopefully this answered your question, and thank you again for asking! I hope you'll continue to enjoy my writing in future- knowing people like it makes me very happy, and really motivates me to write more! ^_^
we shouldn't save marriage but we should save divorce
Chapter 5 is out- (Oh, baby it's) Flesh-eaters(!)
I did so want to go with the full silly title, but as I was finalising it, it began to feel a bit disrespectful, considering the... contents.
Yes, plenty of classic More Graves' trademark self-berating monologues in this one, folks, if that's what you're into!
And we’re off! Next story is up on AO3, and updates should come at least once every ten days as with previous (I just realised I’m working off a tenday-based schedule, this was not intentional), and I will try to post here in case of a delay.
There's going to be a one-day delay on the next chapter upload because of AO3's maintenance downtime today, so it should be up tomorrow (and on the bright side, this gives me more time to polish it a bit)!
how do you do, fellow Creatives™
Admittedly I have been getting more silly with chapter titles recently, but I'm not sure I could quite get away with using this one for the actual update.
No matter how much I want to...
BTW i see these posts all the time like "ohhh i dont know what to comment on fics.." and every response is "keysmashes! or hearts!! anything works :3" and thats GREAT!! thats helpful!!
but: consider. if u genuinely like analyzing writing.. do u know ur just allowed to go through and quote your favorite parts and ramble abt what they mean to u and the author will LOSE IT WITH HYPE?
genuinely. i felt SO WEIRD the first time i did it.. but like. holy shit authors love it. its crack for authors. the first time i did it, it was on a fic that hadnt updated in half a year, give or take, and the author made 3 updates that month BECAUSE OF MY COMMENT.
LIKE. as an author every comment is INCREDIBLE!!! but also, dont feel like your comment has to be short or otherwise ur invasive or smth!! authors ADORE long comments more than ANYTHING.
I think being a shapeshifter would fix me
Just realised I haven't shown off Turmeric's new look yet!
When I was first playing with adding mods for some visual uniqueness for new characters, I found this 'winter plait' in "More Hair 2" (by eleanorroos) and immediately fell in love with it for her. I was already planning on changing her hair anyway and this is absolutely perfect in how it looks like a natural evolution from her previous hair - even using the same bit of ear-covering fringe at the front.
I also changed the colour - just by removing the highlights - because all the turmeric's been beaten out of her hair by now, there isn't a hint of yellow left in there. Her current name is now more a remnant of a bygone time as she grows more distant from the 'just a normal bard' phase of her life, and it shows.
In the story, I'm saying the reason for her rapid hair growth is the effect of a wild magic surge from Honeymeans. It was down to her ankles at first, which Bingemir laughed himself silly to see when the next delivery arrived (and Hush was thankfully willing to help in cutting it). Turmeric definitely gained a new respect for Orin's giant braid as she desperately tried to wrangle her own mass of Rapunzel hair before it could continue to trail in the snow and catch against the ridges of the tomb's walls any longer.
“But Tav/Durge, what’s worse - kidnapping Astarion or destroying the muppets?”
Had so much fun puppet-ifying everyone else in the origins crew. And if there ever were a muppet-ified BG3 movie, Astarion would make a fantastic non muppet. He’d probably have a stroke or something.
The problem with getting birthday chocolates is everyone feels the need to get such fancy ones. I don't need these extravagant selection boxes- just get me a basic bar of Tesco's own milk chocolate or something, I'd prefer it! I'm cheap! I'm cheap, baby!
astarion's comments about hating horses and how horses hate him checks because horses are great at vibe checks, and the dude has absolutely rancid vibes. i do know who horses would absolutely love, though, the blade of frontiers himself. wyll was a horse girl change my mind. that man loves him a horse and can ride bareback no issue on the most ill-tempered mare. he's a horse whisperer.
"Darling!"
"...darling?"
not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.