12,000 Years

12,000 years

My writing abilities when I have an entire free day: twelve words. Take it or leave it

My writing abilities when I have to be somewhere in fifteen minutes: I got six thousand more in the pocket

Wyll gazed into Leon’s eyes like he could drown in them and die a happy man.

30 Questions for your Tav

These questions can be used as an Ask Game or just answering them all for fun character development!

(Dark Urge edition here)

What was your Tav’s place of birth and raising like?

What relationship did your Tav have with their family/guardian(s) growing up? Has that changed with age?

Did your Tav receive any formal or informal education? If yes, how well did they learn? If no, why not?

What hobbies does your Tav have? How did they acquire these interests?

Did your Tav have any formal or informal employment? If yes, what was their job? If no, how did they make ends meet? How did they feel about it?

What is your Tav’s favourite childhood memory?

What circumstances led to your Tav becoming their Class/Subclass?

Did your Tav have any romantic and/or sexual relationships prior to their illithid adventure? If yes, who was it with and what was it like? If no, how did they feel about being single?

What was your Tav doing when they were taken by the mind flayers?

What would your Tav consider to be their greatest skill? Is this accurate?

What would your Tav consider to be their greatest flaw? Is this accurate?

What opinion does your Tav have about the Gods?

How does your Tav feel about the wilderness?

How does your Tav feel about the city?

What motivates your Tav to either embrace or resist the tadpole?

How does your Tav feel about killing?

How good of a liar is your Tav? How do they feel about lying?

What is your Tav’s greatest fear?

What is your Tav’s greatest desire?

What is your Tav’s greatest regret?

How does your Tav feel about love?

Has your Tav become particularly close to anyone romantically and/or platonically in their journey? If so, who, and what is the relationship like? If no, why not?

What are 2-3 songs that your Tav would relate to?

What first impression does your Tav give off to strangers?

How does your Tav feel about what others think of them?

Does your Tav have a treasured item with them? If yes, what is it and why is it special? If no, how do they feel about item sentimentality in general?

How does your Tav feel about giving and receiving orders?

How well does your Tav function under pressure?

What advice would you give to your Tav?

What are your Tav’s intentions/goals after the end of the game?

For all the talk about how gruesome ceremorphosis is, I really thought the partial illithid transformation should have been a terrible time and the game didn’t really touch on the body horror aspects enough. Like imagine a few long rests into the transformation you get hit with a hunger condition, and only then does Emperor tell you you gotta feed regularly if you want to keep using your fancy new powers. And you can’t just nibble on part of a brain!

So here I make my tav, Aldiirn, suffer as I think he should, but luckily he has Astarion to help out like a cat leaving a dead mouse on your bed.

Next two pages are gorier so beware!

I wrote this when I was in the midst of Act 3 and it originally had a more somber tone, but then I finished the game and Astarion reacts so VISCERALLY like he’s gonna vomit to the sight of a mindflayer eating and well… I cannot resist dark humour lmao. He’s doing his best!

I truly believe Astarion’s the best support any tav could have in this situation, even if he can’t quite suppress the gagging. He’s been there already, has been living it for hundreds of years, and he’s shown to reach out to those in similar situations. He’s just so sweet sometimes aaa I love him.