Tag Game: What If? ✶ Evil Endings for your OC
Much love to @deianestormborn 🔥 (OG post) for creating this fun concept! & an extra TY to @gortashsrighthand 💕 (here) for tagging me in this!
What if your TAV/OC was an Origin Character and they could have evil endings? What would those endings be?
Hold on cause this is gonna be a long one ...
Wraith of the Fugue Plane
An alternate ending, wherein the Child of None refuses revival.
“From ashes to ashes. Dust to fleeting dust. You have awakened from a deep slumber to the clarity of home — on the precipice of existence where your dead soul was always meant to rest. There are no gods here to name you. No devils to bargain. Nor demons to pilfer the last wisps of your freedom. An endless well of fury supersedes your conscious thought. It is an overwhelming hunger, a reclamation born of return. You may be faithless, but you are not powerless. You are a wound in the afterlife that refuses to close. An appetite that can never be sated. No soul shall find peace, for when they cross your path, they are embraced not by the rest they merit, but by your overwhelming thirst for retaliation. If the gods can make a sport out of life, then let their dominion over death learn what it means to falter.”
Sorry, is this disrespectful of the rules? I just love the thought of Lynette, not forgoing her strong desire for agency, remaining evil until then end. And instead of being revived by Jergal, she decides to take out her grievances towards the gods on the very thing that fuels them. 🗡
This was inspired by my non-canon interpretation for the dark urge creation: a hijacked soul from the fugue plane forcibly reanimated for Bhaal’s cause.
An evil godhood ending, wherein Lynette becomes the catalyst behind collapse.
"The crown is yours. You are more than what Father made of you — so much more than anyone could have foreseen. As cool tendrils of divinity course within you, rebirth unfolds. Mortals stumble through hubris. Kingdoms crumble beneath failure. Tempests bleed into calamity. Yet you alone laugh, basking in the glorious rapture of their undoing. You alone reign supreme, dominating the threshold of annihilation. In the wake of chaos, you alone endure."
Repurposed Lynette's results from another tag, to make her domain more distinct. Her evil godhood ending is less about destruction wrought by forces of nature, and moreso the act of destruction itself. Is that too edgy? Probably. Still, I enjoy the idea that a Bhaalspawn who was usurped, finds pleasure in commanding that very force that once shaped her existence.
Alternative ending embracing the teachings of Shar.
"Sister. Blessing. Saviour. The titles that crowned you have never been more deserved than in this moment. Who better to lead the pariahs and mourners than one of their own? Your old life erased. A higher purpose calls. Whatever burden you once carried, becomes a cradle of silence and solitude. It is not noble to suffer. When grief becomes you, lay your soul to rest with the Lady of Sorrows. No mercy — only surrender."
Honestly, I had no idea what to do for Briar. She is much more warm-natured than Lynette, and has a long history of protecting others. Then it hit me, she lost her home in the woods, she used to shepard the refugees of Elturiel, her heartbreak and overprotective nature could be turned into a sinister force. Ergo, Briar becomes enticed by the teachings of Shar, and in the process becomes a heretic.
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