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Bc she has become a lich. Firstly bc that makes her an insane hypocrite. She said she didn't want to live as an undead anymore. She swore that was half the reason she was rejecting him- denying him- TURNING. His gift down. He doesn't want to phrase it as anything but what it WAS <<< guy with a bunch of insanely weird siscon shaped hangups. Which people still occasionally hassle me about waaaa why do they have to be siblings. Well it's a gothic okay. Astarion spent a billion years playing evil incest vampire house far be it from me to deny him his particular flavor of torment once he escapes the crimson palace however briefly.

Anywho he's fookin fuming bc he had snatched at her arm after the brain blew up to taunt her right like you think you can deal with the pain forever but you're weak and you can't and you'll come BEGGING for me after long. And you'll be lucky if I say yes after you humiliated me in front of our friends. And Angelique ofc was like they aren't your friends. They're clearly- barely even my friends. My only friend is gone. But you never had any, did you? Not gale. Certainly not me.

HELL yes!!!! the two most different answers i could give!!!!!

35. If your OC had to kill someone, how would they do it? If killing is a near-daily occurrence to them, what is their preferred method?

Dusk: If, after doing absolutely everything possible to avoid killing someone, said someone had to die, and it had to be his own two hands to do it, he'd probably pull them into the Umbra and then just... leave them there. Where they would experience an infinity in between nanoseconds, and with their whole self in the realm between the physical world and that of the mind, their memory would die, too, and their spirit would be forever out of the grasp of Lib.

Hi!! Thank you!!

11. What does your OC carry around in their pockets? What about their bag?

Hmm... at the start of the story, they have approximately 10 hidden pockets on their cloak to hold smaller bits of money, as well as a coinpurse hidden under their shirt for the bulk of their cash. That and a spare bandanna or two to tie back their locs. They don't carry a bag, but most of the time they do have a quiver with a couple of arrows in it, and they keep their bow on their hip, since it's a reflex that curves all the way into a circle when unstrung!

42. How easily influenced by others is your OC?

Depends who we're talking about! They're notoriously easy to sway when it comes to their siblings making puppy eyes, except for, like, one extremely notable case in book 4. They also care a lot about other people's wellbeing and survival, to the point that even in life-or-death situations, they do their damnedest not to kill anyone, so if you need something to happen in order to stay alive/safe, they'll listen unquestioning unless it impacts someone else.

hi!! thanks for dropping by :D!! i'm gonna answer these for Lakia, since she's been on my mind a lot lately!!

1. Where was your OC born, and where did they grow up?

Lakia was born in Tal'Ren, which is the capital city of Sieril! She stayed there with both of her dads until she was about 4 years old, at which point her grandmother made her son come back to Impalfahr in the Maelands, where the family (minus one dad) stayed for the next few years. Most of her time growing up was spent pretty much evenly split between Tal'Ren, Impalfahr, and traveling between the two, since they're an ocean apart!

8. What does your OC's family look like?

WELL. Lakia's brother, Isa, is 4 years older than her, and they're quite close even though they disagree a LOT. Emerald is the one they both think of as "Dad", since they didn't spend nearly as much time with Typha, their other father, since he stayed in Sieril and due to his job as a knight, wasn't in Tal'Ren itself to be with them for a solid half the time they were in town. Their mom, Wisteria, died giving birth to Lakia, which meant that her parents actually couldn't get married; Sieril requires a minimum of 3 people for a marriage to be legit, and they were in the midst of a several-year-long engagement (culturally required) when Wisteria died. Typha and Emerald still haven't recovered from that, and it's left them in a weird space between married-or-not and together-or-not for almost 20 years. Lakia still hesitates to call Typha a father to this day, even though both of them really really want to have that kind of relationship.

She also has an absolute monster of a grandmother, Actaea. She is in fact the main antagonist of the series. Abusive, controlling, she's the reason for almost every scar on Lakia's body, not to mention Emerald and Isa's. Typha and Wisteria never knew, otherwise Lakia and Isa would've stayed in Tal'Ren for good, and honestly, Actaea probably would have found herself at the wrong end of Typha's weapon the first time he laid sight on her after finding out.

She doesn't have a grandfather (or at least doesn't know who he was; no one but Actaea knows that), though her great-great-grandfather was still around for the first couple years of Lakia's life. Her great-grandparent was dead long before Emerald was born, and also never married anyone.

And the real whopper: Lakia's greatx30 grandma, Veratrum, is one of the Eternal Three. She's the monarch of Sieril, and has been for 1015 years. This is why Emerald was needed in the Maelands in the first place; their family has served as the diplomats between Sieril and the Maelands for 960 years of that reign, and Actaea needed all the help she could get, even though Emerald was *checks notes* 26 at the time she called him back.

A spawn can take endless punishment, he tells her. And she tells him she can sympathize— but she doesn't remember her own torture. She doesn't remember how she was taken apart. Sometimes, during the scant few days she was allowed to remain conscious, Vykrum would take her out to eat a fine meal and put her in a pretty dress. Braid her hair, tell her she was beautiful. And then sit her down, pat her knee, and tell her about all the people that got to fuck her dead oblivious body. Or the ways Vykrum would use her ribs to hold tools, metal slotted between the bone and flesh like a knife rack.

Astarion died most often in the dungeons. Cazador would hang him from the walls on hooks or split his stomach open to push rats in his guts. Sew him back up and let them chew their way out. It happened the first time Astarion said no to a mark, so Astarion didn't say no again. He didn't usually get specific marks— he could chose his own. But sometimes Astarion wanted to say no. Sometimes he had good reason to. Yet he didn't. Not after that.

Angelique of course never said no because she couldn't, she couldn't even think. But she's died a million deaths, and been in a million bodies. Vykrum was kind enough to stich some of her old flesh onto new forms— and her wings certainly follow her wherever her soul goes. Flesh slamming between her shoulder blades, sinew clawing to connect until it rots aqay again, and the whole process starts over.

But Astarion is envious of her raw strength. Physically and mentally, her arcane talent, her resilience and her stubborn nature. He is cowardly and conniving and very clever, but he isn't organized or determined like Angelique and he doesn't have the ability to demand respect the way she does, nor can he get others to easily do his bidding through sheer willpower and chilly intimidation.

Of course in their time apart, they change. She becomes more withdrawn, develops moral OCD, her bipolarism gets worse because of trauma, the holes in her memory make her easier to gaslight… and Astarion grows more manipulative, less willing to be vulnerable, his self esteem plummets, his ability to relate to others weakens.

So i don't think astarion is attracted to angelique physically whatsoever. not because she is plain— although he himself has admitted he targeted beautiful people when he could— but because he's yk. A sex positive ace that got traumatized into hating sex. perhaps before he was demi, or grey, but now his attraction to other people is basically a shriveled raisin.

When they were younger they resented each other, but needed each other, and missed each other when they parted. When they were older, in act 1, they Just Hated Each Other. In act 2, those feelings soften in to… well I don't know how else to put it. They get a crush on one another. They're basic strangers, and they haven't seen each other since they were both teens. They exchanged letters for a time when Angelique was at the monastery, but ofc they were both eventually put in their separate torture nexuses and fell out of contact entirely.

I like dismantling the idea of family this way. Is it still incest if my body isn't the one I was born with? If I'm a ship of Theseus, all my parts gradually replaced? If we don't know each other, didn't understand each other, couldn't stand each other as children. Is that incest if I fall in love with you, if I don't even realize that's what's happening.

Because while I do think Astarion is eroticizing some aspects of their closeness, it's unconscious. And at times it is difficult to tell how much of it is fetishizing the only close relationship he has and how much of it is sentimentality. Keeping the thread pulled from her stitches or the ribbon she pulled from her own hair to tie his back in the temple of shar during the trials because it's gotten too long during the shadow lands shenanigans.

To Angelique's end, she wants to play dress up with him lmao. She likes the idea of being able to take him to the shops in Baldur's Gate. Buying fabric or hairpins for him. She lives through him vicariously and always has, but now she also just. Wants him to know he's still allowed to live? It makes her long to go back to the temple of lathander, just to keep looking for the cloak of dragomir (lets a vampire walk in the sun if they give up their powers) because she doesn't want him to lose that when she finally dies. Because her spirit will pass on, when she kills her murderer. That's how being a revenant works after all. Not that she's mentioned that bit.

In the rewrite of bg3 that exists only in my head, and she's a sun elf (which if you dont know is actually a subrace of high elves) - he's a Fey'ri. The demonic offspring of sun elves, like a tiefling to humans or a tanarukk to orcs... they're still twins, but he was born with the recessive hellspawn gene. Their mother was so desperate for a male heir to their dying noble family that she begged a devil to give her a son instead of a daughter... so she slept with the devil, and the daughter in her stomach got a twin. Pops my bubblegum.