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#TavQOTD
Bad at

Plently.
Darius is as elegant as a bull in a glass-shop, cannot dance, doesn't know the monetary value of things and services, or how to pay taxes (or why), and it an awful chef.

He's also the worst in naming emotions—outside of anger, lust or happiness—and in handling them.
#Durge

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Intern or protege

If there are sorcerers with the storm in their veins, Darius will happily teach them his ways. But they are very rare already, and are often, looking at you, Gale, mistaken as wizards.
#Durge

I hope you don’t mind if I share my cover here.

It’s so perfect. I love it so much.

#tavqotd It doesn't hurt him in an emotional sense, but as a problem he can't solve which dismantles everything else. The existentialism borders into cosmic horror, as good & evil bleed into one another, where the lie of law & the loss of order leaves nought but an incomprehensible truth. ↓

More Zhentrio dynamics cause I wanna be annoying today -v-

Midsummer Fluff June 29th to August 2nd 2026 AO3 Collection: BG3Midsummer2026

Event info: This is a Fluff-Event for feel-good creations; please respect that this excludes dead-dove content. Both SFW & NSFW allowed. Writing, Drawing, Render, VP, and any other artform I might have missed are all allowed. Do as few or as many prompts as you like! The collection stays open until the 1st of October.

Midsummer Fluff Weekly Prompts: Week 1: obligatory beach episode Week 2: Stargazing and Shooting stars Week 3: Street-Food tasting Week 4: An evening with friends Week 5: Artist's choice.

I know it's very early to announce this, but that just means more time to prepare offerings!!

#MidsummerFluff2026 coming to you at 29th June - 2nd August!

This one comes with an AO3 Collection again.

If you have any questions, drop them in the comments ❤️

archiveofourown.org/collections/...

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First of all, Khal is bad at admitting there are things he isn’t good at. He is bad at admitting to himself he needs help. He‘s bad at knowing when he has to take a step back. He doesn’t know his own limits and constantly pushes beyond them. And he‘s impatient. And a lot more…

time to bring this gem back xD
Poor Orion

I forgot to add Dolly's worst skill! They cannot 'mime' for toffee, playing charades with them is a disaster their choices of movement and gestures are even more incomprehensible than their usual speech.
Their attempts at drow sign language are ludicrous. It's like talking with a wobbling tube man.

CW: child death
Jaina purposefully chooses to misremember her first meeting with Umberlee because she doesn't want to admit that not only was she dead for a time, but also Umberlee actually manipulated her and her mother by dangling resurrection over their heads. Her becoming Umberlee's chosen was

CW: CSA, incest, abortion
Sentry blocks out the night he escaped his first home, it should be a happy memory, killing so many abusers and burning down their hovel, but it was also the night Sarevok bred him, the night he broke into the night he dragged himself, burnt, broken, and bleeding, still

#TavQOTD Name pronounce

Alex: AL-eks (IPA: /ˈæl.eks/) (youtu.be/SBlTZ4squhY)

Aelius: AY-lee-us (youtu.be/spnO8Gs3aWY) in English | In Latin: "EYE-li-us" (IPA: /ˈae̯.li.ʊs/) (www.howtopronounce.com/latin/aelius)

Cormac: KOR-mack (rhymes with "bore back") or KOR-mick (youtu.be/quoEfRn8MFI)

CW: CSA

Ilya does his best to block out his abduction and assault by Jackal Silk when he was only twelve or thirteen, not because of how traumatic it was, but because he's afraid that would make him see someone as irredeemable and destroy his world view where redemption is always possible.

Her time in the farm as a child. Chloris forgot most about it, she just knows it was bad and that people can be horrible if they get the chance

Since I dont usually talk about her childhood I'll leave the overall arc here. It's a bit long but at least it's here too

#TavQOTD choosing not to remember

Everett doesn't like to think about how his birth parents preferred everything else over him. He doesn't remember what they looked like, just the empty feeling it left him.

He pushes down what memories he has of them, they're insignificant to him.
#EverettOC

Val'dran is bad at clear communication x)

If it has to do with work, he's clear and concise. The moment feelings enter the situation, he is useless.

He's also frankly not a great fighter, for all he's a very good rogue. He tells this to all and sundry. They keep not believing him.

#tavqotd

Allll the blue hues!

Some of the best dates of Rolim's modern AU life 😏

Val'dran often doesn't remember much from when his demonic side goes on a murderous rampage.

He's not entirely willing to admit/realise that his demonic side is him, and certainly not that it is attempting to protect him from his own fear of himself and what he does when out of control.

#tavqotd

She is *such* a petty bitch tbh!

#TavQOTD Siraan *tries* to forget the experience of being burned alive, but being reminded of it every time she sees an open flame makes that difficult. 😭

Arilda will simply change the subject if you mention her childhood with Astryx, not the abuse parts, but before then, before the bhaalspawn tendencies showed themselves in her sister.

When they were sweet and innocent and would play in the hatchery together. 1/2

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The Unclaimed - bg3.wiki The Unclaimed is a sturdily-bound story of a Cleric of Shar whose soul was never claimed from the ⁠City of Judgement.

Maybe I'll make her the one who goes unclaimed in the book you find in Wither's tomb.

Shar's reason being that she slept with a Lathanderian (even though it was on her orders)

Wouldn't that be poetic justice? XD

bg3.wiki/wiki/The_Unc...

Val'dran has been close to dying many, many times. He's a good spy, but it's a dangerous occupation.

Still, those times he's almost died to an unexpected fight or expected foe feel in some ways better than those times he was close to dying at the blade of his own dagger.

#tavqotd #dailyocs

6) This whole story is why he initially doesn't trust Shadowheart at all, his unconscious telling him to be wary of Sharran Clerics.

5) And yet, the truth will find him, as Gideon currently resides as a debtor in the House of Hope while Talila is one of the spawn in the tourmaline depths.

Soraya's fate remains unknown, whether she died of old age or in another battle for her goddess is something Vinnie never finds out.

4) When he turned to see his attacker and found her instead, his heart broke and darkness engulfed him.

Vincent doesn't know this, doesn't remember it, doesn't *want* to remember it.

3) Thing is, it *didn't* kill them all... Soraya was a Sharran spy, sent by her wicked goddess to lure a potential prophet of the Morninglord into safety so they could assassinate him.

It was Soraya who stabbed him in the back that fateful night.

2) During the two years before his death, Soraya would keep making passes at him, being very flirty and eventually, Vincent reciprocated, falling in love with her.
The two dated for a little over a year before the ambush that killed them all.