ALSO ALSO:

I need her

✨this✨

I really don't hear enough people talk about the fact that Shadowheart was not only brainwashed as a child, but had her memories repeatedly wiped. This isn't just your run of the mill reeducation. Like we're talking about having your brain literally tampered with by magic on a metaphysical level which is so incredibly violating and just on a completely different level than the typical indoctrination you see an average cultist goes through.

Your memories and lived experience is fundamentally responsible for shaping the kind of person you are. We see how important memories are with Durge because once they lost their memories, they were no longer the same person and became someone entirely new. Shadowheart was frequently subjected to memory wipes since she was kidnapped as a child, forced to adopt Sharran dogma, and every time she started remembering things about her past or strayed from their teachings, they'd take her memories away again. Imagine the only memories you're allowed to keep are the ones your abusers let you, as they continue to alter your perception of reality in order for you to stay obedient to their control. This is gaslighting on a level we have literally never seen before irl.

It's no wonder Shadowheart says the things she says, and yet, somehow, against the strict doctrines and manipulation that's been hammered into her for decades, she always ends up reverting back to her true self. From Viconia's journal:

No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't erase the good in her. It's honestly impressive Shadowheart is able to fight the brainwashing to this extent. And when she's left alone for once with people who are patient with her and make her feel safe, when she's given enough time to find herself again without being reset back to square one every time she gained an inch? She thrives.

You know what? Fuck it.

Githyanki Cleric of Selune

Romance~

LOOK AT IT

LOVE THEM WITH ME

Thank you so much again! This made my entire day ngl ❤️

i just know ayana and shadowheart will haunt my dreams tonight

now everyone say thank you @nightingalen7 for writing THE only fanfic ever (wake me up on Ao3, trust me on this one, her Tav is a force of nature)

Shadowheart kills me. Tries so hard to be icy and bitchy and rude. But if you're just like not judgemental about any of that she immediately has heart eyes and gives you pep talks if you ask her about how shit's going. Her whole cleric domain is keeping secrets to the point she got lobotomized for it and yet she's like "well anyways here's everything about me." After like five minutes of being nice to her. Truly Shar's worst warrior.

BG3 + Text posts: Shadowheart Edition

can't stop thinking about how dame aylin is literally a homophobic father's worst nightmare. 7ft tall lesbian with a bigass sword walks in, makes your daughter swoon, whisks her away and turns her against you, kills you and stomps on your head until she's essentially making wine and then celebrates by treating your daughter to a several day fuckathon. nobody's doing it like her

The collection is complete!!! This series of portraits took so long 😭 but I am happy with how they turned out 🥲💕

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what is it with me and women with black/white hair and facial scars

Shadowheart, Cassandra: Loves smutty books, religious, can be religious leaders (and will not marry you sad), curt and no nonsense, easily annoyed

Ciri, Cassandra: Fights melee well (sorry Shadowheart), royalty/noble but rejects it, very long ass names, normie ears

Shadowheart, Ciri: were pawns for greater powers, bi/pan (book ciri was at least), brilliant green eyes, betrayed by an elf/drow, elven blood (ciri sorta does), weird about drowning (book ciri)

All three: loves smudgy, black eye shadows, softies underneath, traumatic childhoods, will backslap you like the lil bitch you are, lives in a very unsafe fantasy world, had nice male mentors

The trifecta big cvnt energy 🤌👸💃

PS. I was robbed of white hair Cassandra

Reasons I love Shadowheart in no particular order:

Changing her hair bc she's confused and stressed and doesn't know how to separate herself from Shar other than turning her hair fucking WHITE (which is really funny if your Tav is a Selûnite with white hair cuz you just know she wants to be like you)

Bro she got white hair

WHITE HAIR

W H I T E

H A I R

She could definitely kick my ass and I would thank her for it afterwards

She got noodle arms in-game but she's stronger than Wyll, Astarion, Halsin, and Gale

She freed herself from a psycho cult like??? Is that not??? The most??? Badass???

Her dad is a fucking WEREWOLF

You walk up to her with something serious to talk about and she's just like ✨hello lover✨ with that cute little laugh when she realizes she sounds ridiculous

Also no one talks about how flexible she is like did you NOT see the way she bent her entire fuckin leg to pin Lae'zel to the ground???

She is a FREAK

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