#oc mereth

A self care [any] day is such a sweet idea! Please, everyone, feel free to tag me for this again~ ♥

Self-care tags!

That was surprisingly hard. There are some I'd have liked to include, some that fit the favourite category but I'm not willing to share... well. And I stared at all of them for way too long now so nothing makes any sense anymore anyway.

Not all of them have their own post here- I hope I'll change that in the near future~ and I know the first one is somewhat cheated. But I really put this together as one picture to post on Bluesky. And I really like it- so. Yes.

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Tags! This is my standard tag list. It's no pressure anyway- but please. Share what you'd like to share. If you don't do VP, I'm sure you have screenshots. Show meeee! No need to only fetch the fancy stuff, okay? Good. ♥

@aoifethephoenixqueen @bongbubbles @aerin67 @stupidsexywizard @perpetualmaladaptivedaydream @dykestelmane @missfortunetherogue @aristenfromwarsaw @ankhegs-in-my-salad @toomanyfamiliars @lucretiouswept @wasteful-sam @lutethebodies @babydinosaur930 @burnt-by-marigolds @jellyfitzjelly @fireflyeyes @saylofwaterdeep @citruskushh @bhaal-battle-beer-bard @riddlerosehearts @tavyliasin @shandoratheexplorer @amaidienfishi @obisooth

I hope I did not forget anyone. If so- come here and yell at me, I'll edit the post and tag you.

And also, little reminder~ See this post here and let me know if you'd like to be tagged in things like this or whatever else. I think there are a few new moots around who I'm not sure about with this. I'm happy to tag each and everyone of you- you'd just have to tell me.

Yes-hello-I'm-alive-and-late tags! I tried to not tag too many who have already done this.. but- ya know. Drop a link or something, if you've done this already and I did not see it. ♥

@malicedragoness @aoifethephoenixqueen @bongbubbles @aerin67 @stupidsexywizard @dykestelmane @missfortunetherogue @aristenfromwarsaw @ankhegs-in-my-salad @toomanyfamiliars @wasteful-sam @lutethebodies @babydinosaur930 @burnt-by-marigolds @optimisticgrey @jellyfitzjelly @fireflyeyes @saylofwaterdeep @citruskushh @bhaal-battle-beer-bard @riddlerosehearts @tavyliasin @shandoratheexplorer @amaidienfishi @luna-struck @obisooth

Siren There’s something haunting in you — a softness with sharp edges, a quiet allure born not from vanity but from emotional resonance. Sirens are creatures of longing, and you inherit their ability to draw people in without trying. You feel deeply, speak vividly, and have a voice (literal or metaphorical) that shifts the atmosphere of a room. But beneath that beauty lies sorrow: the fear of being misunderstood, or worse, being loved for the wrong reasons. The siren bloodline makes you magnetic, melancholy, and powerful in ways you rarely acknowledge.

Vampire There is an ancient thirst woven into your ancestry — not just for blood, but for essence, for the parts of people they try to hide. The vampire in your veins carries centuries of watchfulness, of studying faces by candlelight and understanding the tremor beneath a heartbeat. You read power the way others read weather: instinctively, unavoidably. This bloodline gives you a strange, elegant hunger — for devotion, for certainty, for emotional depth that does not flinch or flee. You want bonds sealed in something stronger than words. But such insight comes with its own shadow; once you’ve tasted the truth of someone, you can never pretend you didn’t. You don’t just see people — you sense them, and that is your inheritance, your burden, and your silent, red-lit gift.

Werewolf There is a fire in your lineage that refuses to dim, no matter how tightly you try to cage it. The wolf in your blood is not chaos for its own sake — it is fierce devotion, the kind that scars. Your emotions arrive like a hunt: fast, merciless, and impossible to ignore. Anger is your warning signal, passion your battle cry, and beneath it all lies a bone-deep instinct to protect what is yours, even at the cost of yourself. But this heritage carries a shadow. You fear the moment your strength becomes too much — when your voice becomes a snarl, when your courage turns reckless, when your love becomes something sharp. Loyalty, for you, is a brutal thing: a pact forged through fire, blood, and survival, not soft sentiment. You were never meant to be lukewarm. You were meant to burn, to guard, to challenge, to ache. Your greatest danger and your greatest power are the same — the wild, ungovernable heart beating in your chest.

Banshee There is something inside you that hears the end before it comes. Your instincts ring like a distant wail when something is about to break — relationships, opportunities, trust, illusions. This inner warning system makes you hyper-attuned to shifts in tone, silence, and subtle signals others dismiss. People may call you dramatic or sensitive, but really you are prophetic in ways that unsettle. You sense decline, endings, and emotional death with painful clarity, often long before anyone else does. Though this gift can isolate you, it’s also your greatest protection. You carry the grief of generations in your voice, and when you speak, something ancient listens.

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Gentle tags~ Late again- as usual, drop a link or tag me if you've done this already, I tried to not tag the ones where I know they've done this, but.. yeah. Y'all get it.

@met-in-a-tavern @malicedragoness @aoifethephoenixqueen @bongbubbles @aerin67 @stupidsexywizard @perpetualmaladaptivedaydream @dykestelmane @missfortunetherogue @aristenfromwarsaw @ankhegs-in-my-salad @toomanyfamiliars @wasteful-sam @lutethebodies @babydinosaur930 @burnt-by-marigolds @jellyfitzjelly @fireflyeyes @saylofwaterdeep @citruskushh @bhaal-battle-beer-bard @tavyliasin @shandoratheexplorer @amaidienfishi @luna-struck @obisooth, maybe do this for Kar'niss? ♥

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Read more about the OCs here: Hazel | Mereth | Ila | Féline

Simple tags!

@met-in-a-tavern @malicedragoness @aoifethephoenixqueen @bongbubbles @aerin67 @stupidsexywizard @perpetualmaladaptivedaydream @dykestelmane @missfortunetherogue @aristenfromwarsaw @ankhegs-in-my-salad @toomanyfamiliars @lucretiouswept @wasteful-sam @babydinosaur930 @burnt-by-marigolds @cursed-nyxan @optimisticgrey @jellyfitzjelly @fireflyeyes @saylofwaterdeep @citruskushh @bhaal-battle-beer-bard @riddlerosehearts @tavyliasin @shandoratheexplorer @amaidienfishi @luna-struck @obisooth

Right- I'm so terribly late with this... I'll just tag my tag list.

Maybe y'all would like to do this again? Either way, feel free to leave me a link or tag me in the post you already have made for this.

@met-in-a-tavern @malicedragoness @aoifethephoenixqueen @bongbubbles @aerin67 @perpetualmaladaptivedaydream @dykestelmane @missfortunetherogue @aristenfromwarsaw @ankhegs-in-my-salad @toomanyfamiliars @wasteful-sam @lutethebodies @burnt-by-marigolds @cursed-nyxan @optimisticgrey @jellyfitzjelly @fireflyeyes @saylofwaterdeep @citruskushh @bhaal-battle-beer-bard @riddlerosehearts @tavyliasin @shandoratheexplorer @amaidienfishi @luna-struck @obisooth

Does your OC have any nervous ticks or self-soothing habits?

Yes. He is the overly neat and clean type anyway. But when stressed, he will be seen scrubbing his hands and forearms even more than usual. The worse he is stressed out, the more compulsive this behaviour will be. He also is very reserved and mostly keeps a large distance- both physically and emotionally- to other people. This gets 'worse' when he is stressed, too. He will shut down completely and might even go missing for several hours to days.

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Let's say your OC got kidnapped, what would save them?

What might save the kidnappers from him might be the better question here. As he is the child of Bhaal, there might be some divine intervention or just Sceleritas coming to assist. But he would likely not need any help. As an Open Hand monk, he is well capable of taking out a whole bunch of people without any weapon, noise, or even mess of any sort. If that's not enough- he has a Slayer form. That should do the trick then.

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If your OC has a partner, are they opposite or rather similar?

Canonically, Mereth had two people who could be considered partners in his life. I have yet to explore both relationships more.

Gortash was the first. Read a bit about them here (sfw) and here (nsfw). Brought together by their respective gods, over time Mereth became Gortash's favourite assassin. On the outside, they might have seemed like they actually hated each other. Maybe they did. Mereth would be the type to hate loving someone. But I think below this surface, they both tried to keep intact, to guard their true feelings from their gods and each other, there was a love that grew from a deep understanding and maybe even defiance. Because their love was doomed from the beginning.. But who are Bane and Bhaal to tell them how to feel, hm?

They were quite different, though. @aerin67 amazingly captured their overall vibe in the sfw fic. “You telegraph every strike,” Mereth muttered, parrying a feint with the flick of his wrist, barely watching. “Power doesn’t hide,” Gortash replied, smirking. “It commands.” “Honesty has no place in battle.” “Nor does humility.” [...] “You fight like you’re delivering a poorly planned sermon,” he grinned through his teeth. “All restraint, no revelation.” “And you talk too much.” “So I’ve been told.”

The amnesia that followed the Durge canon brain damage made Mereth forget about Gortash. And on their travels, Astarion managed to get Mereth to warm up to him. Again a partner for Mereth who was quite different to himself. But their connection was different to what Mereth had with Gortash. With Astarion, he felt safe. Seen, even. As a person- not as 'a knife, used too often'. As much as he could, with the amnesia and the urges, that is. He found Astarion to be accepting and deeply understanding of what he was going through with the urges and slowly getting behind who he actually was. And while Astarion was not your typical 'good person', he did encourage Mereth to try and resist the urges. To try and free himself of the influence of Bhaal. Mereth liked how Astarion seemingly never made a big thing of this whole being a good person thing. And Mereth knew Astarion loved him. Whether he was able to resist the urges recently, or not. He still could be seen rolling his eyes at Astarion's mannerisms, him being loud and sometimes taking as much room as he did, from time to time. But he somewhat admired this about him. Maybe even hoped to be able to let go of some of his restraint somewhen, too.

In the end, it was this understanding, Mereth wanting to make things better for Astarion, that lead to the end of ...everything. Knowing how it feels to be in the hand of an all controlling entity, Mereth was easy to talk into helping Astarion to ascend. He genuinely thought this would be the best for Astarion, and then for him, too. But he was not prepared for how fundamentally the ritual would change the person he loved. He tried to make peace with it. But how Astarion kept acting after the ritual, started feeling too much like how he had been treated by Bhaal and the other people in his life before. With his already somewhat weakened mind, he got talked into becoming Astarion's spawn consort then, too. And he really just hoped this would make things better- like before again. It did not. He quickly realized how he exchanged one all controlling entity for another, while all he wanted was to be free. So when the time to make a final decision came, he remembered how he resisted the urges, resisted Bhaal, was ready for the consequences it would have to cut the ties to the god for good- but also how he lost his sweet Astarion. How there was no way to bring him back. The power the now vampire lord held over him, and how there was no escape. Except- Mereth embraced Bhaal. Took the power he offered him, and in return fulfilled his will after all: bringing an end to this world. To Astarion, to anything holding any power over him, to himself.

Gortash should have been there with him, as he eventually died alone on the altar of Bhaal. He remembered him, in the end. The first and last time he truly felt free. Maybe he even smiled. Just this one time.

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Is there a story behind making your OC? What inspired you?

Much like with Hazel- no. Mereth was the character for my second playthrough. I knew it would be a Durge run. I thought drow look cool and somewhat would fit the ominous vibe- and went from there. No backstory or anything. I did not know anything about the canon Durge story even. I managed to play super 'blind' for my first two playthroughs and still had no contact to the fandom. The story I told above- that was what happened in game. The order I took on the events actually allowed me to have ascended Astarion around before having to decide on resisting or embracing in the temple. I'm still not sure why I decided on things to happen like this. I played Mereth as a resist Durge until then. I vaguely knew what would happen if I let Astarion ascend.. but that still was more of a 'what happens when I do this...?' player-moment. I don't know- I'd say Mereth had not been an OC like this back then, but he still seemed to have some opinion on his story, like OCs just do... So I let him have his villain origin story, I guess. But it was certainly not planned. Everything beyond that came much later. By joining the fandom and thinking about him as an OC, and by @aerin67 writing those amazing pieces with him for Durgetash Week. Now he is well on his way to become just as an opinionated OC as many others, too- despite any universe in which he is still alive after the game events being an AU for him. He does not care much, just seems to want to make soap as a hobby and hang out with Hazel. ...Yes.

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