In Baldur’s Gate 3 casting Heal on a Dark Urge character lets them remember either playing with other kids or killing their adoptive family. With the later option their house is described as a 2-bedroom place in the poorer part of the city. And I’m curious if it could be a house we can visit in-game.
Could it be the same house Mayrina’s anti-hag group holes up? It’s in ruins when they set up shop, I don’t remember anything explaining why it’s like that, and it makes sense a place where a family was murdered would be abandoned. And if The Dark Urge did grow up there, it might be familiar.
And if they tell Mayrina ‘I think I grew up here,’ that could make it a landmark post-game. 'The Childhood Home Of The Hero Of Baldurs Gate’, or maybe it would be rebuilt and given to them as a reward for their heroism. Any thoughts?
Would it make sense for a Dark Urge character to start eating Mind Flayer tadpoles when the dream guardian tells them to, not because they want the power, but because they think doing so would restore their lost memories?
The idea is that they’re desperate, and thinking, ‘I likely lost my memories when the tadpole was put in my skull, so maybe taking the power they offer will bring them back, because they’ll fix the gaps in my brain’. Does that make sense, or does it seem hard to believe that logic would come even from a brain damaged individual with Inteligence and Wisdom Modifiers of -1?
Another - likely more rational - motivation I thought of, is that the refuse the power, until they learn that they’re Bhaalspawn. At which point they embrace the Illithid powers, because they’re desperate to not be connected to the god of murder.
In Baldur’s Gate 3, the first meeting the player character has with Astarion - assuming you don’t play as him - is when he threatens them with a dagger. If the Tav/Durge fails a Wisdom Perception Check, he pulls them to the ground and holds a dagger to their neck.
Thing is my Durge, Tavarius, is a seven feet eight inch tall dragonborn paladin. So I wonder, would Astarion see him approach, wearing paladin armour and carrying an axe, and just think, ‘Hmm, nope. Bad idea’? Or would he try it anyway?
In Act 3 of Baldur’s Gate 3, if you don’t side with The Emperor and instead free Prince Orpheus, he says that someone needs to become a Mindflayer in order to defeat The Netherbrain. It occurs to me that a resisting Dark Urge character might volunteer to transform, because they don’t want a body that has any connection to Bhaal.
I know he reclaims Durge’s blood when rejected in the temple, but isn’t the rest of the body also made by him? Couldn’t someone who rejected him want to do anything to remove any connection to the murder god?
But then they might realize that with their new need to feed on humanoid brains, they’ve in a way become what Bhaal wanted: a creature that needs to kill, kill, and kill again.
So I have an idea for a crossover fanfiction between Baldur’s Gate 3 and Helluva Boss. But I also have a concern about it that I’d like some other opinions about.
The basic idea is that it’s a post game story where my Dark Urge Tavarius ends up in Vivzie’s Hell. Don’t ask me how, I don’t know. Thing is, that by the end of the story, Tavarius has become bitter, misanthropic, and inclined to see things from the worst angle and in the worst light. Because of this, he would respond to what he sees during his time in this foriegn Hell with disgust and aggression. My worry is that his attitude would be seen as me using him as voice for my dislike of Helluva Boss. But that wouldn’t be the case.
I want to know how I could make it clear that Tavarius’ own negativity isn’t me expressing a dislike of another property, and is just him acting in character. Do I leave an author’s note at the begining saying that I have no problem with Helluva Boss?
This picture of Tavira - a Dark Urge character for Baldur’s Gate 3 - was made for me by Adalyn Hazel. Here are some links to their artstation and instagram.
