So I Send Myself Things On Discord So I Can Have Them On My Phone And THIS Is How I Sent This One To

instead of finishing my drawing of astarion. i drew him looking like a wet possum

A removed conversation between Robin and AL-AN that remains in the games audio files.

It’s a very interesting interaction, but I do see why they opted to leave it out. Though it is nice to see a longer conversation between them. Especially one where they talk out their reasonings for differing views, and one where Robin ends up expressing empathy for AL-AN.

Transcript under the cut

AL-AN: Thank you for undertaking the quest for an alternative storage medium.

Robin: I would really love it if you could stop referring to me as a storage medium.

A: Not you. Your body.

R: My body is a significant part of who I am and how I experience life.

A: It is different for us.

R: Clearly. Or you wouldn’t have been hanging out in that sanctuary waiting to hitch a ride with me.

R: How did you get in there anyway?

A: We came here in search of a cure for the Kharaa bacterium.

R: What? Thousands of years ago?

A: I do not experience time as you do, but yes, that is technically correct.

A: My body was infected before a vaccine could be developed. I uploaded my consciousness to the sanctuary for storage.

R: What happened to the others?

A: Some left, others perished. Over time my connection to them grew weaker… I cannot sense them now.

R: AL-AN… I—

[missing piece of dialogue]

R: Yes okay, but— what I was going to say was… I’m sorry.

A: …Why? You have done nothing wrong.

R: Not sorry like an apology. Sorry like I feel empathy.

A: Are all your human languages so… confusing?

R: All the ones I know are.

I keep coming back to this FUCKING FANART!!!! Like you are so fucking real for this dude I’m absolutely bewitched I love the idea of Astarion healing and slowly getting healthier as the game progresses I’m just GHRBBRHRHHBBRHRHGGRGRRRRHGRRG

Doodle of Astarion going from starved and newly freed to eating better and getting chubbier

Controversial, but i'm six-pack hater. Out of romanceable male companions only Wyll should be allowed to have defined abs. Thank you for coming to my ted talk

[pspsps i yapped about it here]

MOTIVATION THROUGH THE ROOF TODAY SLUTS!!!!

some fun facts about my tav (Miles) (That's my name): -he's literally just me (down to name, backstory, etc. i just threw in fantasy elements bc why wouldnt i) -wood elf mom (love you mom), human dad (L father) -all scars are cat scars (just like irl) -VAMPIRE AUTISM!!!! (just like irl) (love imagining the idea of my tav (me) just VIBRATING after finding out (confirming, because like 99% sure before the bite scene bc cmon mf is NOT SUBTLE) that astarion is a vampire like GRGRHRRGRFGRHHGFHHRRFGRHGFH LET ME DISSECT YOU) -can't read sheet music (bard) -holds his violin wrong (bard) -violin actually belonged to sister (like irl) (it actually belonged to my gg before her so its like. generational violin ig) -guardian (don't have a screenshot) is based on my pookie bear asterii (hence the aries zodiac) -SEVERELY allergic to cats (including Tara) (does not leave her alone) (consistently hanging out by Gale's shit just for the cat) -dying victorian orphan ass (not just the allergies)

dwarf, talking about his wife: yeah she's great she's a miner isnt that awesome modern day human: What

Better look at AL-AN walking after he is transfered into his vessel

i didn't say it was good, i said it has bewitched me body and soul

i fucking love bz

i just got the data entry for Hope and oh my god?????? i love Alan he's so so so so silly silly oh my god Maybe its the dynamic of one character is disgustingly human with their emotions and to the other human emotions and stuff like that are a foreign concept that just tickles me the right way i dunno but theyre just my favorite

the way that robin goes from kind of hating Alan for getting in her head to slowly as you discover more and more artifacts to thanking him for telling her about them and encouraging him that he can find the rest of his network is beautiful.

also the fact that he thinks hope must be a bird because of the way the Emily Dickinson poem describes it means he must have never known hope before. Robin literally taught him what hope is. She gave him hope for the first time in god knows how long and even in his analytical literal-mindedness he understands that hope is something he needs to take care of and keep safe

its just a beautiful dynamic because again Robin is driven by human emotion shes on 4546B to find out what happened to Sam, she does this reckless thing based solely on her feelings, and Alan is the exact opposite. He only knows logic and rules and emotion gets in the way

AND AND AND the parallels between Robin losing Sam and Alan losing his connection to his network is beautiful because that means they have something in common, a link that they can work through to explain to one another

its just beautiful writing and im probably reading into it way too much but thats my fucking job

thinking about the biological implications of someone (Ryley Robinson) getting stuck on an alien planet (4546B) with purely silicon-based lifeforms (headcanon).

like would he just starve??? Because if everything is composed of silicon there's no real use for carbon sugars and I dont think people can digest silicon last I checked

the main idea is that this could lead to some absolutely fucked-up prompts like Ryley slowly starving to death even though he feels full because his body is physically incapable of processing whatever fucked up molecules the plants/animals/other on 4546B use in place of carbon sugars. And he keeps misdiagnosing what's wrong with him as maybe it's part of the kharaa but then he gets to the floating island and gets potatoes and melons and lantern fruit and he either thinks he got over the kharaa or puts two and two together and realizes he was dying from starvation and/or malnutrition

i think this is the first art art ive posted on tumblr