TheAshenBlade

If Durge had rejected Bhaal, then he would have killed them; if Durge had accepted Bhaal, then they would have been expected to kill Gortash.

Even in-game, there is no way to keep Gortash alive. Even if the Dark Urge allies with him up until the end, he is ends up getting killed by the Nether Brain.

I think that Durge and Gortash are not stupid, and probably were aware that it couldn’t possibly end well going into it.

Both of them lived lives where their fates where decided for them; Dark Urge by being the child of Bhaal and Gortash by being sold to Raphael and being made to feel that power was his only means of survival.

A relationship with each other, even if it could never end as they would have wanted was one thing that Durge and Gortash could have chosen on their own terms.

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

“surely, this disheveled dirty and greasy man who has not slept in days must be Bhaal’s chosen, and the stoic and intimidating person here must be banes chose- you’re telling me that *pointing to gortash* is the person representing bane? Him? Really?”

Oh sure, the face is the same, the voice, the form minus all the scarring. But all the actions have inverted, and they are now deadset against the very plan they put into motion. Fundamentally different then who they were before, it must be like looking in some weird, off-put fun house mirror.

The person who Orin removed from the playing board is not the person who came back. The one she measured herself against has stopped playing the game entirely. every behaviour that should be predictable is wrong

The person Gortash worked with on this plan, partnership, now is deadset against him, systematically dismantling the plan. How odd that must seem.

I love the shift here from almost looking shy while explaining things to durge, he missed you - he needs you to be on his side for this, to leaning in to temp them when they say "You are mistaken if you think I can control myself"

"Have you gone soft? I find that hard to believe. One's true nature always rises to the top."