I love how all of the companions' stories revolve around autonomy and I love how some of the romances show the whole "I love you for who you are"

Don't love how so many people are misinterpreting them though

daily affirmations

[TIL Gale likes to cook for the gang, so]

Gale: How do you take it

Astarion: In the ass.

Everybody:

Tav: Pretty sure he meant your steak, Astarion

Astarion having such a high lockpicking proficiency is so funny to me, like. What's he doing? Picking locks on the houses he can't enter without an invitation?

this is canon to me

My BG3 Tav just thinks Sovereign Spaw can get it...

(Jordan is a half-elf eldritch knight. real shit at talking to people, but excellent track record with inhuman beings... like myconids)

Evil Meow Meow Minthara

People can make the “I can fix him” joke about Astarion girlies all they want, because you know what? You CAN fix him! In a world of unfixable men, Baldur’s Gate 3 is a haven for the broken, the beaten, and the damned

Why I love being a wild magic sorcerer.

bonus:

dark urge

karlach beloved!

my astarion apologist agenda is in full force

Fun fact: I did not know Astarion had the Charlatan background before picking it for my Tav so every time they acted in-character they both got inspiration and it just became this

sovereign Spaw
🌠🍄

actually i'm crazy about this now. astarion and gale are perceived by the fandom in a lot of different ways solely because astarion has been clocked as "the sexy one" and gale has been clocked as "the incel" and it is sooo fucking annoying to read about half of the time.

like people are willing to stomach the idea of astarion being rude and willing to do bad things as a survival tactic, because those things don't stop them from degrading him to the descriptor "sexy" and nothing else. people talk about his addiction to blood positively because the way you sate it is by doing something perceived as intimate. so they believe sexy elf man is sexy and nothing else and then whine when he perpetuates the cycle of abuse and doesn't actually care about them.

and then meanwhile gale, who is arrogant and a little too ambitious for his own good (but still has the common decency of "hey bad thing bad"), is treated more poorly because how are you supposed to degrade him to being attractive/sexy and nothing else when his suffering is much more impersonal?? HIS addiction is now a haha funny crack joke because it's not "sexy". HIS relationship is "haha he fumbled a goddess" because he constantly talks about his ex. because he has issues. and mystra is, while not the person who put it there directly, the reason he's got a bomb in his chest

so you have this issue where people are sooo determined to mischaracterize people to the point where they make astarion the "hot twink" or whatever (COMPLETELY ignoring that's the entire point, he wants you to think that because that's what he's been forced to behave as for survival) and gale the "annoying incel man" because there's such a difference of what they can and can't sexualize about the two of them.

this isn't a real genuine issue or anything but it makes traversing this fandom SUPER annoying when people hate one of my favorite little dudes for something they mistakenly love astarion for. like i'm sorry astarion is not your flirty little meow meow he IS putting up an act he IS dissociating throughout half of his romance scenes i hope you know that. and also gale is traumatized and not the "nice guy complex" man for wanting to win back mystra's favor. hope that helps