Shadowheart - Blog Posts
Lae'zel:
The rest of the team:
The gang at the goblin camp:
Shadowheart and her goofy-ass dog, Aquila
aka. what if Tav is a both a werewolf and an idiot
I didn't think the animals would get so many adorable animations available in photomode, but it's such a pleasant surprise that they do
11/10, no notes
Played around with picrew to recreate the blorbos in my fic, did some minor edits too (tattoo, extra scars, hair highlights, etc)
Also, I love how the expressions can really showcase the difference in their dynamics
Aquila (Tav) × Shadowheart
Azure (Durge) × Minthara
Sometimes, a family is just an emo goth, an angry space frog, a purple misandrist, a vampire twink, an autistic magician, a golden retriever butch, a half-devil fencer, a furry, a folklore grandma, a bald guy and his hamster, a random adventurer with a weird name, and a psychotic amnesiac with a migraine -- all surrounded by a bunch of pets that they adopted off the side of the road.
A decaying mummy holds the sole of their guardianship.
After hoarding all my WIPs in my documents for ages, I have finally decided to dig them out from underneath all that accumulated dust and post them on ao3. Just gonna leave this here while I go back into my introvert cave.
Okaythanksbye-
I know nothing about her, but her quest is called Daughter of Darkness, soo...
And so the adventure begins! This is Shalyn, my wood elf ranger disney princess.
Not me romancing Gale so hard in act 1 that even Shadowheart comments about how often our silly sexy wizard is not so subtle about staring longingly in Tav’s direction lmao
My wife 🫶
Reuploaded because I forgot to draw the damn tears
Charcoal practice of God's Favorite Princess: Shart
⚔️⚔️⚔️BALDUR'S GATE 3⚔️⚔️⚔️
I played hundreds of hours since early access started and I never enjoyed romancing Shadowheart as much as when I played the game as a paladin of Selúne.
She's not just the god's favourite princess, she's also mine. ❤️❤️❤️
I love this game so unhealthy much!
I'm a hot Paladine of Selúne drow who's getting wet with her Sharran girlfriend.
That's all... that's the post.
Wippity woopity
Forever convinced bg3 is just dao for a modern audience. Here's my reasons as comparisons between party members:
Morrigan/Shadowheart: trauma goth girls
Leliana/Shadowheart: religion + flowers = adorkable loser that's obsessed w/you
Alistair/Wyll: precious cinnamon rolls that are too good for the rest of us (but with ✨secrets✨)
Alistair/Gale: will kill you with awkwardness and kindness (and maybe cheese)
Alistair/Astarion: pretty hair bois
Zevran/Astarion: elves with KNIVES and sexy accents
Sten/Lae'zel: dude with big sword that doesn't understand local customs
Dog/Scratch/Owlbear: this one's obvious
Wynne/Jaheira: easily the smartest person in the group, will totally judge when you fuck up, gives great mom advice
Leliana/Karlach: would definitely love to shop together, Karlach would prob think Leli's sense of style is nuts tho (she seems more practical to me idk and we all know what Orlesians are like)
Morrigan/Halsin: turns into bear, is scary
LOOK AT IT
LOVE THEM WITH ME
Thank you so much again! This made my entire day ngl ❤️
i just know ayana and shadowheart will haunt my dreams tonight
now everyone say thank you @nightingalen7 for writing THE only fanfic ever (wake me up on Ao3, trust me on this one, her Tav is a force of nature)
i got too excited and couldnt wait until i actually coloured it, i feel like a kid coming up to their teacher to proudly show off their finger painted lil drawing (p.s. i love u and ur writing and ur Tav and AAAAAAAAA i cant wait until the next chapter drops)
AAAAAA I LOVE THIS OMG THANK YOU ❤️❤️❤️🥺 I was havin' such a bad day and this made it 10× better
Reposting to add that the Emperor be like hmm I got this cool Sharran lady AND there's a Selûnite on board, let's cause ✨drama✨ and get them to bang
Baldurs Gate 3 is so wild when you realise how vastly different the game is depending on if you choose Tav or Dark Urge
Dark Urge Playthrough: you’re the child of Bhaal, but unlike the Bhaalspawn, you are created solely by Bhaal himself. The first true child of Bhaal. The daughter of one of your father’s previous Bhaalspawn turns on you, attacks you and tries to kill you. In your dying state, she infects you with a parasite so that you’ll die an incredibly humiliating death, and become her slave.
By some miracle you end up on the same nautiloud ship as a Sharron Cleric who happens to to be carrying a gith artefact that contains Baldur himself. Baldur, who was made a mind flayer and is now calling himself the Emperor, realises there’s an incredibly powerful Bhaalspawn on the ship, and that he can use them to his advantage. The power you have will help him destroy Gortash. Of course he picks you, it makes so much sense.
On your way to Baldurs Gate you find out through an unsent letter that you used to be into Gortash. When you get to Baldurs Gate, the man you used to fuck turns out to be an absolute loser and with horror you realise he is still into you. It’s okay though, he’s very easy to kill.
You end up facing off against Orin, your niece, and kill her. Your father appears to you and offers you the chance to become his Slayer. On the high chance you turn him down, he murders you in front of your loved ones, and leaves you to rot.
Then Jergal, the actual Lord of the End of Everything, the original God of Death, who was the very being that turned you father into a God all that time ago, who’s been in your camp for weeks pretending to be this undead scribe called Withers, appears next to your corpse and brings you back to life, basically adopts you, states that he will protect you from Bhaal, and announces that as long as he lives, you will never die. You’re essentially immortal.
Tav Playthrough: you’re a random nobody that was unlucky enough to get kidnapped by Mind Flayers. The Emperor must pick one of the many idiots on the ship to be his pawn. He sees Tav and thinks “ugh, yeah this one will do”.
Angry goth + happy go lucky jesus lady = traumatized sassy girl that likes dogs
i've connected the dots
"We all deserve to be wicked, now and again." - Mother Superior Shadowheart
Reasons I love Shadowheart in no particular order:
Changing her hair bc she's confused and stressed and doesn't know how to separate herself from Shar other than turning her hair fucking WHITE (which is really funny if your Tav is a Selûnite with white hair cuz you just know she wants to be like you)
Bro she got white hair
WHITE HAIR
W H I T E
H A I R
She could definitely kick my ass and I would thank her for it afterwards
She got noodle arms in-game but she's stronger than Wyll, Astarion, Halsin, and Gale
She freed herself from a psycho cult like??? Is that not??? The most??? Badass???
Her dad is a fucking WEREWOLF
You walk up to her with something serious to talk about and she's just like ✨hello lover✨ with that cute little laugh when she realizes she sounds ridiculous
Also no one talks about how flexible she is like did you NOT see the way she bent her entire fuckin leg to pin Lae'zel to the ground???
She is a FREAK
Thank u for coming to my ted talk
WIP: Wake Me Up
18+ for sexual content and violence, this is just a snippet from a future chapter
An alternate universe fic with no tadpoles and just Shar/Selûne bs where Tav and Shadowheart happen to meet up. Stupidity and shenanigans ensue. Probably gonna be a series bc I'm obsessed with the two of them.
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When Anaya spoke, her voice was strained. “Goddess of beauty and desire, allow your most devoted servant to worship at your altar.”
Shadowheart lifted her chin imperiously, as if looking down on Anaya. This was such a new addition to their dynamic; they'd fucked before, but Anaya had been the one in control. She had done what she pleased with Shadowheart, not allowing or asking for any reciprocation. When Shadowheart tried to touch, she was met with punishing stares and harsh words. Anaya's body was not hers, not in the way Shadowheart was Anaya's. She had relished that at the time, only feeling it was unfair afterwards, but Anaya had assured her there would be ample opportunity to make it up to her.
She intended to tonight. A perfect idea had already begun worming its way into her brain.
“I see no devotion,” Shadowheart said, voice thick and low. Anaya's eyes roamed her chest greedily before she spoke, but redirected to her face at the sound of her voice. “Only lust.”
It was a dark look. One that said if Shadowheart let her, she would consume her all night.
“Allow me to prove my devotion, great goddess."
The Tav (Anaya) in my current fic, Wake Me Up:
Anaya, before having her hair destroyed by Sharrans (she loves her hair, someone pity her pls):
Anaya, after having her hair destroyed and letting Shadowheart fix it bc Shadowheart hated seeing her looking like a heathen:
People were INTERESTED on AO3, so I wanted to share.
ALSO ALSO:
Shadowheart not having her concept art tattoos is the fattest L I think the bg3 community has taken
She cares about changing her appearance after abandoning Shar enough to bleach her dang hair and change the style, having those tattoos would add so much delicious *angst* I think we all need
"Would u still love me if I was a worm" energy
voice actors!!