#frog princess

(The Grimm Legends vs. Disney)

Ship Tournament, Round 1 — Match 27 / 30

Lae'zel/Shadowheart

"lae’zel/shadowheart is THE enemies to lovers blueprint in bg3 idc. they start off genuinely ready to slit each other’s throats over the artefact, the gith/sharran distrust is off the charts, and somehow it turns into this insane potential for two women who were both raised inside brutal religious systems slowly realising they were lied to by the people they worshipped"

vs. Astarion/Karlach

"she would hype him up so hard after every fight. he stabs one goblin and she’s like “YESSS GET EM, STAR!!!” and he’s standing there covered in blood pretending he’s too sophisticated to enjoy this. he is enjoying this so much."

"They both have this huge hunger for life after being denied basic autonomy for years. Astarion wants pleasure, safety, revenge, freedom, pretty things, sunlight, control over his own body. Karlach wants touch, food, dancing, sex, a home, friends, everything she’s been missing since Avernus. They’re both clawing their way back toward actually living instead of just surviving. Karlach’s honesty would be terrifying for Astarion at first, but also kind of impossible to distrust forever. She doesn’t do coy manipulation very well. She likes him, she says so. She wants him around, she says so."

Why would they fight, when they're in love??

details below the cut

I feel like i mentioned this before but here we go again: Shadowheart who is lowkey a fujoshi. The party is struggling to make money, so Shadowheart starts writing yaoi novels about her companions, but renamed. For examples, Gale is now Greg, Astarion is now Star, and Wyll is now Bill. Halsin is simply Hal.

When she first listened to Gale and Astarion bicker on the road? She wrote that down, mailed it, and made a solid 400 gold. When Astarion confessed Wyll was the type of prince he’d dream of marrying at 13? She wrote a lovestory of a prince from a different kingdom being saved by a charming prince and his horse “Zora” (who unfortunately dies), and made 1000 gold. When Gale and Wyll softly talked over the fire about all the shit they used to get up to in their childhood? A multi-chapter love story about childhood lovers reunited got her thousands of gold.

(She can’t even count how much gold she got when she discovered how large halsin was compared to astarion, but let’s just say the party got a nice upgrade to their supplies and remained oblivious).

At some point, she and Lae’zel stop their fighting, and even fall in love. At another, Lae’zel discovers Shadowheart’s hobby, and instead of being disgusted, she simply offers to read over it. Sometimes, she frowns and says “that’s not how this physically works,” and will demonstrate certain… scenes… to help Shadowheart out. Needless to say, Shadowheart’s skills and romance with Lae’zel was on FIRE.

Even though Shadowheart mailed her stories out to baldurs gate and it was under a pen name, it was only a matter of time before they caught up to her. Or more accurately, they finally arrived in Baldur’s Gate and Shadowheart was mortified when they stepped inside a book store, and saw a line for the release of one of her stories. On one hand, more gold and more people appreciating her work! On the other, her companions were growing interested in the commotion.

To make matters worse, Astarion absolutely LOVES poking fun at erotic literature. He loves to read with Gale and Wyll as a little “book club,” offering commentary on insane and undoable positions. Which means Shadowheart is sweating buckets while talking to Karlach, listening as Astarion laughs at how Greg and Ryan (Rolan to his blissful unknowing knowledge) cannot possibly do this pose.

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