Back on track #Tavember day 19: motive Aranel's motive is to find a place where she belongs. Anywhere she doesn't feel like an outsider, intruding on others and distrusted. Somewhere she can be herself and be accepted for it #BG3 #BG3OC

Whoops, weak was day 18 and I missed day 17. #Tavember day 17: nature At the start of BG3, Aranel has had all of her natural optimism beaten out of her. She's quietly pessimistic and melancholic. After BG3, it starts to come back. She's still quiet and observant, though #BG3 #BG3OC

Karlach/Shadowheart Halsin/Jaheira Halsin/Astarion #BG3QotD

#Tavember day 17: Weak Aranel is usually very in control of her emotions, but one time that completely fell apart was in the goblin camp. The sounds of Abdirak self-flagellating sent her mind back to painbearing at the monastery and she was nearly overcome #BG3 #BG3OC

Top three: Halsin Karlach Jaheira Bottom three: Wulbren Fucking Bongle Aradin Nere #TavQotD

The "top three, bottom three" question has filled the Halsin feed with Halsin haters 😫

#Tavember day 16: PDA Wood elves in general are pretty open about romance and sex. Aranel is slightly less so after years of both being forbidden in the monastery, but it doesn't take long for her to mostly return to "normal" once she's with Halsin. PDAs are frequent and welcomed #BG3 #BG3OC

Aranel doesn't love the snow. She prefers walking around barefoot and feeling the dirt beneath her, and the vibrations of things moving. When it's snowy, she can't feel anything. Also, Halsin berates her for risking frostbite and makes her wear boots #TavQotD

#Tavember day 15: politics Aranel would say that as a monk she avoids politics but the reality is that she's extremely sensitive to inequality and works hard to remedy it, seeing it as an imbalance in society #BG3 #BG3OC

Colours of the Gate, Vol 1 is now available to the public! Which means I can finally share my Shadowheart/Karlach/Halsin piece. It was a lot of fun working on this, and there's a lot of great art and writing in the zine. archiveofourown.org/works/74192026 #BG3Fic #BG3Fanfiction #BG3NSFW

#TavQotD Small facts 👊 125 at the start of BG3 👊 Born to the same druid circle helped by Jaheira in BG1 👊 Can intertwine her ki with another's to painbear 👊 The year of BG3, the grandmaster from her monastery, Bak Mei, is killed by adventurers in Candlekeep "I do not fear death, *Aerister*."

#Tavember day 14: trade Aranel was never really taught a trade, but she's quite decent at mending clothing #BG3 #BG3OC

#Tavember day 13: vice Aranel doesn't have any physical vices, thanks to her monk upbringing, but she has many emotional vices. The biggest is probably her distrust of others, and the associated difficulty with teamwork #BG3 #BG3OC

They probably called Aranel graceful. Whatever the compliment was, though, she assumes they're lying and walks away. She doesn't need to put up with being insulted #TavQotD

Today's prompt for #BG3FirstsWeek is Trying Something New. This series is a sort of AU Aranel, and this chapter is her first time trying an inappropriate use of grasping vines archiveofourown.org/works/66292723 #BG3NSFW

#Tavember day 12: sociable Aranel is not at all sociable. Being isolated and friendless for a century left her struggling to remember how to even interact with others. She is slow to trust and even slower to rely on others #BG3 #BG3OC

#Tavember day 11: dream Aranel's dream is pretty simple: find a place where she feels like she belongs. She gets it with Reithwin after the events of BG3 #BG3 #BG3OC

Today's prompt for #BG3FirstsWeek is first physical fight or battle. I'm tweaking it a little. Here's a snippet about the first time Aranel died in battle #BG3 #BG3Fic

Resharing Aranel and Halsin's first time for #BG3FirstsWeek archiveofourown.org/works/65825890 #BG3 #BG3Fic #BG3NSFW

#Tavember day 10: fighting style Aranel is an Open Hand monk, so she fights hand-to-hand and unarmed. She tries to find the biggest threat on the battlefield and put herself between it and her companions #BG3 #BG3OC

#Taveember day 9: Treat This one is a bit strange, but Aranel's favorite "treat" is being in nature. She was born to two druids, but when she was orphaned and sent to the monastery she had nothing but bare stone walls for a century. She'll do anything to be allowed to go outside #BG3 #BG3OC

#Tavember day 8: Age Aranel is 125 at the start of the events of BG3. She looks it, in the sense that it's pretty young for an elf. She and Halsin are able to correctly estimate each other's ages #BG3 #BG3OC

#Tavember day seven: Dark side Aranel's dark side is probably her stubbornness. She's chaotic good, and her Ilmatari upbringing makes her somewhat utilitarian. Once she's decided an action will lessen others' suffering, it's hard - or impossible - to change her perspective #BG3 #BG3OC

#Tavqotd Before officially becoming a couple, Meliahwyl exclusively called Wyll by his name. As they grow deeper into their relationship, her nicknames for him expand from "my love" ito include "Dear", "My beloved", "Melmë" or "Melethron"*, and, still, simply, "Wyll".

#tavqotd Before they became a couple, Felicity would just call Astarion by name. After becoming a couple, she calls him the following: darling, my love, my heart’s hunger, my fox, my heart, and my moon.

#Tavember day six: Self-image Aranel's self-image is poor. As the only full elf in her monastery she came across a lot of prejudice. She struggles with survivor's guilt from the fire. Her strained relationship with Ilmater means she sees herself as having no purpose beyond suffering. #BG3 #BG3OC

#Tavember day five: Mother Aranel's mother died when she was five, so Aranel barely remembers her. She was a wood elf druid named Arelihn, known for being an excellent herbalist and healer. Aranel took the "Ar" (gold) prefix from her name when choosing her adult name #BG3 #BG3OC

Update: Zevlor has been claimed, but we have plenty of others that are ready to be visualized with our favorite bear. DM us for details! #halsin #nsfwfanfic 3. Sorn/Sauceman Chorizo 4. Nym 10. Nettie 16. Barcus 17. Rolan/Dammon 18. Volothamp Geddarm 19. Omeluum/Blurg 21. Gandrel 26. Karlach 27. Tav

#Tavtember day four: Hygiene Aranel is hygienic, but keeps it simple. She bathes regularly as long as she has access to clean water, usually just wading into in the river itself, but she doesn't have any rituals beyond simple cleanliness #BG3 #BG3OC

✨ BG3 WRITER'S SERVER ✨ I love fanfiction dearly so I made a server for the community to hang out, make friends and share works. The Nearest Library is open to everyone regardless of experience, ships or tastes. We have NSFW and Dead Dove friendly channels. ❤️ discord.gg/jhQuXBTwdf #BG3Fic #BG3

More art pieces ready to be claimed in the #BG3 #Halsin collab! If you'd like to join us and create a visual piece for any of the listed characters (minus those that have been claimed in the time since) please do get in touch, we'd love to have you on board~ #BG3Collab #BG3Event #BG3Art

Updated list: the following are free for the drawing (taking)! 3. Sorn/Sauceman Chorizo 4. Nym 7. Helsik 10. Nettie 16. Barcus 17. Rolan/Dammon 18. Volothamp Geddarm 19. Omeluum/Blurg 21. Gandrel 24. Zevlor 26. Karlach 27. Tav

esmelina refers to people as "dear", so she would call halsin dear in a friendly manner, however she calls him "my heart" or "my sun"

This is already shaping up to be an amazing project, and we'd love to add more art! Come join our sex pollen collab! #Halsin #BG3NSFW

#TavQOTD #RaeBG3 Rae doesn't call people by nicknames unless they mean a lot to him or in ridicule/tease, which is why Astarion at first was just "Astarion." After they get together Rae calls him "love" or "salen teu," meaning "my moon." The nickname was a spur of the moment thing, but remained.

#tavqotd Tanis actually started off calling all the companions nicknames, a way of not getting too chummy. When they started trusting them, that’s when peoples actually names slipped out. Halsin was “Druid” and “Bear Man” at first. Curiously, Minsc was Minsc from the get go.

#tavqotd Before they became a couple, Astarion was “twat”, “dick”, “idiot”, “incorrigible vampire” and simply “Astarion”. After getting together Astarion became “Star” ⭐️ And she still calls him all the same names he was known by prior to love making her all mushy.

#TavQOTD Call LI before they became couples Darius called them by their names, but also 'vampire', 'druid', 'thief' and 'master'. These days they go by still their names, but also Star, Starlight, Moon and Sun, love, darling, sweetcake, and a slew of others. New day, new nickname! #Durge

#Tavtemver day three: Social Class Aranel would probably be lower class. She was raised in an ascetic lifestyle and has virtually no possessions or money #BG3 #BG3OC

#Tavtember day two: Education Aranel was educated in the monastery where she was raised, and she was a voracious reader who learned a lot from the books in the monastery library #BG3 #BG3OC

Orya didn’t really have a nickname for Astarion before they became a thing. She just wanted to be polite and use everyone’s actual names they went by Now she use a mix of calling him “Star”, “Starlight”, and “Starshine” for playful names. But she most commonly just calls him “Love” 🥹🥰 #tavqotd

"Banite" "Gor-tash"

Achilles didn’t really start calling Astarion anything special until he did. And they kind of did it as a call to be called “Darling” and called him “Darling” as well. They now call him Beloved, dearest, my shining star, a light in the dark.

#tavqotd #AvariceOC #BG3 #Tav #Durge Avarice's nickname for Astarion is "Diamond"; it even predates his trepanning, as he used it as a code name for his followers when he was a target. It has taken a more adoring connotation, since he values him like a priceless treasure. "Sparkling jewel",

Before they were together Allie only called Lae'zel by her name. As they got closer Allie picked up the nickname "Lae" from Karlach. In Act 3 and post game he calls her "my joy" and "my love" during intimate moments.

I didn't realise I hit 1k followers! Alrighty then, well...Shall we do a thing? If you're following me (old or new) and repost this, you have a chance to win an art piece in one of my styles as seen on vgen.co/TavyliaSin or short piece of fic to a prompt~ I'll do a random draw on 9th Nov! #VGen 1/3

#tavqotd #dalamusstrighym He tended not to address her. Drowic pride and all that. He would just speak. As they got closer, he would use her name, Gloria, his tone changing from distanced respect to her name becoming like a sigh of relief on his lips. 1/2

I'm doing #Tavtember following the prompt list by @renmasaoankoku.bsky.social! Day one: Birth Aranel was born in the Cloakwood in the year 1367 DR to two wood elf druids in Archdruid Seniyad's circle. Her child name was "Ivae," the Elvish word for "light." #BG3 #BG3OC

Before: Ravahana normally just called Astarion by his name, or my dear. Sometimes sarcastically if he was being an ass. Now: my heart, my love, beloved, my light…and if he’s being an ass, she will just call him an ass. 😂

#tavqotd #JeanneOC #Silverleaf Jeanne called Shadowheart by her name before they were together, which she still does sometimes. Now she calls her Shady, Honey bun, Sweetheart, Honey, beautiful or My love, My Moon and my queen if she was feeling very romantic.