Malachite

That feel when someone compliments your dearest OCs 🥹🥹🥹

that one of the protagonists of The Eating of Names is an uwu bean with damsel in distress vibes while also being 8 feet tall at the shoulder¹, probably almost ten thousand pounds, and trained nearly from birth in personal combat.

Arwen Tachht may be more physically strong than their partner Cchaiit, but Ar is definitely the one who would get bridal carried off into the sunset² and Cchaiit is definitely the one who'd do the carrying.

1. This is actually rather short for a varsit Ar's age. Cchaiit is quite a bit taller than Arwen.

2. Metaphorically speaking, of course. The anatomy of the varsit species isn't exactly conducive to bridal carrying, and even if it were, the sunset doesn't have the same romantic connotations to them as it does to us.

Dear FUCK I want to make my OCs Arwen and Cchaiit in BG3 so fucking badly and I don’t even know why exactly aside from “brain rot go brrrrrrrrrr”. And I think I’ve figured out how I’m gonna make them both in one save without requiring multiplayer (or that weird gimmick I heard about where you trick the game into letting you do multiplayer with yourself, which I’m fairly certain would melt my PC). Sure, Githyanki war cleric of Ilmater feels very janky flavor-wise even if it fits mechanically, none of the background choices feel quite right for Arwen (if only I could mix the lore of noble and urchin with the inspirations of folk hero), and I suspect with my very limited knowledge of the dream guardian that DG!Cchaiit will end up doing something very out of character eventually, but I really want to give it a shot. Just two problems: one, I have several other saves already and haven’t gotten past Act 1 on any of them yet (though Durge!Ghaurug is close I think), and two, it’s almost 11 PM and I gotta drive tomorrow morning, so I can’t start yet anyway…

Update: I did it. It’s the first time I’ve made a hornless version of Arwen in a video game since that time I made a Sims 3 save file with Ar and Cchaiit as human teens adopted by a human Srié. Feels weird to see them with no horns. It’s also my first time playing Arwen as a straight up adult (normally I write and roleplay them as being the equivalent of like 17ish but for reasons I hope are obvious I am not doing that for BG3), which feels even more weird. But the good feeling of putting blorbo from my mind in a situation outweighs the weirdness.

No spoilers because I haven’t completed Act 1 on any of my runs yet, but I’m hoping there will come an opportunity to radicalize Lae’zel against Vlaakith and the Githyanki state, because if there is such an opportunity, Githyanki!Arwen is legally required to pursue it. I don’t make the rules. (I do.) I’m also curious if there are romantic options with the Dream Guardian (I honestly don’t remember from the interactions I’ve had with Durge!Ghaurug’s DG lol) because if there are I also kind of have to because I made Ar’s guardian be Githyanki!Cchaiit.

I’m thinking Ar’s main party will consist of Gale, Wyll, and either Karlach or Astarion. Astarion’s a weird pick for a largely good-and-nice party, but I have two reasons: 1.) he and Arwen have similar trauma, and it would be sweet if Ar could help Astarion heal, and 2.) I need a lock-picker and trap-disarmer. The other option I’m considering is multiclassing Karlach into Thief Rogue and respeccing her into Dex over Str. Karlach and Ar also have similar trauma, but there aren’t quite as many parallels as there are with Astarion, even though Karlach’s morals start out more closely aligned with Ar’s. But also, this party is gonna have a war cleric and a bladelock already, with Gale as the only ranged option if I go Karlach, so I could really benefit from a ranged weapon-focused Astarion… Like, yeah, I theoretically could respec Karlach out of Barbarian entirely, but I prefer to keep my party members with at least one level in the class they default to, y’know? Doesn’t feel quite right otherwise. Imagine respeccing Gale into fucking Barbarian…

Dear FUCK I want to make my OCs Arwen and Cchaiit in BG3 so fucking badly and I don’t even know why exactly aside from “brain rot go brrrrrrrrrr”. And I think I’ve figured out how I’m gonna make them both in one save without requiring multiplayer (or that weird gimmick I heard about where you trick the game into letting you do multiplayer with yourself, which I’m fairly certain would melt my PC). Sure, Githyanki war cleric of Ilmater feels very janky flavor-wise even if it fits mechanically, none of the background choices feel quite right for Arwen (if only I could mix the lore of noble and urchin with the inspirations of folk hero), and I suspect with my very limited knowledge of the dream guardian that DG!Cchaiit will end up doing something very out of character eventually, but I really want to give it a shot. Just two problems: one, I have several other saves already and haven’t gotten past Act 1 on any of them yet (though Durge!Ghaurug is close I think), and two, it’s almost 11 PM and I gotta drive tomorrow morning, so I can’t start yet anyway…