I Just Thought Of A Quote That I Think Really Fits Redeemed Durge... The Quote By Raven From The Original

I just thought of a quote that I think really fits Redeemed Durge... The quote by Raven from the original Teen Titans

"You may have created me... But you were never my father"

Just Imagine that they say it when they reject him

It's beautiful 🥺

Durge really needs a hug (both as a child and as an adult)

Even if I might get stabbed I'm hugging them

I just thought of something... I remember that there was this one troupe where characters meet their past/child selfs and talk to them about their future.

What if companions from Bg3 met their child selves? How would they react? What would they say?

Bonus I would also wanna see Durge's reaction to their child self.

Maybe a version of them before they started to kill? Or a version of them after they started to turn into a monster Bhaal wanted them to be?

Did I create this whole thing because of one throw away line in a letter?

Yes, yes I did. I'm sorry and I'll show myself out.

(I just imagine it's something they constantly tell each other when proven right. Also ignore my Durge's bad outfit. I wanted to give him plain clothes because I think Durge only wears the most practical plain shit you ever saw especially compared to Gortash who dresses well..."fashionable" is a word I guess, so I tried drawing a modified sorcerers outfit but maybe it has gone a bit too boring)

I like the absolute disparity between how Gortash and Ketheric viewed Durge versus how they view Orin

Durge was tolerated by Ketheric but seen as an equal. Durge had the strength and ability to go into Moonrise and start giving orders at the same level of authority as Ketheric himself and Ketheric allowed it with only mild complaining. The Gnolls adored you, Balths minions loved you, the Warden hated your guts but in a fun way as a coworker.

Gortash... what more can be said about Gortash and Durge that already hasn't been said. Gortash absolutely loved you, adored you. You were the only equal he had and you were his favorite assassin. The feeling was mutual since there's an entire letter dedicated to how mutual the attraction between you two was. Gortash adored you.

Orin?

Gortash and Ketheric can barely stand Orin, Gortash tolerates her for the good of the Plan but would have wanted to see it through with you. Ketheric may have been annoyed and frustrated with you but you were the original mastermind behind the Plan alongside Gortash. They both hate orin as much as Durge used to. The only reason that they even put up with her is because of the shard she stole from you.

For as much as Ketheric acts like a dick to you when you first meet back up at moonrise, he still much prefers you to Orin. And Gortash loved you so much he still wants to team up with you even when you're working to stop him.

Orin is so hated by everyone and it tears me up inside.

「The Pale Bat」

❗️Minor BG3 Spoiler Ahead❗️

(Edited because I forgot a panel, oops, & also added some refinement)

Astarion finds a bat and saves it, because I said so.

I did it, I did the thing!! I drew the wonderful and wholesome idea that originated from this post made by @miraculan-draws :

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mood lights the mood tonight

Arcane Trickster should get a familiar. Give me Astarion blubbering bc he found a baby bat on the ground and it's not doing that great :( sc

I loved this post so much, I had to make it real, and I hope people might find this entertaining as well. There is no way Astarion would not see himself in a little white bat who desperately needed help. This is set after traveling with my Tav for a while, and Astarion has softened his edges enough to be a bit more gentle.

Thank you for posting this lovely concept, I might continue to draw more of this :)

The Dark Urge thoughts (and prayers)

anyone whos been following me knows im absolutely not normal about durge and i wanna share some tidbits that are implied, but not necessarily canonised, from their story;

I already made a post about it but it seems like bhaal has a degree of control over whether they live or die. he can deny them death, if they fail the duel with orin.

bhaal can command the slayer. he forces orin to transform if you talk to her about sarevok and the scene makes it clear that its against her will.

bhaal manipulates his kin in a subtler way. in the colony you can find a letter from old durge thats apologising to his father for 'liking' gortash. you can interpret their relationship as something deeper but even if it wasnt, this reads to me as terrified and desperate.

the reason being, if you have a LI in act 2 you get the famous bondage scene. coupled up with the letter above makes me think this is a pattern. bhaal can use their feelings against them. he did it with sarevok and orin's mother, orin's mother and orin, etc... it's not as straightforward as 'if you disobey ill kill the one you love'. you will. durge will.

bhaal is testing them in act 2, he revels in chaos, sure, but in the grand scheme of things he doesn't care about isobel. even if you tell scel that you'll kill her you're told that youre too late, you ignored your urges. from durge, bhaal doesn't expect calm calculated murder, he expects blind obedience. failing to receive that his first punishment is to take away something they cherish. there are no half measures, theres no bargaining with a god.

we get so many snippets of information that this has happened before, their foster family being their first victims. theyre made to kill their support system with their own hands, with no one to blame but themselves. they are actually apologising to their father for being fond of gortash because (in my humble opinion) theyre genuinely afraid.

how many times could this have happened, how many nights durge couldve woken up covered in the blood of someone they love until they gave in, became daddys obedient puppet?

durge is groomed for murder. scel says 'you always failed to conduct yourself without me' and given who he is i dont think hes talking about table manners when he says 'conduct'. durge needs 24/7 oversight to set themselves right lest they get tempted by softer things. lest they dare to step away from bhaals grand plan.

durge do have a choice. just as shadowheart had a choice, just as wyll or astarion had a choice. its a choice only in name.

theres no ending besides refusing bhaal that their friends and LI wont die by their hands. the entire lore of bhaalspawn is that theyre meant to conquer the world in his name and slit their own throat a top the mountain of corpses. as cazador aptly put, 'theyre made to be consumed.'

you can pray to bhaal and the narrator says he won't accept [any offering] but the entire world.

durge (and bhaalspawn) do get some sort of euphoria from murder. they crave it like an addict, but bhaalspawn (on prev games) don't constantly have to grapple with these urges as durge does.

now durge is a slightly special case but not in a good way. its implied that theyre not like a regular bhaalspawn, that theyre made by bhaal directly -so to speak-. which is to say, if youre playing a drow, they are bhaals closest approximation of a drow rather than a drow flesh and blood.

thats why theyre fighting tooth and nail against these urges every step of the way, they are literally bhaal himself(in essence). the personality they develop, the person who calls themselves 'tainted' and 'wretched', the character thats making choices throughout the game, theyre the tumour.

theirs is the story of cycle of abuse cranked up to 1000 and it is in parallel to all other origin companions.