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Hey I've been following you a while and sorry if I missed anything but I've been wondering about this for a bit... I can see that Jacq post tadpole is druid. Was he druid before too or some other class?

Hello there Anon!👋

thanks you so much for your following and the question (I loooooveee when they ask me things about Jacq)

so, you didn't miss anything, I didn't specify what class Jacq was pre tadpole.

SO, for understanding the decision I have to explain the vision I have for him. from when he was taken back to the cult and until Orin's betrayal, Jacq was know to anyone except Gortash as Durge.

Sarevok and Sceleritas have done a big work on gaslighting and brainwashing Jacq , and one of the impositions they given to him is a new name, Durge, or Dark Urge, to mark him as the ultimate spawn of Bhaal, and erase what was Jacq before.

They had chosen everything on Jacq, Durge life, and that mean his class to, who was Eldritch Knight.

until Durge meet Gortash.

the relationship they had helped Durge discovering things about himself outside the cult, understanding and trying new things and returning to be Jacq instead of Durge.

when he was a young boy, Jacq wanted to be a Druid, because he liked plants and animals, and it was encouraged by his foster family to continue that road. After he killed his family, he just let others decided for him (mainly Bhaal), but after he shared his real name with Gortash, the encouragement of pursuing his own wish returned, and lead to Jacq changing his class, and becoming a druid.

(pardon my english if I did some errors 🥲)

*pre act 1, somewhere in the outerplanes or whatever* gods: what the hells are the dead 3 doing now?? what is that?? a netherbrain?? ugh right then, what are we gonna do about it shar: i have a plan SO EVIL AND PERFECT and a chosen locked and loaded she's already on her way to retrieve that stupid githyanki prince and then im going to fucking destroy that asshole ketheric

mystra: bitch please the only one around here with a shiny red fix it button is me. when i tell you my former chosen is obsessed with me. no way will he deny me, all i gotta do is ask and he'll detonate the problem in one go. ace in the hole.

Jergal [a big fan of the avengers]: i have a plan to bring together a group of of remarkable people to see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we need them to, to fight the battles that we never could.

gods: ugh shut the hell up jergal this is basically your fault

Jergal: im stealing all your feral chosen and you can't stop me

silvanus: would you like a bear in this trying time?

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OMGOMGOMG! LOVE IT!!!! THANKS YOU SO MUCH @shmelonok !! that face!!!❤️❤️🥰

I don’t have much time to draw but they make me giggle. Love them

@taygra5shaon @kawareo sorry for mess…

The last ask where Durge confided in Gortash is really cute. I could see Gortash making this dinky little mechanical cat for him. It's not much, but it acts like a basic cat. It's probably one of the only actual presents he's received from anyone who wasn't his old parents/Sceleritas.

omgomgomg, that would be so cuteeee🥰🥰!

so, imagine this:

Jacq and Gortash still don't talk about their traumatic pasts, but they are both really good at reading each other.

Gortash would see the melancholy in Jacq when he talk about his wish to study druid magic, and his hidden insecurity about killing without control because his Urges, and because of that, he made a metal cat for him, immune to the homicidal instinct Jacq have.

So, you are right, this can be the first genuine gift that Jacq could receive.

Let's just think the "gifts* he received during his life as Durge were very creepy( heads, body parts or just random things stolen ) or gift from Bhaal (still, objects used just for killing better), so, something like this was a very confusing but welcoming surprise.

and where they keep him?

the little robot would stay in Gortash's home, because is sure 100% that Sceleritas, Sarevok or Orin would totally destroy it.

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