BG3: Larissa and Tav redux!
Oct. 29th, 2023 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anghraineIn response to this post (on Tumblr), my friend venndaai said:
and now they're terrified of being Found Out and losing it all, especially with Gale who has been treating them like a magical equal
they would have a veeery interesting dynamic with Larissa because they're pretty suspicious of the gods, even/especially Mystra (they tried praying. She never answered, and they'd given up long before the tadpole.) but also rather in awe of clerics and jealous of their faith. They've chosen to believe in themselves and their friends and believe that they can do Anything!!! but it's mostly bravado and desperation.
but also they could bond with Larissa over nerdy bookworm things :)
I replied:
Ohhh, your Tav's "if only I had true wizardly power this wouldn't be happening to me :(" is really fun, and definitely resonates with their drive to hang onto what power they obtain. I love it! Also a fun contrast with Larissa's "If only I'd been more faithful this wouldn't be happening to me :("
and now they're terrified of being Found Out and losing it all
I love it, especially combined with a Gale romance. It's totally fair to wonder if he'd think less of Tav if Gale knew they weren't a "real" prodigy like him.
they would have a veeery interesting dynamic with Larissa because they're pretty suspicious of the gods, even/especially Mystra (they tried praying. She never answered, and they'd given up long before the tadpole.)
That would be really interesting, I totally agree! I do love the contrast between Tav trying to appeal to Mystra and going unheard with Larissa serving Mystra for years and then Mystra just bestowing divine power on her out of nowhere, with almost equally little explanation as to why. (I do find Mystra as a source of divine magic interesting, bc she's so aligned with the arcane, yet as a god with clerics, she can also grant the ability to kind of bypass channeling the Weave just because she feels like it.)
Larissa says in-game that she thinks Mystra is more divine than the other gods, so I bet Larissa and Tav would have some unexpected common ground when it comes to being a bit wary of other gods. But Larissa's quite defensive of Mystra specifically, so it'd be interesting for them to be like ... geeky magic pals with the occasional sudden conflict.
But also, deep down, I think Larissa is still a little wistful and unsure about her power, given that it's dependent on her faithfulness rather than knowledge or intrinsic ability. I think she'd see Tav doing Wizardly Magic and be a mix of happy for them and thinking that she should be grateful for her power, she's been blessed by her goddess!! but the Weave is so cool. Mutual admiration society!
They've chosen to believe in themselves and their friends and believe that they can do Anything!!! but it's mostly bravado and desperation
Oh, that's very interesting. I think both characters could actually really benefit from each other there, because Larissa has a genuinely firm bedrock of faith ... but in Mystra, not herself. I think she'd really admire Tav's appearance of confidence and wouldn't see the desperation, and Tav's faith in their friends encompassing Larissa herself would be genuinely surprising and touching.
#oh lol it's a little thing but i just realized that they're both half-elves from the fathers' sides of exact opposite aesthetic types #tav's father is a drow and larissa's father is a sun elf #and there's tav's father wanting them to live the wizardly life he couldn't while larissa longed for her father's magic...
venndaai said:oh I love Larissa initially assuming she's being punished! and love your appreciation for Guiding Bolt <3 My Tav is all, if I was a REAL WIZARD I wouldn't be about to die here, and then they escape the pod and they cast a 1st level spell and it just happens? They don't have to struggle through a ritual, they just will it to happen?? and it doesn't take long to form a theory that the new lodger is the culprit...
and now they're terrified of being Found Out and losing it all, especially with Gale who has been treating them like a magical equal
they would have a veeery interesting dynamic with Larissa because they're pretty suspicious of the gods, even/especially Mystra (they tried praying. She never answered, and they'd given up long before the tadpole.) but also rather in awe of clerics and jealous of their faith. They've chosen to believe in themselves and their friends and believe that they can do Anything!!! but it's mostly bravado and desperation.
but also they could bond with Larissa over nerdy bookworm things :)
I replied:
Haha, thank you! There's nothing like playing three D&D clerics in a row and then a celestial warlock to appreciate Guiding Bolt, esp at low levels! And a critical hit with it ... whew. (I'm playing a wizard in a Pathfinder campaign right now, and she's fun, but I do miss that sweet divine power.)
Ohhh, your Tav's "if only I had true wizardly power this wouldn't be happening to me :(" is really fun, and definitely resonates with their drive to hang onto what power they obtain. I love it! Also a fun contrast with Larissa's "If only I'd been more faithful this wouldn't be happening to me :("
and now they're terrified of being Found Out and losing it all
I love it, especially combined with a Gale romance. It's totally fair to wonder if he'd think less of Tav if Gale knew they weren't a "real" prodigy like him.
they would have a veeery interesting dynamic with Larissa because they're pretty suspicious of the gods, even/especially Mystra (they tried praying. She never answered, and they'd given up long before the tadpole.)
That would be really interesting, I totally agree! I do love the contrast between Tav trying to appeal to Mystra and going unheard with Larissa serving Mystra for years and then Mystra just bestowing divine power on her out of nowhere, with almost equally little explanation as to why. (I do find Mystra as a source of divine magic interesting, bc she's so aligned with the arcane, yet as a god with clerics, she can also grant the ability to kind of bypass channeling the Weave just because she feels like it.)
Larissa says in-game that she thinks Mystra is more divine than the other gods, so I bet Larissa and Tav would have some unexpected common ground when it comes to being a bit wary of other gods. But Larissa's quite defensive of Mystra specifically, so it'd be interesting for them to be like ... geeky magic pals with the occasional sudden conflict.
But also, deep down, I think Larissa is still a little wistful and unsure about her power, given that it's dependent on her faithfulness rather than knowledge or intrinsic ability. I think she'd see Tav doing Wizardly Magic and be a mix of happy for them and thinking that she should be grateful for her power, she's been blessed by her goddess!! but the Weave is so cool. Mutual admiration society!
They've chosen to believe in themselves and their friends and believe that they can do Anything!!! but it's mostly bravado and desperation
Oh, that's very interesting. I think both characters could actually really benefit from each other there, because Larissa has a genuinely firm bedrock of faith ... but in Mystra, not herself. I think she'd really admire Tav's appearance of confidence and wouldn't see the desperation, and Tav's faith in their friends encompassing Larissa herself would be genuinely surprising and touching.
#oh lol it's a little thing but i just realized that they're both half-elves from the fathers' sides of exact opposite aesthetic types #tav's father is a drow and larissa's father is a sun elf #and there's tav's father wanting them to live the wizardly life he couldn't while larissa longed for her father's magic...