Some Thoughts on OCs
Apr. 20th, 2025 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glitteringstarsBecause of my second play through of BG3, my brain has been goofy about coming up with "character inserts" for both Tav, Dark Urge, and just a "hey, this would be a funny character idea."
I don't have any names specified yet beyond Dark Urge, so I'll probably just use Tav and Insert for the other two.
Dark Urge is probably just going to be a straight-forward interpretation of what's in his Origin character. I have the mental image of a giant goofy dragonborn, who is probably both a sorcerer (wild magic by accident) and some flavor of healer, though I haven't narrowed it down yet. Maybe druid? Mostly thinking since Dark Urge was [spoilers], it kind of make sense that they would know stuff about the human body and plants. So, by accident, he becomes the team healer.
The being silly will just be a mask so he can befriend others, especially Tav. Dark Urge is a bit of a people-pleaser, so he defaults to masking his intrusive thoughts. Unresolved intrusive thoughts leads to Wild Magic outbursts. And ta-dah!
Tav is taking heavy inspiration from Chilchuck and Senshi from Delicious in Dungeon. She was a head cook at a tavern, so she has a good idea of creating meals from what she can get, but also taking charge. Much like her inspo, she's a halfling. Dark Urge and a couple other characters (particularly Lae'zel) assume she's younger than she looks, which bothers her to hell. Taking inspo from starkraving's Astarion Origin series, Tav is a "true level one" character, so she lacks any combat abilities. Probably over the course of the adventure (and being Dark Urge's accidental morality pet), she becomes a bard/ranger as it better fits what she can do.
Personality wise, she's either a big ball of anxiety who is definitely trying her best. She overestimates her leadership skills and gets a bit cocky once she has a guarantee she's not going to be knifed in the night. I thought she'd be a funny "grounding" character in an evil team (Dark Urge, Astarion, and Lae'zel).
And the Insert would probably be a the funnest to do since it's kinda a isekai/reverse Sailor Moon situation. Imagine Queen Serenity from the Silver Millenium still surviving long into the future, finding her daughter's reincarnation, and then just not coping well when her daughter's reincarnation is nothing like the lost princess. My general idea would be Insert would get sucked to Faerun by this minor goddess (or fae?), certain Insert is the reincarnation, and proceed to force the reincarnation to take on aspects of the missing daughter.
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I don't have any names specified yet beyond Dark Urge, so I'll probably just use Tav and Insert for the other two.
Dark Urge is probably just going to be a straight-forward interpretation of what's in his Origin character. I have the mental image of a giant goofy dragonborn, who is probably both a sorcerer (wild magic by accident) and some flavor of healer, though I haven't narrowed it down yet. Maybe druid? Mostly thinking since Dark Urge was [spoilers], it kind of make sense that they would know stuff about the human body and plants. So, by accident, he becomes the team healer.
The being silly will just be a mask so he can befriend others, especially Tav. Dark Urge is a bit of a people-pleaser, so he defaults to masking his intrusive thoughts. Unresolved intrusive thoughts leads to Wild Magic outbursts. And ta-dah!
Tav is taking heavy inspiration from Chilchuck and Senshi from Delicious in Dungeon. She was a head cook at a tavern, so she has a good idea of creating meals from what she can get, but also taking charge. Much like her inspo, she's a halfling. Dark Urge and a couple other characters (particularly Lae'zel) assume she's younger than she looks, which bothers her to hell. Taking inspo from starkraving's Astarion Origin series, Tav is a "true level one" character, so she lacks any combat abilities. Probably over the course of the adventure (and being Dark Urge's accidental morality pet), she becomes a bard/ranger as it better fits what she can do.
Personality wise, she's either a big ball of anxiety who is definitely trying her best. She overestimates her leadership skills and gets a bit cocky once she has a guarantee she's not going to be knifed in the night. I thought she'd be a funny "grounding" character in an evil team (Dark Urge, Astarion, and Lae'zel).
And the Insert would probably be a the funnest to do since it's kinda a isekai/reverse Sailor Moon situation. Imagine Queen Serenity from the Silver Millenium still surviving long into the future, finding her daughter's reincarnation, and then just not coping well when her daughter's reincarnation is nothing like the lost princess. My general idea would be Insert would get sucked to Faerun by this minor goddess (or fae?), certain Insert is the reincarnation, and proceed to force the reincarnation to take on aspects of the missing daughter.
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