what's a way to just be competent?

20 something year old fandomites in 2016: if you draw sans the skeleton singing steven universe songs you hate lesbians

realize that you don't really see him as a man, or :

accept that you can be attracted to a man

Ship Tournament, Round 1 — Match 11 / 30

Karlach/Minthara

"minthara respects strength, and karlach is basically walking proof that joy and softness don’t make someone weak. i think that would mess with minthara’s worldview in a very fun way. karlach is kind, yeah, but she can also throw a grown man across a battlefield while on fire. minthara would be taking notes."

"They’d clash on morals but not on courage. Karlach would absolutely hate a lot of Minthara’s worldview, especially the casual cruelty and the drow noble “power is the only language anyone respects” thing. But Karlach also knows what it’s like to be owned, used as a weapon, dragged into someone else’s war, and forced to survive in a place built on violence. She wouldn’t excuse Minthara, but I think she’d understand more than Minthara expects. And Minthara with Karlach is interesting because Karlach is so emotionally honest. She doesn’t play court games, doesn’t hide behind piety or politics, doesn’t pretend not to care. For someone raised in Menzoberranzan, that kind of sincerity must look almost deranged. Threatening, even. Minthara would keep calling her foolish and then slowly realise she trusts Karlach more than almost anyone."

vs. Astarion/Gale/Halsin/Karlach/Lae'zel/Shadowheart/Wyll

"Tadpolycule. Do not separate. (Does Halsin have a tadpole? No. Is he an honourary Tadfool? Absolutely. Besides, you look me in the eye and tell me any one of the six Origins wouldn't be Down For That and vice versa.)"