thank you! 🥹🫶

literally it was like a jaw drop, "oh my god bruh" situation. they continued to run with her which was good, the stories diverge a bit towards the end, but in hindsight it was so funny for them to play baldur's gate 3 and be like... WAIT

one of my friends' xiv OCs, made around the start of the pandemic iirc, had a very high body temperature issue on account of their half-tempering by ifrit and a boisterous personality to cope with it. they basically crashed out when karlach from bg3 had the exact same arc they were writing for her 😭

immortalized forever as it should be

-existed in some form or another in my brain, but given new life by way of offering a visual medium where it just felt *right*. though i've finished the MSQ at this point, writing in a well-crafted world with her has kept me coming back again and again with only a few little breaks here and there.

-door had opened, ushering me into a shared multiplayer experience with a good story that i could talk to friends about, and gameplay that kept me coming back to work on the next big thing i wanted. what ultimately became the major reason i stuck with it was rhea, an OC that had always-