Not Sure About Anyone Else But I Re-read All My Favourite AO3 Comments When I’ve Had A Rough Day So

people are so weird about lae’zel srsly. this woman is so Good i truly do not understand the majority of takes

like shadowheart mentions she’s half-elf once and lae’zel is like ok noted for the next time and doesnt get it wrong again

gale mentions how he’s impressed by her fighting and she immediately offers to teach him

she also answers any and all questions about the celestial realm and mindflayers that EVERYONE in the party asks her

she is the ONLY one with any experience and hands on knowledge about what the party is going thru but will still defer to the leader and help. for all she knows, they will literally be cured immediately if they find the creche but she still sticks around these fucking weirdoes because they ask her to

never speak bad about lae’zel in my presence EVER

I just think he's neat 👉👈

Honestly MAJOR missed opportunity for Karlach to have some kind of permanent 'buff' that deals minor fire damage to anyone who touches her in melee. Like obviously it'd be strong for fighting beasts, because every time they hit her with claws/fangs they take damage, but just from a STORY-TELLING ASPECT?

How heartbreaking would it be when you're trying to cast Cure Wounds on her? In order to heal her, you have to hurt yourself and she KNOWS IT. You go to cast Longstrider on the party and you hesitate as you reach Karlach. Yeah, it's only a few points of damage, it's not that big a deal, but does she REALLY need it? Is it worth it?

You linger, hesitate. You realize you don't want to touch her. You realize that's what EVERYONE thinks when they see her. You realize she KNOWS You're hesitating, staring at her sheepishly as you try to think of whether or not it's worth the pain just to help her.

You learn to support her from a distance. Healing Word. It's not as effective, but you don't need to get hurt for her sake. And so she learns to get used to receiving help from a distance. Just words of encouragement. It's all anyone wants to give her. Maybe it's all she'll ever get.

Aid? Bardic Inspiration? You don't need to touch her to give it to her. You can keep her at a distance and not get burned. And you're still helping her.

It's just... cold.

talking about your feelings is SO important I won’t do it but u guys definitely should

T-shirt that says “I’m not the trans man, im the trans that manned up”. Is that anything

HEY that's MY emotional support morally ambiguous misunderstood full of trauma touch starved yearning for love drenched in blood responsible for numerous atrocities comfort character who is TRYING & u will TREAT them with RESPECT

Does Eats Chairs... eat chairs, perchance?

How could you tell?

Unfortunately options for chair-eating are limited in-game but I had to let my girl get her enrichment somehow so I went around smashing every chair I could and pretending that counted (they should give dragonborns a bite ability, those chompers could so some damage if they wanted to), which is how I, quite happily, stumbled across the Club of Hill Giant Strength which I then let her use for the rest of the game because of course.

LOOK AT HER, SHE'S SO PRETTY, SHE'S SO CUTE. I'd let her eat every chair in my house, and so should you-

She's a blue dragonborn so she can spew lightning as well, which is objectively the coolest breath weapon to have. This blue colouration, with the little highlights of gold looks so good to me- it kind of reminds me of the giant adra statue in Pillars of Eternity, if people know what that is. And the mellow fruit dye on her armour, she's just *chef's kiss*. I am never not thinking of her.

Her run was started mostly from me wanting to see what all this Durge stuff was about, and also wanting to romance Gale because his nerdy charms had bewitched me, so my profile picture is actually from a screencap of her the moment after she finished very happily stabbing Gale to death!

^ pictured- someone whose save is about to be reloaded, because I wasn't going to leave it like that. She and Gale are very happy together in Waterdeep with no-one doing any ascending to godhood or accepting godhood or anything of that sort.

^ pictured- someone who is about to smooch that tiny little wizard to within an inch of his life.

girls night in the ancient tomb and we know fuck all

as an optimist i dream of a beautiful world where people are fucking normal about aromanticism

Chapter 12 - Bad People! (I did consider naming it Good People to fit the apparent running theme of hilariously optimistic chapter titles I've had recently but no)

One day late, I forgot to say yesterday - whoops - but, fun fact, today is the one year anniversary of me posting the first chapter of More Graves to Dig, how wild is that? Feels crazy to think it's been that long already.

And we’re off! Next story is up on AO3, and updates should come at least once every ten days as with previous (I just realised I’m working off a tenday-based schedule, this was not intentional), and I will try to post here in case of a delay.